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How To Lower Your Google Analytics Bounce Rate

By Jenny on Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | 11 Comments

Previously I wrote a post entitled What Is the Google Analytics Bounce Rate? As the title may imply, this post explains how the Google Analytics measures the bounce rate of visitors to your site. In that post I also stated that I would write a post on how you can lower your Google Analytics bounce rate. In this post I will touch on a few simple fixes that I have found that you can apply immediately to lower your bounce rate at your site.

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How to Survive Your First Year of Blogging

By Jenny on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Did you know that more than 90% of all new bloggers who try to money blogging quit within the first 12 months. How do you avoid becoming one of them?

While blogging for fun and to communicate with like-minded souls is an enjoyable process, blogging with the intention of making money can quite stressful.

Most new bloggers I’ve met attempt to jump right into heavy topics like search engine optimization, link building, paid reviews and ad sales, completely ignoring the three important things they need to survive their first year of blogging.

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FTC’s Final Guidelines Governing Endorsements and Testimonials – For Blogger’s Etc

By Jenny on Friday, December 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

There has been a lot of buzz around the internet and blogger community about the recent changes that occurred on December 1, 2009. As well there should be, because on December 1, the FTC’s final guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials went into effect. This change effects testimonial advertisements, bloggers, and celebrity endorsements.

I have not yet come across what I think is the “right” answer around the internet community or blogosphere that talks about how to properly deal with these changes. However, on Mike Young’s site he does have a free report on how to comply with the guidelines. The best idea, in my opinion, is to get a lawyer to tell you what you need to do to comply.

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