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Analyze Your Way to the Top!

Get More Traffic - Analyze Your Stats and Get More Top Rankings!

A friend of mine has been doing the AU thing in his spare time for 2 months (newbie) and I asked him how he was doing. He said ok, but he said he wasn’t getting as much traffic as he thought considering how many pages he put up.He had two sites - 1 was a mish mash directory type site and the other a cute little tighter themed fashion site with a nice look and good organization. 

I asked him to show me his Astracker stats (AdsenseGold) and we walked through all the clicks he was getting and where they came from and he must of had 1,000 top rankings for his 75 or so pages on that one site. 

 That site was all stock unmodified AU articles. I showed him how to use his click stats from Astracker to get his rankings higher.

He had no idea he had so many top rankings and it was an eye opening experience to see where the traffic and clicks were coming from.

After looking at the stats he had a whole new perspective and felt like he had made some accomplishments and was on the right track.

Are you on the right track?

Do you study your stats to see where the traffic to your web site is coming from?

Your statistics present you with the most valuable information anywhere on earth! More valuable than my top tips! More profitable than any gurus best advice… Your stats can help you make what you have alreadyy done SO MUCH MORE successful! With very little effort!

The thing was, my friends site was cute looking and his site looked good but the pages were not optimized… he had bad titles, hardly any external text links (much of it WRONG) and still was getting decent traffic with that 1 site (the other site was just not happening).

Another reason to never expect 1 site to be a proper adequate testing ground.

I told my friend that for the length of time his pages were indexed it was actually good traffic and very encouraging to see how many keywords that the search engines were ranking him on… and this was on a PageRank 0 site! It was so new it didn’t even have PageRank yet it was all over Google.

I guess the moral to this story is that you sometimes have to take a step back to see where you are really at. In this case my friend was making decent money, decent traffic and had excellent reputation developing with Google. And he didn’t even do anything such as link campaigns to let them know what his pages were about.

Just a few strategic changes such as adding secondary words to his TITLES + finding words that are raning and adding more occurances to the pages, plus making text links for those phrases in the blogs, could mean the difference between his getting good traffic and turning that one site into a monster!

Funny but people, even smart people like my friend expect everything to just happen for them with no thought or input as to the direction they will go…. and the fact of the matter is without doing anything other than building sites with Article Undeground articles in xsitepro and linking a few in the blogs he already is getting what I consider dynamite traffic and decent click money for a new site with NO PAGEARNK!

A perfect stepping stone to a lucrative career in web publishing if he could multiply what he has already done. Why not make more sites like that?

We analayzed his stats and I showed him a few examples of how to take it to the next level and now he is thrilled and so excited. He never realized that Google alone had him ranking on 200 + search queries.

So, with my friends permission I soon hope to make a video documenting what he has done so far and ofering suggestions on how to take it to the next level. That will be coming soon for Article Underground members.

The question of the hour is how do I help communicate to people who only want to do the simple things with minimal effort and brain power many of whom only want to push a button and make instant money, that if they spend just a little brain power analyzing their stats that they can really push it to the extreme???

I need to think about that a little! That is my challenge! Alot of people get it - but I need to pass on the kool aid so it snaps into gear with more folks!

As I have said before and my friend has helped illustrate “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

What he considered OK is now exciting and full of potential. All you have to do sometimes is look for the silver lining!

OK, if you don’t have stats you better RUN to this page and buy it now. Time is of the essence. The sooner you install it and tack your stats the faster you’ll info to double and triple your earnings agian and again!

http://www.articleunderground.com/adsensegold

Resource:

Power of Statistics Part 1 - In this video I show how stats will help you make more money. How to get more top rankings by improving what you already have got going for you. Web stats will show you the keyword phrases that are already bringing your web site visitors.

 

5 Comments »

  1. I think this is something we all need to remember is to stay focussed and give your content sites enough time to see the outcome. Then by using a tracker you can make the necessary changes to revenue. Great post Mike!

    Comment by Chris Cooper — August 30, 2006 @ 12:21 am

  2. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Mike. I was wondering what other tools you might recommend to track site statistics?

    Have you evaluated other software beside AdsenseGold? Have you looked at statcounter.com?

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    Comment by Jerry Leventer — August 30, 2006 @ 12:33 am

  3. You are absolutely spot on yet again Mike! I think their is a temptation to expect instant results and remaining focussed can be difficult. I give each project 3 months to see what really happens.

    Comment by Chris Cooper — August 30, 2006 @ 3:20 am

  4. Hi Mike,
    Great Post as per always.
    One reason that maybe a lot of people don’t start analysing their stats and acting on them is probable that they don’t understand what they are telling them. In my experience people are afraid of what they don’t understand and therefore it gets pushed to the back of their minds. So maybe a video on analysing stats or should I say more simple “what are they telling me” and how to put this information into practice would be of some use.
    Also maybe in the video you could mention what good stats should include. I notice you mention Adsense analyser is this different than other stats because I for one have no idea.
    My son and I have a godaddy hosting account (unlimited domains)This has stats enabled which are analog 5.1 (www.analog.cx) with report magic. We looked at the stats this morning but we do not understand what they are telling us and I don’t consider myself slow in understanding technical matters. Or is it that other stats programs tell a different story:-)
    Saludos Ian

    Comment by VideoMan — August 30, 2006 @ 11:13 am

  5. Thanks for the comments!

    See my next post as I address some of these great questions!

    Comment by mike — August 30, 2006 @ 12:46 pm

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