by ZhangYining

Your Blog or Website Bounce Rate How To Fix It

You will want to know if your content is engaging the visitor and if so what they find interesting and most valuable from your site.

Google Analytics allows you to place some code in the form of html script on your site pages that will record the data of each visitor to your site.

Bounce rate is where a visitor arrives at your site and then immediately leaves by either clicking the back button or closing the window.

A bounced visitor is one who was looking for something in particular but did not find it when they came to your webpage.

A bounced visitor is a lost visitor and you have to consider several options to optimise each visitor to your site, whether it is to engage the visitor to visit other pages of your site or to get them to take a call to action you have placed, such as a sale or signing up for your newsletter.

A bounced visitor is often referred to as leaving money on the table, you really got nothing from them, when all you wanted was for them to visit your site and do something.

So why do visitors leave straight away and increase the percentage of your bounce rate?

Why Do Visitors Bounce

OK. Let’s assume that we are the bounce visitor. That’s my new term for this hubpage. Ask yourself why did you bounce? The answer maybe that you arrived at a site that had awful colours, the site was slow to load, the site had too many or not enough photos, it was full of ads or at worst, it looked like a novel from War and Peace that you simply did not want to read.

Bounce visitors leave your site on first impressions. Simple. First impressions. So how do you find out what’s wrong, why did they leave?

The best way is to have your partner, parents, friends, schoolmates, anyone really and the best are those who will be most critical of you, to look at your site and you ask them, no you demand from them, straight away, their first impression.

You will get either the “look” or the gasp or hopefully the confirmation you were looking for that the site is good. Now lets leave the last one out. If you wanted an answer that said the site was good, then it won’t help your bounce rate.

You want someone to say, the colour is too harsh, there are too many ads or the content is dribble, I hate it. You want the very worst comment from the persons first impression on your site. Gordon Ramsay springs to mind at this point, he’d tell you and will leave you on no uncertain terms why you have a high bounce rate.

What Do We Do Now?

You have had your site evaluated and found from that person what they first thought was wrong and turned them off. If its the colour then you can fix it by changing the colours around until the site is more suitable.

If its the content, then you can re-write it and make it more interesting or shorter and to the point.

If its because you have too many advertisements on your page, then reduce them or find a better place on the page for them.

It is by going through this process that you can get the aesthetics, the looking good part, of your page right to lessen the intitial reaction of your visitor to leave straight away.

Is that all you can do or is the more. Well of course there is. You know me by now, I always have a few tricks.

A Couple Of Secret Tricks

I love that heading. Sounds like I have invented something but in reality I have not invented anything at all, its just human nature and common sense that is the basis of these not so secret tricks.

To explain – On the world wide web we click, we click sites, the back button, sign up forms, Paypal buttons to make a purchase, advertisements and other links.

We go to a page and read the article or the blog post. When we finish that – is there anything else we can click on? No. Nine times out of ten there is nothing left for us but the bottom of the page or a comment bar.

Our reaction is straight to that little X in the top right hand corner or the back button.

The trick is to put a link there. Such as, “To read more visit more information” text link. Give your visitor something to click at the bottom of your post or page that directs them to a second page on your site. If they are interested they will click on the link for more information.

Thats what we want. Have the visitor click something after they have read the page or post so we record a unique visitor with zero bounce rate. This is the purpose of our site, to attract and command the attention of our visitors.

Not all visitors like to comment on a blog post, so place a link at the end of the post article. This way you are deep linking, internal linking your pages which is good for search engine optimisation.

Failing all that, place an advertisement there or a newsletter sign up form or email a friend capsule. If where going to lose the visitor then lets at least try to get them to take action.

Whether its an Adsense advertisement or other providers advertisement, we may just convert a visitor to a call to action. After all, thats one of the reasons we have our sites.

What we do not want is to have a subscribe to our RSS feed at the end of our post as visitors may subscribe and as they do leave the site creating a bounce visitor statistic. Place the rss subscription elsewhere on the page as if someone wants to subscribe they will. Thats why Blogger has the rss button at the top.

Having a related posts navigation button at the bottom of the page will always encourage the visitor to click for more information.

