Tracking Traffic To Your Blog

Monday, May 17th, 2010 at 9:33 am

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Generating traffic to your blog is the key to having a successful blog. Unfortunately there are way too many ways to do that and some work better than others.

Quite often generating that traffic can take quite a bit of time. Now I am not adverse to spending time or spending money to outsource some methods to generate traffic but it is extremely important to find out what time or money is well spent and what time or money is being wasted.

That is why taking the time to track where your traffic is coming from is so important. If you do not know what is working it is impossible to do more of it and less of what is not working.

It really does not have to be hard or expensive to do just that. Google has a free service called analytics that can be set up in just a few minutes and allow you to see exactly how people get to your site.

Do they come from other sites where you have commented?
Are they finding you in the search engines because of your link building?
Are they returning because of your email reminders?
Are they coming from the guest post you did last week for someone else’s blog?

Knowing these things is the key and setting up Google Analytics is quite easy. You sign up for an account and put in your url. Now you add a piece of code to all the pages of your site and the next day you can start getting the information.

If you use WordPress you can do this with a plugin and save a lot of time and aggravation. Add your code once and you are done.

Now you can begin to find out exactly what is working and do more of it. After all you do want more traffic for your blog, don’t you?

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer.