Bounce rate in Google Analytics is the percentage of single page visits spent on your site before clicking (bouncing) away. A high bounce rate means that your entrance page is not relevant to your visitors.

I wondered whether I should change my blog title which is “Making Money on the Internet”. When I started this blog making money was my intention, but I have given up on that project and the blog is more of a personal diary; perhaps my title should reflect this.

Some blogs have a commenting cut-off. For example they stop accepting comments after 6 weeks. I never understood why they did this until now.

Recently  I have been receiving a lot of comments on posts I wrote a couple of years ago. Searching back through old posts in order to answer the comment is very time-consuming. However I have found a short cut which I’d like to share with you;

1) Go to your WordPress Blog Dashboard and click ‘comments‘

2) Click onto the post title where you have a new comment to answer.

Recently I have been posting 4 times a week, and commenting on blogs 50 times per week. This naturally improved my site traffic from around 1,000 visitors per month to 5,000.  My Alexa rating also improved from around 200,000 to 106,000.

I have been ill recently and have not posted anything new for a month. I watched my Alexa rating deteriorate as expected to 130,000 today. However when I checked my Google Analytics statistics
my visits has improved to 7,000 and my visitors to 6,500. WHY? I’m puzzled.

Since I’ve been blogging I have read many positive posts about making money, however they all tend to be in the future tense. Loads of Dollars will be earned by applying this or that system, but no subsequent information about what actually happened. How much was earned?

I’d like to ask my blog readers if you are earning money online, and if you are, how are you doing it? My instinct is to create niche, or micro niche websites and sell products as an affiliate. Perhaps creating review sites that compare and contrast different products in the niche. 

1) Kathy Dobson The first of the fabulous five looks at getting everything for  a fiver. Kathy Dobson examines the benefits of outsourcing, and looks at a site where everything costs $5. A bit like the pound shops that are on our high streets, but with a higher cost.

2) Zahid Yakoob  If you submit articles to eZine articles (and if you don’t, why not?) you need to read this latest post by Zahid. In it he outlines recent rule changes at eZine Articles and the effects they could have on you.

I must admit I’m totally confused about which web hosting company I should use?  Who offers a reliable service at the cheapest price?

Web Hosting companies I have used include UK2.net, D9 and 1and1, however I’m not sure which is the cheapest?

I moved companies for reasons of convenience. I’m with 1and1 now because my techie friend was also with them, and he was happier working with 1and1.

The Masterclass recommends D9 hosting and for the first year of my course I was paying for two hosting accounts D9 and 1and1.

If you want information on traffic to your blog or website you need two free tools installed, Google Analytics and the Alexa Toolbar.

Once you get the Alexa toolbar installed, watching your traffic rankings can become addictive, especially if the ranking improves every day.

Google and Alexa both measure traffic but in slightly different ways, Google gives a more accurate picture of absolute traffic. Alexa only gives a ranking for sites with their toolbar installed, and compares them to other sites with the toolbar. This can lead to strange effects.

1) Terry Conti  discloses how we all could be losing free blog traffic. He puts his techie hat on and worries about ‘pings’. There is a problem with editing blog posts after publication.But Terry has found the solution. Click here for a free plugin link…

2) Bill Murney gets a second showing in the Fabulous Five because he has written a post about my favourite comedy double act; Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Half the humour is produced by watching Pete and Dud trying, and failing, to keep a straight face while telling their tall stories.

I’m a great fan of Get Rich Quick schemes, especially when the sales letter arrives the old fashioned way, through my letter box.

I must have bought around 25 different schemes over a period of 40 years, so I feel I have restrained my urge to buy. But nevertheless some people are a little bit better off due to my gullibility. I don’t mind, the sales letter must have been good, and the get rich quick scheme kept me out of mischief for a while.

Every Friday I will pick five of the best  posts I have found, on my weekly journey around the blogosphere. Here’s my first selection;

1) Bill Murney  The best way to achieve visitors to your website is obtain a page one listing in Google. Unfortunately only 10 listings are featured on the first page for each keyword phrase and of course there are many websites competing for this front page position.

The number one reason why people fail in an online business is that they fail to assess the strength of the competition. They blindly jump into a niche and start creating content on their site and just hope that Google will magically list the site on the front page. Click Here for More…

2) Steve Scott