Earlier this year, I released my first e-book, “5 Tips to Kick Start Your Blog”. After its high demand, I have decided to expand the knowledge inside the book with what I have gained since
releasing it, including some of my hidden secrets. Today releasing the next volume – “Kick Start Your Blog”.
Kick Start Your Blog packs everything you need to know from deciding what topic you should talk about to picking a reliable and value for money web host. I have also thrown in a few tips about generating traffic and set you on your way to making your first buck. The contents are broken down into chapters listed below;
- Deciding on your Chosen Topic
- Single or Multi-author Blog
- Building your Blog & Finding a Host
- Styling your Blog
- Generating Traffic
- Communiting with the Audience – Receiving their Comments & Opinions
- Generating Revenue through Advertisement Campaigns & Programs
Last Wednesday I welcomed Patrick Socha of Propelly onto JonnyRowntree.com with his first post “How to Optimise your Blog Loading Speed“. Until Thursday, traffic was average for a new post and I shared it across Twitter and Google+ as well as a new addition to the sharebar – Stumbleupon. In the past I’ve not had a huge success with Stumbleupon – a few clicks per day to an old, outdated post. To my surprise though, I woke on Thursday, checked my site analytics and Stumbleupon was sending tons and I mean tons of traffic.
This kept on going like a stampede through the safari. I was very pleased with the traffic I was gaining from the submission on Stumbleupon. By Saturday evening, I was peaking around 300 visitors per day to that particular article excluding any other traffic going to my other pages or posts. It also appeared that my Alexa ranking had improved due to my increase in readers located in the United States.
During this time, I have read that Google have implemented a new update to how search rankings are applied and who appears “at the top”. Through this, I have learnt 3 important lessons and how you should overcome the new Google changes.
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This post is by Patrick Socha, a developer from London working on Propelly – easily sell downloads online!
When running a website, having fast loading pages can mean the difference between captivating a reader and losing them for good. Simple techniques which I plan on explaining can help speed up your website and in turn increase your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as well as user retention rate.
Starting with images, if you haven’t compressed your images, do so now. Sites such as Image Optimizer are able to greatly reduce the size of your images, sometimes up to 50%, which will drastically increase your page loading speed. If possible, completely avoiding using images as CSS3 is able to quite often do the same with without thousands of extra lines which an image would represent, not to mention the extra GET requests made to the server.
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