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Hey WAers,
My seems to be getting tons of traffic to my site but it is all bots with a few organic searches and it is driving my bounce rate through the roof. Is there a w
Bots are killing my bounce rate, what can I do?
Hey WAers,
My seems to be getting tons of traffic to my site but it is all bots with a few organic searches and it is driving my bounce rate through the roof. Is there a w
See my comment here: Sessions or hits from russia? to get rid of bot hits
But high bounce rate is not the end of the world: Bounce Rate - Do You Need To Care? And here are some more tips on how to improve the portion of bounce rate that matters: Ending Your Bounce Rate Nightmare
Anybody know of a good WP Theme for a picture Storage Site? My wife takes lots of pictures and we are filling up our Terabyte drive fast and have never found a good online servi
Why not get a Dropbox acct? You can store your files in the web for a yearly fee. It's pretty inexpensive for the amount of data they give you.
you can see such site by yourself, go to the site builder than click on the web samples listed there and there you will see it they suit your niche :)
There are lots of photography themes which can be used to showcase your photos. However, if you've got 1TB then I'd store them somewhere like Flickr / Google Drive or Microsoft 365 - rather than trust it to a shared hosting company.
Use your photography website just for the good photos. Use some form of cloud storage for the rest.
There's no such thing as unlimited hosting on sites like Godaddy. You'll find that somewhere in the smallprint the real limits to database size etc are mentioned. You'll probably also find they won't back up huge sites. So you'll be screwed if your site goes down.
Here you go, taken from the Go Daddy Hosting Agreement: http://goo.gl/yxXejdo:
The smallprint that's relevant is the second paragraph:
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All Web Hosting and WordPress Hosting plans, including the unlimited plans, are subject to a limit of no more than 250,000 inodes per account for Linux® hosting accounts or 500,000 files and folders per account for Windows® hosting accounts.
The plans are also limited to no more than 1,000 tables per database and no more than one gigabyte of storage per database.
Any account or database that exceeds these limits may be issued a network violation warning and will be required to reduce the number of inodes, files and folders, tables or gigabytes (as the case may be), or may be temporarily or permanently suspended, in our sole discretion.
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So your Wordpress installation will have a database and that database, which you upload your photos to, has a 1GB limit. That isn't going to hold all your pics even if you dramatically reduce their size and quality.
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Anybody know of a good wp theme for a picture storage site?
Anybody know of a good WP Theme for a picture Storage Site? My wife takes lots of pictures and we are filling up our Terabyte drive fast and have never found a good online servi
Why not get a Dropbox acct? You can store your files in the web for a yearly fee. It's pretty inexpensive for the amount of data they give you.
you can see such site by yourself, go to the site builder than click on the web samples listed there and there you will see it they suit your niche :)
There are lots of photography themes which can be used to showcase your photos. However, if you've got 1TB then I'd store them somewhere like Flickr / Google Drive or Microsoft 365 - rather than trust it to a shared hosting company.
Use your photography website just for the good photos. Use some form of cloud storage for the rest.
There's no such thing as unlimited hosting on sites like Godaddy. You'll find that somewhere in the smallprint the real limits to database size etc are mentioned. You'll probably also find they won't back up huge sites. So you'll be screwed if your site goes down.
Here you go, taken from the Go Daddy Hosting Agreement: http://goo.gl/yxXejdo:
The smallprint that's relevant is the second paragraph:
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All Web Hosting and WordPress Hosting plans, including the unlimited plans, are subject to a limit of no more than 250,000 inodes per account for Linux® hosting accounts or 500,000 files and folders per account for Windows® hosting accounts.
The plans are also limited to no more than 1,000 tables per database and no more than one gigabyte of storage per database.
Any account or database that exceeds these limits may be issued a network violation warning and will be required to reduce the number of inodes, files and folders, tables or gigabytes (as the case may be), or may be temporarily or permanently suspended, in our sole discretion.
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So your Wordpress installation will have a database and that database, which you upload your photos to, has a 1GB limit. That isn't going to hold all your pics even if you dramatically reduce their size and quality.
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I am creating a pay it forward page on my site and I need at least 4 people to participate to get it started. Any Volunteers? Go to the page and Post a link to the page you want
Without a visual walk through. Here is my attempt at explaining my pay it forward blog commenting idea. http://youtu.be/1C-N4Zb03hc
Ohhh, I see what you are saying now. I think that strategy is fine. What would be the advantage to doing this as a group versus just doing this work for your own website, on your own?
But yeah, I don't see any issue with the SEO stuff like I originally thought. Sorry for jumping on the question like that! I just wanted to prevent any issues with unnatural linking. My fault for misunderstanding.
No Worries Nathaniell, I appreciate your input as always. This is meant to be a way for people to get outside help as well but I do intend to make a post about blog commenting later on. Thanks again.
Although I agree with Nathaniel having a post with so few words doesn't actually add any value and is not likely to increase your authority
I'm not concerned with ranking this page individually. It will be a page people connect to from another page that I have not yet published.
Exchanging backlinks for the purpose of SEO is NOT recommended. It's most likely a waste of time, and has the serious potential to damage your sites rank and authority if done excessively. I'm not sure if what you're talking about is something different.
Not exchanging but searching for similar sites and leaving a genuine comment with a link to that persons content page in the website field when you leave your comment.
I still think it's a bad idea, though perhaps I'm misunderstanding what the goal is and how you wan to achieve it.
If you want to do something like this to help people, you are MUCH better off starting a community where people can share ideas and help each other rather than just share links. That could be fun!
Facebook groups or Google+ communities would be a perfect way to do this, then you can share links with each other on social media, and comment on each others websites or offer suggestions, etc.
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Need backlinks to a specific content page?
I am creating a pay it forward page on my site and I need at least 4 people to participate to get it started. Any Volunteers? Go to the page and Post a link to the page you want
Without a visual walk through. Here is my attempt at explaining my pay it forward blog commenting idea. http://youtu.be/1C-N4Zb03hc
Ohhh, I see what you are saying now. I think that strategy is fine. What would be the advantage to doing this as a group versus just doing this work for your own website, on your own?
But yeah, I don't see any issue with the SEO stuff like I originally thought. Sorry for jumping on the question like that! I just wanted to prevent any issues with unnatural linking. My fault for misunderstanding.
No Worries Nathaniell, I appreciate your input as always. This is meant to be a way for people to get outside help as well but I do intend to make a post about blog commenting later on. Thanks again.
Although I agree with Nathaniel having a post with so few words doesn't actually add any value and is not likely to increase your authority
I'm not concerned with ranking this page individually. It will be a page people connect to from another page that I have not yet published.
Exchanging backlinks for the purpose of SEO is NOT recommended. It's most likely a waste of time, and has the serious potential to damage your sites rank and authority if done excessively. I'm not sure if what you're talking about is something different.
Not exchanging but searching for similar sites and leaving a genuine comment with a link to that persons content page in the website field when you leave your comment.
I still think it's a bad idea, though perhaps I'm misunderstanding what the goal is and how you wan to achieve it.
If you want to do something like this to help people, you are MUCH better off starting a community where people can share ideas and help each other rather than just share links. That could be fun!
Facebook groups or Google+ communities would be a perfect way to do this, then you can share links with each other on social media, and comment on each others websites or offer suggestions, etc.
See more comments
See my comment here: Sessions or hits from russia? to get rid of bot hits
But high bounce rate is not the end of the world: Bounce Rate - Do You Need To Care? And here are some more tips on how to improve the portion of bounce rate that matters: Ending Your Bounce Rate Nightmare