Guest Blogger Bio: David Fishman is a blogger and SEO strategist living and working in Atlanta, GA. He is employed by Response Mine Interactive, a mid-size digital marketing company specializing in new customer acquisition. Feel free to contact him at david.fishman@responsemine.com if you’re interested in an experienced guest blogger for any SEO or online marketing subject.
Shortly after I began the journey in the world of search engine optimization and taking to make money online, I went through a dark phase. I call this phase my Analytics Addiction.
What else can you call it, when one spends the hours I did poring over the data from my Google Analytics account? I would spend hours every day reviewing every single keyword that had ever been entered to find one of my websites or blogs. I had multiple statistics tracking codes on each website and I would analyze the different results produced by each traffic tracker.I would search for my primary keyword on Google three or four times an hour. Each incremental shift upward in the rankings would set off a round of celebration. Each incremental shift downward would send me into a foul mood. I would yell angrily at my family for disturbing me, re-read some guide or other about how to drive traffic to your website, and just generally be an unproductive moody cuss. (more…)