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Infographic: A Roadmap to Your Website’s Traffic

Where does your website’s traffic come from?  We all know that the Internet is just a series of plastic tubes with cats running through them, and these cats and tubes somehow result in visitors to your website.  This infographic endeavors to explain where this traffic comes from and a few tips to increase said traffic as well.  Here is “A Roadmap to Your Website’s Traffic”: A Roadmap to Your Website’s Traffic via HostGator Continue reading

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Crowd-Sourcing Your Site’s Content Using Twitter

In a recent article, we discussed how powerful the process of A/B split testing can be when it comes to making measurable, data-based improvements to your website. Continue reading

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Top 10 Reasons to Power Your Website with WordPress

These days, building a website doesn’t require that you launch Dreamweaver and spend hours poring over the raw HTML code that’ll ultimately form your website.  Instead, beginning and advanced webmasters alike can take advantage of a whole host of tools designed to make website creation and management as easy as possible – including everything from web host-specific site building tools to third-party content management systems (CMSs) like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. If you’re in the process of choosing between all these different site design options, one platform to consider is the popular WordPress system Continue reading

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Snappy’s ProTips, pt. III

Today’s ProTip from Snappy is going to be the one-two punch of accessing your website via a “temporary” URL and then applying that knowledge to accessing your webmail as well. What is a “temporary” URL, and why do we keep enclosing it in quotation marks?  Let’s answer the last part first: it’s not actually temporary, in fact it’s very much permanent.  We can elaborate on that by addressing what exactly is this thing to which we refer as a temporary URL.  First things first, here is the associated KnowledgeBase article: https://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/lets-get-started/temporary-url A temporary URL is simply a means to access your website’s files without invoking the use of an actual domain name.  There are multiple circumstances where this might be beneficial, one of which would be while your domain name is in propagation.  As you can see in the KB article, the actual syntax of a temporary URL varies dependent upon your hosting platform.  For our purposes, we’ll stick with cPanel for our lesson here today, but the same logic applies across all platforms. Continue reading

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The Ultimate Resource for Google Analytics

If you aren’t yet familiar with the benefits that Google’s free analytics tracking program offers, it’s time to get with the program! Google Analytics is a comprehensive web data tracking suite that – once installed – allows you to monitor the number of visitors your site receives, as well as how these users move through your site.  Going further in-depth with the data that Analytics provides, you can even use this powerful tool to determine which of your site’s pages are the most popular, how often your articles are being shared on social media websites and even how many of your visitors are converting into buyers. Continue reading

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