Basically, if you want to stop your visitors recording a bounce rate, then give them somewhere to go at the end of your pages. Entice them to read more and visit another page of your site.

You will probably find that there is nothing wrong with your site in the first place.

The visitor came, got what they want and left. Why not tempt them to keep clicking at the end.

Difference Between A Blog And A Website

Many of us may have a confusion between the functions of a blog, and a website. A blog is an online journal where people can update information frequently, and website is a group of web pages where content is published for all reasons. Surprisingly, it is difficult to explain much about their differences, because they share many unique characteristics. Thus, many people have a perception that blogs and websites, both are same. However, it is important for us to understand the key differences between a blog and a website.

Difference between blog and website
Both blogs (when used for business) and websites play an important role in representing credibility of a business, and in enabling customers to know about their products or services. Though, blogs have similar features like websites, they are distinctly different.

•    Publishing content: A blog is online diary where the blogger can write posts on personal interests, reviews, experiences and many more. A website is a standard place, where the company cannot go for personal opinions of its business. It is for publishing formal and official information. Websites content seldom can be changed easily and frequently. Whereas, content in blogs can be updated easily with WYSIWYG based text editor.
•    Creation concern: Creating a website is not as easy as creating a blog. It needs specific knowledge about html, php, xml, etc. Blog creation is easy and simple. Free or hosted blogs can be created with built-in templates or even can be customized based on needs or owners preferences.
•    Cost: Creation of a website for a company may force to spend huge amount of money for domain registration, web hosting, content development, etc. For creating a blog, its takes only a few dollars to host or even you can do it free using some blog service providers like Blogger, or WordPress etc.
•    Visibility differences: As blogs are personal online diaries, they are not created with a focus on marketing, which makes them vibrant in terms of layout, design, and content. Therefore, visitors often come to read personal reviews, opinions, or personal details. Websites are created with specific purpose. This may restrict them in designing, structuring, and presenting the website.
•    Blogs are dynamic: In website, the content changes with change in products, and services of the company. Blogs are updated on regular basis.
•    Websites have limited information: Websites describes about an organization i.e. may be profit/non-profit and its products or services. Comparatively, content in blogs can be represented in many ways like personal views, conversational, and biased opinions.
•    Communication flow: Websites give overview of a company, and give information about the products, and services but does not take any feed back. Communication flow in blogs is two-way. After reading the blog, readers give feedback in form of comments. Generally for websites, it is one-way communication.

The above information helps in understanding the difference between blogs, and website. Both blogs and website have their own significance in online market.

Personal blog of igor elvis is on health care issues, product reviews, small businesses, shopping tips on an average insight.

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by Thomas Hawk

Tips To Start Your New Blog

There is no question that blogging is one of the best ways to get keyword rich content on your site, get your message on the search engines and get traffic to your website.  But how do you get started blogging?

When you consider starting a blog there are many options.  A great way to get started blogging quickly (and for free) is to use an online ‘standalone’ service like WordPress or Google’s Blogger.  These are free, highly customizable tools that support both new and more advanced bloggers.    The negative is that you can’t use your website’s domain name.  For instance, if using Blogger, you blog address would be something like ‘yourblog.blogspot.com.’  While you can link to this from your current website, search engines won’t know give you ‘credit’ for the extra content since it is a different domain.  With creative cross linking however, you can still benefit from the increased exposure you can get from a blog.

These free services provide powerful software tool that balance value, quality, and ease of use.  While some people prefer to use more basic blog services, they too can truly benefit from the ‘built-in’ benefits of WordPress or Blogger along with its existing large community of users.

One of the most notable benefits of these services is the ease of use, and advanced functionality of the service compared to some blog software applications. Neither Blogger nor WordPress require you to know any ‘coding’ and allow you to built and post to your blog with easy to use icons similar to what one would see in a word processing program. Having the ability to utilize a program like this allows people to create blogs that are as high tech, and complete as full blown websites.

If you are occasionally ‘offline’ you can benefit from WordPress’s ability to import posts.  This means you can put your blog together while you are not connected to the internet and then import it later.  If you already use another blogging service such you can also import your posts directly into Blogger or WordPress.

Another benefit of these services is their large widget or element and theme libraries that allow you to instantly add useful features, and professional looking styles to your blog.  A very simple drag and drop interface allows you to add features such as an RSS feed with a few clicks.

Another option to consider would be blogging software that you can directly integrate into your website.  Some hosting provides such as GoDaddy allow you to use your existing domain name for you blog.  The benefit is that the content of your blog becomes part of what search engines see for your domain.  In these cases you are more likely to pay a monthly add-on fee to your hosting provider. As an alternative, Google’s Blogger allows you to publish to a FTP site, which means you can blog from your own domain.  You lose some of the flexibility of the ‘out of the box’ service, but with a little effort you can have a customized template and pretty easy posting capability that resides within your domain.

As your needs become more advanced or if you are a more technical blogger you may also consider blogging software that can be directly integrated into your website.  One to consider is bBlog.  bBlog is an open source, PHP/MySQL application.  If you don’t know what the last sentence means, then this isn’t for you.  If you do know, then you may benefit from the expanded flexibility an integrated application could provide.

In the end, you have a wide, wide range of very inexpensive (or free) options to get started.

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by Danny Choo

How To: Speed Up Your Blogger Blogspot Blog by Compressing Css

Speed Up Your Blogger Blogspot Blog by Compressing Css

There are multiple ways one can think of to speed up there blog load times. It’s really easy to get carried away with all of the widgets available for blogger today. Most of the times these scripts are third party scripts. But most importantly the css with in your template code is the biggest problem with most blogs today. There css code maybe either filled with to many comments and or have to many spaces with in them. Did you know that the more lines in your template takes up more time to load in a browser. The slower your site, the more likely your visitor is ready to leave. The best thing there is to do right now is to compress your blogger css code. Follow the steps below.

How To Make Your Site Faster

Step 1: Simply log into your blogger dashboard and select the blog you want to compress. once there click design. Note: Also we recommend backing up your template before continuing.
     

Step 2: Next choose Edit Html once there clicking on Download Full Template will completely back-up your template.

Step 3: When your template is backed up and ready for editing, click on expand widget templates and wait for the page to reload.

Step 4: Once your template is expanded start looking for everything between the and tags. You want to copy everything between these lines. Note: Everything between these lines could be long.   Step 5: Head over to http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor There paste your css code, then submit it and wait for your code to be generated. Note: It’s Strongly Recommend To Leave The Setting As Is.   Finally: Paste your generated code back between the and tags. Save your template, and browse your site and you should notice a boost in your blog’s load time.

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101 Ways To Make Money From Your Blog

If you’re a well-loved blogger, there’s a good chance that your readers would like to show their support. Give them what they want and make money by taking advantage of merchandising opportunities.

1. CafePress.com: This perennial favorite makes it easy for you to put your blog’s logo on shirts, bags, coasters and other items.
2. Self-Published Books: If your readers like your content, they may want to have something they can own offline or even share with friends. Create a book with self-publishing services like Lulu, and you’ll earn profits even without a huge book deal.
3. Printfection.com: Design and sell custom products with Printfection.com.
4. Hard-Copy Content: Create a CD-ROM “book” with cleanly organized content that can be accessed offline. You can take things a step further and sell subscriptions for future updates to the system.
5. GoodStorm: Like CafePress.com and Printfection.com, GoodStorm is a nice way to create and sell your own merchandising products.

Paid Content

Paid content is a good monetization method for bloggers that regularly offer useful information — especially if this information helps others make money. As with all monetization methods, it’s all in the approach. Don’t create misleading previews of content that requires a membership to read in full. Rather, devote special sections of premium content to readers who are willing to pay for the information.

