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Currently I’m use Google analytics to monitor all visitor activities on my websites and blogs. Prior to this, I was using Statcounter to keep track of visitors on my websites. I love Google analytics because it gives me lots of details about the people that are visiting my website.

Some facts about Google analytics

Google analytics is a free traffic monitoring service offered by Google that webmasters and bloggers use to monitor the traffic on their websites and blogs. Google analytics (GA) can track all kind of referrals including referrals from search engines, display advertising, PPC networks, e-mail marketing and PDF documents. We can monitor up to 50 websites with a single account on GA.

How to use Google Analytics

To start using GA, we need to create an account on Google analytics. If you have already a gmail account or Google account, you can use that to sign up on GA. If you don’t have a account on Gmail or Google.com, create an account on any of them. Once you complete the information asked during the sign up process, you will be offered some ready to use Java Script code that you will need to add to your website or blog template from where it will be visible on all pages in your website/blog.

Once you have added the GA tracking code in your website template, click on the ‘Check Status’ link available in your GA account. By clicking this link, you will know if you have installed the Urchin (GA code) properly on your website or not. Now check your GA account after 5-6 hours, you will have access to visitors stats that visited your website in the last few hours. Traffic stats that are available through Google Analytics cab be 3-4 hours in arrears of real time.

Benefits of using Google analytics

With Google analytics, we are able to know how many people are actually visiting our website on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. With GA, we have full access to all Sources from where we are getting the traffic and which keyword is giving you the maximum visitors like. Here is the list of some benefits that we get with Google Analytics:

Top Traffic Sources

We have full access to all traffic sources even if we got even single click of that source. Top traffic sources for my blog are Google, Yahoo, MSN, Wikipedia, Blogcatalog, Mybloglog, DP forum, StumbleUpon, Digg, Squidoo and even some people directly visiting my blog.

Keywords list

GA gives you the complete list of keywords that people use to find your website in search engines with their respective counts. If your website is appearing on top on Google, Yahoo or MSN for a particular keyword, then you can use GA actually to see how many
People you are driving to your website with this keyword on daily basis.

Visitor type

Visitor type gives you the count and percentage of new visitor and Returning visitor. One should aim at increasing Returning visitor to their website.

Landing page

Landing page is the page of your website that visitor arrives after clicking on a link. It can be the home page or any other page on your website. So with landing page, you can judge how people are actually finding your website pages and the most used pages on your website.

Continent

This feature tells you how many people you are actually getting from all continents. Like how many people actually visited your website from Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania or Africa continent.

Sub Continent Region

Sub continent feature tells you how many people you are getting on your website from various parts of all continents like Northern America, Northern Europe, South-Eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Southern Asia, Western Asia, Caribbean, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, Southern Europe etc.

Country/Territory

With this service, you will know which country is giving you the maximum visitor with total visitor count from a particular country. Some of countries from where I get the traffic on my websites are United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Germany, Ireland etc.

Region

It will give you the complete list of regions people are coming using all major search engines.

City

With this feature, you can know which city is giving you the maximum number of hits on your website worldwide.

Browser

It informs you about the web browser people are using to find your website. Mostly people use internet Explorer or Firefox to surf internet. So you can expect these web browsers giving you the most of traffic on your website. Safari, Netscape, Opera and NetFront are some other web browsers people use to browse internet.

Direct Traffic

It will inform you about the number of people who actually open your website directly by typing your website URL in their address bar.

Referring Sites

It gives you the list of all referring sites that people actually use to click to your website links available on these sites.

Miscellaneous

With these terms, you will know about many more terms like Page Views, Bounce Rate, New visits, Avg. time on site, paid, non-paid, Adwords, Campaigns when you start using Google Analytics on your website or blog.

I hope this article will help you better understand Google analytics and its usage. And if you have any question about Google analytics, let me know in the comments section.

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Keyword research is the first step that we take when it comes about promoting a website in various search engines including Google, yahoo and MSN. Without keywords, we cannot do any kind of on-page or off-page promotion kind of stuff for a website.

If we create keywords of our own and don’t use a good keyword suggestion tool, then we may end up with no traffic/profit from a website. For getting real traffic and money from a website, we need to target the keywords that people actually search in search engines.

For the last few months, I have been using the paid version of WordTracker, the best keyword tool available today in the market. With this keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, I have been able to find what people are actually searching and how many times they are searching a particular keyword in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

You will find using keyword tool from WordTracker, easy and simple. Just place a relevant keyword in the search box available and press enter. Within few minutes time, you will get the most relevant keywords and phrases list that people actually use for finding the information they are aiming at in the last 100 days.

Cost of WordTracker Keyword Suggestion tool is not much; you have to pay just $59 if you are willing to get its subscription for a month and $329 if you have decided to get its subscription for a year.

But now there is great news for all internet marketers and bloggers who are willing to make money from their website or blog. They are offering 7 days subscription to the full version of WordTracker for free these days. To use this free subscription, we will need to create an account on WordTracker with credit card number. You will not be charged any money if you unsubscribe or cancel your subscription there before the end of one week. WordTracker will even send you a reminder when your free subscription is going to expire.

With keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, you will not be able to bring more traffic/money to your website but will also be able to know about many more new money making niches. When you have access to WordTracker keyword selection tool, you can assure yourself that you have the best keyword selection tool ever made in the market.

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There are hundreds of extensions available on Firefox, but I’m including only those extensions that I find useful as a Seo blogger. And if you don’t have Firefox, you can download it from Mozilla Firefox official site for free.

1. Google Toolbar - Google Toolbar for Firefox gives you many facilities including:
   • Google Search Box
   • Access your G-mail account with a click
   • Google News with single Click
   • Google Page Rank
   • Google Cached Snapshot of the page
   • Back links for a webpage on Google
   • Spell Checking on a form you filled in
   • Language Translator
   • Youtube Search
   • Weather Report
   • Google Map
   • Search History
   • Google Suggestions
2. SearchStatus 1.25 - SearchStatus extension shows the following information about a page in our Status bar
   • Google Page Rank
   • Alexa Ranking
   • Compete Ranking
   • Meta Tags
   • Keywords Density
   • Highlight Keywords
   • Shows Whois Infomation
   • Robot.txt file
   • Index pages on Google, Yahoo & MSN
   • Back links in Google, Yahoo & MSN
3. Check page Links - LinkChecker 0.6.2 was developed by Kevin Freitas and is still working on it to improve it further. LinkChecker is the best tool available today to find the broken or dead link on a webpage.
4. Seo for Firefox - Aaron Wall from SeoBook.com has created a great tool for seo and internet marketing experts. This seo tool for firefox from Aaron have lots of valuable features including:
   • Google Page Rank
   • Google Last cached Date
   • Domain age
   • Links from Del.icio.us
   • Yahoo Links
   • Links from .edu sites
   • .gov links
   • Yahoo links for a particular page
   • Edu links for a specific page
   • Technorati shows links for a domain from blogs
   • Alexa Ranking for a site
   • No of Cached pages in Google
   • Supplemental Results
   • No of links from Dmoz open directory Project
   • Bloglines links
   • Links from Wikipedia
   • No of links from Yahoo Directory
   • Whois information
5. Web Developer 1.1.6 - has lots of useful features useful for web developer and a seo. Some of Web developer features includes:
   • Cookies information
   • Javascript and Java disable
   • CSS view
   • Form details on a webpage
   • Image attributes
   • Outline Frames, links, headings, Tables
   • Window Resize options
   • Page View Source
6. User Agent Switcher - User agent is a great extension that allows you to check a website like a Googlebot. Typical use of this agent switcher is allowing access to websites that restrict access based on the browser being used.
7. FireFTP 0.97.3 - is a free and secure client FTP from Firefox which gives easy access to FTP servers. With file uploading and downloading, we can do directory comparison, Filtering, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing with Fireftp.
8. ShowIP address - ShowIP extension gives us the IP address of a website in our Status Bar like shown below. This is particularly useful when we need to check if multiple websites are hosted on the same IP. Right Clicking on the ShowIP icon in our Status bar will display Whois information with other stuff.
9. Live HTTP Headers - This extension from Firefox enables us to view the HTTP header sent during page load. This is really useful for developers and Seo’s to check 301, 302 redirect or 404 errors during page load.
10. CustomizeGoogle -
    Customize Google Extension allows us to make the same search that we made on Google on other search engines like Yahoo, Ask, AlltheWeb, Live, Lycos, Technorati, Wikipedia, Bloglines etc.

Which Firefox extensions are your favorite?

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There are thousands of web directories and search engines where you can submit your website. But submitting your website to thousands of directories will take lots of time and you will feel really bored during the whole process. So the idea here is submit your website to top web directories only from where you will get valuable links for your website and it will take only few minutes time for you to submit your website in these top directories. The directories that are available in this list have all high alexa ranking and good page rank.

1. DMOZ open directory project - this is the largest and most comprehensive human-edited directory on the internet. Submission at Dmoz is free but the waiting period for a site acceptance/refusal here can be long. If you are able to get your website in dmoz directory, it will be automatically picked by many search engine and directories including Google, AOL, Excite, Lycos etc.
2. Yahoo Directory - is another famous directory like Dmoz where you want your site to be listed. Yahoo directory is accepting free as well as paid submissions. For free submissions, review time is quite long but for paid submissions, review time is 7 business days. A general website can get listing on this directory for a year by paying $299 and for adult websites; fee is $600 for a year.
3. Best of the Web! - is another web directory where all the webmasters want their website/blog to appear. When you try to submit your website here, make sure that you are submitting your website in the relevant category and your site should not be under construction. If you are willing to get your site listed in ‘Best of the web’ directory, then you have to pay $79.59 yearly fee or $239.95 one time fee. I would highly recommend this directory because most of the pages have page rank 4 or 5 and will help you in improving your search engine rankings.
4. Business.com - is useful directory for business owners and companies to get their sites listed. This directory is accepting paid submission only. Websites that are willing to get their listing on Business.com directory have to pay $299 annually.
5. Joeant - Joeant was started in 2001 and is a great web directory having links to quality sites only. One has to pay $39.99 for a listing on Joeant web directory.
6. Jayde - is one of the oldest business directories that was started in 1996. Jayde is accepting free submissions. For submitting a website here, users have to enter their website address and a working e-mail.
7. Searchsight - is another great directory with nice alexa rankings in the range of 23,000. Searchsight is accepting free as well as featured listings.
8. Ezilon - is accepting free as well as paid submissions. For free submissions, review time can be long and in some case can take up to six months. And in case of paid listing one has to pay one time fee of $69 for their website listing and their website will be included here on Ezilon within next 48 hours.
9. MavicaNet - is a useful directory with more than 30,000 categories and 30 supporting languages. This directory is accepting free submissions and one will not have much problem in submitting their websites here.
10. Cannylink - to include our website in this directory we have to pay one time fee of $19.95. Cannylink directory was started in November, 1997 and is owned by Traffic Connection, Inc. “Web Site Marketing Specialists”

