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Helping Benjamin – Installing Google Analytics on WordPress with and without a Plugin

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Relevant For: WordPress Users, Data Driven Results, Analytic Junkies

Average Time: 10 minutes

Ben of creativecourage.org writes about Lifestyle Design, taking advantage of new opportunity on the internet and having a real life. He ran into some trouble while trying to install a lesser known plugin for Google Analytics that ended up not working with his theme very well. Today we’ll go through how to install Analytics both with and without a plugin step by step. Headspace is the plugin we’ll use as it’s widely known and well supported. Installing Google Analytics on WordPress with and without a Plugin - IT Arsenal

Helping Chris – Creating a Sub Domain (on GoDaddy)

How to create a Virtual Directory / Sub Domain - Part 7

Relevant for: Online Marketing, Bloggers, Web Masters

Today we’re helping out Chris B. He’s looking to test a salespage on the web just as so many online entrepreneurs have. He has a website, but the idea of buying a new domain name for every idea you have can be costly, so in order to test the waters of a product idea and salespage he’d like to set up a sub domain. Sub domains are mostly free and are used for secondary sections or projects under a main website.

A sub domain is exactly what it sounds like, a group of files that are underneath a directory of another. In the internet world, a sub domain looks like this, http://SUBDOMAIN.maindomain.com. Most of the time sub domains do not require tricky set up. Don’t be confused, we aren’t redirecting or re-routing anything. A sub domain is an address with your main domain in it. Continue reading →

Helping Jon – Domain names for WordPress.com using GoDaddy

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Relevant for: New Bloggers, Freelancers, Writers, WordPress Users, GoDaddy Users

A while back a copywriter friend of mine (joncorral.com) wanted to take his blogging to the next level. There’s a few distinguishable platforms and “levels” of blogging so it’s natural to get confused in the mix. Here’s a quick run down and short how-to for setting up a domain name (www.example.com) that you’ve bought with GoDaddy and “pointing” it to your WordPress.com blog (example.wordpress.com)

Problem: I want the own domain name (http://www.example.com) I bought to go somewhere like my WordPress.com blog but don’t know how to get it to do that and these places keep talking about DNS, or Name Servers. Continue reading →

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