Work Smart, Not Hard – An Introduction To Google Analytics Dashboards. I love my Google Analytics dashboard and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
It saves me time, helps me look like I’m 100% on top of things when a client calls, and helps me add hours back into days that were previously spent hunting and pecking for information. Right now, my client load consists of about 19 different domains that all have their own analytics installs. Each week that’s a lot of information to check, verify, monitor, and create an action plan from.
Without my dashboards, and most importantly, my consistently formatted dashboards, I would spend hours finding information – now I have it all at the tip of my fingers. Formatting dashboards across multiple installations used to be a pain. Then I saw something magical in my dashboard one day – a simple little link. Before we talk about the magic, let’s talk about KPIs.
To be honest, that really depends on what is important to you. Here is a list of the KPIs I look at and the order in which I have them set up in my analytics dashboard. 12 Things That Will Kill Your Blog Post Every Time. Blogging is a lot like fishing.
Some people do it all the time and never catch anything…while others catch everything. Why is that? You know better than to say it is luck. So let’s call it what it is…when you look around at successful blogs…whatever industry or topic…there are several undeniable basics to success. And it starts with blog posts that kill it…rather than get killed. 1. Your headline is going to appear in many places. In search engine page results… Feed readers… And subject lines. The goal of the headline is to stop readers cold and draw them into your post. You can stop readers cold, however, if you write headlines that are unique, ultra-specific, useful or urgent. As you can see, headlines can share multiple U qualities. 2. In the example above I linked to four older posts of mine. They helped me prove my point. Just because you’ve published a post doesn’t mean you should forget about it. 3. A long time ago I wrote a post without any links.
How to Get Serious About Promoting Your Blog. You know by now that simply writing great blog posts won’t guarantee success.
Sadly, thousands of blogs with well-written blog posts are dying anonymous deaths every day. While expertly written posts are essential for retaining visitors and boosting repeat visitors, they aren’t as useful as a blog promotional tool. Unfortunately, blog promotion and blog building has been used interchangeably by many of the experts. This misconception leads hardworking bloggers down the road of fiddling with blog tweaks and mechanics while their blog suffers from a lack of traffic.
To clear up any confusion, blog promotion is a concerted effort to attract visitors from another website to your own. On the other hand, blog building includes selecting topics, writing cornerstone posts, elegant design, usability, engaging with commenters and hundreds of other tasks. What A Blog Promotion Plan Looks Like I know it’s hard to put your finger on blog promotion, here are some points to focus on: Define Your Audience.