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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

Overview of this book

WordPress makes the business of blogging easy. But there’s more to a successful business blog than just churning out posts. You need to understand the advanced marketing and promotion techniques to make your blog stand out from the crowd, attract visitors, benefit your brand, and deliver a worthwhile return on your investment.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers shows you how to use WordPress to run your business blog. It covers everything you need to develop a custom look for your blog, use analytics to understand your visitors, market your blog online, and foster connections with other bloggers to increase your traffic and the value of your blog.You begin by identifying your blog’s strategic goals before going step-by-step through the advanced techniques that will grow your blog to its full business potential.You will learn how to build a custom theme for your blog and incorporate multimedia content like images and video. Advanced promotion techniques like SEO and social media marketing are covered in detail before you learn how to monetize your blog and manage its growth.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers will help you to create a blog that brings real benefits to your business.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 9. Analyzing your Blog Stats

How do you know if anyone's reading your blog? Is the time and effort you put in showing any results? These are some questions you should be able to answer. The whole point of blogging is to help your business, so you need to be sure you're reaching your target audience. In this chapter, we will look at statistics that are essential for measuring your success and the tools that can help you gather them. We'll cover:

  • The key performance indicators (KPIs) you should be monitoring

  • How to use WordPress.com Stats

  • An overview of Google Analytics

  • Using FeedBurner stats

  • Checking your Alexa rankings

Key performance indicators

As with any other aspect of business, measuring the performance of your blog is the key to understanding its value and success. There are many different metrics that can inform you about the progress of your blog. Some bloggers look at many ...