So if you are able to get your website listed in these directories, then you can hope high page rank and traffic for your website.

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Mybloglog is a powerful community for bloggers that bring more traffic to their sites, helps them know more about blogs and bloggers of their niche. Many people don’t realize the importance of mybloglog. This post will help you know what mybloglog is and how it sends valuable visitors to your blog sites.

Some Facts about Mybloglog

Mybloglog is a social community for bloggers where they can create and join the existing communities. Mybloglog was acquired by Yahoo in January 2007 with 45000 blogs registered at that time. Right now Mybloglog:

• Gets 100 millions of hits per month
• 140,000 blogs registered by now
• 7 google page rank (7 PR)
• 1070 Alexa ranking

How to set up mybloglog account

To start using this service, you must have a Yahoo Id or need to create a new one. If you have some yahoo id, you can use that for your account here. Here is how to setup your account on mybloglog, the biggest blogger community:.

• To create an account, go to mybloglog.com & click ‘Join Now’ button
• Now if you want to use your existing Yahoo id for your account, ‘Sign In’ with that or ‘Sign Up’ for a new account on Yahoo here in the bottom of the page
• By now you have a Yahoo id for sure and use that id to Join here:
• Enter your Yahoo id, password and press enter
• Click ‘Create New Account’ with ‘I agree to the mybloglog Privacy Policy’ Checkbox Checked
• With this a confirmation e-mail is send to your yahoo id with the list of things you can do with mybloglog
• Now you can add your photo or Avatar with your nickname, create your profile url, join other communities, invite your friends to join mybloglog and many more things
• Fill in more information about you in your profile page
• Claim your blogs here and add the screenshots or MBL provided code in your blog template. Create communities corresponding to your blogs. We can add as many blogs you want in an account here and for every blog; will be creating a corresponding community. So if you have two blogs added in your MBL account, two communities will be created, one for each.
• Last step is about adding the Mybloglog Widget on your blog or website. When you go to your profile page, you will see a link below your created community ‘Get widget’. This widget is highly customizable and can be changed as per our site layout & design. When you add this widget to your blog, it will keep track of the people that recently visited your blog from mybloglog community. This way you as well as your blog readers will have access to the people from MBL who recently visited your blog.

This is how account is created on Mybloglog.
Things that bring traffic from Mybloglog

1. Always remained Signed in your mybloglog account. When you are logged in, people will be able to see your mybloglog avatar with a link to your profile page in their MBL widget when you surf them. So choose an interesting avatar for you that people love to click.
2. Visit your favorite blogs and check if they have mybloglog widget installed. If yes, click on the ‘View Reader Community’ link at the bottom of the widget. Join that community and add that blogger to your Contact list.
3. MBL has a big collection of communities one can join. Join 15 communities everyday because that’s the maximum number of community you can join in a day. So you can start with hot communities and follow them with your favorite communities. You can search communities via tags or can make a direct search for them with the keywords of your choice. If you are looking for ‘Make money’ related communities, make a search for it in the search box in the top right section of MBL. The more communities you join the more benefit you will have. But go for targeted communities only.
4. Create tags according to your blog niche. There are many bloggers who have created 100’s of tags for their blogs and I even have so far created 70 tags for my ‘Scopeformoney’ blog.
5. Add 15 bloggers to your contact list daily. Again 15 is the maximum limit that you can use in a day. Go for bloggers of your niche and add them in your contact list as a friend, family or you are a fan of.
6. Leave message to your community members and bloggers in your niche. Do it in a sensible manner and don’t try to spam their mailbox. Don’t leave message like ‘Nice site’, ‘Cool blog’, ‘Great site’, ‘Visit my blog’ and ‘Great community’ etc. Reply to the every sensible comments that you get in your community section and just ignore/delete/report the spam message that you can in your mybloglog account. When you leave a sensible message in MBL member community section or on their blogs, they will surely check your profile as well as blog mentioned in your communities section.

My Experience with This Yahoo Owned community

I have been using this blogger community service for more than two years on my blogs and also been able to drive high amount of traffic and popularity for my blogs. So its time to get more traffic from mybloglog and keep on adding quality content on our blogs. So to join mybloglog click here and to join me and my Making money online community there click here. And to stay updated with MBL and everything about this blogging community click Mybloglog official blog

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