I had to add a new user to both Google AdWords and Google Analytics. Since this was the first time I’ve had to add anyone new to either account I decided to post some tutorials. This one I got from Google Analytics Help Center. I added my own pics for better understanding. If you need to add a new user to your Google analytics account click on the link below. Happy Googling!

How To Add People To Your Google AdWords Account In 3 Easy Steps

Google Analytics provides the ability to add any number of users to your account, and to grant varying levels of access to your reports. You may grant access to the reports of particular profiles when adding a new user, or modify access for existing users.

To grant access when adding a new user:

1. Click Access Manager (The Access Manager can be found at the bottom of your Account Settings page)
2. Click Add
3. Enter the user’s email address, last name, and first name. The email address must be a Google Account.
4. Select the Access type for this user: View reports only, or Account Administrator, which allows the user to edit account settings
5. Select the profiles to which this user should have access. Reports for profiles that are not selected will not be available to this user

6. Click Add to move these profiles into the Selected Website Profiles list
7. Click Finish to create the new user. They can now log in using their Google Account email address and password.

To modify access for an existing user:

1. Click Access Manager
2. Find the user in the Existing Access list and click Edit
3. From the Available Website Profiles, select the profiles to which this user should have access. Reports for profiles that are not selected will not be available to this user
4. Click Add to move these profiles into the Selected Website Profiles list
5. Click Save Changes to update this user’s access

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1. While logged into your Google AdWords account click on the, “My Account”, tab. Then click access.

2. Personalize an invitation for the new invitee. The person you are inviting to use AdWords must have a gmail account. Your email address and password will be your AdSense Login information. Sign up for a gmail account here.

3. Preview your invitation and send away. If the person youinvited does not have access make sure they first visit there gmail account and accept the invitation.

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Here are a few ways to see how your site is doing with the major search engines. Specifically, this post will show you how to find indexed pages & backlinks in the top 3 search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Indexed Pages And Backlinks in Google

Google makes this very easy. Simply pull up Google in a browser and enter the code below with the web site you want to evaluate. With Google you have the option to not only search for backlinks (links:) and pages (site:), but also web sites that are similar in content to your own (related:).

Pages Indexed in Google
site:www.natebal.com

Back Links in Google
link:www.natebal.com

Related Web Sites
related:www.natebal.com

Indexed Pages And Backlinks in Yahoo

This is a little different when using Yahoo. They have a different tracking system called SiteExplorer where you can actually set up web sites in a control panel to be followed by Yahoo. To access this data you can set up an account for tracking or replace the url in the string below with your own address.

Pages Indexed in Yahoo
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch;_ylt=AnBNGiaE9LUdUEBcKZnwu7nbl8kF?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natebal.com&searchbwm=Explore+URL

Backlinks in Yahoo
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch;_ylt=AnBNGiaE9LUdUEBcKZnwu7nbl8kF?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natebal.com&searchbwm=Explore+URL

Indexed Pages And Backlinks in MSN

MSN is set up like Google. I wish they were all this way, but the lines below will give you the results you’re looking for in MSN.

Pages Indexed in MSN
site:www.natebal.com

Backlinks in MSN
link:www.natebal.com

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Here’s an animated gif I made from screen captures from my whos.amung.us widget page. This is the direct result from my round of submissions to social networks. Keep in mind this is within minutes of my final submission of this post. I had particularly good luck with Digg, Reddit, Simpy and Stumbleupon.

The Sociable Plugin For Wordpress

I recently started a pretty consistent round of social networking submissions after each post. Hence the boost in traffic. It was cool to watch the different countries hit. I peaked out at 199, however this is the first time I’ve used whos.amung.us immediately after a submission. So I’ll be trying this again very soon.

I just upgraded my Sociable plugin to 2.5.2. It basically offers more social networks. I’ve been having pretty good luck with my current list though. That’d be the ones below high-lighted in blue.

Click on the image below for a larger screen shot and complete list of social networks currently supported by Sociable.

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Browsing through Google Analytics and AWStats are 2 ways of determining what online marketing efforts are working for you. I’ve really been working on driving more traffic to my blog lately which means a lot of trial and error. Regular posting and tagging will get you so far, but an aggressive and pro-active approach to web marketing is what I’ve been after.

