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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Chapter 6 - Google Analytics - Amazing Stuff!!

Google Analytics

Now that you have already done your installation of Technorati and claim your blog(s) there as well as submit your blog(s) to Google, Yahoo and MSN as laid down in Chapter 5, the next best thing to do in to install google analytics to your blog(s). You may ask what Google Analytics is. Google Analytics will help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your blog(s) / website. It is a great tool to determine which online marketing strategies and initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your blog(s) / website. It shows you the performance of the steps you take to promote your blog(s) / website. I have found it to be tremendously useful. I recommend you take the following steps below to get going -

1. Go to www.google.com/analytics/home

2. Next go to "Sign up now"

3. "Enter your current email address", "choose a password", "re-enter your password" and finally "Accept and create your account"

4. You will receive a message such as the one below in your email inbox. Please do as requested.

Email Verification In order to verify that the email address associated with your account is correct, we have sent an email message to francoyong@hotmail.com . To activate your Google account, please access your email and click on the link provided. Click here to continue.

5. You will receive in your email inbox a message that appeared like this -

Welcome to Google Accounts.  To activate your account and verify your e-mail address, please click on the following link:  http://www.google.com/accounts/VE?c=3551726713000692991&hl=en  If you have received this mail in error, you do not need to take any action to cancel the account. The account will not be activated, and you will not receive any further emails.  If clicking the link above does not work, copy and paste the URL in a new browser window instead.  Thank you for using Google.  For questions or concerns regarding your account, please visit the Google Accounts FAQ at http://www.google.com/help/faq_accounts.html.   This is a post-only mailing.  Replies to this message are not monitored or answered.
 

6. Click on the link and you will be directed to another similar to the one below.



Google Accounts

Email already verified Thank you for verifying your Google account

At this page, sign-in with your "Username" and "password".

7. Click "Continue".

8. You will then see this page below.

name@mail.com | Google Home | Help | My Account | Sign Out



name's Google Account

Personal information - Edit

name@mail.com

Change email

Change password

My services - Edit

	Analytics
	Web History

Try something new

	Gmail - Get a fresh start with email that has less spam
	AdWords - Find buyers searching for what you sell
	Alerts - Receive news and search results via email
	Groups - Create mailing lists and discussion groups
	iGoogle - Add news, games and more to the Google homepage
	More »

9. Click "Analytics".

10. You will see this page below. Complete all the boxes with the details required. When done, click "Finish".

name@mail.com | My Account | Help | Contact us | Sign Out

Analytics Settings | View Reports:

My Analytics Accounts:

Analytics Settings > Create New Website Profile

Create New Website Profile

Choose Website Profile Type

Please decide if you would like to create an additional profile for an existing domain, or create a profile to track a new domain.

Add a Profile for a new domain

Add a Profile for an existing domain

Add a Profile for a new domain

Please provide the URL of the site you would like to track.

Examples: www.mywebsite.com

Time zone country or territory:
Time zone:	(GMT+08:00) Kuala Lumpur

Common Questions

11. You will then be led to another page.

name@mail.com | My Account | Help | Contact us | Sign Out

Analytics Settings | View Reports:

My Analytics Accounts:

Analytics Settings > Tracking Status

Tracking Status

Tracking Status Information

Profile Name:	letzshop.blogspot.com
Website URL:	http://letzshop.blogspot.com
Tracking Not Installed (Last checked: 2007-05-30 2:58 AM PST.) The Google Analytics tracking code has not been detected on your website's home page. For Analytics to function, you or your web administrator must add the code to each page of your website.

Instructions for adding tracking

Copy the following code block into every webpage you want to track.
Click in the box below to select all code. Copy and paste the code segment into the bottom of your content, immediately before the tag of each page you are planning to track. If you use a common include or template, you can enter it there. See Example

What if I'm not the person who updates the website? Email the code above and instructions to your technical team or website administrator. Once they have added this tracking code to your website, click 'Check status' from the Analytics Settings page to find out if your website is being tracked and data is being collected.

Common Questions

12. Copy the "html code:". Having done so, go to your blog and follow these steps. Customize > Template > Add Page Element > Add html code / java script.

You will see a box. Paste the html code and then "Save Template".

13. Go to the Google Analytics page as appeared in Step 11 . and click "Done".

14. The page below appears.

name@mail.com | My Account | Help | Contact us | Sign Out

Analytics Settings | View Reports:

My Analytics Accounts:

Welcome to the new version of Google Analytics!
Your new reports have been designed to help you learn even more about your site traffic and marketing initiatives.

