Two weeks ago I wrote about how Google is slowly releasing annotations for their Google Analytics. Some of my sites had it, and some did not. Well, it appears all of them have it now. Checking Google’s Analytic blog, I saw no mention of it finalizing it’s release. Continue reading »
Jan 272010
Jan 142010
It’s killing me!!! A new feature for Google Analytics is rolling out, and though they have given it to me on some of my accounts, they have not given it to me for Best Web Image yet.
Google is now slowly releasing the Annotations feature for their analytics. It allows you to make a comment about a specific date. This is something I have already been practicing using Microsoft’s Outlook Journal. I call it Journal Analytics. Continue reading »
Back in October I mentioned Google Analytics new feature Advanced Segments, and how you can use it to track visitors coming in through email. Here is the post: How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your Email Campaigns. Since then I have become a big fan of this new feature, and as far as I am concerned, they can take the beta icon off it now. Below are a six of my favorites, and thanks to Google, they make them easy to share.
My Six Favorite Custom Advanced Segments
To add these to your Google Analytics account simply click on the link and then save it by clicking Create Segment. See screenshot below on how to save. Continue reading »
Looking back at a years worth of data for this blog, and comparing it to the previous, I wanted to know what types of marketing worked best. It seems that the best thing that I can do for this site is to simply keep posting new content.
Looking at the Stats
After looking at the stats I saw many sources come and go. A few marketing methods appeared to work, but not at a level I was hoping or expecting. I have three sources of traffic, direct, referring, and search. When looking at Google’s analytics to do the comparison, make sure you don’t just click on Traffic Sources. Click on Traffic Sources, and then click on each source for their stats; Direct, Referring, Search. This will show percentage of growth based for each source. If you were to just click Traffic Sources the percentages are comparisons to total traffic growth, and it may mislead you. Continue reading »
Sep 152009
Working on increasing my average page views per visitor this month I decided to take a look back on how things are going comparing these 30 days to the prior.
The Big Ouch
Before looking at my stats I believed my initial outlook was good. I expected more page views per viewer. Unfortunately, this was not the case. I had a big OUCH.
A month ago today I did something that I thought would help my site out by complying more with Google’s SEO suggestions. Google suggest that you do not have more than 100 links on one page. A month ago and a day I averaged about 150 links on my home page. For every post, I had links to their categories and tags. I decided to delete those links, and only display them on the specific post pages. Continue reading »
Aug 052009
Every morning I like to read blogs and forums. Here are the top three I found of value today. Continue reading »
Mar 182009
I recently wrote a post called Journal Analytics where I mention my practice of logging changes I make to my sites. I got to wondering how many of you do, so here is this weeks poll.
Here is the poll: Do you log the changes you make to a website?
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Mar 052009
Here is a little tip for you webmasters that like to constantly make changes to your site. I call it Journal Analytics. Tracking all of those visitors with a program like Google Analytics is great, but unless you track the when and how you made changes to your site, those statistics really only amount to a fancy counter. Want to give it some real value? Keep a journal of what you are doing.
Using a Journal
For my mail software I use Microsoft’s Outlook. It comes with a handy little tool called Journal. You can use any kind of journal software, even notepad if you wanted. It’s just for me, Outlook is usually open, and Journal is right there.
Whenever I make a change to one of my sites, I write down a brief description of what I did on the day I did it. It may seem like a waste at first, but when the day comes when you are ready to pull the data for a true comparison, pay dirt!
Do you keep track of the changes that you make?
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