6. E-Books: Whether it’s a compilation of your best tips or a new idea altogether, an e-book is a good, reader-friendly way to package content.
7. White Papers: Like e-books, white papers are a smaller, more technical version of your content.
8. Phone Calls: Sell one-on-one phone calls for advice and other consulting through Ether.
9. Miniguides: If you’ve just run a particularly helpful series, package it up into a miniguide.
10. Tutorials: Gather your knowledge and compile it into a tutorial that relies upon your expert advice.
11. Members-Only Sections: Whether you’re providing access to published items or just ad-free content, make sure you’re delivering a product that your readers are willing to pay for.
12. TextMarks Inc.: Charge readers to get text-message alerts about your content through TextMarks.
13. X-Events: Project physical events online and create revenue by charging admission, attracting sponsors and selling subscriptions to future events.
14. Podcasts: Podcasts may be a novelty to your readers, and many of them are probably willing to pay to be able to hear your entries on the go.
15. Videos: Like podcasts, videos are value-added extras that readers may be willing to pay for.

Begging

It never hurts to be straightforward about earning money from your blog. Ask your readers for donations — in a polite way, of course — and the ones that truly value your work will likely be more than willing to help support your ongoing success.

16. PayPal: PayPal’s system allows you to place a donation button on your blog.
17. Amazon Honor System: Like PayPal, the Amazon Honor System allows you to accept online donations.
18. Mailed Checks: Of course, good old U.S. mail works just as well. Provide readers with a P.O. box that they can mail donations to.
19. Buy me a beer/coffee: Asking for donations in the form of a beer, coffee or other special item allows readers to reward you with something tangible.
20. Amazon Wish List: Although it’s not cash, asking readers to buy you items from your Amazon Wish List will save you from having to buy things yourself. Again, they’ll feel more rewarded knowing they’ve given you something tangible.

Opportunities

Becoming a successful blogger means becoming an expert in your field. You can use this status to earn money through opportunities, while increasing the value you provide to your readers.

21. Writing Gigs: By showcasing your writing talents on your blog, you’ve provided a living resume to any blog network or news site that might be interested in hiring you.
22. Seminars and Workshops: As an expert, you can invite readers to visit with you in person for seminars and workshops.
23. Bloggers for Hire: Get yourself hired to blog for a corporate Web site.
24. Blogger Jobs: Like Bloggers for Hire, Blogger Jobs can connect you with sites in need of a blogger.
25. Go Offline: Take your blogging skills offline as a columnist in a newspaper or magazine.
26. Guest Blogging: Fill in for fellow bloggers as a guest writer for a nominal fee or just future reciprocation.
27. Job Board: If you’re an industry leader, set up a job board that your readers can use to hire or be hired for positions in your field.
28. Create a Radio Station: With a radio station, you can feature podcasts, sell showcase spots to budding artists and even sell audio advertising.
29. Consulting: If you’ve found success as a blogger, you probably have a lot of knowledge to share about mastering both the Internet and your field. Freelance as a consultant and get paid for sharing what you know.
30. Speaking: Your blog can get your noticed by industry leaders and can land you speaking engagements at conferences and meetings.
31. Book: A number of popular bloggers have landed lucrative book deals.
32. Interviews: Share your knowledge on a new medium and go on radio or TV interviews.

Offline

The benefits, monetary and otherwise, of writing a blog extend well beyond the Internet, particularly if you operate an offline business. Take advantage of these benefits using the following methods.

33. Market Your Services: Your blog is a great forum for marketing your business. Post about current promotions, new interests and other business-building information.
34. Create a Voice Behind Your Business: A blog is a great way to grow your business through personal dialogue. By presenting yourself as a friendly authority, your business becomes more approachable.
35. Deepen Customer Relationships: Beyond providing a friendly voice, a blog can help you connect with customers. Link to their blogs, write about their interests and give them special attention in your writing.

Ads

Ads are generally the bread and butter of bloggers. However, they’re also the most likely to irritate readers. To keep a happy balance, focus on relevance and make sure that you’re not overloading your blog with too many ads. It should go without saying that you should absolutely not use every single one of these ad programs, either. Rather, pick a handful and rotate them until you find what that works the best for your blog.

