Self Built Empire

Wow what a surprised I noticed last night one of my blogger site was indexed by Google in 24 hours. Even before this site was indexed and this site has been live for around 5 days or so. Granted I really haven't done too much with this site yet, but I will soon. I just wanted to write more content for the site before I do some real work.

I did a couple of different things but I am not a 100% sure which one Google picked up on first, but the good thing is I will be telling you exactly what I did.



Things I did:

1. Submitted the site to, Google, Yahoo and Msn the top three search engines.
2. I added my website to Google Webmaster Tools, and Site Explore
3. Commented on Older Digg Posts which all had a pagerank
4. And Commented on older flickr images which all had pagerank
5. Included the RSS feed into my Google Reader
6. Added a note on Google Notes about my site
7. Also added the site onto my Google Profile



If i remember correctly that's about all I did. This was all on the first of November, the same day I created the website, which was created with blogger also. I'm not a 100% sure if any of the stuff I did helped or not, or if I just got lucky. I haven't had time to do this to my other blogs just yet, but I'll try it out and let you guys know how it goes. Until next time, good luck guys.

Couple Days ago I made a post about how to added Google Analytics to your blogger account. Today I will be talking about why it is important to keep stats for your website.

One of the most important reasons for keeping website stats is to simply determine how your website is performing at any point over a period of time. And lets face it who doesn't like to know how their website is performing.

The stats can answer a couple of very important questions you might have, and help you improve your website. Some of the questions stats can answer are:

Who is looking at my website?
Where is the traffic coming from?
Which pages people are leaving and entering the website?
and what search terms did the visitor use to find my website?

The answers to these simple questions can tell you a lot how your website is performing. And how you could improve the site.

Usually if you have your web page hosted with a web host and you have access to the cpanal there will be already a stats program keeping stats for you.

But if you are hosted on Blogger, Wordpress, or many other blog hosts you will have to have a third party website keeps stats for you. Some of the most popular ones I've seen are Google Analytics, Extreme tracking and Sitemeter.

Seeing if your website doing well will help you also stay motivated and show that your hard work hasn't gone completely to waist. It is also a good tool for goals, I have set up a goal to have at least 100 unique visitors per day to visit this site by the end of the year. Right now I am at barely 10 or so, so this will take time but is completely feasible.