TommyCarey
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If you're just putting up a website and thinking it will be profitable, you're going to come to a quick realization that you're in over your head, and that's because you're not doing everything possible to know if you're going to make money online. You need to monitor, track, and analyze everything you possibly can in order to be sure the work you're doing is actually going to make you money.
If you're not tracking, you're not winning, and your competitors are likely laughing because you're spending money on things your business will never need. You're likely investing into keywords in Adwords that never convert, targeting keywords that are dead or don't get any traffic, or just not knowing where you should be investing the majority of your time in order to be the most successful possible.
Track your rankings to see if your SEO is working
When you're doing your own SEO, you need to be tracking where you're landing within the SERPs in order to know if your work is actually doing what you want it to do. Sure, you can go onto Google, Yahoo!, or Bing and manually search for your rankings, but you'll just see where you land for your local region or area. You need to use some sort of SERP tracker in order to see where you land on every search engine, not just Google.com, and you will be able to see if your SEO work is bringing you up the rankings for if it's actually hurting your website and should be stopped.
Monitor your traffic to see where it's coming from
If you don't monitor your traffic to see where it's coming from, you might think a traffic method you're currently using is doing really well, but in reality, your traffic could be coming from somewhere else.
A lot of people mess this part up and start investing more into Adwords or Facebook ads when the majority of their traffic is coming from a few banner ads they place a while ago. They think their ads are the source of increased traffic and income, so they put more money into them, but it might not be where you should be reinvesting your profits.
Knowing where the traffic is coming from will show you where you need to put more money into. If it's already bringing in traffic and you boost it up to higher numbers, you're just going to make more in a short amount of time with less trial and error 
Watch to see how people navigate around your website
A lot of business don't watch to see where their visitors are navigating when on their own websites, which is something you should be doing. If you aren't watching where people are going on your website, you'll never know what the best content is or where they decided to exit. Knowing what the best and worst pages of your website are will help you plug holes in your site and keep people on there longer, increasing the chances of them turning into a customer
Know where your sales are coming from and optimize for that
Just like knowing where your traffic is coming from, knowing which traffic method is generating the most sales is the key to success. If you know that your Facebook ads are generating the most sales, send them to a landing page that thanks them for taking a few seconds of their time to visit your pages. You can say something like "Thank you for leaving Facebook for a few seconds to read our blog post! You can find it HERE" and make "HERE" a link to the blog post you were advertising on Facebook. People will see this as a nice little thing, and it will increase the chances of getting more sales, and that just means you're boosting an already successful traffic method that brings in sales
In conclusion
You need to monitor, track, and analyze everything possible in order to know what's working and what isn't. You'll actually save a lot of money if you just get detailed and a little crazy about your statistics because you'll find the little things that your competitors aren't worried about. You'll be able to invest in the right traffic generation methods, optimize a traffic method in order to make it better, and know where to build up your website for better so people stay on for longer. If you can do all of this, you'll likely be successful online before someone else who isn't
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Over the years, yes, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of inactive sellers around. There are also a lot of sellers that don't log in often and only come back when they gain a new order, maybe something has to be done about sellers like this? Maybe sending them a reminder via email, informing them that constant activity on SC can be the difference between fewer orders and a constant stream of profit.
Cheers need have an jobs to parmanently I'm still active every now and then as a buyer as well as a user here on community discussions. But overall, at least for the time being, I'm not active as a seller anymore, this is why I long suspended my services. I was still getting orders every now and then and I hated the idea of canceling or talking a lot more time delivering them to my clients. Over the years, yes, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of inactive sellers around. There are also a lot of sellers that don't log in often and only come back when they gain a new order, maybe something has to be done about sellers like this? Maybe sending them a reminder via email, informing them that constant activity on SC can be the difference between fewer orders and a constant stream of profit. Cheers need have an jobs to parmanently
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