Have you ever watched a visitor try one of your forms for the first time? It can be an enlightening experience! Example.

Stay on topic, keep your site highly focused (even its ads if you can), and don’t go ranting about politics unless your site is about it.

Google wants you to be more specific and structured with your data.

Looking to get more page views per visitor doesn’t have to involve tweaking your sites. It could just be you are not tapping into the best source.

Post about how, as bloggers, don’t know our visitors, and if we did we would post more often.

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

This is the third of a three post article on a parallel design comparison. The first and second part of this article can be found here: Parallel Design Comparison, and Parallel Design Comparison Part II.

How many directories do you think your site is listed in? Can you say fifty? How about 150? Just building a website is simply not good enough. It has to be found, and you actually have to tell someone about it.

There used to be a time when I would say I hate this kind of stuff, but it’s what the web is turning into. Sites with real actors delivering the sites primary message. Walking and talking actors are coming alive on websites everywhere these days, and their impact can be substantial if viewed by the target audience

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.

On my quest for improving my new visitors time on site I found yet another site that really asks for action. Check out this site, Round Table Insurance. On this site, the author, Ronald Belham offers free unbiased answers in regards to life insurance.

An introduction message in an extremely valuable part of a website, and doing it just right is easier said than done. The message could be too vague, too long, or simply doesn’t make sense. Too often though, I find sites that just don’t have one.

I ran across a site yesterday that really went for the Gold, Red, or I guess it was just Bold. In an effort to basically scream at you to buy their product every emphasis technique was used. Font size emphasis, color changes, using bold, and change in font type were all used. My eyes had no idea where to go.

The navigation menu can be a tricky thing, especially when you are trying to figure out the best spot for it. Take this site for example. It has two different locations, the top header navigation menu, and the one on the left. Is this a good idea, bad idea, or does it really matter?