What I Didn’t Learn At School

It’s about time to use Google Analytics for what it’s worth. I have always known the importance of tracking the traffic on all my website and projects. I automagically install Google Analytics on all my sites too but I must admit, other then getting the traffic count I didn’t know what to use the rest of the numbers for.

Google Analytics is still free to use and it’s still one of the most powerful analytic tools for the web out there, so why not learn to use it and get the most out of it?

If you are one of those that uses Google Adsense as your part time income you are also in for a treat. Google Analytics will show you how to monitor what people read on your page so that you can preform way better with adsense ads on your site.

So head over to Smashing Magazine to get the complete Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools now!

If you don’t know the importance of back linking you should go back and read my post about getting more traffic to your blog. One way of getting more traffic is to walk over to other websites and forums that you like and start commenting and leave your signature. Your signature should always link back to your own blog.

Many blogs and forums also give you something called a Do-follow link. This is a peace of code that tells Google and other search engines that they linked to your site. That again is called a back link. Sites that doesn’t offer a Do-follow link will kind of hide for the search engines and tell them that they do not link to you. Kind of a white lie don’t you think?

That’s why I find blogs that offer do-follow links very valuable. They give something back to you for commenting on their posts. And the more back links your site have, the more popular google think you are. So it gives you cred at the same time that they give you traffic. What more can you ask for?

So last week when I was stumbling around for great blogs to leave my comments on I found 2 great posts on a blog written by this 17 year old girl. She have gathered a list with links to 287 DoFollow Blogs and 120 DoFollow Forums so you can get started to build your back link farm right away.

BONUS: Right before posting this I found a directory of DoFollow blogs that had over 200 more blogs to comment on. Guess the 17 year old girl did a better job, but this DoFollowBlogs.com have some nice categorizing

Hope you like it and please comment here as well with your questions and experience with do follow and back links.

• 287 DoFollow Blogs
• 120 DoFollow Forums
• DoFollowBlogs.com