Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. 7: Redirects, be aware of them. #

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

It’s been saying this all along, but people only seem to take notice when their analytics look something like this: While Penguin was technically an algorithm update, it wasn’t really a change in how Google factors ranking; it was just the official word that Google is taking action against people trying to game the search system. Print Story.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) A name can be a prison,” says Michael Martine, the blogging and SEO expert behind Remarkablogger.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. Communicating this focus to your employees, investors, and even the media will really help you concentrate your efforts. For online businesses, most of them are transactional, collaborative, SaaS-based, media, game, or app-centric. Media is about time on page, pages per visit, and clickthrough rates.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. Domains.Co.

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Social is the new SEO. SEO is still a major traffic driver for publishers, but search is search is slowly losing its grip — constituting less than 50 percent of traffic sent to publishers — to an exploding number of social referrers. Alternative slugs for SEO testing. Collaboration. Follow us on Twitter. -->.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

What is the first thing you want when you think about web analytics? recommending tools for the complete web analytics 2.0 Disclosure:] I am the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. Web Analytics 2.0. This blog post is about web analytics 2.0. Of course tools. Don't be.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 24, 2014

Social Media Marketing for Lead Generation written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Make a new plan, Stan, and it should probably involve social media. Now more than ever, there has been a dramatic shift on social media from being purely a community to being a viable market.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

To understand the idea of traffic half-life, look at this Google Analytics screen shot from 6 weeks ago for traffic coming from Hacker News : Notice the spike and the decay. Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). These are the ones batted around in the media.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. Of course Yahoo!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2012

There was a day when the press release did a lot of the work in generating actual media coverage for a firm announcing a new product, acquisition, award or some other newsworthy milestone. Once you create a press release you’ll want to get it distributed to various news and media outlets. Yan Arief via Flickr CC.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). Bonus reading material: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Web Analytics. 7 Best Practices ]. Traffic Differentials.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Of course, in the internet age, that means reading a ton of current articles and online blogs covering Search Engine Optimization (SEO), content marketing, and social media marketing. The first place I recommend spending some time learning about SEO is YouTube. Resources for the first-time, do-it-yourself online marketer.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Web Analytics: An Hour A Day: Web Analytics: An Hour A Day for the first time provides a Practitioner's in the trenches perspective on web analytics. RSS and RIA's.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2012

Marketing podcast with Lee Odden (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes or subscribe via other RSS device (Google Listen). Social media, search, TiVo, and little things like the “do not mail” list altered the practices of lead generations through broadcast marketing forever.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Engage with other thought leaders on social media. As a small business owner, there are probably people you follow on social media for advice and to stay abreast of important news. Even better, these assets are easy to share via email and across social media, ensuring maximum visibility. Today, this is how you get found online.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. It was called: Secret To Winning With Web Analytics? Secret To Winning Web Analytics: 10 Starting Points For A Fabulous Start! Starting Right!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. What should you blog about? Some search.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. With the goal of increasing the conversion rate I read piles of books on internet marketing , web analytics , and copywriting. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? And by far the biggest lesson I learned is that you have to test everything. at 7:31 pm [.]

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Any of the following will provide a 100x return on your time investment compared to the titles I’ve mentioned above: Web Copy that Sells Always Be Testing Web Analytics An Hour a Day Web Design for ROI Moving Beyond Books One final thought. Good stuff man! #2

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Set up Google analytics. Define goals in Google Analytics to track the quality of your sources. Make a list of the 5 most popular blogs in your niche and subscribe to their RSS feeds. (I I recommend Google Reader to read and subscribe to the RSS feeds). Use Social Media Connect on Twitter. Track your traffic.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. You have to get involved and involvement takes time. Bookmark the permalink.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Set up Google analytics. Define goals in Google Analytics to track the quality of your sources. Make a list of the 5 most popular blogs in your niche and subscribe to their RSS feeds. (I I recommend Google Reader to read and subscribe to the RSS feeds). Use Social Media Connect on Twitter. Track your traffic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2020

She is the CEO of Lately , an AI-powered social media writing software, that can be found at TryLately.com. We’re going to talk about social media, and maybe AI, and just, who knows what else? Short form, in this case, being social media posts. We do that automatically, so you can add an RSS feed. Chernis: Yes.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It gives emphasis to recent tweets and RSS and Twitter subscription options for users. SeaLight Sealight is a shiny, gradient-heavy theme that lets companies showcase products and key information in the homepage slider box while also prominently maintaining a company blog. » Read more details. » » View a live demo. . »

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It gives emphasis to recent tweets and RSS and Twitter subscription options for users. SeaLight Sealight is a shiny, gradient-heavy theme that lets companies showcase products and key information in the homepage slider box while also prominently maintaining a company blog. » Read more details. » » View a live demo. . »

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Subscribe to comments with RSS. I run / wrote a site that serves approx 500,000 page requests a day, 5-10 complex SQL queries a page, god knows how much SEO related intelligence, 100,000s of users, external network comms. Now where is the RSS-feed, i want more of this stuff. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. Posted in CEO Friday , Job.

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