Character Length of the Top Million Website Names

How do you choose your website name? Is there a thumb-rule? How do you ensure that your website is among the top million websites around the world? So, apart from the exceptional content, intelligent digital marketing and beautiful design, you now have another parameter to worry about. It is worth mentioning that I haven't even started with the number of internal and external links required...

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Relation Between Page Views and Syllables, A Comparison

How do syllables lead to difference in page views? Does the number of syllables in a passage actually make the reader's job difficult or easy?  There aren't enough things that can be modified by a writer. But the short list would include definitely include syllables. Syllable in the simplest of form can be called as a unit of tone itself. When you pronounce 'SOBER' you actually combine...

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Relation Between Page Views and Sentence Length, A Comparison

Can you read really long sentences? Can you digest a sentence containing 50 words? We have seen in a previous article that higher complexity leads to lower number of visitors.  What happens when you use long sentences in a webpage? What is the optimum number of words a sentence must contain to ensure maximum user retention and interaction? Let us start with an example. Sample A Here...

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How to calculate the readability of a passage

The engine at read-able.com performs its function flawlessly when you add some text to be analyzed.  The following text is from an article on "4 crucial facts Google Analytics can tell about your readers". And the following are the results after assessing the piece of text. As can be seen from the table itself, several parameters are calculated on the text. An explanation with...

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4 Crucial facts Google Analytics can tell about your readers

Here are 4 crucial cues about your readers that you can get by observing your Google Analytics data. Just like in any project, knowing who you cater to helps you in increasing your work's quality. Google Analytics help you bridge that gap by answering your most asked questions. Why Google Analytics? GA will help you understand where your website or blog visitors come from. Let us think...

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An introduction to Content Marketing

Content Marketing or Internet Marketing is basically advertising whose main job is to direct traffic from one website to another. This might include direction of traffic from a blog to an eCommerce website or from a social network to a blog/ website.  More often than not, advertisements lead to a series of events not envisioned even by the web owner. A very simple example can be a situation...

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Best Practices for Website Fonts

Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Helvetica; which font is the best for websites? Which font sizes will guarantee that your website will prevail? Which font color is the best? We'll be trying to answer this question in a series of articles. The articles shall try to answer each of the above questions as lucidly as possible. As a part of research, I came across the following interesting articles. A SixRevisions...

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Check your Website for Mobile Compatibility Part 2

A Website can be easily converted into a mobile Website. A blogger based blog, still easier. What after the conversion? How do you reckon that the website is now mobile friendly and none of any readers will have problems opening the website in their PDA. A previous article by codemakit talked on compatibility of websites for its use in mobile devices. The article talked of GoMo which developed...

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Which Font Size is the Best?

How do you know if your font size is readable enough? What font can be called too large and how many pixels are too small?  Learn what font sizes are used by award winning websites. Also find out how people improve readability and retention of their text by modifying the font size. Blogs If yours is a personal or a professional blog, written by on or many authors about one particular...

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Optimum Number of Images for a Webpage

Text has been the pioneer in information dissemination. But the ball has now left the court. In the digital age of high speed broadband internet, Text based websites are soooo 1980s. A post from yola.com depicted clearly, the need to strike a balance between visual and text content on a website. It is said that your readers often create impressions about your website in just 50 milliseconds,...

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