Tag Archives: traffic

Intro to Web and Blog Analytics

Analytics are described by Search Engine City as: “Technology that helps analyze the performance of a website or online marketing campaign.” In my opinion, analytics is not just: “How many people visited my blog?” The way you view and use analytics definitely will dictate your success as an online publisher. This is an important differentiation [...]

Entrecard after a Month

In my narcissistic quest to find more traffic I have learned a few absolute truths. The biggest one is this: “Nothing I can ever invent will bring me more traffic than the existing tools around me.” In the spirit of this truth, I have been exploring those services and tools that currently exist to help bloggers get traffic.

Blog Traffic Jumpstart

I’m giving my traffic a jumpstart and I hope it works. Here’s the plan:

Entrecard Time Tracking

Will you try Entrecard.com now that I’ve shared my tips? If you already do it, are there any good tips you can share to cut time?

Blog Stats February 21, 2009

This has been a slow month in some ways. In other ways it has been solid and productive. I have put Entrecard back on all four blogs. I am crious to see the effect on traffic. Please note this is only a mid month report. I was curious how I was doing. I’ll publish another CAN post after March 1st.

Blog Stats December 2008

This is a monthly feature here where I measure my 3 blogs’ progress toward goals. My goal is to provide 100% transparency. You can browse current and past entries in the CAN… category. First I list the CAN data for each blog. Then I reflect with a few notes.

YOUR BEST POST OF 2008! Submit by December 30th, 2008, 9pm pst

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I’m asking for your best post of 2008 to be linked here for New Years. Let me explain how this came about:
I first got the idea from Confdent Writing (I am listed as #23) and tried doing my own in a forum I frequent.
I am a member of a blog directory called Blog Catalog. [...]

A New and Glorious Morn – Blog Stats for 2008

Making money online is possible. I know because last year I made over $2,000 blogging. Read this first post in a series on how I did it and expect to do more in 2009.

Blog Traffic in 2009

Photo from Google Success
Soon I will be sharing my 2009 blogging goals and I am very excited about writing the post.  To make my goals I will use data of the past and aggregate it into a set of new goals I hope I can achieve.  The most successful blogs understand that good data analytics [...]

The Monetization Value of this Blog

Notice below the movie tickets, restaurants, and Starbucks in the past week? All paid for by blogging. I hope this small section of my PayPal statement gives you an idea of how rewarding getting paid for blogging can be. Notice I didn’t say “how easy.” Not just anybody can do it. [...]

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