Web Traffic

Digg Traffic Takes A Nose Dive

by Jeff Weisbein September 24, 2010
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It has been approximately one month since Digg released their latest redesign of Digg.com version 4 and it appears that the site is now experiencing a major decline in traffic.  At Digg’s peak, they reached over 40 million unique visitors a month.  However, the uproar and disappointment with the new design appears to have truly [...]

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Why You’re Not Gettin’ Any: Website Visitors

by Mike Mansell July 28, 2010
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So you bought a domain, got yourself web hosting, and designed a website. Now you have a beautifully website, but you just can’t figure out why you’re not getting any visitors? Does this sound like you? Well, today BestTechie is starting a five-part article series entitled “Why You’re Not Gettin’ Any”. These articles, which will [...]

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Twitter: The Great Link Juicer With A Horrible Aftertaste

by Jeff Weisbein June 10, 2010
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In the past, I have both praised and criticized Twitter with regard to its ability to drive traffic to a website.  There is no question that Twitter is one of the all-time great link juicing tools out there.  It may be the best, most legitimate, and most effective link juicing tool ever created, especially if you [...]

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How To: Develop Content That Increases Website Traffic

by Jeff Weisbein October 14, 2009
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In my previous article I discussed the building blocks to building a successful website.  What I would like to discuss now is how to produce the best content that will increase your websites traffic, which, in return, will help build your community.  The first thing I always think about when making a video, writing a [...]

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How To: Build A Successful Website

by Jeff Weisbein September 18, 2009
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Over the past 2-3 years, I have learned a lot about the Internet and how the industry works as a whole.  When I first started BestTechie back in 2003, I had no idea what I was doing – I was just a 13 year old kid with a website.  In late 2007, I started to [...]

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Twitter Is Definitely Good At Spreading The Word

by Jeff Weisbein June 29, 2009
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Yesterday, at 11:59PM Facebook opened up custom URLs for pages with less than 1,000 fans which is most fan pages, by the way.  This allowed users to claim a URL for their fan page (e.g. facebook.com/besttechie). Originally, the only requirement was that you needed to have more than 25 fans. I think that’s a fair [...]

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MySpace Flounders, Facebook Marches On

by Jeff Weisbein June 23, 2009
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MySpace employees have begun to feel the hurt of the floundering social network.  The company has now announced that over 700 of it’s 1,800 total employees have been or will be laid off – 30% of U.S. staff last week, and 66% of non-U.S. staff today. Meanwhile, the rival Facebook employees are enjoying being able [...]

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