How To Make Money Online With Google Analytics
In this post I am going to show you a very easy way to make money online by squeezing a few extra dollars out of your blog simply by observing your traffic patterns using Google Analytics. I am about to leave to Texas very early Tuesday morning, so I figured I would write a quick post offering you some tips. Usually I put more planning into my articles, but I am very busy. Ironically, a lot of you guys and gals tell me that these style of posts are usually my best.
The reason why I wrote this post is because this is the exact same thing I was doing this morning. Long story short, my blog has been online for a few years, it has a PageRank 5, and I never really do anything to piss off the Google Gods. All in all, this is a very healthy blog. With that said, even though I have a lot of RSS subscribers, the amount of traffic I have from regular readers only puts a dent compared to my overall traffic flow on the blog.
On a typical day, my blog receives about 65% to 80% of its traffic from search engines. Depending on what I write from time to time and how bad I piss people off, these numbers do vary. But overall, this has been the average for quite some time. Having said that, I try to make as much of an effort as possible to see where within search engines my traffic is coming from (I.E. which keywords and keyword phrases).
When I observe my traffic patterns and discover which blog posts are getting hit hard by search engine traffic and which keywords people are typing into the search bar to find them, I’ll go back to my post and attempt to edit the post in a way that enables me to improve a call to action. That call to action can be something such as editing the content slightly to promote either an affiliate based product or one of my own. Or, it can be as simple as putting up my mailing list opt in form manually. Take a quick look at this screen shot:
If you take note of #12 on the list, this is a post titled, . I wrote the post on Nov. 2nd, 2008. This was long before created and launched their amazing product, . At the time when I wrote the post, I was promoting and selling a premium article that I wrote. I was (still available - check sidebar) selling this article for $1.00 per download. Instead, this morning I decided to review the article content to promote and sell Affiliate Theme because of the ratio I have for success.
In other words, I would have to sell about 90 copies of my $1.00 to every 1 sale of Affiliate Theme. Based off my report, this isn’t happening. On average I have been selling about 25 copies per month. This means, that if this page can successfully generate at least ONE sale of Affiliate Theme, I will make about $65 dollars more per month that this page has been earning prior to the update. Now with that said, take a look at this screen shot:
Now, one of the greatest features with Google Analytics, is that it gives you the ability to see what keywords and keyword phrases people use to find your content in search engines. As you can see from the screen shot above, my page is seated pretty well with some really good keywords. Quite honestly, this page is getting hit heavy with over 500 various keywords and keyword phrases.
Now, I already mentioned that I was pretty busy and I am about to leave to Texas. I have already revised this page to promote Affiliate Theme. When I get back to the office, one of the things I am going to do is revise this page once more. If I had more time today, I would do all this the proper way, which would be to do only one edit. Ideally, it would be best, but I don’t have time.
The final step to success is to edit your content making sure that you include the keywords and keyword phrases being reported on your Google Analytics report. If you fail to do this then eventually when the Googlebot comes back to recrawl your page you will lose your keyword rankings because the keywords and keyword phrases are no longer found in your article content. Also, one more thing to note is that if you see keywords and phrases lower on your list that look hot, optimize your article content to target them more heavily.
With that said, I hope you enjoy this tip, I am off to Texas and I will talk to you in a few days. Once again, I want to remind you that if you have questions that you would like to ask me, you can visit my post titled, . If your question is a really good one, I will use it for a future blog post. You’ll get credit for the question and if you have a blog, you’ll get to experience some traffic.
Thanks, Bryan Make $150+/day online - Free report