Good tip and although it seems simple, creating more content like the content that is popular already is a fantastic strategy. That is, as long as it stays within the personality of your blog.

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This is great advise. My traffic problem is 78% enter my site through the home page or most recent post and 54% exit from the same page. It appears to me that my content is not engaging enough for that visitors spend more time on those pages than any other. Which would indicate that the content is more important and I should include more. Thanks for letting me work this through!

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I agree,

Google offers quite a lot of interesting tools also via adwords.

Even the keyword analyzer gets near to performances of wordtracker.com.

Things is to be able to find out the main message behind all these data, which is ot always easy and straight forward.

Dan Brussels, Belgium

Thats one of my obssessive morning routines actually, never thought to really post about it, glad you did, Im sure many will find it rather helpful. Good as well too see this info so you can go back and monetize those pages or develope more content around those kW’s and content.

Great tip !!

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I agree, seems simple — but one of the most powerful strategies I use on all my blogs. Good traffic doesn’t mean you have to reinvent the wheel, do what works.

Maria Reyes-McDavis

I use analytics, but have to admit that I never thought of looking at top landing page info. Thanks and keep up the good information. Deb

Glad to see you bring this up - I’d wondered about the effectiveness of it, and it’s nice to see the encouraging comments.

Richard

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Thanks again for another great post.

- Mel

Excellent post. Understanding and evaluating visitor trends and actions while on-site makes Google analytics is a major part of understanding your web site. Keep up the great info.

What I do is when I get sales, I run a date report by the dates of sales and see from where those visitors were referred. Sometimes there is a real clear picture of where the big conversions are coming from.

Thanks John,

JR

Great Tips.

It didn’t dawn upon me to check which pages are bringing in the most hits besides my main page.

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Great post… It’s so important to maximize the conversion of the traffic rather than just focusing on maximizing the traffic to the site.

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This is a great series. It seems that analytics and tracking don’t get as much coverage as many other “sexier” aspects of marketing online…and for us more advanced guys, it’s a shame….because this is where you really grow your business. Please keep the tracking and testing type of information flowing as almost noone else focuses on this area. I would say it is the most underserved sub-niche in all of IM.

I just came across a disturbing blog post that advises not to use Google Analytics. Here it is

http://www.diorex.com/168-billion-reasons-to-stop-using-google-analytics/

Ian McAllister

great strategy! simply means leveraging on what really works and creating more similar content to those topics / posts which seems popular on your site.

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Hey Cow

I use a wordpress plugin called Kramer which tells me if my particular post is on StumbleUpon. Most of my traffic comes from SU.

Kramer will show me if it is coming from SU, Reddit and a heap of other social sites. It will leave a link as a trackback, for example (shameless plug time): http://www.dudeworldorder.com/2008/07/dark-knight-wallpapers/

Kramer can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kramer/

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I have to be honest, thats the first time i have used the content side of analytics, silly me! Thanks John, great set of posts you have here, packed full of awesome useful info

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Woww.. it is a good tips again. John Cow is my favorite guru

Makes sense, I think it’s a great strategy and great use of the tools available.

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I’ve used this strategy and I’ve had great results by building upon popular content like this. Great tip and worth using.

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