As I am working to establish a new passive income stream by writing content on Info Barrel, I am starting to learn some new things. For example, in order to earn income from your work, you must link up your Info Barrel (iB) account with your Google AdSense and/or Chitika accounts. After spending a lot of time on eHow, this is something new to me. This is just one of several Info Barrel tips and tricks I have picked up on recently.
One of the more interesting and very useful options that iB offers is the ability to track and analyze your live articles. Like eHow, Info Barrel provides the number of views to your content which can help identify your more popular (and potentially profitable) articles. The number of page views can be helpful, but there is still a lot of missing data out there that could assist us even more.
This is where Info Barrel has a clear advantage over eHow. As a feature it is offering to it’s members, you can link your iB account up to the FREE Google Analytics tool. I have just completed this setup in my account and am seeing some huge returns in the type of data I can analyze.
What Do You Need to Link Up Your Info Barrel Account?
There are two different things you need to do in order to setup Google Analytics with your Info Barrel account.
1. Write 10 Info Barrel Articles – In order to assign a Google Analytics Site ID to your iB account, you must first publish 10 articles on the site. Finding the time to write these first 10 articles is probably the hardest part of the entire process. If you are having troubles coming up with topics and ideas for content, be sure to check out this post – How to Get Topics for Blogging.
Once you have written 10 live articles, navigate to your “My Account” page in your iB account and the Google Analytics Site ID option should appear. Please note that prior to having 10 live articles, this option will not appear.
2. Link Up Your Analytics Account – Once you have published your first 10 articles on iB it is time to get your Analytics ID. If you don’t already have a Google Analytics account, go and create one. This is a free tool that you really need to take advantage of if you are serious about growing your passive income.
For some additional resources on setting up your Analytics account with your iB account, check out the following resources.
- Sign-Up for Google Analytics
- Add your Google Analytics ID to your Info Barrel Account
Why is Analytics Important to Your Info Barrel Articles?
If there is one thing that I have learned in the past few months is that in order to accelerate your passive income, you need to focus on what works. This sounds like common sense but it is something that is often overlooked by many in this business. One of the basic fundamentals of building passive income is to reduce the number of hours it takes you to earn income from a particular source. As a result, we need to automate and leverage as many tools as we can in order to succeed.
Using Google Analytics is one of those tools that you just should not pass up. The tool is free and you are only out the amount of time it takes to link up your iB account.
Here are just a few things you can track from your Info Barrel articles just by using Google Analytics.
- Number of Page Views – Easily track your most popular articles for a specified time period.
- Average Time on a Page – You can analyze how much time your visitors are spending on each article you write.
- Traffic Sources – Find out where your traffic is coming from – Google, Yahoo, other websites?
- Keywords – What keywords are users typing in to search engines to find your articles?
- Region & Country – What part of the world are your visitors coming from?
The amount of information that you can track using this FREE tool is amazing. The items I outlined above are just a few basic stats that you can collect.
Analytic Resources
Google Analytics is used by many of the industry experts who are successfully making money online. You can not only use this tool to link up with your iB articles, but can also use it for your other websites and blogs.
Here are a few additional resources you may want to check out to find out more about how Analytics can help your grow your online business.
- Cool Things We Can Learn About Internet Business From Analytics
- A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools
Don’t forget to create your FREE Info Barrel account Today!
How do you track your Info Barrel articles? Do you use Google Analytics?
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Besides the huge earning potential, Analytics is a HUGE advantage that Info Barrel has over other platforms….
@Howie – I hope to leverage my iB articles and use Analytics to launch sites that I own and operate. I think studying this type of data is priceless.
Useful info that i wasn’t aware of thanks.
I’ve just signed up with Info Barrel so will set this up once I qualify (nine articles away from that yet unfortunately!).
@Des – No problem. I think adding Analytics is just a little extra motivation to get those first 10 out of the way!
Hey John,
I apologize for not sending you a copy of the eBook yet….shortly after I sent you that email, I ran into a few issues with it (resolved now)….it still needs a bit more formatting, but, I didn’t want to send it off the way it looked…
i’ll probably take another day to work on it, then send it off to you (I know you’re looking forward to reading it….)
hope you understand….
howie
@Howie – No problem. Yep, I am looking forward to reading it.