Hopefully, many of you with a website have at least a few primary goals set for it. You may be trying to sell a product, get subscribers, educate, and the list goes on. Do you have goals set for those goals though? If you want to improve your website, having performance goals for your primary goals is a required step. Continue reading »
Huh? The goal is to have more goals? You may be thinking this is a stupid idea. I don’t actually want more goals though. My primary goal for 2010 is to have my “goals”, that I defined using Google Analytics, to occur more often. My goal is to increase my goal count.
Google Analytics
I’m sure many of you have Google Analytics running on your site, and already know what a great resource it is. Are you using it to its full potential though? In my most recent post, Your Website is Better than You Think, I mention a potential goal for websites owners. That goal was to get your visitors to do something on your site. Continue reading »
For those of you that know about the plugin Feedburner Smith you know how handy it is turning your Feedburner RSS link into a more friendly (your original) feed link. Last month I finally installed it on this site, and a week later I uninstalled it.
The reason for killing it off was because I was losing a more important part to my site, and that was the knowledge of where my subscribers are coming from. Here is a cool tip on how to track where your subscribers are coming from if you use Google Analytics, and how redirects are not cooperating, aka cool tip/bummer deal. Continue reading »
