well I had a little problem. My blgo has been moving up were at about 400 500 /day but alexa never updated.
So I went online to find out how to get alexa to update and a found a solution for all the new bloggers here that are not aware of this.
just go to http://thumbnails.alexa.com/update_thumbnail and it will update your stats and your thumbnail
tell me that’s not cool
Well this is a list of directories you wanna be apart of to help you build traffic so don’t just sit on your ass go and sign up just do it already
Open Directory Project
URL – http://dmoz.org/
PR – 8
Bloghub.com
URL – http://www.bloghub.com/
PR – 7
Blog Rankings
URL – http://www.blogrankings.com/
PR – 7
Blog Top Sites
URL – http://www.blogtopsites.com/
PR – 6
Bloggernity.com
URL – http://www.bloggernity.com/
PR – 6
Busybits Web Directory
URL – http://www.busybits.com/
PR – 6
CANLink Directory
URL – http://www.canlinks.net/addalink/
PR – 6
Cyber-Find
URL – http://www.cyber-find.net/
PR – 6
Ezilon Europe
URL – http://www.ezilon.com/
PR – 6
Information Directory
URL – http://www.info-listings.com/
PR – 6
Jayde.com
URL – http://submit2.jayde.com/
PR – 6
Sphericom
URL – http://www.spheri.com/d/
PR – 6
AbiLogic
URL – http://www.abilogic.com/
PR – 5
Arakne-Links Directory
URL – http://www.arakne-links.com/submit.php
PR – 5
Blog Toplist
URL – http://www.blogtoplist.com/
PR – 5
Clickey.com (note: requires independent domain name only)
URL – http://www.clickey.com/
PR – 5
CoDot Free Net Directory
URL – http://www.codot.net/
PR – 5
DirectoryBin.com
URL – http://www.directorybin.com/
PR – 5
Free-Top.Net
URL – http://www.free-top.net/submit.html
PR – 5
IllumiRate
URL – http://www.illumirate.com/
PR – 5
iServ Directory
URL – http://directory.iserv.com.au/
PR – 5
Premier Directory
URL – http://www.premierdirectory.org/
PR – 5
SearchSight.com
URL – http://searchsight.com/
PR – 5
Site Inclusion Directory
URL – http://www.siteinclusion.com/directory/add.html
PR – 5
World Top Blogs
URL – http://www.worldtopblogs.com/
well how accurate is the stats that you are using. I started using awstats from hosting provider it tells me I get like 300 to 400 unique visits a day but this is the great part when I use Google analytics I get like 100 unique visits a day so why such a big difference
well there are a few reasons
”There are two main technological approaches to collecting web analytics data. The first method, logfile analysis (used by AwStats), reads the logfiles in which the web server records all its transactions. The second method, page tagging (Google Analytics), uses JavaScript on each page to notify a third-party server when a page is rendered by a web browser. the differences you see between the two solutions is due to two main factors:
-file caching: if a returning visitor has file caching enabled on his web browser (usually it is the case) the request for the file he already viewed will not be sent to the web server, and he will view a local copy, so awstat will not detect multiple visits some times.
-Page tagging relies on the client (visitor) browser voluntarily providing the analytical information requested. Some browsers disable so me data collection for security reasons.
The main advantages of logfile analysis are the fact that the data is already logged by your webserver. every transaction is recorded by the webserver regardless of the visitors browser. and this data is on your server directly in standard format so you don’t rely on a third party server. Another advantage is the fact that logfiles provides information about visits from search engine spiders and bots, failed requests which is really important if you want to optimize your website.
