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Now, I am fortunate to be able to send you this issue a in time today. However... given my intensive travelling since our last e-zine, you will have to excuse my inability to create a new grammar lesson for you today. Shall we all take a little break this week, from learning English grammar?

Well, without further ado, let's start our other lessons today.

Month 12 ~ Lesson 45

Once we covered the basics of pronunciation, we started a new course in reading, which we finished last month (March 2015). Following some recent requests, we started a section on educational games, to add the fun into your learning. I do hope you like these.

Until I'll have the time to write my e-books from these courses, you can enjoy our past lessons for free, as follows:

Pronunciation Lessons

Reading Lessons

Grammar Lessons

Website Design Lessons

Weekly Games

Grammar ~ The Concept of 'Cause and Effect'

This week, we have another concept which we discussed previously - the Cause and Effect topic, which is a crucial topic for your essays, once you start studying English for reading and writing as we did during the last academic year. About 48% of my class failed, for not being able to master this topic satisfactorily, in parallel to other failing aspects, which is not our concern right now.

I was glad to see those students pass at a later stage, one by one and I wish you the best of luck in your academic studies next year.

So, go right ahead and check out our Cause and Effect page here.

Website Design ~ Analysing your Traffic

Think of traffic as being a two-direction event. Every visitor comes into your site. And every visitor, sooner or later, leaves. After all, no one stays on one site forever.

1) Traffic is coming into your site (from all your traffic-building efforts), much of it naturally (some call this "organically") as the result of a keyword search in a search engine. But there are many other ways to attract traffic, so it's important to understand and monitor your traffic sources and referrals. Search engine traffic itself is easily tracked (we shall consider this in our next issue).

2) Traffic is also leaving your content pages. Hopefully, these visitors are clicking on a link (or filling in a form, or subscribing to your e-zine, etc., before they leave) and not just closing your browser window. A closed window with no action taken by the visitor does you no good. So... focus on "getting the click" to the page's Most Wanted Response or a backup response. You will reap the rewards -- happy first time visitors, satisfied customers, and returning visitors who want more of your great content.

Remember Business 101... it costs you expenses (time and money) to generate your incoming traffic. Your outgoing traffic should generate income.

Income less Expenses = Profits

As an entrepreneur, you understand that, at first, you invest substantial time for small rewards. As your site builds, however, the reverse happens... profits increase while time expenses decrease.

Your bottom line goal is to maximize profits wherever you are in your business cycle (planning, start-up, growing or mature).

How do you analyse traffic on your website?

Clicking on Traffic Stats in the Site Central's TrafficCenter takes you to a page that summarizes your traffic stats on a month-by-month basis. Clicking on any "monthly text link" drills you down to detailed traffic data about your site for that month.

Summary Stats reports the average number of visits, visitors, and pages viewed per day, as well as the totals for the month. Here's what those terms mean...

Visits -- the number of visits to your site

Visitors -- the number of unique people who visit your site (ex., a visitor could account for 10 visits in a month)

Pages -- the number of pages viewed by all the visitors during all the visits

By comparing the monthly data, you should be able to see steady growth in your site's overall traffic. If not, the "patient" needs a good dose of traffic -building medicine.

Game of the Week ~ The Word Winder Game

You need to find the letter of the word you are asked to find, by the clues given in each case. The clues will be an arrow, showing you in which direction you need to look for it and the number of letters the word has.

This Is It, Folks!

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Everybody, have a great summer holiday and a good week ahead, those of you who need to keep working for now!

All the best from me, until next time,

Lucia da Vinci

Founder of My English Club