Posts Tagged ‘web-traffic’

Google Today: Analytics Adds Annotations

From an article in Search Engine Land Google Analytics Adds New Features:

Following October’s release of Google Analytics new features, Google has just released another set of very cool new features. Among them is “Annotations,” a tremendously useful new feature both to analysts as well as executives, who are usually not up to date on granular details about website activity.

The annotations feature basically allows users to make comments on graphs regarding events that happened on specific days.

I can think of several ways in which this would be handy. I could keep track of when I started an article marketing campaign focused around a certain topic, and see how it affected traffic. I could put in a note about, really, any of the different items I’m using to increase traffic, and have a better idea on how they affected my search results, even IF they affected them or not.

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2010 Traffic Trends: Do You Want Visibility or Control?

Somewhere in a town far away (unless you live near Prince George’s County, Maryland), I’m getting ready to transport these Christmas gifts to my cousin’s Christmas celebration.

This other part of me, though, is thinking about the New Year already, and what you need to know about the coming year.

This past year, I’ve noticed that the people who are the most resistant to social media are the folks who claim that they can’t measure their return on investment, either because the returns on investment aren’t measurable, or, more likely, because they don’t know how to measure it.

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Quick Branding/On-Message Exercise – Me? Fail!

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Creative Commons License photo credit: bitmask

I’m looking at what feeds to keep or delete in Google Reader and I discovered something.

I can pretty much tell what a site is about if I look at it in list view, which just lists the headlines in a feed. That’s helping me categorize un-categorized feeds. Which blog I’m writing in determines what I’ll prioritize reading that day, so being able to tell at a glance what a blog’s “voice” or “message” is strikes me as important.

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The Zero Cost Traffic Ezine is Now Online

In today’s Social Media Issue:

  • The First New Traffic Test in a Year
  • Our New Facebook Group
  • Where to Get Free Help with Linked In
  • A Social Media Whitepaper from Jeremiah Owyang
  • Another Social Media Whitepaper from MotiveLabs
  • Add Us to Google
  • Links to 69 Articles on Web Traffic
  • The Traffic Methods Series #229 – 239

Whew! Are you as pooped reading it as I was writing it?

Read it here.

Traffic Thursdays | Video on Information Architechture from Jeremiah at Web Strategy

How do you reach more people with your content? Maybe you need an IA, or at least to listen to one. (more…)

Next 30 Traffic Reality Memberships May Not Outlast The Day

I JUST turned the page back on for more Traffic Reality memberships, with immediate access to the site and the last two newsletters. And some people must have those notifiers turned on that tell them when a page has changed, because the first 12 are already gone! I was preparing to announce it in the newsletter in a few hours, but okay – go get ‘em if you want ‘em!

(And if, by chance you really don’t know what I’m babbling about, you can click the link. :) )

An Increase in Website Traffic happens when…

… You have a realistic goal.

Which is why it really irks me when I see a traffic program/software package/course that promises you thousands of visitors when it’s done. What if I already have thousands of visitors? How many thousands are we talking about anyway?

Whenever these things come out, I know that within a week to a month, someone is going to write me saying “I used x product and I’m failing. Can you help me?” And there are potential clients I turn away because they want to get 10,000 visitors a day like this program promised them, when they aren’t going to get much more than 2000 a day with their site the way it is.

This isn’t to say that some high-yield traffic programs don’t work if used properly. And to be sure, sometimes failure is about the fact that the person failed, not the program.

Some work (and I’ll make a post about evaluating these programs another time), but in my opinion, most of them
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