36. Yahoo! Publisher Network: Display contextual ads on your site via the Yahoo! Publisher Network.
37. ValueClick Inc.: You’ll get quality advertisers, support and advanced technology from ValueClick.
38. Tribal Fusion: Tribal Fusion’s impression-based ad service focuses on targeting and optimization.
39. eXelate Targeting eXchange: This program relies on delayed ad cookies.
40. Clicksor Inc.: Clicksor focuses on contextual ads that can be presented in a number of different ways, such as text, graphics and in-line links.
41. Indeed: Post job listings from Indeed and get paid.
42. Chitika eMiniMalls: Promote products through interactive merchandise kiosks and provide both relevant content and comparative shopping to readers. You’ll get paid per click.
43. AdSonar: Attract advertisers and build relationships with them individually through this platform.
44. ExpoActive: Get freedom, from specific ads to style, with ExpoActive.
45. AdVolcano LLC: Using AdVolcano’s platform, you can design your ads, set your own prices and screen your advertisers.
46. eXelate Targeted Links: Pick and choose the advertisers you want on your site with this program.
47. grokAds.com: Set your price and choose which advertisers to accept with grokAds.com.
48. Adify: Get editorial control and high-value advertising on your site with Adify. You can even set your own prices.
49. AdBriteInc.: Using AdBrite, you have the option to approve and reject ads that will appear on your blog, and you can even use it to sell directly to your own users.
50. BidVertiser.com: These ads are highly customizable, and you have the option to block any ad you don’t want displayed on your blog.
51. Blogads: Get invited to this exclusive network of bloggers, and you’ll have high-quality, relevant advertising on your blog.
52. Casale Media Inc.: Get high-quality advertisers and control with Casale Media.
53. DoubleClick Inc.: DoubleClick offers differentiation and lots of solutions for publishers.
54. BlueLithium: Get great ad targeting, selective partnerships and better ad performance with BlueLithium.

RSS Ads

A more specialized advertising method, RSS ads give bloggers a way to monetize feeds. Most readers generally react to RSS ads the same way they do with regular ones, so if you stay relevant and limited, it should work out just fine.

55. Pheedo Inc.: This RSS advertising platform offers interactive triggers and video options.
56. Feedvertising: A part of Text Link Ads, Feedvertising embeds ads in your RSS feed.
57. CrispAds: This blog-focused ad network allows you to place ads directly into entries so they’ll show up both on your site and in feeds.
58. FeedBurner Inc.: FeedBurner’s ads are embedded in RSS feeds,and feature high-quality advertisers like Discover Band, Best Buy and Comcast.
59. FeedM8: FeedM8’s service makes your blog ready for mobile content and embeds mobile-appropriate advertising.

Text Ads

Text ads are one of the the most reader-friendly type of ads you can serve. Their small size and text-based nature makes them less offensive and in-your-face than graphic ads. Try out these services to put this type of subtle ad on your blog.

60. Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media’s ads are in-text and completely user driven.
61. Google AdSense: Ads from Google are the most popular and often the most profitable source of income for many bloggers. They’re relevant to your content, and many blog readers expect it, so you’re not likely to run into lots of negative feedback.
62. LinkAds: These text ads come with lots of control.
63. PaidTextLinks.com: Sell links on your site and retain editorial control over what’s posted with this service.
64. One Monkey Inc.: You can host highly targeted, text-based ads and earn a great percentage of revenue with One Monkey.
65. Kontera ContentLink: ContentLink turns relevant keywords within your content into a hyperlink ad.
66. Text Link Ads: Text Link Ads’ simple, nonintrusive ads are a good choice for many bloggers.
67. TAGword: Select your ads and set your prices with TAGword.
68. LinkAdage Auctions: Sell text links through private online auctions with LinkAdage.
69. LinkWords: LinkWords offers pay-per-click revenue embedded in your content, highlighting keywords that are relevant for advertisers.
70. Textlinkbrokers.com: Get unobtrusive, small link ads, as well as a steady monthly payout that doesn’t depend on traffic from Textlinkbrokers.com.

Sell Your Own Ads

Self-advertising is a method that trumps all others in terms of reader friendliness. By selling your own ads, you’ll get complete control and will be able to determine the method of ad serving that your readers respond to the best.

