The Art of Testing
A friend of mine, Nick Stewart, and I were talking about blog testing recently.
The conversation consisted of AdSense testing, Social Networking Button testing, and blog arrangement.
I consider Nick a good friend in the internet marketing game, and I seek to him for advice when it comes to things such as testing, AdSense placement and other idles.
Nick has been in this game longer then me and I thank him for all his help.
Nick Stewart has a great blog with great info I have used to help drive more traffic to my blog.
Every now and then I will notice that he will switch around the blog.
He will move the AdSense blocks, Subscribe/Social Networking Buttons, and the layout of the blog.
Nick tells me he will test out what works best and what will keep his bounce rate down.
A bounce rate is when a visitor comes into a site and leaves the website immediately.
Some blogs have bad bounce rates while others have good bounce rates.
Right now my blog is too early to get a consistent bounce rate.
But if your looking to keep your visitors on your blog and reading your material there is things you will need to test out.
The best way to figure out how to test our what works on your blog do the following.
Remember to take notes on this part of the article.
Test out per 1000 visitors what lowers the bounce rate, and increases AdSense clicks.
Every week set a goal to lower the bounce rate by so much or increase AdSense clicks by so much etc.
Also see what type of blog post get the best responds from your visitors.
If your visitors are more interested in finance, and investing rather then pay per click, and social networking you might want to write more about some topics more often rather then others to increase AdSense clicks and keep the bounce rate down.
Doing the following should dramatically help you make the most out of your traffic and thus helping you make more money, lower the bounce rate, increase the subscriptions, and become a bigger and better blogger.
Remember there is no sure thing for all blogs testing is the only thing that can get you the best results because just like people, blogs come in all different shapes, sizes, and forms.
The conversation consisted of AdSense testing, Social Networking Button testing, and blog arrangement.
I consider Nick a good friend in the internet marketing game, and I seek to him for advice when it comes to things such as testing, AdSense placement and other idles.
Nick has been in this game longer then me and I thank him for all his help.
Nick Stewart has a great blog with great info I have used to help drive more traffic to my blog.
Every now and then I will notice that he will switch around the blog.
He will move the AdSense blocks, Subscribe/Social Networking Buttons, and the layout of the blog.
Nick tells me he will test out what works best and what will keep his bounce rate down.
A bounce rate is when a visitor comes into a site and leaves the website immediately.
Some blogs have bad bounce rates while others have good bounce rates.
Right now my blog is too early to get a consistent bounce rate.
But if your looking to keep your visitors on your blog and reading your material there is things you will need to test out.
The best way to figure out how to test our what works on your blog do the following.
Remember to take notes on this part of the article.
- Figure out what general placement of your website works best
- What type of AdSense blocks you should have, the color, the size, the placement, and how many are on your web page
- Figure out where the best placement of your RSS Feed button, and social networking buttons where it gets the most people to subscribe or keep in touch.
- Last figure out where the rest of your website should go this includes the Archive, Blog Post, Links, Other buttons etc.
Test out per 1000 visitors what lowers the bounce rate, and increases AdSense clicks.
Every week set a goal to lower the bounce rate by so much or increase AdSense clicks by so much etc.
Also see what type of blog post get the best responds from your visitors.
If your visitors are more interested in finance, and investing rather then pay per click, and social networking you might want to write more about some topics more often rather then others to increase AdSense clicks and keep the bounce rate down.
Doing the following should dramatically help you make the most out of your traffic and thus helping you make more money, lower the bounce rate, increase the subscriptions, and become a bigger and better blogger.
Remember there is no sure thing for all blogs testing is the only thing that can get you the best results because just like people, blogs come in all different shapes, sizes, and forms.
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