statistics and blog monetizing

I’m continuing blog about how to start wordpress blogging. This is not my blog primary objective, but as I launch it using wordpress – why not blog it and share some things with you.

So next thing that I hurry to step in is setup site statistics. My choice is free Google service Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/). The service is just amazing – no need anything better at all and it is absolutely free. So I’m getting here script and going there:

wp-admin -> Design -> Theme Editor

At the left side you may see list of the files the current theme is using. Selecting file footer.php. Here I paste the analytics code just before 2 last lines

</body>
</html>

I really like that so much I could do just using admin Dashboard panel.

Monetizing

Why hesitate to put an adsense code to the site? My sidebar looks really empty, so why not use it for monetizing purpose? I like Google adsense service that shows visitor maximum related advertisements. I prefer using text only ads that are not too annoying and well descriptive. I think it’s good for visitors to notice what sites wants to be visited just NOW (that means you will find something really fresh) and are related with the content.

Ok, so I got adsense account generated text only ad code and put in the same way like I did with analytics code, just selecting different file – sidebar.php. Look at the screenshot:

Tags: analytics, statistics

This entry was posted on Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 6:23 am and is filed under wordpress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.