Posted by guzie on August 2, 2009 under Internet Marketing for Beginners | 
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How to track website visitors
Checking visitors and traffic is essential to any marketing plan. Without it you have no way of telling you where your visitors or customers are coming from.
There are ton of free resources to help you figure out where, how and most importantly what keywords your visitors are using to find your website or post. Your web-hosting provider should have good analytical information via the cpanel section of your account. You should be able to see stats such as keywords. Obviously the keyword stats are very important!
Google Analytics is another good stats site that does help you determine where your website visitors are coming from. However the two I’ve mentioned above work well but does it takes somewhat of a learning curve to figure out how they work.
The number one stats website or program online today is statcounter.com it provides me with all the stats I want to know. And it does it in a very user friendly script.
Does your website get enough traffic? If not you better pay attention to the search engines and what keywords your visitors are using to find you, and what keywords potential visitors are using but not finding your website listed for yet. Statcounter.com does all this for free.
Popular pages is another stat you should check on quite often. Knowing which pages are visited most often is a powerful way of monetizing or doing better SEO for your other pages. If some pages are being overlooked it could be a good idea to improve or make the navigation to those pages more obvious.
Here is a list of what statcounter.com will give you:
- Popular Pages
- Entry Pages
- Exit Pages
- Came From
- Keyword Analysis
- Recent Keyword Activity
- Recent Came From
- Search Engine Wars
- Visitor Paths
- Visit Length
- Returning Visits
- Recent Pageload Activity
- Recent Visitor Activity
- Recent Visitor Map
- Country/State/City/ISP
- Browsers
- System Stats
- Lookup IP Address
- Download Logs
Man that is alot of statistical information. If you want to know where and how your visitors are coming to your website or blog I highly suggest you visit their website right now: statcounter.com
I gotta tell you these guys are the real deal, they help you install a small script on your website really easy. All this for nothing, zero, nada, zilch!
Thanks for reading my blog.
Paul Guzman
Posted by guzie on August 1, 2009 under Rosalind Gardner |
Online Internet Marketing Scams
Here are few that I highly suggest you stay away from.
- MLM (multi level marketing) programs are infamous for ripping off the unsuspecting newbie marketing person. Offline MLM marketing abounds everywhere and statistics show 90% of all people who start MLM never become successful. This goes for online MLM programs as well.
- Internet Marketing Guru’s will make you think they have the answer to all of your Internet Marketing problems, be it traffic, email marketing, SEO, social websites, twitter and the latest and greatest blogging program or software. Don’t get me wrong there are many Guru’s who are legitimate and can really help you make a living online. But these are few and far between. I will tell you which ones are legitimate. Be sure to research any Guru you decide to follow. It can be as simple as googling their name.
- There are also thousands of get rich quick website schemes. Some of the most notable are “free google money” or “google money tree” and the most well-known of all “google cash system”. Folks still fall for the hyped up sales page and letters they receive.
- Late night informercials are also easy prey for the unsuspecting “How can I make money now” person. I’ve done lots of research on these ridiculous get rich schemes. The only person who benefits from this type of program are the owners and founders.
- The lure of work at home and get rich quick businesses abound on the Internet and television today. Most are complete rip-offs. I too have been suckered into believing that by giving out my credit card information I can easily have that Mansion, Corvette, and swimming pool in two months or so. Many work at home businesses do work but again these websites are the minority. There are some legitimate work at home business but these are few a far between.
You might make some money with the above opportunities but the road to “Making a successful website or business” is really difficult. How do I know? I’ve been there. So what can someone do to make extra income or a full time living online today?
What are some legitimate way to make money online?
Adsense ads on your website or blog. Takes almost no money to get started. Here is a web page that will help you make more money with adsense. How to profit with adsense.
Affiliate Marketing. You can promote other people’s stuff. Here is one ebook that will help you get started. http://www.goodcontentwebsites.com/rosalind-gardner.htm
Market whatever it is YOU want to market! But be very wary of Internet Scams they are everywhere.
What is the big secret about Internet Marketing? I’ll tell you right now…there is NO secret. I will be 100% honest with you. The Internet is a big audience and the answer to marketing, selling, advertising, writing, or just about anything related to IM is online and available for free. There are only 4 requirements that you will need to profit online. Here they are:
- A good profitable domain name: Get one here namecheap.com
- Good reliable webhosting: http://www.goodcontentwebsites.com/best-webhosting.htm
- An autoresponder email script: Start learnign how to build your list today: http://tinyurl.com/2tbteu
- A fierce determination to become successful.
That is it. It took me years to come to that conclusion. Thousands upon thousands of marketing advice from thousands of people who think they have the answers. Charging you hundreds if not thousands of big bucks to make you think this is what you need in order to become successful. This is what I say…Bullshit! There are thousands of internet marketing rip-offs. Remember research, research and research more.
Only a few good Internet Marketing are worth looking into. One of them is Rosalind Gardener. http://www.goodcontentwebsites.com/rosalind-gardner.htm
Thanks Paul
