Ranking, Link Building and Google Analytics


That title is a mouth full, and this week has been the same. Lots of information learned this past week that I know will help my website be found. Quite frankly, I am going to need to optimize in every way I can so that my page will organically rank high because I don't see myself paying for google ads. At least not until I can refine my craft to the point that I feel like I have something truly unique to offer. I am encouraged by the audit score.  I have no idea how to fix some of the problems it pointed out, but I am encouraged that they are fixable. I am looking forward to deciding how I am going to approach Social Media. I know I have plenty of relatives who will give me a like, but I do really want to establish some good links that will support the strength of my site. I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of Google Analytics. The amount of information is almost overwhelming, but numbers and data can help you so much! The opportunity to understand what your customers are doing at your site is HUGE!!! I know I have plenty of things to change, plenty of growth ahead of my little site, but a start is a start.

I have taken this class 1 1/2 times now. The first 1/2, I KNEW I wasn't ready to make any kind of web business for REAL... I was scared. I dropped the class, I hid behind my laundry, but honestly the cranks in my brain started to turn. I started to think, what do I have to offer, what can I do? And even though I changed my approach completely this time around, I put my laundry away and truly learned some great things from this class. I still feel so unprepared to go forward, but at the same time, I feel like I can see my way ahead. I am no longer ignorant about the "how" just need to work on the "what" a little more. I have been given some great tools and I am excited to see where this goes. I signed up for my website for a year, and I am going to take this year to work on the "what" and refine the offering. If I don't see a future in it, I will let it go and be grateful for the experience.

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