This is a post from the " Creating your first online business " series of articles.
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Let’s continue from our previous post, where we…
- Activated the “Akismet” plugin.
- Installed the “ All in One Seo Pack” plugin.
- Converted the url’s of our blog into search engine friendly url’s.
Our next plugin is “Google Analyticator”
From the Google Analyticator website:
Google Analyticator easily adds Google Analytics tracking support to a WordPress-powered blog. Google Analyticator also comes with an easily customizable widget that can be used to display specific information that is gathered by Google Analytics using the Google Analytics API. It supports all of the tracking mechanisms that Google Analytics supports such as external link tracking, download tracking, tracking without counting administrative users, and any other advanced tracking the user wishes to add. Google Analyticator works with a majority of themes as long as these themes provide the proper plugin hooks.
Please note that that you will need to have the following to apply all our steps to your own blog:
- Google account: https://www.google.com/accounts/
- Google Analytics account: http://www.google.com/analytics/
- Google Adsense account: https://www.google.com/adsense/
If you have the above, please continue:
- Go to the dashboard of your blog. Install and enable the “Google Analyticator” plugin (You can refer to this post if you forgot how to install a plugin).
- “Dashboard=>Settings=>Google Analytics”
- Enable logging for Google Analytics
- Fill in or edit all the information appropriately. Some fields come with a default value, which most of the times you won’t need to change; also every field has an explanation next to it.
- Click on “Save Changes”.
Our next plugin is “Google XML Sitemaps”
From the Google XML Sitemaps plugin website:
This plugin generates a XML compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
Note: The XML-Sitemap format was introduced in 2005 by Google and adopted in 2006 by YAHOO, MSN Search and Ask.com so that’s why it’s often called “Google Sitemaps”.
Plugin Installation:
- Go to the dashboard of your blog. Install and enable the “Google XML Sitemaps” plugin (You can refer to this post if you forgot how to install a plugin).
- “Dashboard=>Settings=>XML-Sitemap”
- Fill in or edit all the information appropriately. Some fields come with a default value, which in most of the times you won’t need to change; also every field has an explanation next to it. It is also good to get the YAHOO API key in order to notify yahoo of the changes we make on our blogs.
- Click on “Update Options”.
- On the top part of the same page, click on build/rebuild the sitemap.
- Done
There are many more plugins that we could install at this stage, but we will wait to pick the plugin that we want to install as the time passes and the plugin features become more essential to our blogs. Our choice will be based on factors like, theme design, functionality and security among others.
In the next post of this series we are going to work with the design of our website, in other words we are going to make it nice-looking for our readers and match the subject of our blogs.
Stay tuned for the next steps to create your first online business and make money with it.
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