How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)
Since posting my 2005 traffic figures recently, I’ve received many questions about how I was able to start this web site from scratch and build its traffic to over 700,000 visitors per month (Jan 2006 projection) in about 15 months – without spending any money on marketing or promotion. Building a high-traffic web site was my intention from the very beginning, so I don’t think this result was accidental. My traffic-building strategy isn’t based on tricks or techniques that will go out of style. It’s mainly about providing genuine value and letting word of mouth do the rest.
Guardian Unlimited
The idea occurs to me, as so many desperate solutions do, during the Christmas holiday season. I have maxed out the Visa, moved on to the Citibank debit card, and am tapping the ATM like an Iraqi guerrilla pulling crude from the pipeline. Convinced I am picking up no more than the occasional trinket - a tree ornament for Howard and Nanette here, a bar of French soap there - atheist Grinch that I am, I've still managed to scatter $1,001 across New York City and the internet in just two weeks. In New York, only a day after the towers fell, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani counselled his trembling constituents to "show you're not afraid.
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In one of his letters to the Corinthians, St Paul takes a firm line on what it means to be an adult: ‘When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man I put away childish things.’ Lately, I’ve wondered more and more whether he was right as events have taken a somewhat different turn for me. My second childhood was kindly delivered to me by my children.
Computing & ICT
This programme route has been specifically designed to offer a wide range of options to cover all interests in the realm of computing and information systems for implementation in an organisational or business environment. The content is well balanced to provide a broad coverage of computing expertise through the core modules. The optional modules then allow the student to choose and customise their study tailored to their own fields of interest. Our graduates are employed in a variety of jobs, within all sectors of IT. Typically most expertise can be offered at the 'user-system interface' where the understanding you gain of the systems and technology will be combined with your appreciation of the human user to bridge the gaps that often occur between the user and their organisational environment. The following core modules are required:
Camels and Rubber Duckies
by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, December 15, 2004 You've just released your latest photo-organizing software. Through some mechanism which will be left as an exercise to the reader, you've managed to actually let people know about it. Maybe you have a popular blog or something. Maybe Walt Mossberg wrote a rave review in the Wall Street Journal.
How to Build a Popular Forum Community in 5 Steps - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
You may have heard that having a web community is a great way to increase sales, customer loyalty and word of mouth for your web business. In fact a web community itself, if large enough and targeting an affluent demographic (or one that advertisers like to target), has the potential to bring in revenue. Commonly people use a web forum as the centre point for a web community. However building a popular forum is no easy task and requires patience and dedication. Over the years I’ve built many forum communities, from my most successful with over 2000 members at MTGParadise Forums to the not as successful YoungActivist Forums which struggled to get out the gate (not helped by my own lack of contribution after I finished building the site).
Early Retirement
This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young. The author retired in 2001, at the age of 37 (same age as Rossini when he retired). The Depressing Truth
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Sally's Kitchen & Stuff: How to budget effectively and also, how to stick to it.
Eat good, old fashioned, real food. All else in life will follow. How to budget effectively and also, how to stick to it.
