Comment posted Why Using Google Analytics Is A Bad Idea by gnugent.

Marcia: My own site generator – SiteBuilder Elite (http://www.sitebuilderelite.com) – defaults to displaying no ads when a site is created. Ad networks can be turned on as and when you like but I think waiting those 3-4 weeks before doing that helps your site’s rankings.

New sites can get indexed quite quickly by Google, rise in the ranks and start earning almost immediately (if they have ads). When Google realises they’re affiliate sites, they drop in the rankings and earnings go down. And sometimes the site gets sandboxed. But that can happen regardless of the software you use to build a site. Webmasters need to think in terms of months in looking at how a site is perfoming not the initial blip that can happen after a new site launches.

SiteBuilder Elite allows you to configure your site in many ways and you can have it download articles to your pages or upload your own articles for more unique content. It also allows you to drip feed new pages to a site on autopilot so it looks like there’s a human behind it adding a couple of new pages every few days. It does a ton of other stuff too.

Gary.

Recent comments by gnugent

• Singin’ the VPS Blues
  Hi Sally,

  Excellent support is the most important thing you need with VPS hosting. With that you get quick response times and problems get diagnosed and solved quickly because of the support staff’s expertise. This is where I’m wary of resellers. They may offer great deals but if they’re not tech savvy you can be left high and dry if things go wrong. Typically, though, the better the support, the higher the monthly fees. That said, I’ve found Hosteasier and Heroehost support to be very responsive given their low monthly fees.

  While I’ve liked Hostgator (shared) hosting the most in the past, they’ve been tinkering with server settings in the past couple of months and that’s caused some of my sites (not blogs) to stop working. They don’t tell their customers they’re making changes that could affect sites, so that’s bad customer service. They also have a tendency now to suggest you need a better (read: more expensive) hosting plan when things go wrong rather than trying to sort out problems (more of a “it’s your fault rather than Hostgator’s” mentality). So they’ve dropped the ball a bit on the customer service end. And the issue with future-dated posts becoming “Missed Schedule” posts rather than “Published” posts on blogs on their servers still hasn’t been resolved.

  Gary

• Singin’ the VPS Blues
  Hi Jason,

  The easiest solution is to go for a fully managed VPS. What this means is that the webhost support staff look after your server for you, and install any software you want on it like suPHP or Fantastico. For blogs, go for Linux-based hosting. You will need to become familiar with aspects of WHM, the software used to create accounts on your server (and manage the server). Most reseller accounts provide WHM as well, so if you’ve used them, switching to VPS shouldn’t be much of an issue. When you set up an account using WHM, a cPanel is created for that account. From there, managing things on that account is just like managing things via cPanel on a shared hosting account.

  When you’re setting up cPanel accounts, you have two options: 1) create a cPanel for each domain you want to add to your VPS or 2) create a single cPanel for the top-level domain and use the cPanel to add subsequent domains as addon domains via that cPanel (just like shared hosting). If you choose 2), make sure to add Disallow statements (e.g. Disallow: /mytestdomain.com) for each of the addon domains into the robots.txt file on the top level domain to prevent the search engines from seeing the association between the domains.

  If you’re looking for a good course on auto blogging, check out my new review of the Autoblog Blueprint.

  Gary

• Do You Know Your Bounce Rate?
  Hi Reed,

  I agree. I think Google’s page ranks will not favour pages that provide exactly what the visitor is looking for because, as you say, if the page they land on provides the exact information they’re looking for, there’s no need for them to look at another page on the site. Hopefully, in their next update, Google will add some qualifier to pages with high bounce rates to separate those where a visitor stays only a couple of seconds from those where a visitor stays for an extended period of time. It would produce more relevant results for searches.

  Gary

• Do You Know Your Bounce Rate?
  Hi Brian,

  I don’t recommend using Google Analytics for the reasons listed in the Why Using Google Analytics Is A Bad Idea post. If you only have one or two websites, then it’s pretty safe to use. I’ve used it on this blog because it was a requirement of Alex Jeffreys’ training. Other tracking software, such as Piwik, will also provide information on bounce rates. I used the bounce rate info from Google Analytics in my post because (unfortunately) that’s the tracker software most people are familiar with.

  Cheers,

  Gary.

• Top 3 Internet Marketing Opportunities
  Hi James,

  Promote them as affiliate opportunities rather than as “buy this now” offers. None of the programs require people to buy a product in order to become an affiliate. They’re all quality programs and will sell themselves to people looking for that kind of opportunity. So tell your list that here are some opportunities for earning big commissions and leave it at that.

  Cheers,

  Gary

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