Google Sitemaps Confusion
OK, I finally got my sh*t together and got the WordPress Google Sitemaps plugin up and running. Boy, what a difference in traffic and ad clicks.
However, I’m really confused by the “Top Queries” section. Here’s what mine looks like:
So, this just doesn’t jive w/ what I see in analytics. For example, I know I am in the top 10 for “Market America” and “Carowinds” on Google, amongst others and that people are clicking through on those, so why aren’t they showing up?
Here’s what my Google Analytics keywords look like:
So, what gives?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Hi Grant…
I know you are not really wanting to see or go thru anymore blogs about market America, however, I would like to add just one more thing.
I am in an interesting position at my job to see a lot of conventioneers from MA every years, over the last 10 years actually. I have seen some very excited men and women come thru my doors and of course, hit me with their “speech” on MA and what a great opportunity it can be.
Out of the 10 years, I have only seen 3 people that are still with the company (that are not corporate employees)that still use my services.
Part of my job is to contact my customers from year to year and it is a sad, frightening reality that masses of people every year start this business and are so very excited about the opportunity and then in one to two years are not in it any more because it did not work like they were told it would.
It is very true it is not for everyone, however, it is also true that people are not given a full and accurate picture of what the reality of what can and cannot be achieved. That in my opinion is the culprit in the MA scheme.