﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>mikejorge's Xanga</title><link>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/</link><description>Latest Xanga weblog from mikejorge</description><language /><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>The Weblog Community</title><url>http://s.xanga.com/images/xangalogobutton.gif</url><link>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/</link></image><item><title>Traffic Assistants</title><link>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/657151423/traffic-assistants/</link><guid>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/657151423/traffic-assistants/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:09:25 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/traffic-assistants" target="_new"&gt;Web traffic&lt;/a&gt; is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. It is a large portion of internet market. This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they visit. Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/traffic-assistants" target="_new"&gt;traffic&lt;/a&gt; to see which parts or pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country. There are many ways to monitor this traffic and the gathered data is used to help structure sites, highlight security problems or indicate a potential lack of bandwidth &amp;#8211; not all web traffic is welcome.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some companies offer advertising schemes that, in return for increased &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/traffic-assistants" target="_new"&gt;web traffic&lt;/a&gt; (visitors), pay for screen space on the site. Sites also often aim to increase their web traffic through inclusion on search engines and through search enjine optimisation.&lt;br&gt;</description><comments>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/657151423/traffic-assistants/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Friday, May 16, 2008</title><link>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/657150934/item/</link><guid>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/657150934/item/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:01:33 GMT</pubDate><description>Hi everyone! I'm just getting started on Xanga... Drop me a comment if you've got some ideas on what to do first - or just to say, "Hi!" :-)</description><comments>http://mikejorge.xanga.com/657150934/item/#firstcomment</comments></item></channel></rss>