The best website content strategy produces more revenue and audience when it is both deep and broad.
“Content is King” is a well-known saying when online publishers debate how to succeed at growing profits and revenue. But the saying doesn’t really say much. (more…)
In an era of fake news, content authority and trust depend more than ever on a few basic journalism rules.
One of the top 100 sites on the Internet in terms of audience has a message board section with quite a few posts about politics. One poster refers to many sites as sources of information. Most of the sites have the following characteristics.
A website succeeds with audience in part because of content quantity. How to get to that quantity is just as important.
Three metrics for measuring the quantity and efficiency of content on a site are:
Opinions about the best content management systems will vary from person to person because so many factors go into the best choice.
Drupal lovers insist that their CMS is technically superior to any other free online publishing platform.
Some online experts say that a CDN or content delivery network will make a site load faster because of the way it retrieves data.
The actual answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. It depends on the hosting environment, quality of the CDN, the amount of traffic a site receives, how well the site is already optimized for speed, and other important factors. (more…)
The most common website security checks cover the risk of hackers breaking through and damaging the site content or software.
Even worse, they look for personal information. (more…)
Forum websites can generate high visits and page views from a core group of site visitors, but they also generate quite a few headaches.
Also known as message boards, forums come in two flavors: moderated and unmoderated. Moderated boards usually have a moderator who guides the direction of the discussion and sometimes even reviews the posting before it can go live. Visitors often have to register before posting.
Unmoderated boards allow anyone to post just about anything except for the usual list of dangerous or socially unacceptable behavior. They include vulgarity, threats, libel, etc. (more…)