The redesigned interface is now the default view. To access it, click "View Reports." We think you'll love the new Google Analytics, however, you can still access the previous reporting interface. To do so, click "Previous Interface" below the "View Reports" link for any profile in your account. Note that your data and configuration settings remain unaffected regardless of which interface you use and your data continues to be tracked in the same way as it was prior to the redesign.

Google Analytics has many new features. Read our blog post, read the FAQs or watch the flash tour to learn more. If you have difficulty finding specific reports in the new interface, you may find the report finder tool to be helpful.
FAQs | Take a Tour | Learn More | Report Finder Tool

Drive targeted traffic to your site.
Use AdWords with your Google Analytics Account.
Tell me more about AdWords. | How can I use AdWords and Analytics together?

Analytics Settings - ebizuniversity (Edit Analytics Account)

From this page you can manage your website profiles, create custom or predefined filters, and control access to your Analytics reports.

Website Profiles

+ Add Website Profile

Prev 1 - 1 / 1 Next

Show

	Name	Reports	Settings	Delete	Status
1.	ebizuniversity.blogspot.com	View Reports - New Beta (Previous Interface)	Edit	Delete	Receiving Data Conversion Goals (0)

To track another website with Analytics, click the 'Add Website Profile' link.

Access Manager

Number of Users: 1. Add users to give them access to your Analytics reports and report settings. Learn more.

Filter Manager

Number of Filters: 0. Filters can be created to include or exclude certain visits or clicks from your reports, to reconstruct a dynamic URL to be more meaningful when displayed in reports, and more. Learn more.

Helpful Links

15. If the html code has been properly pasted in your blog, the tracking will show "active". Otherwise, it will show "inactive". In the latter case, you will have to re-install the html code as per Step 12.

Step 15. Go to "View Reports" - new beta in the page as per Step 1r4. and you will be shown the various reports. Browse through and in no time you will be familiar with the tools.

Step 16. Google Analytics offer a tremendous amounts of report format and all the information that you will require in knowing how your blog(s) / website is doing. Discover and enjoy the facilitly - all for FREE!! Amazing...

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Chapter 5 - Submit Your Blog

Just below here is what Technorati said about themselves as at May 24, 2007.

Welcome to Technorati

Currently tracking 82.7 million blogs

Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”

But it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others vie for readership with national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.

Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.

On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.

The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.

Technorati. Who's saying what. Right now.

Now, having understood what Technorati is all about and does, please follow the steps below to "Ping" your blog(s).

To come to this stage, it is assumed that you have completed the steps in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 in creating your blogs with Blogger and WordPress respectively. It is time that you go to finish the steps in this Chapter. It is the submission of your blog to a search engine. A must do is to submit your blog to Technorati.

After you have registered with your User Name and Password (remember your user name and password), you will need to login-in into the Home Page. Close to the bottom of the page, you will notice -

Technorati Tools

Claim your blog

Ping us

Technorati Mini
View constantly updated "conversation" in a mini window on your desktop.

Technorati Tools
Plugins, applications and widgets to help you get more out of Technorati.

Developer Center

Click on "Claim your blog" and you will enter a page requesting you to complete the various section. Do as requested. If you had more than one blog, claim all your blogs here one at a time.

You will get an embedded html code and a series of widgets. Copy and paste them to your each of your blogs.

Having done so, move to "Technorati Tools" as shown below.

Technorati Tools
Plugins, applications and widgets to help you get more out of Technorati.

Here you can see there are number of plugins, application and widgets. Go through each one of them. Take time and patiently do it.

Next you will see "Ping us" shown as part of a panel as below -

Technorati Tools

Claim your blog

Ping us

Technorati Mini
View constantly updated "conversation" in a mini window on your desktop.

Technorati Tools
Plugins, applications and widgets to help you get more out of Technorati.

Developer Center

Click on "Ping us", you shall come to a page like as below and click on the word "Ping" at the end of your blog title. Once completed you are done.

Go to your blog(s) now and you will noticed all the widgets that you have installed. Each time you publish a blog entry, go ahead and "Ping" your blog(s) as per what you had done in the previous step above. The page looks like -

Welcome back, YOUR NAME! When you update your blog let us know with a ping.

eBusiness And Blogging

Updated 1 day ago

Ping »
Mind, Body, Spirit And Fluttering Though...

Updated 2 hours ago

Ping »

Claim a New Blog »

Thanks for the Ping!

Technorati will now check francoyong.blogspot.com for new content. You can bookmark this page and return to it to notify Technorati of updates.

Automate this! You can have your blog software ping for you. Just enter http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping into your weblog tool's configuration for Pings and Notifications. Check our ping configuration page for more information.

