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7 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Blog | Pound Ridge Realtor

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Blogs have become one of the most fascinating and popular platforms upon  which individuals may sell their wares, offer advice or simply journal about  their daily lives.

But what is the point of having a blog if no one is going to read it?

There are many reasons why you’d would want to increase the traffic to your blog . It could be for  monetary reasons, to gain more public exposure or to show off your skills.  Bloggers want to see their sites develop, evolve and grow.

So, how can you get more visitors to your blog?

Here are 7 easy ways to increase traffic to your blog.

1. Optimize Your Content

The initial structuring of a blog should evolve around designing it to  attract maximum traffic. Pages on your blog can be optimized  to attract readers and potential consumers. This  can be done by organizing content by putting it into categories that will enable  readers to find what they are looking for quickly and easily.

This includes sub-titles,  bullet points and lists.

Search engines pick up on themes of related content, so include keywords and  keyword phrases. If you work a little on your blog’s SEO (Search Engine  Optimisation) in this kind of way, you’re likely to get more search engine  traffic.

2. Define Your Audience

The most important question a blogger can themselves is, Who is going to read  my blog? Focus your content on what your blog is based on. Then carefully  consider your target audience and address that audience directly. If you write  what they want to read it’s quite likely that they’ll recommend your content to  their peers.

You might already have a good idea of who reads your blog through a quick  look at your followers on Twitter, for example. But to get a better insight you  could sign up to Alexa.com or Quantcast.com  to see in depth information such as the gender or browsing location of your  blog’s visitors.

7 ways to increase traffic to your blog

3. Ensure The Blog Works Properly

Regardless of how many readers hit on a blog, if the blog is not working, as  it should, visitors will not stay, and in most cases, will not return. It can be  frustrating and off putting for readers to visit your site and discover that the  page refuses to load.

One way to find a reliable web host is via a free service offered by WhoIsHostingThis.com. Find a high performance web host  that load your web pages fast and you’ll be on your way to impressing visitors  by having a consistently visible site.

It’s worth keeping in mind that Google will penalize your website  or  blog in its search rankings or blog if it takes longer than two seconds to  load.

7 ways to increase traffic to your blog

4. Advertise! Advertise! Advertise!

It always helps to get the word out about your blog, and the best way to do  that is to advertise. There are two main types of advertising; paid and  free.

Free Advertising

There are ways to advertise  your blog without paying to do so. For instance, word of mouth through  social media. Obviously there are monetary benefits to doing this. If you don’t  already have one, get a profile set up on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ – these are all free.

Getting involved in various  groups that specialize in the topic that is being addressed on your blog is a  great way to get free advertising. If you share other people’s posts through a  few quick clicks on Twitter your own content may well be shared in  turn.

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North Stamford Home Rocked By Fiery Explosion | Pound Ridge Homes

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An explosion ripped through a home in Stamford on Tuesday afternoon, causing heavy damage to the structure and spreading fire to neighboring buildings, according to Stamford Fire and Rescue.

Very little of the structure at 305 Webbs Hill Road in Stamford appeared to remain in a photograph taken by an eyewitness.

The cause was unknown as of Tuesday afternoon. No injuries had been reported as of yet.

UPDATE 4 p.m.: Yankee Gas spokesman Mitch Gross said that there is no natural gas service to that part of Stamford.

“Yankee Gas was requested to come to the scene by the Stamford Fire Department,” he said. “This is standard procedure.”

The Daily Voice will have more information as it becomes available.

 

 

 

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New York sees rise in real estate fakers | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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The number of scammers posing as real estate agents is on the rise, prompting the New York State Division of Consumer Protection to issue a warning to apartment hunters.

Since January, the state agency has received 211 complaints from people, mostly immigrants or young people new to the state, conned out of cash by a fake rental agent, 121 of them in New York City, Real Estate Weekly reported.

And consumers are not the only ones getting duped. Clients with fake identities are not unheard of either, the news outlet said.

New York City-based independent broker Kathy Matson advised that the best way to do business, no matter which side of the deal you’re on, is through referrals.

Source: Real Estate Weekly

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Inside Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen’s ‘French Chateau via the Pacific Coast Highway’ | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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When you’re really rich and beautiful and build a much-whispered-about 14,000-square-foot acid-washed limestone mansion from scratch, there’s no better place for a big reveal than the glossy pages of Architectural Digest. Despite an early slipup by the builder, who released photos of the project prematurely, the magazine continued apace and published New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen’s  new “French chateau via the Pacific Coast Highway” in its October issue.

