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Don’t forget that you can buy your new Top Level Domain .CO from July 20th. Many of the Domain Merchants such as Godaddy and NameCheap are taking pre-orders, so in effect you can get your hands on these domains before the 20th.

So what can you do with a new TLD?

These are brand new, fresh domains, so all of those massive search volume keywords which are either unavailable or on offer via auctions for 1000’s of dollars are now available again.

Just look at some of these Read the rest of this entry »

We are still trying to get to the bottom of the recent Google ‘Mayday Mayhem’ algorithm change. But it seems like one of the factors which is receiving more emphasis is the Bounce Rate.

So what is Bounce Rate?

Well in the simplest terms it is the amount of traffic that visits your site and either leaves immediately or just reads one page without then clicking onto another page or post on your site. Googles own definition is “The percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page).“

It’s not clear from Google what it considers to be an acceptable bounce rate, but whatever yours is, you should make an effort to improve it.

The first thing that you need to do is dive over to Google Analytics and examine your bounce rates. (If you’re not using GA then I suggest you start. The information it provides is much more accurate than that supplied from within your C-panel.)

As I mentioned, it isn’t clear where the line between good bounce rate and bad bounce rate fall. But the nearer your rate is to 100% the worse it is. It is widely believed that a good bounce rate for your homepage is anything below Read the rest of this entry »

My name is Dave Pickett and this is NetBenefites.info.

That's me on the left!

This blog isn’t an attempt to make money (although I will add in affiliate links and throw up some adsense and other ads wherever I can!) nor is it now or probably any time in the future likely to be an authority blog.

No, what it is, is somewhere for me to keep a track of all the useful tools and tips I find dotted about the internet that I may be able to use on my own sites.  A repository for the gems that should make all my other sites better.

You may notice that NOTHING in this blog is optimised, NO keyword research has been done and very little SEO.  As this blog is mainly for me there didn’t seem to be much point, after all, I already know where the blog is!

However, if you have managed, by some fluke, to stumble onto this site, then please feel free to use the hints tips and tools with my blessing.

Have fun

Dave….