Problem Child Located +
As I was going through the blogs last evening, having found why my background image was not displaying in my footers, I had one site that stubbornly refused to co-operate. The footer image did show up as expected but I was also adding a white background behind some text in the body below the footer. I had written the rule for the background to be just wide enough to contain the text, but it was stretching across the page. I checked and rechecked the punctuation and syntax and it all seemed right. I had finally left it to proceed with the other blogs.
Today I revisited the site. I finally located the problem. I had added a rule long ago when I was having a problem with this and had forgotten what I had done. I finally opened my include file and found that I had something there that was causing a conflict. (Checking here I found the same code in the include file, but I had never added the css code, so there was no conflict here.) I removed the offending code and deleted the spare rule from the css and the problem went away. Now everything is beautiful, mostly.
On to the plus. I have just added a blog, Live Sound Mixing Tips, to the Mixing Live Sound site. I made a second post in the blog today. The post was long enough and seems to me to be useful information, so I just finished submitting a slightly adapted version to EZine Articles. It will take a few days for the article to be accepted as EZine does manually check all submissions. Two editors look over each article, checking for different things. Article approval has been quite fast but they have warned that approval time may increase. They have added a number of editors as the article volume has increased to try to keep the approval times reasonable. I have a number of other articles that I need to submit in support of some of my other sites.
I have had reasonable response (click through to the site) to a couple of articles and no response to the other two. One of the articles that has not produced clicks directly was picked up for reprint on another site. I have not been able to track any response to it with my analytics though. Maybe people on that site are checking the article but not clicking on the links in the resource box.
The resource box seems to be the key to these things. The word ‘free’ in the resource box will improve the click through rate. I keep forgetting this when I put together a resource box. I did have it in one box and that box has brought the most click throughs. The other key to getting people to visit the site is to offer some quality information. That is the case with the other article that has brought visitors and with the latest article, I think. I do need to remember about the word ‘free’ though.
Tags: Click Through, Code Conflicts, EzineArticles, Free in Resource Box