Website traffic takes two forms: targeted and sporadic. Sporadic traffic comes from social bookmarking sites. Targeted traffic comes organically through banner advertisement, text links, search engines, off-line advertisement and chatter. Which form of traffic do you think is best? Targeted traffic is good, sporadic traffic can be good. People who use social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Twitter are like web-site ram-raiders: they swoop by, take what they want and give little back. Good for visitor statistics but useless for anything else unless...they can be … [Read more...]
Jumping into Webmastery Head First and Blind? Let Me Open Your Eyes.
August 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This article was first written in reply to a friend's request for advice about buying a domain name, getting a hosting package and building a website. I've posted it here for reference and for anyone else who's considering trying his or her hand at webmastery for the first time First things first, consider whether you're willing to shell out a bit of money and a lot of time in developing a website that might never give back any real financial return. You have to be prepared to build a website for fun just as much as for profit (assuming profit is your aim). Secondly, you can read up on all … [Read more...]
