Tony Robbins said “The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of the habitual questions you ask on a daily bases.”
Tony also talked about endless loop questions that get and keep you stuck. Questions like “Why is it that no one leaves comments on my blog?” Endless loop questions are disempowering and provoke more endless loop questions that drive you down to a place where not much good can come from. (A better question could be, “How can I repackage my message so I ignite more interaction with my target audience via blog comments?”)
So today I’d like to post some questions about your blog, or blog to be and where it’s all going for you. I’m doing this in hopes of creating some real value for you as a reader here. But more importantly, I want to be the one that saves you loads of time because if some of these questions are not answered, you could end up very frustrated and discouraged with the results you produce.
If some of these questions make you uncomfortable, that’s OK. If it’s too uncomfortable to answer, then you’re just not ready and that’s OK too.
But please understand, at some point if you don’t answer these questions, you could end up spinning your wheels for a real long time ending up frustrated, disappointed and bitter. Now we don’t want that do we?
If you do answer them, you’re chances of profiting are as good as it’s going to get for you. (more…)
We talked about the importance of tracking yesterday using Google Analytics.
Today, let’s walk through the simple process of how to install Google Analytics so you never have to play the guessing game when it comes to where your visitors are coming from, how long they’re staying, etc…
1. Go to Google Analytics . Open a new account if you don’t have one.
2. Go to the bottom of the page and click on “Add Website Profile”
3. Add your domain address and click finish.
4. Click on New tracking Code (Not legacy), select and copy all code to a notepad document. Then click finished but keep this window open to Google Analytics.
5. Go to your blog’s admin and go to design > theme editor .
6. Click on “footer.php” and at the very bottom, past in the code you got from Google Analytics. make sure you click save at the bottom.
7. Go back into your Google Analytics and you should see something like the following image with a message saying “Tracking Installed.”
Give it a few days to collect some data.
A tip about checking stats: Don’t get too hung up over the stats because at the end of the day, it’s only feedback. If you’re not doing anything to get traffic, then the feedback will not be there.
Not getting into traffic today but try something new to get traffic and then watch your stats to see if it’s working or not.
Here is a question that comes up a lot, “What are the most important plugins?”
So let’s chat about this today.
There are many important plugins and it’s based on what you are trying to acomplish with your blog so answering this question is not easy because I have no idea what you’re trying to do.
However, for me, the most important plugin is Google Analytics for WordPress. (scroll to the bottom of the page for the plugin)
How about for the people that like to listen more than read or watch?
With the easy ability to add video, images, text and sound to your blog, why not mix them all up so you communicate to all types of people? Types of people? Sure! What I mean is, some people like me would rather just watch a video but others may want to read some text or just listen to an audio on your blog.
Try to at least use two forms of media in each post of yours. Text and images, audio and text, or video and text. Now if you want to go all out, test using all four but that may just be over kill.
To add audio to your blog, download and install Audio Player from http://www.wpaudioplayer.com for wordpress. It’s straight forward to use and I got mine running in five minutes. If you’d like a step by step walk through, leave a comment.
As an audio test I’ve added the following mp3 which is a testimonial I received that’s going to be used on a new coaching site of mine.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Craig…I read your posting on adding audio to your blog. I download and installed the plugin you suggested. I already have podpress installed.
Maybe you can give me some advice on the settings for wpaudioplayer, since after installing and reviewing the settings I don’t see this a choice for me. When I try to add audio I still keep getting podpress. Should I deactivate that plugin?
I would like to get a little more detail on how to use the wpaudioplayer.
Thanks Cindy
OK, first, you most definitely need to disable podpress plug-in before using wpaudioplayer.
Before I continue to talk with you about this audio plug-in I’m using, let’s chat about why to use this.
Use wpaudioplayer plugin for mp3 audio files you want to post from time to time. Now if you are going to add audio to your blog often, I’d most definitely would go with podpress because of its easy to use podcast management system. (Podcasting is a great way to get traffic and share your content with the world but you’ll need to be consistent with your content. )
Once you install wp audio player and activate the plug-in, create a new folder calling it “audio” and put that in your main directory where your blog sites. This is the folder that will house your mp3 files.
If your blog sites in a sold folder like my blog, then the path to that folder will look like this
http://www.idiotproofblogging.com/blog/audio/
If your blog is on your main domain it would look like this
http://www.idiotproofblogging.com/audio/
Now upload your test mp3 file to your new audio folder.
The settings for wordpress audio player are easy to follow to change the colors of your player and anything else you want to do.
Once you did the above, create a post and whereever you want your audio type the following code
Replace Carol.mp3 with your audio file name.
Side Note: This plug-in can be used for podcasting.
Most of the time when plugins don’t work it’s beecause the PATH to the audio file is wrong. This will make the plugin get lost because it can’t find the audio file.
Another reason plugins like this don’t work is because your wordpress is out-of-date.
Sorry if you got 8 emails from me telling you this blog has been updated.
The setting is to send one mail not 8 when there is an update.
I’m using an auto responder that is connected to this blog’s rss reed. Every time this blog gets an update it is set to send one message. The service has lost its mind!
I’m sorry about filling your in-box with duplicate content
