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The Essentials for a Website

by pranaman
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I have set up a few Wordpress sites for affiliate marketing.

I have kind of a standard set of plugins, for backing up, CSS changes, contact form, etc.

I am wondering what others would help. I suspect analytics/SEO would be one of those.

So, I got Google Analytics by Yoast. I'm having an issue with it, any recommendations for tracking and seeing who's visited my sites?
#essentials #website
  • Profile picture of the author zcrafts
    They are many plugin to check traffic tracking on your website, you can also have awstats to monitor your website traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author AffEngineer
    You'd also want google webmatster tools.

    What's wrong with Google analytics for tracking?
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    • Profile picture of the author pranaman
      Originally Posted by AffEngineer View Post

      You'd also want google webmatster tools.

      What's wrong with Google analytics for tracking?
      it's new to me. I've never used it.

      I have several sites. I imagine I just need one account for all sites I manage, and want to have analytics on?
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  • Profile picture of the author BranTheMan
    Wordfence has a built in tracker

    Also, here's a free plugin for Google analytics if Yoast is giving you trouble https://wordpress.org/plugins/google...ics-site-wide/
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Yeah, make sure to have a very overt, identifiable Optin Form on that Site. I would put that as being essential. Very much so


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  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Sitemeter and Statcounter are simple to use.
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  • Profile picture of the author gm777
    You can try crazyegg or luckyorange for mouse tracking. But they are not free.
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  • Profile picture of the author counter2015
    Try Gostats Wordpress plugin its excellent and doubles up as an awesome hit counter.
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  • Profile picture of the author 60MinuteAffiliate
    Statpress are ones that I've used for years for providing statistics etc.

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  • Profile picture of the author Fitnessdad
    Watch out with how many plugins you have as it can really drag down your site speed. Yoast in my opinion is a big bloated program but for someone starting out it helps when writing posts but other features are complicated for newbies so they can sell you the training. Just my two cents......
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