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I’ve noticed that a lot of humans are obsessed with the number of visitors who come by their blogs. They use stat counters and Google Analytics to see who has found them, and which pages they looked at. I’m not all that interested, mainly because these stat counters do not differentiate between cat visits and human visits — and I only care about how many cats visit my blog. But I was kind of curious to see what kind of search phrases, or keywords, visitors use to find me, so I had my human check it out.
Here are some searches that may brought you to my blog:
sparkle the cat
Fair enough. Entering that into Google is a pretty good way to find me.
sparkle cat collar
Hm. I don’t like this one so much. I tend to think collars are evil. And after Binga got her name tag stuck in the heater grating and my human had to undo her collar to free her, she agreed and just let us rely on our microchips.
cat collars for humans
Yessss! Make them wear the darn things.
desig My Basic 3 Pronged Approach To Website Analytics The other day a non-technical friend of mine told me how his webhost shut him off because he was using too much bandwidth. I was pretty surprised because they allocate him hundreds of GB per month and his website does not get much traffic.
He was dumbfounded. He loaded up his Google Analytics account and showed me that he was only getting about 50-100 unique visitors a day.
But his webhost said that he burned through over 200GB in less than a week!
I asked him if he used any other sort of analytical package, and he did, but they were all Javascript based.
So here is something important that people need to understand. Javascript tracking packages like Google Analytics are very narrow in their scope of what is actually going on. They can only process actions for web browsers that are actually running the Javascript.
In my friend’s case he had a 500MB video file that was being linked to from a very popular internet forum. Because his Google Analytics code wasn’t being ex 5 Ways to Reduce Bounce Rate We've discussed bounce rate numerous times, yet we find that we continue to get asked questions about bounce rate and why it is a metric that should be a regular part of a client's dashboard when reporting on the success of online campaigns (organic or sponsored).So before we dive deeper into how to reduce bounce rate, here again is our definition of bounce rate:Bounce Rate: the percentage of web site visitors who arrive at an entry page on your web site, then leave without visiting any other pages or leave without going any deeper into the site. Bounce rate is typically measured as a percentage. The lower the bounce rate that you have the better as this is an indicator of how users are engaging with your website.In order to understand bounce rate, you must identify it within your site analytics. Google Analytics makes this easy by placing bounce rate as default item on your main analytics dashboard. This says something in itself, if Google has included bounce rate as a metric on the d Google analytics or AWStats? hough to post this in seo forum and later thought this is the correct forum.I have google analytics as well as awstats for my site.awstat's stats are always higher than google analytics when it come to number of visitors.which one is more accurate?which one don't count bots?do google analytics counts subdomain visit even though i install theire code in home page only in the main domain (abc.com)? Find the Content Your Readers Love with Analytics This post originally appeared on SEOMoz.
Referenceable content is the holy grail of online communities. People talk about it, comment on it, link to it, tweet it and visit it over and over again. In a world full of chatter, it sets you apart as an authoritative voice.
Creating referenceable content is an art. Measuring it, however, can be more of a science.
Using the Google Analytics top content report, I’m going show you how two methods to identify content that your audience loves.
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What Behaviors Matter?
Referenceable content is addictive and it drives audience loyalty. Metrics wise, this means people who:
Visit repeatedly
Bookmark your content
You can get a quick snapshot of the top content for your returning visitors by visiting the Top Content report in Google Analytics and selecting “Returning Visitors” from the Advanced Segments drop down in the top right:
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Easier Analysis with Pivot Tables
It’s sometimes useful to compare how much a particular piece |