traffic
How Do You Get Traffic to Your New Website?
We were recently asked a question that we see all the time at forums and hear in presentations: “How do you get the first traffic to your new website?” Friends and family The most recent version of this questions asked us how we first got traffic to our lab site, FreshPlans. “Friends and family?” the…
When Traffic Goes Down at Your Website
We usually expect traffic to rise at the websites we work with. But — especially if you don’t have SEO professionals working for you — that’s not the only direction traffic can go. Sometimes traffic goes down. Here’s an example. This was a website we had worked on, but the site owner took on the…
How Much Traffic Do You Need?
You use analytics to keep track of traffic — the number of visitors — to your site, but how can you know whether you have a good amount of traffic or not?
Catching the Seasonal Wave at Your Blog
You want steady traffic at your blog, of course, but it’s also good to catch the seasonal waves as they come. Bringing new people to your blog with seasonal search queries can help introduce your blog to new readers, and seasonal long tale search terms can have less competition than your regular keywords. An example…
Your Website’s Traffic
Your website’s traffic is the starting point for web analytics reports, and of course everyone is happy to hear about their increases in traffic. Me, too. But up and down isn’t all you can say about web traffic. Ask yourself a few more questions while you’re thinking about web traffic, and you’ll get more out…
Traffic at Your New Site
How can you expect traffic to progress at your new website?