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November 2nd, 2011

Technical Issues on the Blog

by Holly Dodson

So that you all know, I’m having some issues with Blogger.  I keep commenting on blogs, and they keep disappearing into the ether.  I have no idea what is wrong with this, but please know I’m not ignoring you all — I’m just having technical issues.  That’s also why my posts are showing up so late in the day in your feeds…stupid Blogger.  They’re all posted first thing in the morning, yet they aren’t showing up until hours and hours later.

I keep thinking about switching to a different host for my blog, but I haven’t done it yet because I don’t want to go through the crazyness of figuring out how to change my feed sources and everything (I have no idea how that stuff works).  That may be where we’re headed though unless Blogger can get it’s stuff straight.

But I love reading all of your blogs, and love that you take the time to visit mine.  And if you have any knowledge of how to fix this issue, I’d be happy to hear it!

Thanks guys!  <3

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January 17th, 2011

Using Analytics – An Overview

by Holly Dodson

Okay, at the request of a few lovely followers, here is how I track my site’s analytic details.  Let’s get all technical up in here!  Woot!

Whaaaaat?  I’m a writer, not a techie!

Yeah, well, I’m not a techie either.  But if we’re serious about the business side of our writing, it’s something we’ve got to learn to do.  :)

Isn’t it hard though?

Ummmm, no.  Really, it’s simple.  It seems daunting at first if you have no idea what you’re looking at, but it’s actually pretty self-explanatory.  Here we go.

I use Google Analytics.

 
When you sign in, this is what you see…  Whatever websites you have set up to track will be listed with their reports.

When you click on view report it takes you to the dashboard, which looks like this:

 

Lots of interesting information, right?  When you start clicking on the different reports, you can learn things like: search terms used to find your site, the popularity ranking of your posts, how people are finding your blog, who’s linking to your blog, etc.  Awesome.

This is the Traffic Sources page where you’ll see what websites have lead people to yours, and what search terms people found you with:

Your Content Overview pages looks like this:  It shows page hits and post popularity.

You can also use the Stats function on blogger (if you use blogger that is):

 
The blogger Stats page looks like this:

Not too hard, right?  I love checking my analytical data out.  It’s so cool to see how people find me!

Anyway, if you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them.

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