« Technorati Home

Finally, search for Yahoo submit, Google Submit and MSN submit and do your submission of your blog(s) there too. The steps there are easily so there is no need to lead you through the steps here.

Congratulations!! You have now move on.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Chapter 4 - Where The Sources Of Online Money Are For Blogs

4 Sources Of Traffic That May Generate Money Online For YOU From Your Blog

Think about this. In sales, it's the number game. Likewise, making money online is the same. The money people see your blog, the chances of making money online is there.

The simple formula for making money online is: “great contents = traffic + conversion = money”

Simply put - Generate traffic with great content and that would equal coverstion into MONEY.

The 6 million dollars question. How do we drive traffic? How do we pull and push visitors to our blog?

What are the traffic push and pull for our blogs? (we shall leave keywords, PPC and SEO out of this chapter for now).

Generally, the four (4) key sources of traffic are -

1. Create direct/organic traffic
2. Buy search engine traffic
3. Lean on networking traffic
4. Indirect Referral traffic

1. Create direct / organic traffic. “Build great contents for your blog and traffic will flow-in”. Content is the ticket to successful traffic pull. Build a blog niched to your chosen audience and traffic will be attracted to pulled in.

Use significant keywords loved by your audience and the search engines will crawl and send traffic to you. Simple write fabulous contents and Google will give you a helping hand.

2. Buy search engine traffic. The words associated with this sort of traffic source include Google Adwords, Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Yahoo Directory Listing, advertising, etc.

My personal experience with Google Adwords (sponsored links) on my website selling teddy bears was an amazement to me. I can never imagine traffic coming to my website in the first couple of hours from all over the world!! A must try and certain, such advertising can deliver. And one can then understand why internet marketing really does have a level playing field with the world market, literally, at your feet.

3. Lean on network traffic. Networking is POWER!!. Get your strategic partner to support and write testimonials about your blog. This brings credibility to your blog.

4. Indirect / Referral Traffic. Here you build links where other blogs are linked back to your blog and promoting yours. Digg, SpicyPage, Mybloglog, del.icio.us, Technorati, FuelMyBlog, Blipoo, Myspace, Squidoo, Bumpzee are some of the sites worth consideration.

These traffic source is instant. Unlike SEO that needs weeks to pull visitors to your blog, Web 2.0 traffic is almost instantaneous. Referral traffic is absolutely free!! What else can one asks for?

These 4 traffic generators have differing monetization strategies as a result of the tactics employed. These strategies will be shared in later chapters as we progress. Do come back and visit.

(Tip: Do you know that visitors coming from the search engines are the ones that would most likely click your Google Adsense ads? Yes. And Web 2.0 traffic are the least likely to click the ads.)

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Be The First One And Win The Game

The Sky's The Limit Challenge

2 Cute Teddy Bears As The Winning Prize Worth USD 50.00

I"m going do something different today - for sheer fun of it.

I was going through a blog (I can name his / her blog as that would give the game away!!) and found all these interesting photos of buildings.

For the first one person who can name me the exact locations or future locations of the buildings below correctly (just name the cities and countries would do), he or she will absolutely get the above pair of the teddy bears FREE worth USD 50.00 including shipping to your given address; courtesy of 100teddybear.

How about that?

Feel up to the challenge??

If so, write to me NOW... this challenge expires as soon as the first person is able to provide to me with the correct list of cities and countries of these buildings.

Good Luck!!

Building#13

Building#12

Building#11

Building#10

Building#9

Building#8

Building#7

Building#6

Building#5

Building#4

Building#3

Building#2

Building#1

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Chapter 3 - Starting With WordPress

In this Chapter 3, I am going to attempt to provide the step to set up a blog with WordPress. It is good to have an identical blog at WordPress with the one that you have already done so with Blogger. The reason is just to get more exposure for your blogger by attracting more traffic what would be useful when you start doing the things to begin earning money with your blogs.

Now, let's begin.

Step 1. To to WordPress.

Step 2. Click on "Get a WordPress. Blog now >>".

Step 3. You will now enter a page with the title "Get your own WordPress.com account in seconds".

Step 4. Click "Register" located at the bottom of the page.

Step 5. Create your "Username".

Step 6. Create your "Email Address". Make sure you write your username and password something for future reference in case you have forgotten them.

Step 7. Check "I have read and agree to the fascinating terms of service".

Step 8. Click "Gimme a blog! (Like username.wordpress.com)".

Step 9. Complete your "Blog title". Keep your blog title as interesting and broad as possible so that it is relevant to many people. This is important to generate traffic and money in the months ahead.

Step 10. Choose "Language".

