No internet marketing blog would be complete without an Google Analytics rant. It annoys the heck out of me!!I know it's very powerful, it can help you analyze your website and see where people are abandoning sales, etc. But to me, Google Analytics is like the genius who can do complex calculus but can't add 2 + 2. Here's what I mean: GA is all about telling you what percentage of visitors did X, how many went to Y, etc. but it can't give you any specifics. It can answer 'how many' but not 'which ones.' For example, I set up a goal of reaching the sale confirmation page on my site.I ...

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So far I've been following the AffiloBlueprint instructions pretty closely. The only thing I did differently was making my content be posts instead of page in Wordpress. I've been watching the videos in order and trying to do at least some of the homework assignments. Weeks 1 - 5 were all about setting up your website; picking a niche and keywords, putting content up, and optimizing your pages to convert. Done that. Week 7 is about newsletters and I'll have to put this off until I can afford an AWeber account. (By the way, again he's right on the money with his recommendations. I did a very thorough review of some of the more popular auto responders and ...

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Well, I've sort of hit a wall in my homework assignments. I was cruising right along until I got to the part about creating content. Writing has always been my least favorite thing (except in elementary school, when all my teachers said I was a great writer. Go figure!)I had been very diligent in writing a new article every day and setting up the pages as was outlined in the Affiloblueprint videos. I got through about eight articles that way. But they were all either product reviews that I could write based on the sales page and other review sites, or articles for beginners in the niche. So now I'm faced with coming up with ...

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