LINKREFFERAL.COM
Today I decided to add a new account to linkreferral.com linked to my business website: dnaetc.com. I'd like to start steering some traffic that way. This will give me a chance to see what people think of my site as well. I have been keeping up with the site under my account for this blog and it's been working pretty well. They have a rating system that places you higher up in their listings the more goals you accomplish. The aim is to review 30 sites per day, rate 5, post 1 comment in their forums and add 1 favorite. I don't do all of those things everyday, but I do generally visit 30 sites per day and rate 5 per day. This ranks me in the top 20 or so. That's perfect. If people are reviewing 30 sites in the same category on a specific day, they will more than likely get to my site since I'm only number 20. To anyone that is looking for traffic to their site, I recommend linkrefferal. I know people think nobody of substance will look at your site, but I actually do find sites I like on there and add them to my favorites so I can come back and visit them. And some people have even added my blog site to their favorites.

GOOGLE
I found some more resources on Google today. They really are an extraordinary company. One is Google Analytics and Google Base. I don't know a lot about Google Analytics because I won't be using it until I've done more business. From what I can gather: Google Analytics provides a number of statistics for your site

• adwords specifics telling you the usefulness of your adwords looking at specific words you’ve selected.
  
• You can learn which visitors became a customer and at what point in the process they left your site. That will help you make site adjustments. If people leave after clicking on a specific product you might want to eliminate that product or make adjustments to the description or heading of the product page.

I have to take a closer look at Google Base. It is a free service to post information, products, all different things. You don’t have to be selling. You can even post recipes on here. There is even a video tutorial which is very nice. You can use it to find products on the internet, although using the tool seems a bit technical so it may be complicated for some. I think I could use this tool in conjunction with a free auction site I'm a member of: buyitsellit.com. I haven't sold anything on there but I'm leaning towards using it more as a form of publicity since you can include links to your own website(s) on your listings. To do that I'll have to post more items and Google Base might be the route to take. I think I'll be able to add items directly from buyitsellit to Google Base. It would be nice if I could add code from my website to one or both of the sites rather than adding everything manually one by one. It will be challenging to figure this tool out. That's when I like to go to mylot though. I know I've said it before but they really do have many knowledgeable people on there. I'll let you know when I find out more information.

Success

So I finally figured out what I needed to do to get Google Adsense added to my site. I had been accepted by them but for the longest time all I was showing was Public Service ads. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong.

After a couple weeks of focusing on other aspects of my business I decided to research why I couldn't get the code to bring up real ads. Then I ran across a blog on the internet (after a google search) and from that I was able to figure out what a Channels are on Google Adsense. From my understanding, I need to set one up for each of the sites I am using the code on. That is my way of tracking the activity on my site with Adwords. For example, the code for this site is attached to the words I choose for my Channel. When I want to check to see how the code affiliated with my site is I will check using my Channel of DNAEtc.blogspot. Could be anything else just as long as I know that code is associated with this site. It's like using a label for the code. Funny that I had to search Google for someone else to explain it to me. At any rate I've figured it out so I'm happy.

At the same time I was able to add the code to my other business DNAEtc.com so I killed two birds with one stone last night. I'm less discouraged today than the last time I posted here.