There are many different ways to make money from blogging and benefit from a successful blog. The first important tip to follow if you really want to make money from your blog is to make sure you have the proper title. Having the wrong title or improper title that conflicts with your blogs content can damage your ability to make money from your blog. Be sure to use a title that is catchy but properly coins the point of the blog. If your blog is about dogs it should mention that in the title or directly refer to it in some way. Your title should always be clear and concise. This is vital if you wish to make money with your blog. The second tip to make money with your blog is to double check your information. You can not have any errors in your blog if you wish to make money. Your blog should have accurate information for your readers. It also makes your blog more difficult to find and search through if there is too many incorrect spellings. The third tip to make money with your blog is blog often. You must be persistant with your blogging if you want to make some serious money doing it. You should blog at least once a day or more. You need to build up a fan base of people that enjoy reading your daily posts. It is the secret to a money making blog. The fourth tip to make money from blogging is to keep what your are writing about rich in content but to the point. You do not want to babble on and on losing your readers interest. Quality content is the key to making money from blogging. You have to draw readers to your blog daily to generate money.

I find after talking to webmasters for any extended amount of time though that some people are intimidated by the process of setting it up. They think it is too complicated or just something they don’t want to bother diving into. Im completely guilty of this!  Ive been niche and internet marketing years and I just recently dived in to Google Analytics.  So I hope this information helps as I wish I had these instructions when I started out!!

Sure some of the features give you more information that you probably need but better to have more than not enough. To help those who still have butterflies in their bellies – here is a step by step guide to get you going.

Getting Started with Google Analytics…

Go to the Google Analytics web site and sign up for an account or login with your Google login details. You already have a Google account, right? Post login, click on the “setup” button to get going with the setup process.

Give Google Your Web Site’s Details…

Next you load up a screen that wants you to put in some information about your web site. Type in your domain name, account name and set your time preferences. The account name will be the group name for the series of web sites you use Google Analytics on.

Fill in Your Contact Information…

The next page wants you to put in your contact information. If you don’t want to do this – just select your country and you should be good to go to the next step.

Check Out the Terms of Service and Agree…

One of the last pages you will see is Google’s terms of service and legal agreement. Skim through it, read it if you want to. I know your probably not going to though. Click the “I agree” check mark box and move on.

Cut and Paste the Code!

The last step gives you a ‘bit of javascript to cut and paste onto all of your web pages that you want to track. Just copy it from there and paste it into your web site. Get past that step and your done! You have successfully setup Google Analytics.

Adding Google Analytics on Blogs

In a Wordpress install, this will allow you to see how people are finding your posts, and how many are viewing your posts, and when. When used correctly, you can optimize which keywords are used and where to drive more traffic to your site.

How is it done? Very simple. Using your favorite editor, open upo \wp-content\themes\yourthemenamehere\footer.php and do a search for the </body> tag. (Hint, in most editors you can do a <ctrl-f> key command to find it)

Directly above the </body> tag paste in the code given to you by Google. It should like something like this:

<script src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
_uacct = “UA-0000000-0?;
urchinTracker();
</script>

The 0000000-0 would be replaced by the user account number provided by Google.

Save and upload your modified footer.php and you will be good to go. This will allow every post and the main page to be tracked. In general it will take a few hours for Google to begin tracking data so be patient.

Google Analytics Wordpress Plugin

Want a handy Google Analytics Tracking PLUGIN for your blog?!??!  Click here to see one of the coolest wordpress plugins for installing Google Analytics!

That’s it. Google Analytics updates every day, you can access the reports from your Google account or here: www.google.com/analytics

However, one very important aspect of online success is branding yourself, which means having a live blog online.  I know that there are a lot of people who are tech savy and have no problems doing this, however, there are some who are struggling with this.  When I realized the amount of people who are struggling to earn a living online, and whom in particular either lack the knowledge or the time to put up a wordpress blog of their own to start their online venture, I really wanted to do something to help.

So hear me out.  This will be on a first come first serve basis, but I will work as quickly as possible so that I can serve every one who want to jump on this incredible offer!

I will build a wordpress blog of your own, custom header included, under your own domain name.

All you need to do is register your domain name, register for a hosting account at Hostgator under my affiliate link, and leave a comment under this post with the domain name in which you registered under Hostgator. Or you can simply email me at globalgoods@hotmail.com and I will respond to your request as soon as I can.

Basically, this is a win win situation.  You need hosting, you need a blog.  When you sign up for hosting under my affiliate link, I get commission, and in return I will build you a blog.   Remember, you must sign up under my affiliate link in order to qualify for this offer   I couldnt think of a better way to help people get their blogs up and running!!!!

I really want you guys to be successful, and to do this you really need to start branding yourself and start showing off to the world!  And what better way to do this than to start blogging now!

This is a really great offer, so I am not sure how many people will register for this, but it will be on a first come first serve basis.  I will get the blogs done as soon as possible.  If you are needing a blog asap, then this probably isn’t for you, just because if I have 100 people requesting a free blog, well I cant exactly get 100 blogs done in one day   But I will try!! lol…..however, if you email me first I can give you a time estimate if that works better for you.

1.  Register your domain name.

2. Click here to register for Hostgator hosting account

3. Email me at globalgoods@hotmail.com or post a comment under this post with the domain name you registered under so that I can verify with Hostgator that you signed up under my affiliate link.  In your comment and/or post please leave me your email address where I can contact you so that we can do a brief rundown about your blog-to-be

4.  Again, if this is a time sensitive blog you are needing please email me first so that I can give you a rough estimate on when your blog will be done

I hope this ends up helping some of you who are struggling.  I just want to also mention that because of the details of this offer, I can not do modifications.  You will have to put your trust in me and know that I will build you a nice professional looking blog.  However, you can tell me what you want the header to say and colour preferances .  Otherwise, I am very confident that you will love your new blog!!!

Cheers!!

…….Chelsea