Quote of the Day
A study of economics reveals that the best time to buy anything was last year.
– Marty Allen
I remember the day I found out that the new Xbox (the 1st gen) had the same amount of hard drive space as my prized laptop. What a deflating day.
Analytics Glossary: Average Lifetime Value
Average Lifetime Value:
- The average of the lifetime value of a visitor or multiple visitors during the reporting period. Each visitor’s lifetime value is the total monetary value of a visitor’s past orders since visitor tracking began.
Since I recently had a snafu with my analytics, I’ve decided to start this bi-weekly series of glossary terms on analytics and share some things I’ve learned with you about it! Take notes, children!
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Glossary Definition From Website Magazine, February 2008.
Quote of the Day
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
– Lord Chesterfield
Food for thought there… would you rather have a laundry list of accomplishments to show for your actions or just know that you’re good?
Google Analytics Asleep at the Wheel?
Or, am I?
I installed the code for Google Analytics on the 14th and the tracking data has been rockin’ since I’ve been watching it. It’s SO much better than the former interface I was using. But I admit that I wasn’t very blog active last week and I looked at the analytics dashboard to find this today:
Visitor Flatline since the 2nd. Which I know isn’t right… so what gives? What did I change? I changed the blog over to my own DNS late on the 30th and those few days tracked just fine. The high mark there is Feb 1… so what gives? I did change the template somewhere in there but I’m not sure what day that was…I tried reinstalling the code and I’m not seeing a difference yet, but it’s entirely possible that it’s taking more time than I have patience right now.
Does anyone have any ideas? I know that I’m getting visitors (well I’m pretty sure…), I just don’t know why they’re not tracking at all. I obviously have a lot to learn…
Read MoreQuote of the Day
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-Susan Ertz
I wish it were still Sunday… another week ahead!
Read MoreThe “it” site Snapbomb
It seems that on a daily basis there are more and more opportunities for bloggers to make money. I was Stumbling around earlier and found a blog post about SnapBomb from a blogger than I tend to take pretty seriously, LaTease Rikard. Usually she’s pretty on the mark about opportunities out there, including signing up for the PsPrint Affiliate Program!
So I went to check out the buzz about this and it’s the easiest thing I’ve done in awhile. The interface is super easy to understand and there’s no lengthy approval process like other pay per post/sponsored review sites. I don’t have a lot of experience with this as I’ve never written a paid post in my life, but from reading other bloggers around the blogosphere, most paid per post/review sites are a bunch of hoops to jump through. It’s refreshing to see something so straightforward out there.
Now SnapBomb is not going to make you a millionaire overnight. From what I can see the starting pay rates are between $5-10 when you start out. But for prolific writers there’s definitely a chance to make some extra scratch there. And I’m sure most bloggers who are attempting to make money from their blogs appreciate every dollar they can get. It’s also a good vehicle for blog marketing.
I encourage anyone looking for some extra dough to check it out at www.SnapBomb.com and poke around.
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