Mike Paetzold back again for my last day of my visit here at New Breed Marketer as part of the Old Bald Guy’s Blog Tour.
This stop I am talking about WordPress and here is what has been covered so far…
So far this week we have covered a lot about using WordPress but the most important part of the equation is to understand what you are doing that is working and which things are not.
You really need to be tracking results. I use two different services to find these things out.
- Google analytics
- MyBlogLog
Google Analytics allows you to place a small piece of code on your pages and they will track and give you reports on the results. They track the people coming to your site and give you some good information on exactly where your visitors are coming from, how long they stay and if you set up goals they will even track that for you.
You can get daily visits, the keywords that were used to find you and which pages get the most visits.
The keywords that people used to find you can be very revealing and may show you topics you want to cover in more detail.
MyBlogLog is something that I use even more than Analytics. Now unlike Analytics there is a fee $25 a year per blog to get their full tracking service, It is well worth it.
There are a lot of other reasons to use MyBlogLog other than the tracking and I have blogged extensively about ways to use it to your advantage on my WordPress Made Easy blog. You can see a list of posts on MyBlogLog.
The reason I really like the tracking on MyBlogLog is that they will also show you which outgoing links are clicked.
Add in that they link to the exact search page (not just the keywords) that someone has entered your blog from and you can see exactly where you stand on that topic in the various search engines.
Knowing these topics that are getting you traffic and generating clicks of your links will allow you to go use things like Wonder Wheel to expand your information on that topic and strengthen your rankings.
Hope you have enjoyed my visit this week and stop to see me at my blogs. Next week I will be moving on to the Micro Business Specialist and will be discussing helping offline businesses with tips for those that are an offline business and those that want to help offline businesses take advantage of the internet.
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Mike Paetzold has been online since 2000 and runs numerous blogs. Currently you can find out what he is up to at Mike Paetzold Recommends.
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Make your blog interactive
Mike Paetzold back again for day 3 of my visit here at New Breed Marketer as part of the Old Bald Guy’s Blog Tour.
This stop I am talking about WordPress and here is what has been covered so far…
Today we will discuss making your blog more interactive. This will help you in 3 ways.
Let’s talk about Twitter first. Twitter has become a blogger’s best friend and there are numerous plugins that will allow you to integrate your blog with Twitter. I personally use Tweet My Blog which will automatically tweet each post I make to my Twitter followers automatically.
It will also allow me to integrate my last x number of tweets (you set the number) into my sidebar. This way every time I tweet anything when the spiders next visit there is new content on the blog even if I have not posted anything new on the blog.
Facebook allows you to add your Twitter feed to your Facebook page and this will create another backlink automatically when using Twitter automation from Facebook.
Friend Feed is the next item and again you can integrate it with your Twitter feed and your Facebook feed. Can you see how taking the time to integrate these will help you get back links and you can also attract followers to all of those sites at the same time.
All of those are great but the absolute best way to make your blog interactive is generating….
Comments
Comments create additional content and freshen your blog each time some one leaves one. Here are 2 plugins you can use to help reward your commenters and give them an additional reason to interact with you.
Do Follow – This removes the default no follow link that WordPress uses. You do bleed some PR but you get additional comments. The downside is that you need to moderate more and you need to let people know that you follow. I add a notice in my side bar to let people know that I do follow on my blogs.
Comment Luv – This will automatically go search for their latest blog post and link to it if they use a blog as their link when commenting on your blog.
Finally just ask for comments. I do that quite frequently on my blogs and while on tour I will be giving stuff away to one person on each blog I visit that comments and adds to the content.
Finally make it easy. Stay away from making people register to comment or run through a captcha form. This will kill the number of comments you get. Instead use a spam plugin like WP Spam Free that will eliminate most of the garbage right off the bat and moderate your comments.
So leave a comment below and tell me how I am doing this week as I visit here.
About the author
Mike Paetzold has been online since 2000 and runs numerous blogs. Currently you can find out what he is up to at Mike Paetzold Recommends.
You can also find out and keep current with WordPress at his blog WordPress Made Easy.
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