Writing and publishing blog posts often and consistently goes a long way toward helping your blog get discovered, but it’s not enough. To drive traffic to your site, so you gain followers and subscribers, you need to share your posts on social networks. That’s how you “tell” potential readers of your blog and your blogged […]
Use Blog Analytics to Stay Focused on Your Blogged Book’s Performance
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 11 Like any blogger, book bloggers need to pay attention to blog analytics. However, if you are blogging a book, the statistics garnered from your analytics might seem more important than to some other bloggers. Large numbers of unique visitors (readers ) and page views can lead to a […]
How to Know if Your Blog Has Any Readers
When I work with newbie bloggers or writers who are blogging but really don’t know that much about blogging, they often tell me proudly how many “hits” they get or how many “visitors” show up each day. They become quite disappointed when I tell them these numbers, especially the first one, mean little to nothing […]
Creating Your Blog: Installing Analytics
Once you’ve got your blog set up, you can choose from all sorts of fancy and not-so-fancy “widgets” and “plugins.” They add tools and features to your blog, like search boxes, archives, search engine optimization features, and ways to “ping” your posts to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, and such. You can […]