How Green are Your Affiliations and What Does It Reflect

Posted on: Monday, November 2nd, 2009 in: BWI, Sites Reviewed, Software

McAfee SiteAdvisor offers a unique perspective of websites based on what green sites they link to.

Moving Google Analytics Code

Posted on: Friday, September 25th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Code

Moving Google Analytics code to top of site makes little to zero difference.

Overlapping 20 Popular Blogs

Posted on: Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

What happens when I overlap 20 blogs on top of each other? You will see here.

Today’s Read

Posted on: Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

All three posts can help you learn how to improve your conversions, and decrease the bounce.

Content Up, Bounce Rate Down

Posted on: Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

Don’t hide that killer content below the fold.

Comment Notify Increases Page Views

Posted on: Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI

Adding the plugin Subscribe to Comments was a great addition to this site. It increased page views, and increased my return visitor traffic. It also increased total comments made.

Today’s Read

Posted on: Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

A few good posts for you to read, and an example of a completely idiotic post title.

Secret Bouncers, How to Find the Offenders

Posted on: Friday, July 31st, 2009 in: Analytics

Don’t just look at your average bounce rate. Break it down. Here is an example of how I did it for a single page.

Page View Goals Completed, Now I Am After the Bounce

Posted on: Thursday, July 30th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

Getting more page views is no longer my top priority. It may be again someday, but for now, I am after the bounce. See how in this post.

Spin Doctors Know How to Fix a Website

Posted on: Monday, July 13th, 2009 in: Analytics, Usability & Design

How a spin doctor would fix a website, and why it would work.

Lack of Paragraph Headings Can Lead to Bounce

Posted on: Friday, June 26th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

An example of how and why breaking your content up, and titling paragraphs is so important.

Banner Ads

Posted on: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 in: BWI, Usability & Design

A post about what happened to my site when I added the 125 banner ads.

Limit Pictures On Your Blog Posts

Posted on: Monday, April 27th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

Why you should limit the number of pictures in your post.

Linking Your Logo Home

Posted on: Thursday, April 9th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

How your logo linking to your home page can increase page views, and time on site for your visitors.

Targeted Bounce

Posted on: Monday, November 24th, 2008 in: Usability & Design

So you may be asking what is a “Targeted Bounce”. I don’t think there is a known popular definition, but I certainly have one.

Top Content – Google Analytics

Posted on: Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 in: Software, Usability & Design

I monitor all of my sites with Google Analytics, and here is another reason why. It’s the new beta Advanced Segment option. One of the things I like to analyze is my Top Content. By knowing what your top content is, you can see what is driving traffic to your site, and what is at least capturing your visitors interest.

WordCamp Changed My Blog

Posted on: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 in: BWI

So back in August I went to the San Francisco WordCamp. I learned a lot, and when I got home that day immediately started to make some small changes to my site. Today I was going over my analytics which I always do at the end of the month, and besides my regular number checks I thought I would see how the numbers reflected after I had made some changes to my blog back in August.

Get New Visitors To Stay Longer

Posted on: Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 in: Usability & Design

An example on how to get your visitors to stay longer than one minute. Animated menus like this get that new ten second visitor clicking a few times more than normal just to check out the images. Now that ten seconds is thirty, and what happens if they SEE something they like? Whamo, you got them.