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Entries Tagged ‘traffic’

Live and Learn: Contest Post-Mortem

Here’s a quick recap of our 2-week internal competition. How did we do? In a nutshell, not well. We ended up losing money, mainly on paid advertising. How much? We haven’t added up the numbers exactly, but we were both each under the $100 mark. It turns out that we were both a bit hesitant [...]

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Book Review: Attract Visitors to your Site: the Mini Missing Manual

The sys admin geek in me has always loved O’Reilly books and they’ve continued producing quality computer books as well as branching out into other areas, one of which is the Missing Manuals series. O’Reilly was good enough to send me a sample copy of one of their latest on attracting visitors to your website [...]

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The Power of the “Season”

I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough – probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the [...]

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The Power of the "Season"

I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough – probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the [...]

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