Recover Your blog's Lost Traffic Due to Recent Google Outage

The reason why we delayed this post was that we were actually experimenting on what actually caused a Global drop in traffic and why isn't Google responding on this biggest traffic Tsunami ever. I remember that from July 17th to August 17th MattCutts was on a 30 days self-Challenge of not reading news or using social media. I guess that challenge has already ended but is MattCutts even aware of the recent Google Outage that took place on August 16th, when he was on this "No Social Media, No News" challenge? :> We were not able to find a single piece of information on what exactly happened on August 16th and therefore were forced to do our own experimentation which at least improved our traffic by 10% and we are further waiting for more productive results. The tips below are optimization techniques for both Blogger and Wordpress Platforms. Applying them is indeed the easiest and quickest job.

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Hire Google Analytics Experts for Free!

For any business venture, providing quality to your users can only get you so far. Business intelligence is one of the most crucial areas, your effort in which will decide how successful your business is going to be. Similarly, for a website, just knowing your performance and looking at the stats isn't enough. Understanding your site's performance can help you identify opportunities to improve results and meet your goals. To that effect, the Google Analytics team is now working on a new help feature, whereby you can get the best advice from the top Google Analytics Experts on your site's performance.

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5 Alternative to Google AdWords for Effective Keyword Research

Most people use data from Google AdWords for their keyword research. But what many don't realize is, there are a bunch of other tools out there that can be a valuable source of information as well. The more keyword research you do for your content, the likelier it is to catch up on search results. But more isn't always better. The trick is to do different types of research. For example, you might want to find out what smartphone and tablet users are searching for, because mobile search accounts for almost 15% of all global searches. Here are different alternatives to Google AdWords for effective keyword research.

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Find out how we made over 10,000 Views on SlideShare!

Have you ever considered how much slideshows can do to spice up your content? After all, they are a content vertical, just like images and videos. And as it turns out, they can bring in a lot of traffic too! In this post, we'll talk about how we generated over 10,000 views for our SlideShares. In yesterday's post, we talked at some length about driving traffic to your blog via slideshows. But today, we'll be more specific, and will focus on the slides themselves. And we'll show you by example how to create a successful slideshow.

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How To Use SlideShare to generate traffic

Slideshows are some of the most underestimated and under-used content verticals used on the web. By now, everyone knows the importance of images and videos along with textual content on their website/blog. But slideshows are still taking the back seat to other forms of content. However, there are some great slide sharing websites, such as SlideShare that you can make use of to drive some traffic to your blog. Who says you can get search traffic by just optimizing your own blog? If you're smart enough, you can use well optimized sites like SlideShare to get your slides into search results, and hence drive some secondary traffic to your own website!

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