The main advantages of page-tagging is that the javascript is called every time the page is loaded so you can track precisely your visitors behaviors even if they are loading the web pages locally from their cache. it can also report on events which do not involve a request to the web server (flash action script…). Page tagging is adequate if you run ebusiness websites, or if you need to track your visitors behavior. “
So the best advice is to keep using both and keep building you page view hope this helps thank you and good bless
Well here are some tips you might already know or you may not know but are good practice every now and then
1.Online Networks
there are alot of sites where you can network just in-case people in your niche decide on not networking with you because you just started here are a few adlandpro.com, ryze.com, ecademy.com, directmatches.com and linkedin.com
2. Writing A Press Release
press release can do good real good ones you might have to pay for look at johncow.com and his million euro page he had to do a $500 press release (the question is did it help. well not that much but in thee end it helped him sell the site for a nice chunk of change)
3. make lots of friends
make lots of friends in mybloglog.com or sites like that this will help you alot to build traffic.
4.Participate in Discussion Forums
this is a good one which i tend not to do but i will start i use to do this with alot of my other sites when I had time not no more
5. Give Away Freebies
Giving something away is always great here we like to give away food because when you up late writing post’s nothing helps then a warm pizza with some soda
and that’s it folks thank’s for coming to my-site and god bless
Well to all that are reading this one of the SEO techniques any on can do in there blog is create 301 redirect. Why must you do this? because google thinks that you have two pages (www.thegeekbooys.comand thegeekboys.com) you have two incoming link pages. So what the 301 redirect does is add them together basically.
here is the technicalitys:
“The “301 Permanent Redirect” is the most efficient and search engine friendly method for redirecting websites. You can use it in several situations, including:
There are several ways to setup a 301 Redirect, below I will cover the most used ones:
PHP Single Page Redirect
In order to redirect a static page to a new address simply enter the code below inside the index.php file.
<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.newdomain.com/page.html");
exit();
?>
PHP Canonical Redirect
The Canonical 301 Redirect will add (or remove) the www. prefixes to all the pages inside your domain. The code below redirects the visitors of the http://domain.com version to http://www.domain.com.
<?php
if (substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,3) != 'www') {
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: http://www.'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
?>
Apache .htaccess Singe Page Redirect
In order to use this method you will need to create a file named .htaccess (not supported by Windows-based hosting) and place it on the root directory of your website, then just add the code below to the file.
Redirect 301 /old/oldpage.htm /new/http://www.domain.com/newpage.htm
Apache .htaccess Canonical Redirect
Follow the same steps as before but insert the code below instead (it will redirect all the visitors accessing http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com)
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
ASP Single Page Redirect
This redirect method is used with the Active Server Pages platform.
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader='Location','http://www.new-url.com/'
%>
ASP Canonical Redirect
The Canonical Redirect with ASP must be located in a script that is executed in every page on the server before the page content starts.
<%
If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"),"www") = 0 Then
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www."
& Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST")
& Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")
End if
%> "
Well here is another tip in getting people to your site. Forum posting is a great way to bring people to your site. People it really works. here is a little list But don’t just stick with this go out and find some More forums to post.
Some blogging forums include:
But don’t think you just have to stick to blogging specific forums as there are plenty of webmaster related forums which will also do the trick. Some of these include:
Make sure you dont spam these forums. A good Technique is to add your link
Well this is a list of Directories to add your site to. It’s a good idea to add your site – will they deliver visitors to your site? Yes. So don’t ask questions and do it. It can only help Right( dam people if they only listen to me they can get more visitors to there site) Although many bloggers and marketers are trying to play down how effective directories are, I still strongly believe that directories play an important role in search engine rankings.
Directories
Blogarama
Blog Catalog
BlogStreet
Globe of Blogs
WeBlogAlot
EatonWeb
Blog Flux
Blogion
Bloghop
Bloggernity
Blog Search Engine
Technorati
All-Blogs
BlogCode
blogBunch
Feeds4All
FeedBoy
This is by no means a complete list.
Well I just found this really nice plugin. If you use Wordpress and host the site you’r self (meaning if you url isn’t ebay.worpress.com) then you have realized that wordpress does not come with it own stats system. So this plugin will add one. I always like to have a few stat systems because I’m obsessed with looking at my traffic (maybe your the same). All you need to do is download and install this plugin.
