Saturday, May 21, 2011

Use Social Media to Get Web Traffic or Promotion

1. Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve sharing.
2. Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques.
3. Learn how tagging and other metadata improve your ability to search and measure the spread of information.
4. Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest.
5. Check out Twitter as a way to show a company’s personality.
6. Build conversation maps for your customers using Technorati.com , Google Blogsearch, Summize, and FriendFeed.
7. Experiment with Flickr and/or YouTube groups to build media for specific events.
8. Start a community group on Facebook or Ning or MySpace or LinkedIn around the space where your customer does business.
9. Make Compete.com your next stop for understanding a site’s traffic. Then, mash it against competitors’ sites.
10. Voting mechanisms like those used on Digg.com show your customers you care about which information is useful to them.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Google Analytics Data Skewed by Instant Previews

Did you know that Google Instant Previews may be skewing your web analytics data.

It appears that in some cases Google will conduct an on-demand fetch of your page to dynamically create an Instant Preview. The on-demand fetch occurs when a searcher places his mouse over the search result on Google and the image preview comes up. Some analytics tools, including Google Analytics, may consider that a visit, because Google Instant Preview is really visiting the page in real-time to get that on-demand Instant Preview.

There are many complaints about this issue in the Google Help forums. Google’s John Mueller replied saying they are working on fixing this from showing up in Google Analytics. “We’re working on a solution for this, to prevent Google Instant Preview on-demand fetches from executing Analytics JavaScript,” John said.

Ideally, There is no estimated time for when this may be resolved. So if you have seen a skew in your analytics data in the past two weeks, this may be the reason.

Read More: Data Skewed Because Of Instant Preview

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Top 10 Web Analytics Softwares

Some of Good web Analytics software's to track visitors:

1) Google Analytics
2) Web Trends
3) Omniture
4) Yahoo web analytics
5) AWStats
6) CrawlTrack
7) Webalizer
8) Bango Mobile Web Analytics
9) Hitbox
10)VisitLab

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