Posts Tagged "google"

To go along with my New Year’s resolution of being better at this social networking thing, I decided to get a jump start on it by creating a Google+ page for my novel Popular. Yes, Popular has been out for 7 months, now. So, I am a bit late on this, but in my defense there was no Google+ when Popular first came out. Also, I reason that this will be good practice for creating a page for my next book, Ferocity Summer. A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine who is way more tech savvy than me, sent me a link to a post by Evo Terra that explained why authors should create a Google+ page for their book. It was one of those things that I sort of mentally filed away, and said I would get to when I had a few spare minutes. I managed to squeeze it in last week. I...

If you have a blog or website, and are interested in keeping track of the traffic that visits your site Google has a wonderful FREE (Isn’t there some rule that says that the word “free” must be written all in caps? I’m pretty sure there is, but I’m too lazy to get up and consult Strunk and White.) tool. Google Anayltics tells you who is visiting your site and how long they spend there and which pages they visit. There are all sort of pretty graphs and charts and things, most of which I don’t entirely understand. But the number one reason you should use Google Analytics is that you can find out what search terms are bringing people to your website. Without Google Analytics, how would I know that one of the top search terms that...