ITGA: Getting Traffic for Analytics

In Intro to Google Analytics, the author's third chapter writes about getting traffic within a website. The first step in getting people to come to your site is to invite friends and family through social media. Importing contacts from Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn can be used to expand your viewership and can also lead to other people starting their own blogs. The first  priority that someone should have when starting a blog is to share it to social media and promote it. If no one knows about your blog, there is no way they will visit your site. In order to do this, the blogger should share a link to their blog page on Facebook or Twitter. A little excerpt of what your blog is about might not hurt. One should not forget to consider that promoting your blog might also become a little expensive.

In order to promote a post, Facebook and some other companies might require a fee. Advertisements are also another way that money is made off of links and posts. For example, if someone clicks on an ad that leads them to another page, that click might be worth 50 cents. At first that does not seem like much, but after a while it does add up. Facebook ads sometimes seem overwhelming but they are simple to set up and fairly easy to use. Anyone can set up an advertisement in a few minutes. The most difficult aspect of the whole set-up is paying the fee and deciding what money goes into what and how long the ad should last. Other than that, it is not too complicated.