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Sex, the iPhone, and Winning Traffic

Interconnect IT — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:53:57 +0000

I was going to start this little piece about how there seem to be two hot topics that generate traffic to a website.

Then I realised, there’s actually three hot topics.

But first, the original two. This blog had been quietly pottering along and not really generating much interest until two features.

One was called “Selling Sex” and concerned a possible escort agency client. The other was about the new iPhone update. Thing is, although they generated spikes, the ongoing benefit in traffic has been significant.

I also added an RSS feed to the blog from our Interconnect IT site.

Then we published a WordPress User guide.

Traffic’s been much more significant since then.

But what are the three things that generate the most traffic?

Anything about the latest hot gadget.
Sex. We’re really simple creatures. People are interested in sex.
Articles about how to draw more traffic to your blog.

Anything else will just plod along, picking up scraps from obscure Google searches – especially on a rather techie biased blog such as this one.

Anybody else care to comment with other surefire traffic winners?

Anvil GPL WordPress Theme 1.3

David Coveney — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:38:47 +0000

For those of you who are fans of our Anvil WordPress Theme, a new version – 1.3 has just been released and is now available to download. I’ve been testing it out on my own blog (at least, at the date of writing – that may change in the future) and it’s still one of our favourites. It’s flexible, powerful, and easy to customise.

To download it, simply go to the official Anvil Demo Site and get it from there. The site also has plenty of information on the theme’s features.

Attention WordPress Hackers! At Last, a GPL Theme Worth Playing With…

David Coveney — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:57:38 +0000

We finally built GPL theme for hosted versions of WordPress! And very pretty it is too…

We’ve been writing custom themes for clients for quite some time now, and felt it was time to give a little something back to the WordPress community.

So we did a fully GPL theme, complete with a Fireworks png, all sliced up and ready to be re-exported in such a way that you can completely change the site’s design without ever touching a line of code. You have to work within the limitations of the graphical elements, but there’s no doubt there’s a lot you can do.

You’ll see variants of the theme in use around the place – on the satirical motoring site Sniff Petrol on Dave Coveney’s site, and in a few other places soon we hope. We have high hopes for the underlying platform of this theme – it brings with it a navigation widget to give you fine control of an elegantly styled sidebar, an easy to customise contact form page template, and much much more. It’s a theme for people who like to expand what they can do with WordPress. It’s also, of course, xhtml 1.0 transition, works on every browser we tested on, and the work of a dedicated team of professionals.

Anvil Theme Official Demo and Download Page