Mar 02, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Tracking website traffic, gathering statistics and analyzing them is very important part of any online activity, even if you’re just doing this for fun, but especially if you’re running an online business or otherwise making money online.
Either case, you should add some sort of tracking to your blog or website from day 1 (or day zero to be exact). There are many ways to handle tracking traffic stats for your blog or website, but Google Analytics is the most popular one, it’s free and relatively simple to use.
In this simple Google Analytics tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up Google Analytics account to track your website traffic, visitors and other statistics. This is true beginner’s stuff, step-by-step style…
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Jul 05, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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This post is the second part of the Keyword Research and Search Engine Optimization tutorial series. Read the part 1: Keyword Research.
You have done your Keyword Research, and now you should utilize that information. You can use the keywords in your advertising campaign and the text links in those, and you can start optimizing your blog or spesific blog post for the keywords you found. Thus, you enter the world of Search Engine Optimization, SEO. The main purpose of SEO is to get Search Engine Traffic, which can be seen as a free way to driving traffic to your blog after it’s done once.
Let’s see what you can do with the list of keywords you have..
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Jul 03, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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This post starts my two-part Keyword Research and Search Engine Optimization tutorial series.
Discover the black magic of keyword research and search engine optimization and start driving traffic to your blog! I’ll tell you a secret: it’s not magic, it’s definitely not black magic and it’s a lot simpler than you think, if you haven’t looked into it before. Keyword research is kind of science, but don’t be afraid, the first steps are as easy as using a search engine.
Read on and I’ll show you the basics of keyword research and get you started!
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Jun 10, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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When setting up a new WordPress blog, there’s certain tasks you must do to get the blog started on the right foot.
After the installation has finished, do these 7 steps BEFORE you write or do anything else..
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Jun 09, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Are you looking for ways to make money online? Thinking about ways to monetize your blog?
One way to earn money is to do affiliate marketing. Actually it’s more than just “one way” as people are doing this kind of marketing for living and some are making a lot of money.
If you’re not into affiliate marketing already, here’s true Affiliate Marketing 101 for you.
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May 31, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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It is very important that you track how many visitors your blog has, what pages the readers view, how long they stay on your site, etc. All these statistics and a lot, lot more are yours with free tracking and statistics system called Google Analytics.
If you don’t have a Google Account already, go create one right now (you’ll get access to GMail, Google Docs and much more with it). If you have a Google Account, but you haven’t used Google Analytics yet, go set up Google Analytics account for yourself now.
How to leave comments on a blog
If you are a blogger or enjoy reading blogs, there is chance you have noticed that there are comment section in most blogs. In blog comments, blog readers can leave comments for the blogger, or reply to each other, and the blogger can respond to the comments and questions left on the comments.
Blog commenting is a great way for everyone on the blog to discuss and share thoughts together. This kind of interaction can add great value to the blog, making it more of a community than just a website.
To start blog commenting yourself, here’s an introduction to blog comments, explaining what blog comments are and how to leave comments on a blog yourself…
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Topic: Blogging