Andy Coates Blog

Over the past 3 month Andy Coates Dot Com has averaged about 14,000 visitors (3,300 unique) per month for the past 3 month. Overall I have had 11,000 UNIQUE hits and this is the figure which can help dictate how much targeted traffic you are getting. Targeted traffic is generally traffic form visitors who have found your site whilst looking for a particular item or piece of information. Generally people can reach your site in various ways as targeted traffic, first of all there is the search engine result, secondly there is a link to your site from someone else's site, then you could be recommended by someone in an email or even if you are running AdWords or any other advertising program people pay get to your site by clicking on your advert. Because targeted traffic is people looking for a particular product, if you can satisfy their needs they are more likely to come back to your site. Also targeted traffic is more likely to increase your CTR by clicking on AdSense adverts during their research though the internet which takes us back to adverts delivering good targeted traffic! Not only does this apply to AdSense but if you have affiliate links to products, targeted traffic is much more likely to by the said product as-long as it is relevant to the page!

5 Ways to Increase your targeted traffic!

1. When you begin to write an article do a little research into which keywords you should use within the post, check out my post Grow your blog organically.
2. Visit "like" blogs and comment on relevant posts, there is a good chance other (targeted) people reading those posts may click on the link in the comments bringing targeted traffic to your site.
3. Write some good "link Bait", this is content which is likely to get linked to by other webmasters here is an example with my post 5 Clever tips to protect your blog contnet
4. Write "How To" posts, if you can pass on valuable relevant information on a "how To subject then there is a good chance you will be found by a search engine giving you more targeted traffic. Here is an example which delivers ALLOT of hits per day to my site. How to make a coin disappear
5. Sign up to AdWords, depending on your budget it may or may not be worth joining AdWords. Because of the way it works AdWords does deliver very targeted traffic to your site!

Just remember that if you implement these techniques this wont happen overnight, be patient and they will come!

Written by Andy Coates
Copyright: Andy Coates Dot Com
July 2007

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Win the lottery <– What is this?

Today has been a very interesting day for a particular share which I hold which has been performing well for the past 12 month but today has plummeted because of one small typing error. The Tanfield Group has been performing very well with the share price more than doubling since January that was until today when a journalist for he Financial times not only got his facts wrong but embellished them to make them doubly wrong! Below is a copy of the newspaper report.

'Tanfield Group, the electronic vehicle manufacturer, fell yesterday after a bearish note from Investec, the broker. It cut Tanfield's earnings forecast and slashed its price target from 186p to 108p. "The question is whether investors are willing to give the company further credit today for forecast delivery 30 months away, while a plethora of risks remain. We are not yet convinced," analyst Chris Dyett wrote.'

 

The actual figures should have been that the target price had been UPGRADED to 186p instead of SLASHED to 108p, upon this note may investors began to panic and allot of sells went through, bringing the share price down (well actually letting the Market Makers bring the share price down). This just shows how one small (but important) typing error can create such a stir. To read the full extent you can access the ADVFN (great shares website) forum and read the Tanfield: TAN message board. Even if your just interest in learning about shares and share dealing this is a great website to start: ADVFN