Tracking is the second most important thing you do in internet marketing (market research is number one).

Tracking shows you how you’re doing, and serves as an early warning system.

For example, with testing and tracking to compare two products, you might find that the lower price product sells better, and actually makes you more money than the other, higher price product. Or it can tell you of your traffic is dropping and you need to do more linking.

• You can use free tracking like Google Analytics or Statcounter to measure the number of people coming to a page.
• Then use a click tracking system to measure the number of people who click on your affiliate link

A reminder that this is a testing phase, before you create a product. The ultimate goal is to sell your own product, not to just be an affiliate.

The sequence is to do your market research, then set up a blog to test the traffic and the conversions, before you create the product

Actions for today:
write three more articles about your keyword
start another blog, using fresh content
engage in responsible social bookmarking for yourself and your team
read Mike Mindel’s So What is Quality Content Anyway?

For internet marketing, social bookmarking and social posting is a bit like a bank account. Every time you social post someone else’s content that you genuinely like, its like making a deposit. And every time you social post something you produce, or some thing you’re only posting as part of an exchange, its like making a withdrawal. Thats even if you’re posting quality content.

So if you’re bookmarking your own content, as well as that of other people you like, thats fine. But getting a large group of people to bookmark your content, whether they like it or not, in exchange for you bookmarking theirs, whether you like it or not, is simply spamming the social bookmarking services.

Ok, so its still Catchup Weekend, but Ed has put out another video, emphasizing the importance of good content. No point in bothering unless its good – it’ll only get banned, or it won’t be read anyway.

Two Days to catch up on all of the homework!