By Leonardo Wood

Google Analytics is a handy tool that you can use to help you with your SEO and traffic generation.

Google Analytics is a Free Tool which you can utilize to learn more about your website visitors google.com/analytics. You can use it to find out where your website visitors came from, what they searched for to find you, how long they were on your site, how many pages they visited etc. It is an invaluable tool for helping you test, measure and maximize your SEO and online marketing strategies.

To install it on your website you simply open an Analytics Account and get a code that needs to be inserted into your website. Your website designer will be able to do this for you, it will take them a few minutes, if they are going to charge you for this, start worrying.

You may already get statistics from your website designer or hosting company but with Google Analytics you can go into the Account and have a real good look round for yourself.
Google Analytics will give you charts and graphs which will enable you to easily view the statistics of your website traffic. You can enter different date ranges and compare the results which can be very valuable.

Example: Install analytics and check your visitors for the next 30 days, start optimizing your site and next month you will be able to see the increase in your visitors.

Some methods of SEO techniques or online advertising may be out-performing the others you are doing. With Google Analytics on your site you will be able to see exactly which of your online efforts are achieving the best results. With this kind of information you can then focus on what works best for you as a means of driving visitors to your website. Without a statistics program like Google Analytics you will not be able to confidently pinpoint your best performing traffic sources.
Check out Google Analytics to find out exactly how it can help you with your SEO, traffic generation and website conversion rates.

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Don’t get stressed about not getting comments. Like many other bloggers I too was wondering if this was worth doing several times this week. I am putting money, time, and effort into maintain a blog that doesn’t get very many comments. I am sure some of you have felt that way too. Well I gave myself a year for each blog to start turning a profit and I am actually ahead for the gross on all four of them so I am not fretting.

I still am left with the time and effort questions. There are plenty of other blogs out there talking about blogging, but frankly I might be the only one who dares to say “fuck” in their blog. I thought about changing that strategy and decided against it, because blogging is frustrating and sometimes saying “fuck” in a post takes some of that away, and frankly if you want to read “fuck” free posts there are other blogs out there who cater to every corner of politically correct behavior.

There we have it. I know I have a fucking niche among bloggers blogging about blogging. Alright niche defined, what next in the “is this worth doing” Q&A. How many people read this blog? Right now 50 new visits a day with an average of 2.5 page views according to analytics, with another 20 return visitors, that doesn’t account for the 25 now getting the feed which increases by 3 or 4 a week. Okay not a lot of people are coming here yet, but it does grow every week so I am okay with that.

This still leaves me with the damned lack of comments. It is frustrating not knowing if anything you say is getting through or making any difference to people. Then I had to take a step back and evaluate my situation. As any good blogger with a problem I went to the people who know a lot more than me. I started looking around at some of big name blogs and realized they have great content every day with huge numbers in their Feedburner stats, but they don’t have a lot of comments either most days by comparison. Several sites I looked at have 20k or more Feedburner readers and only get on average a dozen comments per post.

After doing the math, I didn’t feel too bad. With a Minimum 20k people getting the feed you can figure only half of them read the post every day, with that many visiting the site in total. Call it a 12 comments divided by 20k and you get an average of .06% post to comment ratio. When I divide up my stats I have over a 5% post to comment ration. I quit feeling bad and decided to go back to content writing.

Enjoy and please feed my ego if this was in the least bit helpful!

One of the best techniques for really driving traffic to your site  is the use of keywords and knowing just how to use them  Wait! Wait! Stop!  I know some of you are thinking other blogs say keywords are dead and don’t matter to your PageRank or this or that program because they can be manipulated.  That is true to a point.

What isn’t mentioned often enough is keywords do still matter and that Google isn’t the only game in town. Search engines are getting better about seeing who is fudging their keywords and actually looking for them in the text of your post.  You can’t get away with just picking out popular keywords, plugging them in and thinking you are beating the system.  Other search you can still get away with that on, but it isn’t to your benefit even there.

So how do we pick a search engine oh mighty guru?  There are a couple of methods.  There are plugins of course which will do it for you automatically.  The best ones cost money though and I haven’t had very good luck with free ones using WordPress 2.5.  My preferred method is a little more time consuming but seems to produce pretty good results if you look at my Feedjit widget.

I use the site wordsfinder.com, enter the text, usually cut straight from word, and tell it to search for my keywords.  It usually gives me a nice long list and I cut highlight copy into notepad for cleaning it up.  First, this will pick out any horribly misspelled words if you didn’t already spell check the text, so correct them before posting.  According to highestranking.com you want to comma separate your terms or phrases, but don’t leave a space.  Using notepad or any text editor you can quickly do that, then simply cut them and paste them into your keywords field in WordPress and push the add custom field button and bam you have hot keywords.

What I said about the feedjit widget is quite true.  If you look at my other blogs especially you will find a high number of the incoming visitors are coming from Google via keyword searches.  Check out The Other Blog and Brad’s Tiny World to see what I mean.  You can also use Google Analytics to see your actual stats and make decisions about the kind of posts you want to be making as well.

• Akismet This is the best in spam control there is hands down.
• Ultimate GA (Google Analytics) You can use the Google Analytics services without this plugin, but frankly why would you want to. It makes the service so much easier to use and, even better will write a lot of the code into your blog for you. This is a 5 star plugin and a must have.
• HeadSpace 2 is the best all around meta tool there is. It is a little harder to get setup than the All in One SEO Pack but it is a far superior plugin. Mani at Daily SEO has a really great post about getting it set up right using one of his themes, but the principals are the same no matter what theme you use.
• Google XML Sitemap Generator is the best tool you can have for getting indexed quickly and efficiently.
• CommentLuv by FiddyP is a sure fire way to get your readers involved by providing not only a link back to their site, but assuming they have an accessible feed it will post a link to their latest post too.
• Auto Social is a sure fire way to make sure your posts get to Del.icio.us Every post you makes gets submitted with your post tags. If you couple this with the post thingy that will put all your daily tagging into a single post auto post it to your blog, then you are in good shape to have a daily wrap up of everything you are doing online. See The Other Blog for an example of how I aggregate this feature.
• Simple Tags This is a plugin that has been around a long time, but one that is rather new for me. It is in a word complete tag management and may eventually displace my use of Technorati Tags once I learn to use it to its fullest extent.
  
• ShareThis Bloggers are foolish not to include multiple ways for people to add their posts to their favorite social bookmarking sites. I like Share this because of its tiny footprint, just a small green square that expands when clicked on. If you use Socialize which is probably the other one you have seen a lot of I suggest keeping the number of sites manageable and fixing the plugins ss so you have 100% opacity.
  
• Technorati Tags When set up right will use WordPress’s native tagging feature to create Technorati tags and provide the appropriate links back to Technorati.
  
• TinyMCE Advanced Last but not least getting a hold of this dynamic plugin will help you control your content far btter than the native posting interface. it is like going from MS Wordpad to the latest and Greatest version of Word in terms of features.