Posts Tagged ‘google analytics’
by BP Guest Blogger on February 25th, 2013
You know having a blog is essential for your business. But your boss? Maybe not so much. Perhaps she’s focused instead on getting those big easy wins, or maybe she’s so old school she thinks blogging is nothing more than a way to give away precious company knowledge for free. Whatever her hesitations, it’s time to shake up that mentality, and the best way to do that is by knowing your stuff. I recommend starting first with a good guide to business blogging, finding a few key statistics, and developing a vacuum-tight pitch strategy. Here’s how to do just that. Read More
Categories: General
Tags: blog, content strategy, Customer, Digital marketing, Facebook, Goal, google analytics, Social Media
by BP Guest Blogger on September 17th, 2012
Google Analytics Hacks (Photo credit: Search Engine People Blog)
Keeping track of your website is a big deal, and with pretty much everything else going mobile, your analytical tools should be too. Most analytics update in real time, so why not get a mobile analytics app to help you actually track your site as views happen. Here are the best analytical tools for your mobile phone.
Google Analytics Mobile – One of the most popular analytical tools of all time, Google Analytics is now available on your mobile phone. The app features complete access to Google’s Analytics dashboard including website, app, and site analytics. You can log into this in the same way you would online, which makes the app simple and easy to use. Read More
Categories: Blogging Resources
Tags: Android, AppFigures, google, google analytics, iPad, Webtrends, Windows Mobile, Youtube
by BP Guest Blogger on August 22nd, 2012
With 57% of adults in the UK having joined a social network, online companies have begun to capitalise on this, realising the importance of social media as a marketing tool. As more and more firms set up their company pages, it is not enough to simply have a social media presence; instead, these profiles must be maintained and monitored on a regular basis. This in itself has become a subject of much discussion, with many highlighting the difficulties of measuring the success of this approach. One way around the problem is through the use of Google Analytics. As one of the most treasured applications throughout the online marketing world, Google Analytics provides helpful statistics that can also be used for social media platforms. Here’s how: Read More
Categories: Blogging Resources, Blogging Sense
Tags: google analytics, Social Media, Social media marketing
by Jonathan Bailey on February 22nd, 2012
Every blogger loves statistics. It’s nice to know how many people came to our sites, how they got there, what they read, how long they spent and where they went when they left.
It’s a comforting feeling knowing exactly what’s going on with your site and we even have services like Woopra and Google Analytics Realtime that can follow what’s going on with your site right now.
But as neat as all of that is, as anyone who uses two or more systems knows already, these stats are far from perfect. Simply put, there’s a lot of wiggle room when it comes to getting those numbers and, despite having over a decade to perfect and hone our stat-gathering abilities, we seem to actually be getting farther away from firm, consistent information.
How so? There are actually too many ways to count. But here are just five ways of the more important ways that the stats you’re looking at every day are becoming less and less accurate and, more importantly, what you can do about it (if anything). Read More
Categories: Blog Statistics
Tags: Analytics, google analytics, Statistics, unique visitors, visitors, woopra
by Jonathan Bailey on September 15th, 2010
Generally speaking, bloggers view analytics as a very good thing. There’s hardly a blog that isn’t running some kind of stats program whether it’s Google Analytics, WordPress.com stats or one of the countless other systems.
Analytics provide information that can be very valuable to a blogger. A good analytics system will give you stats that can tell you how many people are visiting your site, where they are coming from and what they do while they are there. This is practical information that can help direct on-the-ground action to improve a blog.
But many bloggers take analytics too far and become obsessed over them. Though we know that lack of blog growth is one of the key reasons for blog abandonment, it doesn’t always have to be, many bloggers make the mistake of treating the improving site statistics as the end goal for the blog, defeating the purpose of having analytics in the first place, which is to help you get the information you need to reach your goal.
This is how analytics, if used improperly, can actually do more harm to your blog than good and why you need to be careful not to take them too seriously. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: Analytics, Blogging Pitfalls, google, google analytics, pageviews, Promotion, traffic, visits, wordpress, wordpress.com
by Franky Branckaute on December 4th, 2009
Site speed is a big issue for Google and consequently the search giant has updated and improved the Google Analytics tracking tag for faster loading times. The new tag has multiple advantages:
- Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution
- Enhanced data collection and accuracy
- Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn’t fully loaded
With loading times rumoured to be one of the determining factors in search results in 2010 it is highly recommended to update your analytics tracking code
The new tag is immediately available to all Analytics users and further explained at Google Code. The structure of the new code can be found here. There is no doubt that most Google Analytics plugins for blogging platforms will be updated over the next days.
Categories: Blog Statistics
Tags: Analytics, google analytics, Statistics
by Dee Barizo on November 8th, 2009
One of the things SEO specialists often talk about is the power of long tail keywords. Long tail keywords are the search terms with 3 or more words that don’t have high search volume. The shorter keywords have higher search volume but in aggregate, the long tail keywords provide the bulk of a site’s search traffic.
For example, you can have a Europe travel site that ranks well for europe travel but the majority of your traffic will come from terms like:
- europe travel deals
- europe travel guide
- europe travel packages
- europe travel books
- cheap europe travel
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: google analytics, keyword research, keywords, long tail keywords, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by David Peralty on July 22nd, 2009
WordPress.tv is growing like mad lately, especially the “how to” section. They’ve got video explanations of all sorts of stuff from getting started with Google Analytics, to rearranging the post editor to suit your liking, to adding paypal buttons to your blog, and, of course, a pile of other stuff.
Just today they added a video about adding twitter updates to your sidebar, which is an insanely popular thing to do these days. Check it out below, and go to WordPress.tv for more.
Categories: General
Tags: google analytics, how-to, paypal, post editor, twitter, video, wordpress, wordpress.tv
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