Ranking, Link Building & Google Analytics (MKT 250 W13 Reflection)

 This is the last week of learning in this class! I can’t believe it! I’m very glad I took this class, as it has opened up a whole new world of what it takes to get your website in front of people. I never knew about SEO and the importance of keywords. These are things I’m going to keep working on, especially because we will open in May and I want to have our cabins booked this summer. This week we learned about how to optimize our websites. I need to work on keywords in my title tags as well as in my URL. I also have a few other things to work on for SEO so we can be found easier. There is a lot of information out there to help me figure out these tasks and I’m thankful that people are willing to share their knowledge to help those of us who are new to web businesses.

This week we also worked on an assignment to better understand how to find information on Google Analytics. It was kind of fun for me to look for the answers to the questions we were given. I felt like it was a treasure hunt. We used a demo account for this, but I also used the same questions to find information on my own account and it was interesting to look at my own information. I enjoyed that assignment.

Again, I’m glad that I took this class and all the things it taught me. I look forward to improving my website and getting some bookings for this summer. I think it can be successful.

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