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Blog Visits Increase Despite No Tweeting

Ari Herzog

The below graphs and data from Google Analytics say the rest. Phil Gerbyshak asked me to provide background to my last post on Twitter that occurred October 17, wondering if that action had any impact on blog visitors. Here is Quantcast data of unique visitors from 2009 to present. Blog News blogging metrics Twitter'

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Compete Responds To Criticism

Dave Fleet

My primary concern was that, after seeing nearly a 90% variance between their numbers and those from Google Analytics on my own site, I couldn’t trust that their numbers for other sites would be correct. when comparing the traffic numbers for local analytics (google, omniture, etc) to the numbers on Compete.com.

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30 Tips To Be a Digital Storyteller

Ari Herzog

Distribute your new posts to social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Use Google Analytics or similar to track metrics. Consider Quantcast and Alexa. Include a call to action, whether to add a comment, join an email list, click a link, etc. Spell-check before publication. Be aware of FTC rules about disclaimers.

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5 Reasons Social Media Measurement is Making You Lie to Yourself

Convince & Convert

million followers on Twitter, most of which were bots and fake accounts ? How much do you think we’d be talking about twitter followers or Facebook likes if how many you have wasn’t attached to your public profile like a goiter? Number of twitter followers doesn’t mean a thing, right? Not really.

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

Niche research is a little like viewing your website analytics where it’s really pointless checking your stats if they don’t lead to you making any site changes. Basically it lets you see which websites use the same hosting company, have the same IP addresses and use the same Google Analytics and Google Adsense tracking codes.

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Who You Are

Ari Herzog

According to Google Analytics , 923 people visited my blog during the month of January 2015. And, 165 came here from social media, including 48 from Facebook and 47 from Twitter. Related Stories Hello 2015, Goodbye Comments No More: Daily Blogging 3 Decembers of Twitter Data. A session is a visit. Many returned.

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20+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools

Webbiquity SMM

Interested in an easy way to stay current on key Google Analytics traffic stats from your desktop? Metrics include traffic stats from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast; backlinks and results by search engine; backlinks and mentions on the major social news sites and more. Twitter) and social content sharing sites. BackUpMyTweets.

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