Is Local Lekker?
I am currently sitting at Cape Town airport and as usual our flight is delayed, so I decided to use this time to write a quick blog entry!!!
I love blogging on dotnet.org.za! I always have but some times I wonder how to generate more hits! To not reveal too much of the sites statistics, have a look at the following:
68% of the sites traffic is generated by Google. A further 21% is by referring sites and the last 11% is direct traffic! This article will focus on the 21% of the traffic by referring sites.
Which sites refer visitors here? Well, the top 4 is stumbleupon.com, codeproject.com, dotnetkicks.com and del.icio.us!
I have had 3 articles make it to the front page of dotnetkicks.com and that has made a massive difference in my sites stats for that day. Both these articles saw a 10x increase in traffic for the 1st 2 days after being published to the main page. This is all great but loads of people are arguing that not a lot of people go through the upcoming stories of these sites! So, how do you get you article on the main page? I believe that a community site should help each other? I am not suggesting kicking any article available on this site but at least kick what you like? All it takes is 5 kicks to make it to the front page. The end result of this is more visitors to dotnet.org.za!!! 1 article published on dotnetkicks.com can also easily move someone from the top 25 to the top 10! Why don't we help each other? I have to admit that I am also guilty, I always read the articles published here but hardly every kick it!!! By starting to rate content on this website, we can easily start to increase the traffic and thus reach more visitors!!! Here are my 3 articles that made it to the front page:
Also read the 2 articles about the "DotNetKicks Effect" here and the follow-up here
Just to highlight some of the great content available on dotnet.org.za, have a look here:
Hilton
ASP/LINQ Articles
Hilton is currently number 3 on the top 10 list of content providers at dotnet.org.za. Here are some of his recent articles I liked:
Lazy Loading in LINQ: LoadWith And AssociateWith DataLoadOptions - Part 1 - LoadWith
Lazy Loading in LINQ: LoadWith And AssociateWith DataLoadOptions - Part 2 - AssociateWith And Tying Both Together
LINQ Performance - In Memory Collection
Why Use LinQ To SQL (Part 1 - Performance Considerations)?
Article with most hits
Windows Vista Losing Display Settings
Zlantan
Sharepoint Articles
Zlatan is currently number 8
DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit for SharePoint Server 2007 is finally here!!!!!!!!!!
Why your MOSS 2007 powered organisation will most likely need Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint
Article with most hits
How to Create a SharePoint 2007 Workflow using Visual Studio 2008 Beta (Example)
clotz
Agile & Continuous Integration
clotz is currenlty number 5
Some Random Thoughts on Adopting an Agile SDLC
Continuous Integration: From Theory to Practice
Izindaba (Weekly links)
Haven't had one for a while and no WPF links :( but still worth the read!!
Izindaba #21
Izindaba #20
Article with most hits
Part 1: Continuous Integration using MSBuild, CruiseControl.NET, FxCop, NUnit, NCover + Subversion
Disclaimer: These stats are based on google analytics stats from 1 Jan 2008 to 20 Feb 2008!