I have been on the fence about it as well (came here awhile back to see if there were others investing, but thread didn't get traction). I'm well diversified already, and have had positive past experience with EF on the selling side of personally owned web properties.
Only keep up with BUSO and /r/JustStart now days. Was an official [premium status needed to reveal content] of WickedFire and other places, but just not worth it anymore to even skim. My projects and perspectives have also shifted though from survival to portfolio and M&A based, so there's that too.
you want a quick tip? Buy a marketplace thread here and offer content writing services. That's an exchange, and if you put in the work can earn you $$ for your time. Whether you scale that to being an editor of freelancer content or writing it yourself is for you to decide.
Interesting to see here! I'm a commercial real estate owner (2 properties), my deals were offline through local networking. Both are land + building and in both cases the buildings are leased out b2b.
I had a site that was impacted around this time frame as well. I diluted my internal anchor links and have noticed a shift the past two days as well. I wonder if there was an adjustment made to the Fred parameters.
@Nat - here are my opinion based responses:
For #1: No you are not correct, because you have to understand how time on page is calculated within Google Analytics. It takes the timestamp of the pageview and then the timestamp of the next pageview (or interaction event) and takes the difference...
Figured I would share some inspiration here. I am continually testing my online assets, and I believe others should be too. If you are not, at least be collecting historical data for future comparisons sake.
You should actively be doing the following:
Surveying your visitors
A/B/n test (I like...