Look at the image on the left. That’s what I got to look at for 24 seconds while waiting for a popular blogger’s site to load. UGGGGGHHHHH! And no, it’s not a slow connection on my end — almost every other site I visit loads instantly. What’s worse – every page on this blog takes [...]
Brian Gardner’s Revolution Affiliate Contest
Brian Gardner, developer of the Revolution themes for WordPress is holding a contest for his affiliates in March. If you’re not familiar with Brian’s work, I run his Revolution News theme on my travel blog and it was the theme chosen for a blog coaching club that we’re doing now. Other themes include the original [...]
Holiday shopping forecast, webinar & Wordtracker…
The (Canadian Thanksgiving) turkey has barely been digested and the Halloween candy hasn’t yet been shelled out, but it’s beginning to look a LOT like Christmas online. According to Advertising.com’s second annual Holiday Shopping Study conducted to analyze consumer shopping behavior and expectations for the 2007 holiday season, results indicated that 2007 will be strong [...]
NPT Digest: New look increases visitor retention rates and more…
The holiday rush is now well underway and I’ve been busy getting my affiliate sites ready to welcome more shoppers… and I’m not just adding products. A theme change at Roamsters increased average visitor duration from 302 to 356 seconds and had other benefits that you can read about here. I also discuss a plugin [...]
Revolution News: WordPress Theme Increases Visitor Duration
Ed and I spent the better part of the weekend before last making updates and revisions to get Roamsters.com, our travel blog, prepared for the holiday rush. The biggest change that I made was to install a new WordPress theme, called Revolution News, by Brian Gardner (no relation). I’ve used Brian’s themes on a couple [...]
