what is your take on google analytics
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it's easy to incorporate it on websites through wordpress,joomla, and by reading around the net it's works very through hostbaby my chosen host
I researched a bit on it and it seems to be a great tools
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google adwords
Google Ads
I also looked at some SEO software
as well but confused which one to pick if any as far as SEO software
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I know keywords are important...
you have a blog article on this sir..
so know alot of about websites and traffic
thanks for this thread right on time for me
included links for ppl who don't know about the google business solutions
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I use all of Googles tools. I like Google analytics and I hate Google analytics. There are things about Google analytics and Google adwords that I love and other things....not so much. I would not rely on using just Google tools no more than I would recommend using only one drum kit to make all your tracks. These tools are only one part of the story and that story is forever changing and dynamic. See you really have to look at Google for what it is. They are a advertising company. Sure they do lots of other things, but it always boils down to their core product and that is ads. Any of the free tools from Google will only give you parts of the secret 12 herbs and spices but NEVER all. See they want you to buy ads...period.
You have to keep their real intentions in mind. I love Google because they are a brilliant company and I admire what they were able to do in the search business and turn it on it's head. Both the music industry and the newspaper industry should have taken notes from Google, they could have learned a thing or two instead of letting the internet practically kill their industries.
Anyway, my point is don't just use those tools only because you will only see so much behind the wizards curtain with them. Here is a couple things to keep in mind:
NEVER buy any of those so called SEO systems. Most are rip offs. I see them on WF everyday and most are put up by some guy that says, "yeah I will get you on the first page of Google in 24 hours" Is Google really that dumb?? If you do get there with this method do people think they will stay there when Google finds out? The answer is NO to both of those questions and now the website is flagged by Google and that guy is long gone with your money. SEO is not a magic wand.....it is a balance. You need in this order:
To be a leader in your industry. When I search for auctions for example, Ebay will be #1. They are the authority.
Natural high ranking. A website is high because it got there the natural way through time. 5 years on the net is a lifetime.
Content. I write for a lot of other peoples sites and blogs because content is still king for driving traffic.
Relevant backlinks. Keyword is relevant and not from some guy promising 5000 backlinks to your site by tomorrow.
Page optimization. Keywords, meta tags, etc. (not stuffed)
As for SEO software I would write down everything you want it to do and really do some research on it. CNET's is always my first place to go when I am looking for software and opinions on them. I have been messing around with SEO as a hobby for a long time...lol..before there was even a term really called SEO. I started building websites in 99 in college. Back then SEO was lets load up the keywords we want to get ranked on in the same color as the background and hide them on the first page..lol.
I would look at SEO is an ongoing expense that you need to account for. You need a software that will grow and change as SEO grows and changes. Find out the cost of updates this is very important. You can also just have me run a report from my software and it will tell you everything that is wrong with your page and how to fix it.
The main thing is I would check out who you are dealing with. The SEO game is the biggest rip off on the internet. Guys are coming into this with little to zero knowledge and selling people SEO systems and just taking peoples money.
I don't have too much info on SEO on any of my blogs, but I did write a book on it but it needs to be revised as it is about year old. After the holidays I will be re-doing some parts of it. I will send you a free copy my brother in Christ.
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Depending on what website you are hosting your blog from, you should check to see if they utilize "search engine visibility" products. It helps you come up with key words to tag in your headers and meta tag, scans your page to tell the effectiveness of those tags, helps you create a site map and submits it to all major search engines and their affiliates.
Depending on what website you are hosting your blog from, you should check to see if they utilize "search engine visibility" products. It helps you come up with key words to tag in your headers and meta tag, scans your page to tell the effectiveness of those tags, helps you create a site map and submits it to all major search engines and their affiliates.
Thanks Travis for your input. I think search engine visibility tools are worth it depending on what they do. I personally think "search engine visibility" was the biggest buzz word in 2011, but for actual effectiveness does very little for your business except maybe at a local level for some bricks and mortar businesses.
If a SEV tool promises to get my website on a ton of search engines and it will let me monitor my traffic then in my opinion this is not worth the price. Who cares about all those search engines because all the searches are below Google and most are with search engines no one has ever heard of. I can code a website with a search engine on it in about a half hour, but that does mean anybody is using it? Google on average carries a 70% market share on searches. Last month they did 85% with Yahoo the next closes at 6%. That only leaves 9% left and that doesn't account for Bing, Ask and AOL. Heck, both Ask and AOL were at around a half of a percent. A half of a percent! That is nothing so all these other search engines are irrelevant and less then nothing. What other search engines do I need to be on? If I sold hammers, then I would spend my money to get my hammers into WalMart and not worry about Joes Hardware store that has 10 customers a day.
Now I am not say that all search engine visibility tools are crap, but some charge you more money then they are really worth. This is especially true when it comes to keywords and meta tags. As a matter of fact keywords and the way they are search for drastically changed a couple months ago with Google. Now if a Google user is signed into their account when they do a search it will be done on a SSL and will not pass through their regular search term referrer data. Google did this for security reasons, but over time this basically means that the searches people perform for the most part will be encrypted and leaving keyword search terms less valuable without access to Google's data.