Website Analytics

Web analytics can help drive your site in the right direction. Empowering you to target traffic on the site and gain a clearer understanding where your website traffic is going and how they behave.

There are many different web analytics solutions available, there are both free analytic tools such as Analog, AWStats, Webalizer and Google analytics and more advanced and in-depth paid / subscription tools like Hitslink.

Google analytics do provide a high quality free service, with a quick, clean user interface and clearly displayed default and customized reporting. Google analytics also provide free conversion tracking tools for paid search campaigns.

Moving away from the free analytics tools, there are many web stats packages available that provide a very high quality reporting system with detailed information enabling you to measure a wide variety of online activities such as paid search campaigns, email campaigns and display advertising.

Paying for a web analytics solution will also guarantee you're fully supported with any possible issues. Generally analytics support will be done via email, though most providers are more than happy (and can support) phone support.

In an effort to help you choose the best web stats / analytics package for your website we have provided a brief overview and link to some of the packages we rate highly at www.addme.com.
Suggested Web Analytics Solutions

    * Hitslink (Recommended): A very effective web tracking solution and easy to implement, simply paste a small tracking script on your site's pages and start viewing reports within seconds. There are two versions available, HitsLink Enterprise and Professional.

    * GoStats: Provides real-time web statistics and analytics which can give you immediate insights into your website's performance. Started in 1999, GoStats provides a wealth of data which most free stats systems cannot provide.

    * Google Analytics: Google rolled out this analytics platform out in 2005. Google Analytics is one of the most powerful free web stat tools currently available and definitely worth a look.

    * ClickTracks: Known as one of the higher end web analytics solutions, great for search marketers and search engine optimizers alike. Click tracks gives the user a deep insight in to campaigns, site navigation patterns, PPC, SEO and ROI stats instantly.

    * WebTrends: The high end corporate web site statistics / web analytics package. WebTrends have been around for some time now and demand a great deal of respect in the analytics market. A very powerful solution demanding a high price.

Magnifying Business Chances

Unlike magnifyin,g lens, search engine optimization does not only make a business company appear "virtually" bigger. Rather, it makes the business company "actually" bigger by using the information superhighway or what we commonly refer to as the World Wide Web.
The world today is mostly influenced by the World Wide Web, and we know that for a fact. Almost all trades and industries make use of it in order to heighten their status. All that consumers should do is to simply key in their queries using certain keywords in search engines like Google and Yahoo!. However, recently, there are not only thousands but millions of corporate names in the internet. With this colossal count of names in the online market, chances are slim for most companies to get to the top chart and get seen by potential clients and costumer. Thus, this is where search engine optimization comes in, but how?
Well, here is the simple rationale behind this optimization process. Considering the aforementioned claims, search engine optimization develops websites of businesses in a way that it gets seen by people easily on the internet. It makes use of various ways and means in order to do so. And ranging from small-scale businesses to medium sized ones and up to the leading business names in the globe, this kind of optimization tool proves to be a really expedient means of increasing business market and eventually, sales.
On that note, search engine optimization also has other advantages aside from merely magnifying the existence of business companies in the World Wide Web. This trend also spares a company from the hassles of marketing the business using other ways and means. With this optimization process, business market broadens to the optimum level without undergoing so many hassles. Also, this process of marketing a business helps in saving company funds. As compared to using other media of marketing, doing it online is definitely less costly.
Further still, search engine optimization allows not only potential clients and customers to reach the company but also other companies. With the company optimized, it would be easy for other corporate bodies to access and deal with the said company and conduct possible business to business transactions and relationships which would pave a way for a business expansion and which is certainly good and advantageous for the company.
Finally, borrowing a line from raffle draw events, "the more entries you have, the more chances of winning too!" But well, in this case, it should rather go this way, "the more optimized a business gets, the more chances it gets at snagging clients and profit too!"

Blogging to the Bank

By now I think most people in the world know about blogs.

What most don’t know as there is a great income to be made as well for free.

Rob Benwell is only a mere 25 years old and has already made several million dollars. Early in 2006 he shared his secrets with the world in his highly successful Blogging To The Bank ebook and has made making money online a whole lot easier for everyone.

Just over two years after the success of his first book and over 20,000 copies sold of it and to date Rob and his team have helped over 100,000 make money blogging. He is now releasing his fifth version of Blogging to the Bank as his past customers demand his very latest findings and moneymaking systems.

I got this post as soon as I could and it covers quite a lot of new information and techniques to adapt your blog to the new demands of the major search engines. Many of the techniques in the old book are now dated and don’t work so well. This is why Blogging To The Bank 2011 is a godsend.

Also this guy doesn’t consider himself to be a “guru”, he’s just a normal guy who wants to help the little guys out. I find this a nice change as he doesn’t talk “down” to you like most of the other guys do. He explains everything in a nice simple manor so everyone can understand.

Saying that when he “goes off on one” it may take a few reads until you get it but when you do it’s just shear genius. Some of the topics in my opinion could have been covered a little more, then others went into great detail.

His book starts off with market research (so that you are making the most of your time) to building your blogging empire. Yo must follow to give your blogs the greatest success in 2011 and keep them future proofed. This should be printed out and put on the wall of every online marketer without a doubt!

Everything is covered in this new outing that helps bloggers with todays online issues regarding making the all mighty search engines happy.

Final Verdict: if you are out there in the blogging world and want to make money the easy way then I highly recommend Blogging To The Bank 2011.

Why work harder than you need to as the new techniques are there ready for you to simply implement.

Published May 28th, 2011

Marketing Tip of the Day

If You're obviously interested in improving the results your getting from your online business but... with all your previous marketing efforts -  "Are you getting the web traffic you expected?"

Judging from the results we see in most Website Evaluations, your answer will probably be "NO!". Submitting your site to some search engines and building a few links here and there is a valuable "first-step", but it often doesn't provide near the traffic necessary to make an online business profitable.

This is why links are so important! By taking advantage of them your website gets valuable also puts your website right where the consumers and buyers are at!

Additionally, your website's title and text description are linked into the "Marketplace" of thousands of online shopping malls! Each website mall is maintained by an individual company or affiliate, these are real people who are enticed by generous commissions to promote their online shopping mall sites.

Additionally, online shopping mall sites are automatically, expertly optimized for the search engines and have very high rankings across thousands of important keywords in the world's best search engines. These shopping sites also have tons of great and constantly updated web content centered around each shopping site theme. These shopping sites include useful links, web videos and more! Consumers and users love them!

With many links your website can be found from every one of these online shopping mall sites, and with many different forms of promotions going on, this gives you the power of an "army" of internet marketers promoting your website!

Also, another important bonus! More shopping mall sites are being built everyday which further increases your web sites exposure! Your site will be added to all the existing shopping mall sites as well as all the new shopping mall sites as long as you remain with the links. 
Submit links will provide YOU thousands & thousands of new doorways and portals where buyers and shoppers can find your web site!