Web Metrics and SEO

In the world today, most people have heard of Etsy.  There are books and podcasts devoted to how to sell your artistic wares on Etsy and make a profitable business out of your own home.  There are many people who do create a booming business using Etsy, however, many find that it doesn’t always bring them the fortune they were expecting.  Unfortunately, handcrafted goods are something that costs much more to produce than the mass-produced products you can pick up at your local Walmart.  The cost of handmade items on Etsy can be anywhere from 3-10x’s more than the products you currently use.  Most people want the most bang for their buck so paying higher costs and then shipping can sometimes be more than a regular shopper is willing to pay. Etsy is an ecommerce platform for the more artistic sellers typically.  When browsing the contents of this ecommerce platform, you will find things such as handmade jewelry, bath soaps, candles, photographs, graphic designs, etc.  The platf

Why do we need a blog keyword solution? Why do we need a solution to help us determine Keywords to use?  People should just want to read our blogs because we’re awesome right?  How will they know how awesome our blogs are if they can’t find us?  Keywords are a major part of making sure website and blog SEO are running smoothly and are relevant.  Whether you are using Wordpress or Blogger, incorporating your main keywords into your post is important so search engine crawlers and indexing can pick them up and determine the relevance of the piece to what others are searching for.  How we add keywords According to the Blogger help section (2018), this is done by adding keywords into your title, subtitles, and text as well as create a permalink that is relevant to the content.  If you are talking about adding keywords to your blog, such as this blog, you will want to use keywords that point to the fact that is what your blog is about.  If you are adding keywords to a WordPress webs

Google Analytics is certainly considered one of the most popular web metrics tools available especially with the cost being free.  Not many web metric companies can compete with this price tag, however, a few that can are useful in their own ways.  For the purpose of this blog I am going to focus on Bitly. What is Bitly? Bitly is a web metric service that monitors traffic analytics through bitlinks.  As stated by the Bitly website, bitlinks are “When you shorten a link with Bitly, you are redirecting a click from Bitly to the destination URL. We issue a "301 redirect": a technique for making a webpage available under many URLs. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and search engine-friendly method for webpage redirection. Because Bitly doesn’t re-use or modify links, we consider our redirects to be permanent.” (Bitly, 2017) What does Bitly offer? Bitly offers browser extensions to share Bitlinks straight from your browser as well as a downloadable app for you