Is your website even alive? My website is a couple of years old, but the only way I have ever been able to see if the website has any views was by the ‘like’ facebook feature built into it. After five years, I can proudly say that I have had three likes. 3. After 5 years! Well that wasn’t working for me, because I was sure that my website was great, I mean, I coded the thing myself. So I decided to get crafty, I enlisted the help of a totally free tool named ‘Google Analytics’. This tool tells you how often your website gets accessed, which pages are checked, how long visitors are staying and, very important for me, where they are from. This tool was a major breakthrough for me because it showed me, after a mere two weeks, that my website was in fact getting zero views. Yes, my website was dead in the water, drifting in the ocean miles away from anything alive. I’ve since made more changes, but not so much to the website itself. The changes were made to how I get people to go to this website, and this has worked well. If it will improve sales remains to be seen, but I’ve had days where up to 45 people view my website. That is forty five more than zero. So the long and short of this post is: If you don’t know if your website is alive, get some tool to find out, you might need to do a bit of work there!
My website is a couple of years old, but the only way I have ever been able to see if the website has any views was by the ‘like’ facebook feature built into it. After five years, I can proudly say that I have had three likes. 3. After 5 years!
Well that wasn’t working for me, because I was sure that my website was great, I mean, I coded the thing myself.
So I decided to get crafty, I enlisted the help of a totally free tool named ‘Google Analytics’. This tool tells you how often your website gets accessed, which pages are checked, how long visitors are staying and, very important for me, where they are from.
This tool was a major breakthrough for me because it showed me, after a mere two weeks, that my website was in fact getting zero views. Yes, my website was dead in the water, drifting in the ocean miles away from anything alive.
I’ve since made more changes, but not so much to the website itself. The changes were made to how I get people to go to this website, and this has worked well. If it will improve sales remains to be seen, but I’ve had days where up to 45 people view my website. That is forty five more than zero.
So the long and short of this post is: If you don’t know if your website is alive, get some tool to find out, you might need to do a bit of work there!