Today’s Gmail Googles popular mail client was down for several hours and it took the Google team over 4 hours to notify the users on its  help page that there was a problem. They posted this message 3 hours after users had intial started to have problemms.
We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail. We will provide an update by February 24, 2009 6:30 AM PST detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that …

Before reading this article you may want to brush up on the web metrics Bounce Rate and Exit Rate. You can read the post The Difference Between Bounce Rate and Exit Rate.
Most web analytic programs  track your Exit Rate and you should try and reduce the number of bounces from your site.(if your analytic program does not have an exit rate metric you can use a free tracker such as Google Analytics) . Few sites will have small exit  rates - which would be a Exit rate with less than …

There are several different ways to monetize your web site. There are many different methods with pros and cons - i will go over each method and their pros and cons - so you can make an informed decision when monetizing your web site.

Direct Banner Advertising
Selling your own adverting space is one of the most cost effective advertisement methods. It cuts out the middle man and allows you to determine your own rate.
The only downside of direct banner adverting is that you need to have a fairly substantial audience …

Getting a blog going is one of the best ways around to generate keyword rich content that will draw in search engines and get more traffic to your site. The question on most people minds though, is where do I begin?
If you are starting out then there are a number of possibilities open to you. The quickest way to get started is with options such as WordPress or Google’s Blogger - best of all these are free. These offer a good deal of flexibility and these highly customizable, free …

Yesterday i wrote a post about the 10 best magazine style Wordpress themes and it was quite successful. We received over 1750 unique visitors to the site yesterday because of the short list post i created.  Although the work did not stop once i created the post -  I  had to go out and share it with everyone i know and get them to share it with everyone they know.
Driving targeted traffic to posts will give you more results than driving people to your home page. People are impatient and …