Test Website Speed, Improve Results with 3 Free Tools

One of the easiest ways to build audience for a Website is by making it fast for desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

Testing website speed is an important task for publishers. Internet users have a high expectation of visiting a site that loads quickly. (more…)

Content Management Systems: An Introduction

Publishers who have launched multiple sites on different Web content management systems end up with valuable lessons about picking the right CMS.

Robust content sites need a CMS for several important reasons. A CMS will save staff time from coding pages, have rich functionality such as search and display consistent templates that don’t confuse site visitors. (more…)

Pages Per Visit Overlooked and Vitally Important

Pages per visit is one of the most overlooked and under-discussed metrics in website analytics.

Most discussions about analytics focus on unique visitors, visits and page views. (more…)

Increase Page Usability with 7 Steps

Page usability is a goal as important as audience and revenue growth. The three goals are closely connected.

Increasing page usability leads to higher pages per visit and return visits. Higher pages per visit and return visits will produce more ad inventory, which then leads to more revenue. (more…)

‘Mobile First’ Depends on Total Mobile Audience

When Google announces, online publishers jump. When Google announces “mobile first” is the new mantra for high search rankings, should publishers jump again?

The answer is yes and no. (more…)

How to Start Video Marketing Production

The starting point for video marketing production is as simple as taking photos with a digital camera.

A “movie” is a continuous series of images. When most people think of the word movie, they think of  what they see in a movie theater or on a TV screen. Each individual image appears for a fraction of a second as creates a continuous flow. (more…)

How to Increase Website Page Views

Page views serve as one of the most important metrics in achieving website success.

Google Analytics and other website analytic programs have page views as one of the three most prominent metrics along with visits and unique visitors. (Google now calls them sessions and users.)

Page views reveal how much of a site visitors consume. The more pages they consume, the more the visitors are demonstrating they like the site’s content and find it easy to find what they want. (more…)