Google Analytics Basics: Understanding Analytics for Beginners



Are you using Google Analytics? Don't know how it works or how to read it? Google Analytics is a tool with a wide variety of features for website tracking. But, even this simple description doesn’t do the tool enough justice. To understand the power of Google Analytics, let’s examine its various uses and why you need to get on board with tracking your website. The Google Analytics Basics: Traffic Tracking First off, install Google Analytics if you haven't. Operating blindly (no data) is a down-right travesty for your business opportunity. Got it installed? Good... At its core, Google Analytics is...

What Content Management System (CMS) Is Best For You?



Product? Check. Website copy? Check. Design? Check. Launch, go! Wait a minute, hold your horses. Are you forgetting one of the biggest issues with websites from the very beginning? What happens if your business takes off and you suddenly need to add hundreds of pages to your website or make dozens of changes to all of the existing ones? Believe me, going back to your website to make changes, manually, can be mind numbly dull and anti-productive. Your time is best focused on the future; not on the technical slog of keeping a website up-to-date. Enter: Content Management Systems Content...

Worst Black Hat SEO Tricks (That’ll Land You in Hot Water)



Feeling tempted to try Black Hat SEO tricks? Don't. This article is a lot different than other tutorials you can find here on AffiliatePrograms.com. This is a “never do” tutorial, which means that the techniques described here are for educational purposes only. We’re describing them so you can be aware of their existence, and use this knowledge only in some specific scenarios. For example, when you’re offered with certain SEO services and you don’t know if they’re black hat or white hat. Having this kind of knowledge can help you in keeping up to date with Google’s policies … something...

How to Increase Traffic and Shares with Content Unlocking



The idea of content unlocking is somewhat new to the affiliate marketing world. Well, maybe not the idea itself, but the term “locked content” certainly is. The basic principles are pretty simple. As an affiliate or a product owner doing business from your own website, you can choose to have some content locked to the general audience. In order to view this content, the visitor has to take a predefined action. The action can be anything that makes sense to you – the website owner and results in more business coming your way. The most common ways of unlocking content...