Just because you have a blog or website, it does not mean you are getting the traffic you deserve. And if you are not getting traffic, why? What about if you want to know how your website ranks, or how to improve it? These six resources will check your site and give you helpful information on improving tags, search engine optimization, usability optimization, and website traffic overall.

1. Mint

http://haveamint.com

Like the motto says, have a fresh look at your site. Access statistics on all sorts of parameters from number of visits to unique referrers. If you want to analyze your website page by page, this is a great source.

2. Submit Express

http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer

Get information on how to improve META tags and get statistics on keyword density. It’s incredibly hard to write meta tags, and Submit Express helps a lot.

3. DN Scoop

http://www.dnscoop.com

DN Scoop’s intent is to give an estimated value of a domain. But it also provides information on Pagerank, links pointing to your domain, and traffic values.

4. Website Grader

http://website.grader.com

Website Grader is pretty basic, but free SEO tool that analyzes the effectiveness of your website. One should also do a competitive analysis. Type in other competing websites to find out SEO, website traffic, social popularity and other factors. You will get suggestions on how to improve the site from a marketing perspective.

5. Crazy Egg

http://crazyegg.com

One of the best tools out there, Crazy Egg comes in four flavors: basic (free), standard, plus and pro. The packages depend on how many visits and pages to track at once. CE visualizes visitors, a cool concept through heatmaps, lists or overlays.

6. Popuri

http://popuri.us

Popuri gives you information on everything from PageRank to del.icio.us Bookmarks to Alexa rank, at once. It is similar to Smart Page Rank but with a more attractive interface and more statistics.

Share your experience on how you got into creating websites, no matter what kind of webmaster you are. Was it something you stumbled upon, or were you assigned into a job? What was your first website like, and what did you learn from it? Did it lead you to go on to better things? What do you do now– code, design, blog?

This is a post for discussion. Use the commenting section to tell your story, and include what you’ve learned, and what you’d like to learn or become in the future.

Everyone wants a great blog, but most beginners don’t know where to start. If you have a blog already up and running, these 32 tips may help you improve even more.

I wanted to draw from my own personal experiences about blogging. Some of these techniques were hard-learned processes, and some I’m even still working on, having them in mindset for Webitect’s future. Hopefully, my experiences can help you too.

Everyone wants more website traffic, but most don’t put in the effort, and others just don’t know the effective ways to do it. For those of you who follow Webitect, you know I’ve created quite a few posts on website traffic, and may have read a few. Still, I thought I’d write another one– this time compiling all the great website traffic gaining tips from before. Hopefully this post can be a great reminder for returning readers, or a wealth of knowledge for first time visitors.

These 30 tips are divided into three main website traffic categories:

• Search Engine Optimization and other initial technicalities
• Offering good material that can go viral
• Finding loyal readers and creating community

If you’ve proven to yourself that you’re good enough at what you do, you’re probably good enough to start selling your work professionally. Whether it be web design, coding work, or another type of online service, this guide will help you on the right path.

While most experience and lessons will be learned along the way, this guide has 5 main steps to becoming a professional online worker, which include:

• Creating a successful portfolio
• Getting more formal, and the steps involved
• Becoming known in the online community and among clients
• Setting a plan to go full-time
• And finally, what’s needed to actually be a full-time online worker

By general law, when content on the web is created, it is automatically copyrighted to that person. There is no longer a need for registering content to be copyrighted, nor is there a requirement for official copyright terms and outlines to be present.

However, if someone were to steal content, under the eyes of the law it could be very difficult to claim the original content to the original creator. Even without legal intervention, one-on-one intervention between the webmaster and thief could be troublesome.

That’s why it’s always important to consider copyrights in some form on your website. In this article I’ll go over the basics of copyright law, and how to protect your content.

Some Wordpress plugins are pointless, others are fun, but these 10 are needed by any blogger. It can be impossible to find the right ones, so I’ve collected a list of, in my opinion, the top 10 Wordpress plugins, and responded to why they’re helpful.

Blogging ruts happen to the best of us. It’s not to say that you’re lazy or don’t finish things you’ve started. Most of the time, it’s just a lack of motivation.

Because everyone experiences a blogging rut, I hope this post will appeal to all of my readers. Here are 10 tips and ideas to get out of a rut, and to keep your posts coming.