Below are my top 7 effective marketing efforts that generated me the most traffic for January, 2008.

#1 StumbleUpon

If you’re not doing this you really need to start. StumbleUpon is responsible for the majority of my traffic. StumbleUpon has a network of users that find content and tag it accordingly. You can then stumble keywords, users, groups, etc. It’s a great way of finding random interesting tidbits and a wonderful way to promote your website.

Firefox Add-on, StumbleUpon 3.16
Sign Up For A StumbleUpon Account

#2 Google Image Search

Google Image Search is the 2nd highest traffic generator for the month of January.

How to opt into Google Image Search

1. Sign into Google webmaster tools with your Google Account.
2. Click the URL for the site you want.
3. Click Tools, and then click Enable enhanced image search.

#3 Digg Your Posts

I’ve had a Digg account for some time now, but haven’t been using it to it’s fullest potential until very recently. Digg is a very active social network . Making it to the front page of Digg can crash your server from an overload of traffic if you’re not ready for it. This is a problem I would love to have.

#4 Entrecard

Entrecard is a fairly new social networking program that’s been taking off quite a bit lately. I started using it a month ago when I read about it on Blog Catalog and it is already at #6 as far as my current traffic sources go. What sets Entrecard apart from other link trading programs is that ads from this program stay live on other advertisers sites for an entire day. The more credits you get the more cards you can drop. You can also purchase ad space with the credits you attain. More credits, more clicks, more traffic.

#5 Blog Catalog

Known as BC to us regulars Blog Catalog is my favorite source for blog advice. Posting on this community will not only get your blog more attention, but it is filled with industry moguls and very knowledgeable bloggers. I’ve been a member since December 2006 and have found it to be my second blogging home away from home. Great idea, great community, great all around experience.

#6 Bumpzee Submissions

Bumpzee is a lot like MyBlogLog except you can add more than 15 friends a day. While I don’t think it’s as visually appealing as MyBlogLog it has been a source of more traffic as of late. Spend some time bumping your posts. The front page real estate where they end up on Bumpzee will help you in the marketing department.

#7 Zimbio

I’ve been using Zimbio for about 4 or 5 months now and it’s really picking up steam. For starters you can syndicate your website here so that it pings the site every time you post, much like technorati. Articles can easily be submitted directly from your site and submitted to different news sources.

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So once again it’s time for another Blog Sneeze. I learned about sneeze pages on Pro Blogger. It’s a way to drive traffic to your more popular posts. I used WhosAmungUs and Google Analytics to determine popularity. So without further adue here’s today’s sneeze.

Recent Popular Posts

• If You Don’t Like The Weather Just Wait Listed In Random Bloggery
• Jessica Alba’s Non-Existant Playboy Layout Listed In Gossipy Nonsense, Random Bloggery
• Happy Tree Friends Listed In Entertaining Media
• Track Visitors in Real Time With WhosAmungUs Listed In Blogging, Geek Blog, SEO Blog
• Winter Driving Pictures From Michigan Listed In Random Bloggery
• Michigan Winter Roadtrip Pictures Listed In About Me
• Exclusive Riders Club Preview of the New Specialized Suspension Website Listed In Michigan Mountain Biking

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With the new incarnation of NateBal.com one of my many upgrades were custom error pages that didn’t just have redirect code that spit you back to my homepage. My custom error pages are set up with links to some of my more popular posts and categories. Rather than just spitting my users back to my homepage using:

meta HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” content=”0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html

Your 404 pages can be powerful traffic tools if you let them. After I deleted a post I noticed I was getting a number of errors showing up in AWStats. Realizing that my users were hitting my 404 more often got me thinking I should maybe add some links here to more popular parts of my blog.

Since the addition of these pages I’ve noticed an incline in users as well as them staying for a longer duration. It’s quick, easy and it works!

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This one comes from the pages of Slashdot and I found it far too cool not to share. Touchgraph is a application for exploring the connections between related websites. To use this java based app all you have to do is enter your domain or keyword to see the web through Google’s relationship database.

From here a dynamically generated relational social network cloud is created. Here you can examine web site relationships as well as see which competition is fighting for your same keyword or phrase. Pleasing on the eyes and a great tool for SEO guys and webmasters alike.

Touchgraph.com