“Black Internet”: Serendipitous Web Traffic
It pays to watch web trends via your analytics. You may be able to make money off of the trend, if you position an offer to the studied demographic. Recently, Pirate Bay, a Peer to Peer Tracking site specializing in sharing music and film was ordered to be shut down. To do this, the Swedish [...]
How Statistics Can Make or Break Your Affiliate Revenue….
Affiliate publishers should perform various tests to see how website visitors respond. Clear winners should be promoted and tests should further see future improvements. Online dating is a huge market online. We straddle the fence between Match.com and BlackSingles.com. For us, BlackSingles has a better reception as far as media conducive to our demographic and [...]
Traffic Sources: Have You Search Engine Optimized Today?
Traffic Sources Can Reveal Search Engine Optimization Wins or Areas For Improvement Analytics and determining all facets of what they mean are an integral part of improving web site experience and action conversions! For non-commercial statistical packages, AWSTATS and Google Analytics are a regular and daily recipient of visits from me. I like AWSTATS, because [...]
Site Monetization: A Look At Pre- and Post Blog Article Monetization
Looking for ways to Monetize Your Blog Content Forces One to Creatively Customize Blogs to Increase Conversions. Our Approach today looks at Google Adsense in Before and After locations, as compared to article post. Some gurus for blogs, debate whether or not one should monetize before getting lots of anchor articles and content. However, along [...]
You ARE What You Eat…. Qualified & Nutritious, Conversion Building Web Fuel
High Traffic Websites that bring massive numbers of non-niche traffic must concentrate on bringing more quality traffic per site topic or creating topics on site catering to site visitor segments I was telling a colleague the other day that one of our sites, brought in about 600K visitors from January – November 2008. The site [...]
What’s More Important: Quality or Quantity?
Traffic Traffic Traffic. As owners of websites, we know that traffic is like the bloodline of a website. But what’s important? Quality or Quantity? I was reviewing my stats for one of our sites: BlackAtlanta.com. That site received: 13 million hits from January to November 2008 3.1 Million page views 650K visits 501K unique visitors [...]
WU-Yi Tea Experiment POST 4: Google Presence
In our last post, we aimed for Google Inclusion. As of today, we are in Google. In our article Wu-Yi Tea Experiment Post 3, we aimed to get our experimental site WuYi.TV included in Google. Seemingly, inclusion was slower than normal until we pulled out the big guns. We linked to it from a few [...]
High Bounce Rates Are Good?
Bounce rates can be a good thing… if you know how to exploit them… In our article “Size Length and Size Matter? Home Page Testing on BlackAtlanta.com…”, we discuss landing page bounce rates. High bounce rates normally means 1 of 2 things: Marketing Deficiencies: You have lost the attention of the user based on how [...]
Size Length and Size Matter? Home Page Testing on BlackAtlanta.com…
Landing Page Testing Gives a tester the ability to experiment with the best variations of a page. We show you below how we were able to compare BOUNCE rates between two page variations. BlackAtlanta.com currently runs on a popular flavor of a Content Management System. Normally, as many of you may know, a CMS runs [...]
Control Advertising Inventory, Placement, and Tracking with OpenX
The OpenX ad campaign platform offers a robust system to effectively track the results of your onsite and offsite banner and html campaigns. Back in a blog at http://blackinternetmarketing.com/sex-sells-or-does-it/-/Black-Internet-Marketing/2008/09/23/ entitled Sex Sells or Does It?, we ventured into the notion certain sexier images and banners may provoke more click throughs. However, on our test site, www.BlackAtlanta.com, [...]
