Aug 26 2009

“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 [...]

Feb 21 2009

Analytics Tip: What Are Your Low Days?


By taking a quick glimpse at your analytics, you can possibly determine the best conversion opportunities by traffic volume. I have noticed an interesting trend on one of my B2C sites… one with extremely high organic traffic and search engine penetration. The circled two days are Saturday and Sunday.  This helps me to deduce the [...]

Dec 19 2008

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 [...]

Dec 3 2008

Hair Braiding: How Hair Braiding Videos Padded My Pockets


Hair and Fashion have a huge market place online.  Do a web search for Hair Braids or Hair Braiding or Braids By Breslin to see how… A couple of years ago, I advertised on BlackAtlanta.com for a company called “Braids By Breslin”.  The banners did not really have a very high click through rate for [...]

Nov 23 2008

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 [...]

Nov 3 2008

You’ve Got Mail… or at Least Your Potential Customer Does. Free Trial for Email Autoresponder


The importance of your email list is extremely important.  Building a list, nurturing it, and yes… making money from it should be a high priority of yours. So you’ve worked extremely hard to get traffic to your site.  A mix of Natural organic traffic and paid traffic campaigns has elevated those unique visitors.  What should [...]



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