Have You Got Your Ear To The Ground Or Your Head In The Sand?

Written by Mike Cheney


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If you answered "I don't haverepparttar need, as I already do this" - congratulations - you get a week's free pass torepparttar 124749 Smug Club. But seriously though - you might already get allrepparttar 124750 statistics about how your website is performing but do you spend time viewing them, interpreting them and most importantly - USING them? When wasrepparttar 124751 last time you usedrepparttar 124752 statistics about your website's performance to implement a change on your site and then trackrepparttar 124753 results on subsequent statistics to see what effect it had? It's all gone quiet inrepparttar 124754 Smug corner...

Feeling uncomfortable with all these questions yet? You should be. If you're not happy with your website you need to dig a little deeper and ask what it is exactly that you're not happy with. Did you set definite, time-linked and realistic expectations forrepparttar 124755 website's performance prior to starting out? If you're not gettingrepparttar 124756 leads or sales you had hoped for you need to work out why this isrepparttar 124757 case - scratching your head won't do it. Trackingrepparttar 124758 performance of your site and viewing detailed statistics on how people use it won't give you definitive answers either - but it will propel you several miles inrepparttar 124759 right direction.

You arerepparttar 124760 doctor and your website isrepparttar 124761 patient - you need to connect it to an ECG and start monitoring and recording everything. How else can you work out how to makerepparttar 124762 patient better? Or maybe you haverepparttar 124763 perfect patient who doesn't actually have anything wrong with them?

Mike Cheney www.magnet4web.com

Michael Cheney is the Author of The Website Marketing BibleTM:

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7 Ways to Get More Mileage from Your Free Reprint Articles

Written by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ


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Go over an article and see if you can expound on a sub-topic, keyword or idea. Then develop that into a bulleted article.

6. Shorten your article.

Transform a 1500-word article into a 500-word one. The shorter,repparttar better. In writing, one rule of thumb is: if you can get your point across in as fewer words as possible, do so.

7. Update your article.

An article you wrote 5 years ago may still be applicable today. Simply updaterepparttar 124748 article to reflect current trends or new insights you've had onrepparttar 124749 topic since you wrote it.

And here are some places you can submit your new article versions:

Article lists:

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Article Directories:

- 1st In Articles (http://1st-in-articles.com/) - ArticleCity.com (http://articlecity.com/) - ArticleHub.com (http://articlehub.com/) - ArticleResponder.com (http://articleresponder.com/) - EzineArticles.com (http://ezinearticles.com/) - Family-Content.com (http://family-content.com/) - GoArticles.com (http://goarticles.com/) - IdeaMarketers.com (http://ideamarketers.com/) - ValuableContent.com (http://valuablecontent.com/)

There you have it! 7 ways you can get more mileage from your old articles. Don't let your old articles gather dust!

Copyright (c) 2004 Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ

About the author: Shery is the developer of creative, motivating and fun e-mail courses for writers. Sign up and take an e-mail course today -- free! -- at http://WritingBliss.com. She also created WriteSparks!(tm) - a software that generates over 10 *million* Story Sparkers for Writers. Download WriteSparks!(tm) Lite for free at http://writesparks.com


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