Friday, October 17, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Eating Pumpkin Icecream
Gina eating pumpkin icecream. Ok, this is a first. She only ever eats mint chocolate chip. Had to document.
- Taken at 8:06 PM on October 10, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Google Sends Me 98% Of My Traffic
I was looking through Google Analytics™ web analytics service this morning, and of all traffic sent to my blog from search engines, 98% came from Google. Of course the stats came from Google, so I'm not real sure how skewed the numbers are, but that tells me one thing. If I were to focused on making money with this blog, I would do all I could to make sure I capitalize on the Google way of doing things.
Last week I saw a quote that said if eighty percent of your business comes from twenty percent of your products or services, why are you not focusing more on the twenty percent? Are you willing to get rid of the eighty percent that isn't producing? If not, why? If eighty percent of my visitors are looking for help with problems, or for the latest Tumblr theme, maybe I should be looking closer at that.
Another interesting fact I noticed, is the search words are for things that I don't normally talk about, but for some reason my posts make it high enough on the search results that someone clicks through. For example, I have a post about removing sharpie ink from a dry erase board. I wrote that post a long time ago. Its not something I have ever talked about since, but I get a lot of traffic from that post.
The one post I get sear traffic from, by a margin of a 100 to 1, is a post I wrote on a Tumblr theme I created. Its not a spectacular theme, but, interestingly enough, for every 100 hits I get on my site, I get 1000 to this post. I've never written about Tumblr themes nor have I created another Tumblr theme since. I should, for all the traffic driven to my site.
So how do I capitalize on this? I've heard in the past write more about the things people are visiting your website for. My first thought was I don't care anymore about the sharpie ink problem. But maybe it's not so much about the ink problem as it is people are looking for solutions to problems. Now that I can get on bored with.
I'm not an SEO expert, but I would say you can target a lot more of your posts than you are. Think broader. Use a mind map on a topic. I know you can come up with 50 different ways to write how-to's, or creating solutions to problems, or even related problems. For example, I think I'm going to write a blog post on the abnormal passion people have with Sharpie pens. I'm one of them. I treat them like people. I give them names, have different types, thin, think, gigantic. It's almost as bad as a passion for Moleskines.
Give me some examples on how you can expand or broaden you existing blog posts.
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Last week I saw a quote that said if eighty percent of your business comes from twenty percent of your products or services, why are you not focusing more on the twenty percent? Are you willing to get rid of the eighty percent that isn't producing? If not, why? If eighty percent of my visitors are looking for help with problems, or for the latest Tumblr theme, maybe I should be looking closer at that.
Another interesting fact I noticed, is the search words are for things that I don't normally talk about, but for some reason my posts make it high enough on the search results that someone clicks through. For example, I have a post about removing sharpie ink from a dry erase board. I wrote that post a long time ago. Its not something I have ever talked about since, but I get a lot of traffic from that post.
The one post I get sear traffic from, by a margin of a 100 to 1, is a post I wrote on a Tumblr theme I created. Its not a spectacular theme, but, interestingly enough, for every 100 hits I get on my site, I get 1000 to this post. I've never written about Tumblr themes nor have I created another Tumblr theme since. I should, for all the traffic driven to my site.
So how do I capitalize on this? I've heard in the past write more about the things people are visiting your website for. My first thought was I don't care anymore about the sharpie ink problem. But maybe it's not so much about the ink problem as it is people are looking for solutions to problems. Now that I can get on bored with.
I'm not an SEO expert, but I would say you can target a lot more of your posts than you are. Think broader. Use a mind map on a topic. I know you can come up with 50 different ways to write how-to's, or creating solutions to problems, or even related problems. For example, I think I'm going to write a blog post on the abnormal passion people have with Sharpie pens. I'm one of them. I treat them like people. I give them names, have different types, thin, think, gigantic. It's almost as bad as a passion for Moleskines.
Give me some examples on how you can expand or broaden you existing blog posts.
Faceoff On Ice
Took this picture at the LA Kings vs. San Jose Sharks at the E-Center in West Valley City, UT.
- Taken at 9:26 PM on October 05, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
Monday, October 6, 2008
Speaking At Wasatch Business Conference 2008
Quick note that I will be presenting at the Wasatch Business Conference on October 23rd. If you haven't heard of WABCON, please visit the website here. So what is WABCON:
WABCON stands for the Wasatch Business Conference, a day-long event designed to educate business owners and leaders. Experts in the fields of technology, marketing, management, and finance join together in offering 50-minute seminars developed specifically to make your business more successful. Held in October each year, WABCON allows you to select pre-designed tracks by topic or create an educational track that meets your own specific needs.
At this conference I'll be presenting on the topic of Understanding Web2.0. That is a pretty broad topic, and I'll be covering just a few of the common Web2.0 features.
If you want to attend I have some discount codes (I was only given 10, so first come first served) that will give you a substantial reduction in the conference price. Please send me a request through the contact form here.
See you at WABCON.
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