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6 Annoying Ways You’re Using WordPress

Firebelly

No tracking Or analytics. Many times I’ve had to work with sites that have absolutely no sort of analytics set up. StatPress only takes a few minutes to set up, and Google Analytics doesn’t take much more effort. Do some testing and look at what sharing buttons are right for your website.

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Report: Social Media Responsible For Only 3 Percent of Web Site Visits

Bill Hartzer

I would like to see companies make a more concerted effort to enhance their back-end reporting and looking at web analytics more. I don’t think companies are making enough decisions based on their web analytics. A better long-term strategy is to invest in your own web site’s content.

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What Could Kill Google and Facebook

Webbiquity SMM

And Facebook’s size may be no defense against ultimate demise; it wasn’t all that long ago the MySpace was the largest social network, and the experience of social news site Digg—once valued at $100 million but sold recently for just 5% of that —is a cautionary tale.

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Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500

Firebelly

19% of the 2009 Fortune 500 is podcasting, a three percent increase over the 2008 study 31% are incorporating online video into their blog sites, a 10% increase over 2008 A full copy of the 17 page report can be downloaded on the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth website.

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19 Reasons Why Your eBook Promotion Is a Fail

Writtent Blog

What if you’ve written a brilliant eBook, sent a link to your entire email list, engaged in hardcore eBook promotion, and no one is downloading it? Don’t distract your page visitor from their mission of downloading by writing too much. Would you download an eBook about using MySpace for marketing? They’re old news.

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Website and Conversion Optimization in Hard Times

Freelance Social Media

Conversion optimization will help funnel existing users to complete your goal, whether that is to purchase a product of download a whitepaper.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

You can download “The Thumb is In Charge” magazine that explains their findings, or follow along as they release three blog posts detailing it all. Is Twitter the Next MySpace? // News.com.au. 5 Ways Google Analytics Finds You Relevant Topics for Your Social Media Campaigns // Entrepreneur. ” box.

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