Keyword Report: This is one of the most important reports! This report will tell you what people searched for on google (and other search engines) that drove them to your site. In this case, Scott had 370 visits from search engines. From this list you can see that: 177 people searched for “scott hargis” 64 […]
Referring sites means that Scott posted something at another site, or was mentioned at another site and had a link back to his main website. Clicking on referring sites brings us to this page. Here we see that he had 161 visits from photographyforrealestate.net, 159 visits from his wordpress.com blog, 81 from the strobist.blogspot.com and […]
Clicking on the map will show where people came from to your website. The first map will be of the world (03a). In this case, Scott had 794 visitors from the USA, 106 from Canada, and less in other countries. You can also see that the people from Canada spent 2x as much time on […]
Google analytics is a very powerful tool in analyzing your website. It can give much insight as to how people got to your site, as well as what they viewed. The analysis of analytics that appears below was written in June 2010, but it still applies today. I took a look at a friend’s google […]
Categories When posting blog entries, you should organize them into categories. WordPress allows you to create categories and sub-categories. These categories can be added to a sidebar, or a menu. Take a look at my “Recipes” menu, and you’ll see subcategories of Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, etc. When I enter each recipe, I select the appropriate […]
WordPress Pages Pages are for creating a page that doesn’t change much. These include such pages as “About Me” or “Resources”. They may update over time, but for the most part are pretty static and stand alone. Pages are easy to create. Just click on “Pages- Add New” and give it a name. Once you […]
WordPress Widgets Widgets are plugins that can add features to your blog such as Search capabilities, a link to the Archives, a list of Categories, Recent Posts, and more. Plugins are visible to the general public and usually show up on the sidebar, or above or below the content. You can see on this screenshot […]
WordPress Plugins: WP Plugins are a way to extend the functionality of WordPress. They allow you to add features that are not in the core of WP. There are many developers out there writing code for WP to do things the original code doesn’t cover. Some of the functions that people have written pertain to […]
WordPress Themes: There are thousands of free themes for wordpress out there. You can go to the “Appearance” tab and click on “Themes”. From there, you can “Install Themes” and browse for new ones. I would, however, recommend going a different route. I recommend using one of the custom themes below because they give you […]
WordPress Settings: Once you have your wordpress installed, login using the admin account and take a look around. The dashboard presents an overview of what’s going on your blog right now. I’d recommend taking a look at each item under the Settings tab. At the very minimum, at least look at these: Permalinks First, the […]