Ari Herzog

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How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics

Ari Herzog

of bloggers and other webmasters around the world use a free tool called Google Analytics to track website visitors and click-through metrics. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. If the above title drew you in, good. Keep reading.

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How This Blog Can Double Its Readership

Ari Herzog

Imagine my surprise when I logged into my Google Analytics dashboard and observed a 50% reduction in unique visitors since a year ago. Perhaps most evident is the direct correlation between blog post frequency, search engine spider indexing, and your keyword searching to discover online content to read, learn, and share.

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Drafting My Next Job Description

Ari Herzog

Work closely with marketing staff to develop strong and effective advocacy messages, create stories, and generate content for blogs, social media, and our website. Excellent personal, political, analytical, and organizational skills. Collaborate with our stakeholders, keeping them informed and engaged.

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How My Article on Quitting Foursquare Caused a 5500% Spike in Blog Traffic in 1 Day

Ari Herzog

Here’s an analytical chart of readers like you visiting AriWriter over the past year: The farther back I go, the more prominent is the spike in the far right. Note that my visits are excluded in these analytics. How to Write Blog Content For Your Readers (or Why Metrics are So Important).

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How Our Coronavirus Normalcy is Redefined

Ari Herzog

” Anonymous data from Google Analytics tells me that nearly 2,400 people visited my blog. I presume, though I’m not certain, that direct visitors subscribe to my email list and only visit the blog when the email doesn’t display content or when they want to add a comment. I want to share their stories and motivations.

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Tracking 2 Weeks of Blog Visitors

Ari Herzog

Comparing three Saturdays according to different metrics on Google Analytics, is my mission successful (so far)? In time, I’d like to run A/B tests to determine if certain subjects of content motivate one action over another. Number of Sessions. August 1: 14. August 8: 36. August 15: 17. August 15: 58.82%. Thanks for reading.

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Introducing Social Media Informers

Ari Herzog

That is, my and their blog content are now syndicated and aggregated on a new online community that informs you about social media. The site is categorized around concepts ( RSS , SEO , analytics ), tools ( Twitter , StumbleUpon , iPhone ), and types ( how to’s , products ). Click one and see blog articles around what you click.