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Google Analytics, by default uses cookies to recognise traffic sources.  For example, in Google AdWords you may run multiple advert groups, advert campaigns and keywords.  Google Analytics detects this information by passing certain parameters to Google Analytics.

Fact: What people don’t know is that Google Analytics can be configured to measure email campaigns, radio, television and just about any source of website traffic.  Google Analytics is not just made for AdWords - it is an enterprise tool that allows you to measure the effectiveness of all traffic sources.

Google Analytics provide a tool which allows you to measure all of the above - and it looks exactly like any other traffic source - except grouped into criteria you wish to report on.

For the purpose of this post - I am going to focus on Google Analytics tracking email campaigns.  I send regular mailings - I want to see if they actually give me any ROI.

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I’m sure you have heard of Google Analytics which enables you to track the behaviour of a site.  The key to success with Analytics is using website goals.  This allows you to conveniently measure the success of your website to criteria you dictate.  For a blog (for me), 2 goals would be a user registration - and a user posting a comment on a page or post.  For this, we need to ensure tracking is on all appropriate pages and that the goals are correctly configured.

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Feedburner is an absolute must when it comes to Internet Marketing (with wordpress).  To use it properley or rather, to make the most of using feedburner - you must enable certain services on your feed.  The below explains…

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Quick post and update…

Feedburner is now available on this blog.  Simply click the RSS man to the top right and you can subscribe to our feed through your favorite reader.  Additionally, you can choose to receive email updates on this blog by choosing the “receive email updates” button on the rss feed itself which will send direct posts to your email address so you can read at your will.

Oh! And regarding the subscription counter - I couldn’t care less if it is low - I just installed it.

Update: Coming Soon: Essential Feedburner Services

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I’m sure you have all seen screenshots where adsense earnings have topped $1,000,000 or seen some other form of “earnings” where these earnings” are just out of this world.  Most of these are probably altered in one way or another - they did this by using the javascript browser hack.

By putting a simple line of javascript into the URL bar once you are on a page of your choice you can edit the content in any way you wish - in designer mode.  Now you can fake your “earnings”.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0

Try it yourself