Step 11. Proceed to "Sign Up". This page will appear.

Check Your Email to Complete Registration

An email has been sent to xxxxxx@mail.com to activate your account. Check your inbox and click the link in the message. It should arrive within 30 minutes.

If you do not activate your account within two days, you will have to sign up again.

Update Your Profile!

If you haven't got your activation email why not update your profile while you wait?

Still waiting for your email?

If you haven't received your activation email yet there are a number of things you can do:

Wait a little longer. Sometimes delivery of email can be delayed by processes outside of our control.
Check the junk folder of your email client. The email sometimes ends up there.
Have you entered your email address correctly? We think it's xxxxxx@mail.com but if that's wrong use the button below to fix it.
If all else fails, contact us and we'll send you the activation email again.

If your email is incorrect, change it using this form and click "Update email". The activation email will be sent to your new address.

Step 12. An email will be sent to you. It looks like this. Click on the link to activate.

Howdy,

Thank you for signing up with WordPress.com. You are one step away from blogging at yongpoileong.wordpress.com. Please click this link to activate your blog:

http://wordpress.com/activate/xxxxxxxx

--The WordPress.com Team

Step 13. This will appear once activation is done.

Step 14. Key-in your "Username" and "Password". Now - You're ready to Rock And Roll!!

Step 15. Click on "New Post" or "Press This" on the top left and right-hand corner respectively to start writing your first entry.

Step 16. After completing your entry, just click "Save" (choose save if you wish to publish later) or "Publish" (choose publish if you wish to immediately post your writing for all to see) and your have now published your first blog entry with WordPress.

Congrulations!! You are now the rightful owner of two blogs. One at Blogger and the second being with WordPress.

Explore the pages of your WordPress Account. There you can choose the templates, edit your profile, change your password, change your email address, etc. Enjoy!!

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Mistakes - No Fear

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself

Friday, May 11, 2007

Live Like There Is No Tomorrow!!

Our lives tomorrow will be the result of our
attitudes and the choices we make today.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét

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Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.

Jon dyer

Chapter 2 - Starting Your Blog

This chapter is meant for individuals who have not started up a blog. The steps provided below are simple small steps are easy to follow to begin the process of creating a blog. For those of us who are savvy with it we can help by just emailing these steps to someone who wishes to start a blog or to encourage someone to start one.

Starting to create one's own blog is simple enough. One has 2 popular free options. One can create a blog and have it hosted (all for free) at either Blogger or WordPress. For this chapter, I will cover Blogger.

1. Open your browser and go to Blogger.
2. Create an account where it states "CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW".
3. You will be prompted to choose a "USER NAME".
4. You will be prompted to "ENTER A PASSWORD".
5. You will be prompted to "RETYPE PASSWORD" to make reconfirm your password is correct.
6. Remember (write it down) your blog's URL address, user name and password. The user name and password will ensure you are the only one who can access and edit your blog.
7. Next step for you to choose a "DISPLAY NAME". It is the name that is posted at the end of each posting in your blog. Simply put - it's your signature.
8. Next step is for you to provide your designated email address. This email address is used for recovery of your user name or password just in case you have forgotten those details.
9. Check "I ACCEPT THE TERMS OF SERVICE".
10. Click "CONTINUE".
11. Enter your "BLOG TITLE". This is similar to the title of a book. Make it catchy and have the title envelop the essence of your passion for your blog.
12. Next step is to complete the "BLOG ADDRESS (URL)". Make sure the address is short, sweet and memorable. You cannot change this blog address once it is done.
13. Click "CONTINUE".
14. CHOOSE A TEMPLATE. Then click "CONTINUE". Choose a template of your choice for your blog's initial design (this can be changed later).
15. Start writing your first blog entry.
16. Go to the "POST OPTION" and edit the "DATE" and "TIME" you wish your first entry to be dated and timed.
17. "SAVE AS DRAFT" or "PUBLISH" your first post.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Chapter 1 - What Is A Blog?

What is a “blog”?

Short for "Weblog".

<World-Wide Web> (Commonly "blog") Any kind of diary published on the World-Wide Web, usually written by an individual. The home page usually shows the most recent article and links to earlier articles, the owner's profile and web logs written by the owner's friends. There is usually a facility for readers to add comments to the bottom of articles. There are many sites like http://blogger.com/ where you can create a blog for free. Many web logs consist almost entirely of links to other web logs, some publish original content, a few are worth reading.

Blogs can be personal or professional, topical or random, updated hourly or once a month or longer - it is all up to the individual. It is an on-line journal of sorts, a form of expression that is defined by each individual blogger.