Do you often wonder how many people just clicked on your tweet or Facebook link? Are you addicted to your website and marketing analytics? Google launched its Real Time Analytics feature 2.5 years ago which enabled webmasters and marketers to monitor the real-time action on their site live. This gives you immediate access to useful… Continue reading Google Analytics Launches a Real Time API to Give You More Useful Ways to Access Your Site’s Data
Tag: Web Design
Web design news and best practices for HTML5, PHP, WordPress and more.
Growing a Balanced Link Profile
Gardening is very similar to SEO. You have to put a lot of effort in to get a lot out. It’s tedious work and particularly frustrating sometimes when the seed you plant goes to waste or doesn’t grow as beautifully as those randomly in the wild. Sometimes I feel my garden would do much better… Continue reading Growing a Balanced Link Profile
YouTube Releases a Subscribe Button to Help Websites Build Video Audiences
You can now embed the YouTube subscribe button on your website to help build your YouTube audience directly from your web properties. This allows your fans to subscribe to your channel with a single click, without even leaving your site! Once a fan subscribes, they can see your channel on their YouTube homepage, phone, tablet,… Continue reading YouTube Releases a Subscribe Button to Help Websites Build Video Audiences
10 Best SEO Practices for URLs and Blog Permalinks
Today I’m going to share with you a few SEO pointers that could make the difference between your article ranking high on Google for years to come or your article being doomed to eventual oblivion in Google search results. I’ll cover optimizing URLs, or permalinks, one of the many properties search engines factor into their decision-making process… Continue reading 10 Best SEO Practices for URLs and Blog Permalinks
How to Add a Feedly Follow Button to Your Blog to Increase Traffic
After the Google Reader funeral many of us turned to Feedly to host our blog feeds and RSS subscriptions. Considering how many people are using Feedly now, it might be wise to add a Feedly button to your blog or website to encourage readers to directly subscribe to you on that service too. Providing users… Continue reading How to Add a Feedly Follow Button to Your Blog to Increase Traffic
Why You Should Never Judge an Agency Just by its Website
Despite anonymity becoming a thing of the past on the Internet these days as far as prying government eyes are concerned, it’s still relatively easy to hide your true credentials from other regular citizens of the interweb. Regardless though, first impressions matter, even if you don’t know who is truly behind a given online operation.… Continue reading Why You Should Never Judge an Agency Just by its Website
Twitter Testing ‘Embedded on These Websites’ Feature
Twitter is experimenting with a new “embedded on these websites” feature. Users who have access to the feature will see, at the bottom of certain, news-worthy tweets, links to web pages that have embedded that tweet. The new feature, reported by TechCrunch and The Verge, could help Twitter users put news and other information found… Continue reading Twitter Testing ‘Embedded on These Websites’ Feature
The Anatomy of Most Articles on the Web
The state of blogging on the web has come to a tragic crossroad. Our feeds are exploding with more and more content, including over 40 million new Tumblr posts and 500,000 WordPress posts each day. Do you realize that 90% of all the information that exists today was created in the last two years? That’s a… Continue reading The Anatomy of Most Articles on the Web