The story, which dropped online this morning after editor in chief Margaret Russell made a Today Show appearance, makes clear that it’s actually “normal” home. None of those “lavish pleasure dome replete with sultry sirens and gridiron gods cavorting around the pool” nor “sprawling palace staffed with a battalion of liveried footmen proffering protein shakes on silver trays,” writes Mayer Rus. Rather, there’s just the regular plebeian driveway that “leads over a pond to a motor court paved in reclaimed cobblestones and then to a stone bridge spanning a koi-stocked moat that’s picturesque but not pompous”; an unassuming pool “laid out with two straight sides and one long, sinuous edge that helps give the impression of a nautral lake, particularly in the early-morning and late-afternoon light”; and just your average “custom-made wrought iron monkey bars” in the gym. Bündchen sums it up: “I want to live in a place that feels like a real home, where you can put your feet up on the couch and just relax.”

It was important for the Bündchen, whom interior designer Joan Behnke describes as an “earth mother”—”she’s drawn to certain things because of the energy they give off”—that the home incorporate as many reclaimed materials as possible, from the decking and floorboards to the tiles, bricks, doors, and marble fireplace surrounds. Well we have great post to read about choosing best decking supplier. In addition, composting, gray-water technology, solar panels, and eco-friendly construction materials were all factored into the overall design, which was completed by architect Richard Landry. (Brady tells Rus that he’s “all about team dynamics and putting the right people together,” presumably while huddling.) The neutral interiors are filled with pieces from RH and Christian Liaigre, Loro Piana fabrics, Tai Ping carpets, custom pieces, and, of course, a black-and-white photo of Gillette Stadium hanging over the fireplace in the master bath. Check it out below—and head to Racked National for a look at Bundchen’s utterly insane closet.

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Mortgage originations defy interest rate hikes | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Mortgage originations rose 12.7 percent year over year and dipped a slight 1.5 percent month to month in June, indicating stability despite increases in interest rates, according to a monthly report from Lender Processing Services.

Through June, originations had their strongest 12-month period since 2007, to 784,000, LPS said.

Prepayment activity, which is historically a good indicator of mortgage refinances, is still largely driving origination volume, the company said.

“Prepayment speeds have been impacted by the sharp increase in mortgage interest rates we’ve seen over the last couple months. However, even with that increasing interest rate pressure, July’s monthly prepayment rates are still about where they were this time last year, when rates were at historic lows,” said LPS Data & Analytics Senior Vice President Herb Blecher in a statement.

“In fact, they are roughly at the same levels as the heights of the ‘mini refinance booms’ in 2010 — when interest rates were comparable to where they are today — and in 2009, when rates were even higher.

“Of course, as interest rates continue to climb, we can expect that both prepayments and associated originations will decline.”

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What’s It Like to Live Inside a Work of Art? | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Architect Michael Haverland is in the news lately with the completion of Calvin Klein’s house on Meadow Lane in Southampton. Tucked away in Springs is an earlier house of his, done for clients David Steward and M. Pierre Friedrichs, which overlooks Accabonac Harbor. (You wonder if Calvin, who is reportedly annoyed that curious folk are peering into his glass house—hey, who could have foreseen that?—shouldn’t have taken inspiration from this house and asked for a solid façade to face the street.)

This house pays tribute to twentieth century architectural and design masters, names like Frank Lloyd Wright (a particular favorite of the owners), Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi (with whom Michael Haverland once interned), and Le Corbusier. One of the most striking features of the building is the textured concrete, a nod to Wright’s “textile block” houses built in the 1920s in Los Angeles. Once you’re inside, of course, most striking is the beautiful view of the outdoors.
So what is it like to live inside a work of art? We sat down with David Steward and found out.

 

 

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Protecting our planet is an issue that resonates with a lot of people | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Melissa Seipel, HR Manager of Global Operations, replies:

Thank you so much for your interest in a career in conservation! You don’t mention your previous work experience or professional background, but we have over 3300 staff working in fifty states and thirty five countries in a wide variety of roles. While our science and conservation staff are critical to our mission, we couldn’t do it without the contributions of men and women in fields such as marketing, finance, legal, administrative and operations, information science, fundraising, human resources — and the list goes on! At our beautiful Pine Butte guest ranch in Montana, we also hire seasonal cooks and housekeepers. We post new positions often on www.nature.org/careers and you can create a “Job Search Agent” in the locations where you would like to work and receive and email you the moment that new jobs are posted. All positions list the “basic qualifications” required and while many do require four year or advanced degrees, a large number do not. We also depend heavily on the contributions of our volunteers. Volunteering is also a great way to get to know staff in the offices and learn about what potential needs they may have in the future. If you find that the positions you are most interested in do require degrees, you may also want to explore the many evening and online degree programs available geared towards working adults, many with financial aid available. It’s never too late to pursue your dreams!

