Do you want to build a successful online business? I bet you want it. Now that I have your attention what is the first and most important step that will help you achieve this goal?

Knowing your audience and building a great, fast, and secure site is important. It's also important to have a social media presence and write interesting, relevant and useful articles. Seen this way it all sounds easy ... but it will all come after you have set your financial goals and goals.

La definition of your financial objectives and goals is the first and most important step towards your online success. Without them, you might as well never get started at all. So here are some goals you need to achieve with dreaming of financial freedom.

1. Set clear goals for your blog
Like your financial goals, you also need to have goals for your blog. Whether it's simple goals like attract readers and interest visitorsOr more ambitious targets as increase the conversion rateYou must have them on paper.

Then, once you are aware of what you want to achieve as goals with your website, it's time to start measuring those goals.

The easiest way to do this is to use Google Analytics. Google Analytics not only allows you to see the statistics on your visitors, but also allows you to create and measure objectives and goals. Because without analysis, you will still be unable to duplicate all successes and eliminate your mistakes.

Start-up
You probably already have a Google Analytics account, so we'll dive into creating the first goals for your website.

For beginners, I would recommend that you measure:

  •  The engaged visitors : Visitors stay on your site longer than average
  •  Readers : These are visitors who read more pages on your site than the average
  •  Subscribers to the newsletter: these are the visitors who subscribe to your newsletters
  •  Customers : visitors who buy a product
  •  Advertising performance : These are clicks on ads. It allows you to see which is the best performer, and who sent the traffic that produced the click on your ads.

Before diving into each of these statistics, we will see how you can create a goal on Google Analytics.

Ouch! I completely forgot that today is CHRISTMAS! And I have to be with my family. You too must. So I wish you a merry Christmas and I promise to follow up on this article in the days to come.