71. Individual Advertisers: Your advertisers should be ones that your readers will genuinely be interested in. Solicit ads from major, respected players in your industry for the best results.
72. Actively Sell Individual Advertising: To attract advertisers, let it be known that you’re looking for them. Put links on your site, contact potential advertisers directly and post on industry message boards.
73. Create a Media Kit: Make it easy for advertisers to buy from you. Create a kit that includes your rates, ad policies, demographics, traffic, testimonials and contact information.
74. Offer Free Ads: To get things started, seek out competitive companies in your niche and give them free ads for a specific amount of time. This will get other companies interested in advertising with you.

Affiliate Programs

Most bloggers end up dropping product names at one point or another. Whether it’s software, books or trinkets, you’re probably linking to them for free. Affiliate programs offer a way to profit from your name-dropping, often without changing much more than the URLs you point to. Keep affiliate programs reader-friendly by sharing only products that are truly relevant to your discussion and not going overboard with the quantity.

75. Amazon Associates: Amazon Associates earn up to 10 percent in referral fees for revenue made through blog links.
76. Chitika ShopCloud$ : With ShopCloud$ , you can list popular products in a tag cloud format.
77. WidgetBucks: These shopping widgets offer popular products, lots of relevance and plenty of customization.
78. LinkShare Corp.: LinkShare’s affiliate program will hook you up with programs for companies like Apple Inc., Dell and Disney.
79. zanox: Set up a zanox online shop, choose your products and earn a percentage of every sale.
80. uSuggest LLC: Suggest relevant products to your readers and get paid for doing it.
81. Chitika RPU: If you’ve discussed a product in a post, make money by putting a link to the product at the end of your text.
82. Auction Ads LLC: Place relevant eBay auction ads on your site to earn money.
83. Recommendations: If you’re a fan of a particular product or service, why not ask them directly to pay you for linking to their site?
84. Commission Junction Inc.: You can promote a wide variety of products through Commission Junction, so you’ll be able to find something that’s relevant to your readers.
85. Chitika Linx: Chitika’s Linx identifies keywords in your blog’s content and links them to paid product listings.
86. shareasale.com: Sign up with this network and choose which merchants you’d like to promote.
87. ClickBank: Through ClickBank’s program, you choose the products you want to promote.
88. iTunes Affiliates: Keep your readers up-to-date on new releases and earn a commission on revenue with the iTunes Affilliates program.

Sponsored Posts

Sponsored posts often rub readers the wrong way, usually because they’re blatant cash grabs, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Use these methods and programs that allow you to carefully pick and choose what you’ll write about. That way, you can stick to products and services that are relevant to your readers and that you truly support.

89. ReviewMe: Pick and choose your ReviewMe posts and earn up to 0 for each.
90. PayPerPost Inc.: Use PayPerPost to earn money from writing about the sites, products and services that you support.
91. Payu2blog.com: Sign up with this program, and you’ll get above-average pay, as well as a steady stream of work.
92. Self-Sold Paid Reviews: With paid reviews, the key is to be selective. You shouldn’t accept every offer that comes to you, and if you have nothing nice to say about the product or service, don’t bother. Be sure to offer an opposing view as well so your readers know that you’re not just blindly supporting the highest bidder.
93. SponsoredReviews.com: Review items in your own tone and as critically as you’d like with SponsoredReviews.com.
94. Blogsvertise: When you get an assignment for Blogsvertise, you’ll just put three links in a blog entry. This is a great way to make advertising look natural and unobtrusive.
95. Smorty: Choose your subjects and get paid weekly with Smorty.
96. Solicit Book Reviews: Another way to get something from your blog through reviews is to take on books. You’ll get them for free while providing a valuable service to your readers.

Other

These are just a few more ways you can monetize your blog in a reader-friendly way.

97. Sell Your Blog: If you’ve put a bunch of work into your blog and it has great stats, get a lump-sum payday from a buyer.
98. Shareapic.net: Host your photos with this service, and you’ll get paid for the number of views they get. That means that you can publish them on your blog and get paid every time someone reads a post with one of your Shareapic.net photos on it.
99. Scoopt Words: Sell your content to mainstream media with Scoopt.
100. Use Your Blog to Create a Mailing List: If you sell products, you can use your blog to generate a mailing list of people who are interested in buying from you.
101. Vizu Corp. Answers: Host polls on your site. Visitors will enjoy sharing their opinion, and you’ll earn some extra cash.

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