Popular Posts and Pages on BWI for November 2009

Nov 302009
 

For November I had a surprise top post: Nobody Informed Google on How to Select Icons. A little annoyance I had with Google’s choice of icons, so I posted it. Since that post, at least one of their icons have changed. I wonder if they saw it. Anyhow, here is the top posts on BWI for the month of November.

Top twenty posts and pages found on Best Web Image ranked by total page for the month of November, 2009.

  1. Nobody Informed Google on How to Select Icons – Google has no clue on how to select icons to represent their services. (3,193 views)
  2. Twitter Toolbar (1,400 views)
  3. Digital Point Forum Down – Before you join the Digital Point Forum, READ THIS. Don’t worry, it’s good stuff. (1,271 views)
  4. Wunderground 3D Radar – Review of Wunderground’s new 3D Radar Beta (1,219 views)
  5. How to Write an “About Me” Page – A How To for writing an About Me and About Us page for bloggers and business. (1,184 views) Continue reading »

Dear Google, I am Removing Your Toolbar

Nov 282009
 

Dear Google,

I just wanted to let you know that I am removing your toolbar. I’m allowing the search box to stay, the one that is default with my browser, but the one I downloaded…your gone.

Here are five reasons why I am killing you off Mr. Google Toolbar Continue reading »

The Vacation!

Nov 252009
 

The vacation starts now! I wish everyone, that celebrates it, a Happy Thanksgiving!

Six Custom Advanced Segments I Like to Use with Google Analytics

Nov 242009
 

Back in October I mentioned Google Analytics new feature Advanced Segments, and how you can use it to track visitors coming in through email. Here is the post: How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your Email Campaigns. Since then I have become a big fan of this new feature, and as far as I am concerned, they can take the beta icon off it now. Below are a six of my favorites, and thanks to Google, they make them easy to share.

My Six Favorite Custom Advanced Segments

To add these to your Google Analytics account simply click on the link and then save it by clicking Create Segment. See screenshot below on how to save. Continue reading »

Turkey Day Web Traffic

Nov 232009
 

Are you worried about your website traffic dumping on Turkey Day? If you live in the United States, or get  lot of U.S. traffic you might expect it. The reality is though, it’s just another day, and don’t be surprised if you actually get more traffic than expected.

Looking at my own stats for a few of my sites, I found Thanksgiving played an insignificant roll in web traffic or it’s following days.

Looking at 2008′s benchmark from Google Analytics, traffic appeared to actually go up for most sites. This was based on an sites similar in size to 500 pages. Looking at benchmarks by category here is a list of the categories ordered by largest increased Turkey Traffic first. Continue reading »

How to Write an “About Me” Page

Nov 202009
 

Whether visitors are on your blog or your business website, they expect to find an “About Me” or “About Us” page. For a blog it offers credibility, and a way to get personal with your audience. With a business website it can enhance credibility, it can present a better picture about your core functions, SELL, and even help brand your company.

An About Me Page is More Important than You May Think

Taking a look at the stats from twelve random sites that I manage, I found the average site had 5.5% of all its pages views occurring on the About Me page. With business websites the About Us page can nearly account for 20% of all your traffic! The highest percentage I saw was actually 19%. Every site I looked at had traffic on the about page, even a humor site where I expected none. Visitors expect to find it, and will look for it. Continue reading »

Organic Textures VS Photoshop Brushes and Grunge Fonts

Nov 192009
 

With graphic design resources becoming increasingly available online, the allure to use them can be overwhelming. Talented designers from all over the world are consistently distributing new (and often free) graphic design tools – including, but not limited to, Photoshop brushes i.e., Splatter Brushes and grunge fonts with many of these often listed in various graphic design “trends” articles.

Yet there is a trap one can succumb to of following a trend and applying these resources to designs, without taking the time to perform proper analysis. As designers, we should always know what our intentions are – ask yourself what is the desired effect that you are looking to create? Your answer to this could very well illustrate to you that the fantastic (yes, they’re often brilliant) free brushes or fonts you just found are not right for that particular project.

Continue reading »

WordPress New Post Button Needs to Go

Nov 182009
 

OK WordPress team. I love your blogging software, but in the last update (2.8.6) you sneaked in silly button in the top right header that I do not like. You know the one, the drop down post controller button or whatever it is you want to call it. It’s out of place, it duplicates an already visible menu, and it doesn’t even include a link to the dashboard. Continue reading »

Exclusive Concepts – Specializing in E-Commerce Marketing

Nov 182009
 

So you just finished putting up your retail site, and it’s live. Yesterday you had a whopping twenty visitors, and made zero sales. You are obviously going to need some traffic. Do you know how you are going to get it?

Exclusive Concepts specializes in online marketing for e-commerce websites. They are by trade, a SEO company, and getting search traffic is one of the best ways to start getting that targeted traffic. Continue reading »

Does Google Webmaster Tools Keyword Significance Provide Value?

Nov 172009
 

A couple of days ago I posted, Google Webmaster Tools Now Has Keyword Significance. It was about how Google’s Webmaster Tool is now displaying a chart titled Keyword Significance. After I posted it, I received three comments, and just as many emails suggesting that it’s not clear what Keyword Significance is about.

Google’s Explanation of Keyword Significance

Here is what Google says the keyword significance list is for:

Below are the most common keywords Google found when crawling your site. These should reflect the subject matter of your site.

Google is basically looking at your website, sorting its content by the number of times each word was used, and revealing to you what keywords you use the most. It’s similar to a tag cloud, but instead of being all crazy looking like a cloud it just nicely organized. Continue reading »

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