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. Here are 10 of my best suggestions for building a high traffic web site: 1. Is your content worthy of being read by millions of people? When I sit down to write, I sometimes imagine myself standing on an outdoor concert stage before an audience of a million people. Think about the effect you want your writing to have on people. Strong content is universally valued. 2. 3. 4. 5. This “why” is what drives me. 6. 7. 8.
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. One of the biggest questions you're going to be asking now is, "How much should I charge for my software?" So if you like cotton uniforms you better get this right. The answer is really complicated. Now. Some Economic Theory Imagine, for the moment, that your software costs $199. Let me plot that: This little chart I made means that if you charge $199, 250 people will buy your software. What would happen if you raised the price to $249? Some of the people who might have been willing to pay $199 are going to think $249 is too much, so they'll drop out. Obviously, people who wouldn't even buy it for $199 are certainly not going to buy it at the higher price.
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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. It started with the running. My older son, four years old at the time, was getting bullied at school. Whenever we do something only for the sake of something else, we are working — even if we receive no financial reward During my recuperation, I would find myself gazing longingly at the tennis courts in the park across the street. And so my week has become a patchwork of athletic activities. Today’s world is a deeply utilitarian one, where everything must have a use or be ‘good for something’. This is a kind of instrumental thinking. But it’s a rationalisation. 30 January 2013
Site Build It!
Since I announced my recommendation for the Site Build It! service a few days ago, dozens of people have signed up for it, and some are already well on their way to starting their own online businesses. If you’re one of them, I’m excited for you, and please do keep in touch to let me know how it goes for you. I’ve also received some email from long-term SBI customers who saw my recommendation. The general consensus was that their system works for those who work it. Some people mistakenly assumed that SBI is merely a self-publishing tool to put your own content online, like a blog-hosting service. What Is Site Build It? I think the best way to describe Site Build It! SBI teaches you to focus on income-generating activities while building your website. More than 20 universities now teach college courses with SBI, and even more courses are in the works. What to Expect When You Sign Up for Site Build It! The first thing that will happen when you sign up for Site Build It! Making money.
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: The following options modules are available to allow the student to fully personalise their MSc in Computing:
Guardian Unlimited | Weekend | Bye buy
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. All this floats to mind in mid-December as I stoop to fish a glove from one of the slushy puddles that form on New York street corners after a snowfall. This is freedom? It comes to me: what if I were to meditate on the true meaning - and economic, environmental, social and personal consequences - of the Retail Season not just for a day, but for a month? "No, no.
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