 

 

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Before Bryant Park, There Was NYC’s Doomed First Skyscraper | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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This little-known piece of old New York was the city’s very first skyscraper. Exactly 160 years ago this summer, the so-called Crystal Palace opened to awed crowds. Its footprint took up nearly one square block on Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 41st Streets, with a cross-shaped floorplan and a central dome that soared so gracefully it seemed it were destined for a Parisian train station rather than a temporary exhibition space. An octagonal tower built at the side of the main hall, called the Latting Observatory, was somewhere between 300 and 315 feet tall, depending on who you asked, unseating the previous record-holder, Trinity Church, whose spire reached a mere 290. It was inaugurated on July 14, 1853, with President Franklin Pierce presiding and an abundance of fireworks and general pizzazz. Inspired by a structure in London, New York would not be outdid. According to the Times, “for a time, no visitor to New York or from neighboring cities or suburban districts considered his life complete without a visit.” In a manner of speaking, it symbolized the irrepressible antebellum feeling of American exceptionalism. “It was a thing to be seen once in a lifetime,” wrote Horace Greeley, “As we grow in wealth and strength, we may build a much greater Crystal Palace.”

  • The whole thing was the work of an ambitious engineer, Christan Detmold, with knowledge of the vagaries of iron and glass and how to weld them together to make something majestic.

 

 

 

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Two Philadelphia University students created sophisticated interior furnishings with fungi | Pound Ridge Homes

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Several years ago, forward-thinking Ecovative Design made headlines with its development of insulating and packaging materials made from mushrooms. What these mycological biocomposites lacked in aesthetic refinement they made up for in environmental performance, given their minimal-impact production.

Recently, Philadelphia University industrial design students demonstrated that fungi can be utilized to create more sophisticated interior furnishings. For their senior project, Merjan Tara Sisman and Brian McClellan created the “Living Room Project,” with a prototype chair and pendant light made from the mycelial roots of mushrooms. After discovering various ways in which to control root growth within prefabricated molds, Sisman and McClellan crafted objects of unexpected sturdiness and refinement.

The duo consider their design process—which is similar to that used by Ecovative—akin to a zero-energy type of 3D printing. “What I loved about mycelium was the fact that its act of growth became the design itself,” Sisman told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “It is actually beautiful. It is a pretty little smart thing that holds great potential.”

Blaine Brownell, AIA, is a regularly featured columnist whose stories appear on this website each week. His views and conclusions are not necessarily those of ARCHITECT magazine nor of the American Institute of Architects.

 

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Summer at SoundWaters: Outdoor experiences and lifelong memories | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Summer at SoundWaters: Outdoor experiences and lifelong memories   

This summer, more than 350 campers explored, examined, investigated and discovered the habitats, marine animals and waters of Long Island Sound as they experienced first-hand the natural world in a joyful and educational outdoor setting.

The unique location of SoundWaters Coastal Education Center in Stamford’s Cove Island Park multiplies the range of outdoor activities available to campers. Through the generosity of SoundWaters donors, one-third received full or partial scholarships, which provided shared opportunities for every boy and girl to feel connected to the Sound.

 

Depending on their ages, some campers used seine nets to gather plankton, went on scavenger hunts and engaged with Long Island Sound animals during “creature feature” sessions in our Teaching Aquarium. Others studied populations of crabs and small fish they found at the shore, and conducted scientific experiments such as dissecting squid in the Learning Laboratory.

 

Canoists learned the parts of the boat, paddling techniques and boarding and maneuvering a canoe. But canoeing was not their only objective: After paddling across Holly Pond, they discovered the animals of the salt marsh and while aboard performed water quality tests using scientific equipment.

Each day, Opti and Pico sailors rigged their boats and raised sails, developing both confidence and proficiency. Lessons in sail theory, navigation and currents, combined with a direct realization that they shared the Sound with living marine animals, enhanced their sailing experience.

A summer camp would not be complete without daily swimming sessions, outdoor games, and of course, camp songs.

The campers often shared their experiences at night with their families, sometimes persuading parents to sign them up for additional sessions. One 6-year-old has already told her mother that she loves “science camp” and wants to have her next birthday party at SoundWaters.

“I cannot thank SoundWaters enough,” said one mother whose son received a scholarship. “This was the best summer because of your camp. I am so grateful.”

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Regards,

Leigh Shemitz, Ph.D.
Executive Director
SoundWaters