Google Analytics. It’s free, it’s robust, it’s freakin’ scary. I’m not going to tell you I’m a GA expert because I’m not. There are features on GA I have never used and will likely never use. However, that doesn’t mean they’re not important, valuable, or you won’t use them.
GA offers many of the features of [...]

I read a verrrry interesting article on Wall Street the other day entitled “America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers For Hire.” A few interesting stats:
Our nation houses almost 20 million bloggers.
1.7 million of these bloggers make moolah from their blogs [my words, not WSJ's].
452,000 blog as a primary source of income [I'm included here!].
50% are aged 18-34.
44% [...]

I’m cheap. I don’t like paying a lot if anything when I get get the same thing for free. In this economy, I’m digging up new and better ways to make the most of everything and stretch my dollar as far as it can go. Having said that, I’ve never once paid for website statistics. [...]

That shirt just cracks me up every time I see it. BUT, it has some truth to it. These days everyone including your mom and Martha Stewart’s dogs [I subscribe--- don't judge] can have a blog. However, just because you’ve got a website out there doesn’t mean people know it’s there. Assuming you know this [...]