Quality Content Development Mixes Interest and Importance

Online content development often becomes focused on what drives the most clicks to an article. But too much of a focus on clicks becomes pandering.

Pandering, which is often called clickbait in the online industry, undermines the credibility of a website. Visitors start to lose confidence in the quality of the site as a result. The practice is not much different than the old bait and switch technique. (more…)

How to Use Photos to Build SEO, Brand and Social Media

Online photos offer an opportunity to build a website’s brand, social media presence and search engine optimization.

They also enhance the quality of the experience for any visitor on a website. (more…)

Landing Page Best Practices Convert More Visitors

The best practices for landing pages come in two forms. The first is understanding why a particular landing page does so well. The other is getting better performance.

What is a landing page? It is the destination page of a click from another website, an ad, a search engine result or a social media account, among other possibilities. (more…)

How to Understand Unique Visitors in Google Analytics

Users in Google Analytics, also known as unique visitors, is an invaluable tool for measuring, tracking and understanding a site’s audience.

The official Google Analytics definition of this Web metric is: “Unique Visitors is the number of unduplicated (counted only once) visitors to your website over the course of a specified time period.”

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Use Analytics Goals to Sharpen Site Focus

Google Analytics has a tool that is effective in helping anyone who wants to build an online business.

The Analytics goals report allows user to set specific goals for how visitors interact with a site. It also tracks how effectively the site delivers on those goals. (more…)

Targeted Content Development Builds Revenue

Website content development creates revenue opportunities for publishers by targeting key categories that appeal to advertisers or ecommerce vendors.

Site publishers or business owners can do only so much before they run out of resources — time, money and energy. So it becomes a question of where to invest those resources for the best returns. (more…)

Evergreen Content Builds Site Value and Audience

An evergreen content strategy is a surefire way of building a site’s size, value and audience.

The term refers to articles that have a long shelf life. In other words, they may be just as useful to the reader a year from now than the day they were written. (more…)