Because I’ve been teaching a few of you lately how to add a page to WordPress, I’m going to write a post about it. And yes, a post is different from a page. Perhaps later I’ll show you how to add a post.
Instructions for Adding a Page to Self-Hosted WordPress – 7 Easy Steps
i. Just above your main text area, you will an “Upload/Insert” bar (refer to the image directly above). As you drag your mouse over the bar, you will see what types of media you can add.
ii. Under “Pages” find your recently published page, select the check mark, click “Add to Menu”
iii. Slide it into place. Don’t forget to click “Save Menu”
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Collectively between my client sites I just passed the 15,000 visitors in a month. That excludes Georgia, if you include Georgia I’m actually over 23,000 visitors in a single month.
Now before you start saying “that’s not much! Websites can get hundreds of thousands of hits in a month. Facebook gets billions!” So I’m not Facebook, and I’m targeting a very specific market – home shoppers. Also, the bounce rate is only 26.76% of people. That means that as a project manager for Boomerang Leads, there are roughly 11,100 people who visit my websites each month who are interested in real estate shopping. That’s an excellent number, which will translate into great profit for a new company. I’m really excited about this.
I’ve been looking to surpass the 15,000 visits in a single month mark for over a month now. What’s even more impressive, is that these websites were getting almost no traffic just four short months ago. Now they have become a common place for people searching for a home in places like Phoenix, Southern California, Florida, and soon Colorado. Let’s keep making the best real estate websites in America!
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If you haven’t noticed, recently Facebook has been fighting Google. I’m not necessarily talking over anything legal (although I wouldn’t doubt that). Rumor has it, Facebook hired somebody from Google, and that’s why Facebook is now having this look of trying to mimic everything Google+
Here’s what really caught my attention with all of this. First, let me give some preface: I have two different Facebook accounts, one so that I can spam folks, and the other one so I can be friends with folks. Also, it is a nice way of using one account to push the Like button in areas where that like button has been neglected. On the Facebook account where I had less activity I got an e-mail that said “Kirk, you have notifications pending” or “Kirk, we haven’t seen you for a while.” Turns out, I’m not the only one suddenly receiving these e-mails. Looks like Facebook is fighting for their market share.
I find the dynamics of Giant (Facebook) vs. Newcomer (G+) interesting. If we roll it back a few years, we had MySpace vs. Facebook, where MySpace owned the market share. Facebook was able to just do it’s own thing, and be independent. That’s what Facebook does best. I think that by making all of these changes Facebook is giving Google+ more attention than it deserves. And what do you need to succeed these days? Attention. My prediction: Even though Google+ is entering a market that is dominated by Facebook, Facebook is the biggest advertiser of Google+ from the actions that they are doing, and Google+ will take a large market share, and perhaps become the next Facebook.
Which gets me onto another topic which I will write about some time, which is “What Is the next MSN Messenger” (- Kirk salisbury, 2004).
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Google has an awesome new tool which is still in “Beta” but is proving it’s usefulness almost immediately, it’s part of the Analytics, and it’s called the In Page Analytics. It can be accessed by clicking the content tab on the far left, and then clicking the “In-Page Analytics.” This tool will pull up a screen shot of where people are clicking on what page of your website. This will help a person determine several things about their website, among those things are:
This screen image was taken in the very early stages of this site, but as you can see, visitors prefer to go from left to right when clicking links.
Google makes it very easy to see what percentage of clicks are going to what links on your website. This is great to know because it helps you go through your website almost as if you were every person who has every clicked on your website at the same time. You can quickly notice certain niches that your website has garnered, and give you insights as to what you should continue to focus on. One trend that you will begin to notice is that users click on the first links they see, you almost wonder if they even read your content. Their clicks follow the normal pattern of reading, most clicks happen at the very top of the page, and the highest concentration of them is on the left hand side. Wherever you want most of your traffic going, make that link on the top left very first.
When I first ran this there were certain aspects of the website that actually surprised me. I put several links into the text that I thought would direct users to exactly what they were looking for, and I also created beautiful looking pictures that would be appealing to click on, which also contained headings of what I thought would be key things that people are looking for – especially in regards to real estate. What I learned very quickly was that it didn’t matter how good things looked, or what kind of catchy phrase I put on, but on your web page you have valuable real estate, it’s all about location, location, location, and that location is on the top left of the page. If you’re trying to make money on your site, that’s where you need to put your money maker link.
What I’ve learned about people from in page analytics: They want information now, and they almost don’t want to think to receive that information. People will begin exploring the site before they understand what the site is, or even if it is fully loaded. We are an internet savvy world now, and we are use to patterns, if a website does not follow that pattern, then we quickly find ourselves lost, and moving onto the next site that will make things easy for us.
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Recently my brother decided to explore different hosts, and he brought up Dreamhost as one of the options he is considering. I warned him not to go there, just because things seemed to be slow with the sites that I have used on Dreamhost. That’s as bad as I thought they got… but it gets much worse.
Last weekend all of our sites were kicked off and they sent us an e-mail saying that we violated their rules, that we do “Black Hat SEO practices” and that we use our sites as “scraper sites.” Well Dreamhost, that isn’t true. How long did you evaluate our sites to determine that they are legitimate? We don’t use our sites as a means to another site, but we hope that people will stay on them long enough that our sites will generate business…
When we called them they said “there is nothing you can do. The decision has been made.” So now here we are, after receiving the worst, slowest hosting we could find, we are migrating our sites one by one off of Dreamhost onto other hosts we wish we could have had all along. We’re not sad that we don’t have Dreamhost anymore, but we are irritated for all the extra work we have to do in the migration process. And we’re not alone in our dislike, check out this urls.
or how about their Better Business Bureau rating? F.
What I’d suggest? Any other host. I don’t have any complaints with Host Gator so far.
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My name is Kirk Salisbury, and welcome to my website kirksalisbury.com. I live in beautiful Logan, UT
and work as a web designer
SEO specialist and
internet marketer
at Boomerang Leads.