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How I Set Up My WordPress Blog In 2 Hours

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I set up Feedburner, Google Analytics and the plugins that I’ve found really useful to start with: Sexy Bookmarks and TinyMCE Advanced among them. It’s a little bit different from Waxing UnLyrical, in that it has a sidebar either side of the main content area, and so many configuration options that my head is spinning.

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Is it Shortsighted Not to Host Your Own Blog?

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This is one of the primary reasons why we strongly suggested to a new client that they build their (new) self-hosted blog on WordPress, as opposed to Medium. In retrospect, I would have done this much earlier; it’s been a PITA trying to set, or re-set, stuff like Google Analytics. LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.,

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Measuring Public Relations Outcomes With Seth Duncan

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Seth mentioned using web analytics, and acknowledged that correlating PR activities to offline business outcomes is more difficult. Jim is a total web analytics guru, and I’m stoked that he’s making time in his busy schedule for our chat. Finally, what are some cost-effective ways of correlating outputs to outcomes?

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Weekly Roundup: Refreshingly Different

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Five ways to make your listening reports better , from Chuck Hemann ‘s Analytics is King. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Weekly Roundup | Tags: analytics , brand building , email marketing , SEO | Comment (0) Site settings comment help? So that’s what today’s weekly roundup is focusing on.

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Customize Your Blog's Error Page in 5 Easy Steps

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A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog. First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on!

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Weekly Roundup: Unsung Heroes

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from Chuck Hemann ‘s Analytics is King. Id call Wordpress, Twitter and Facebook the heroes in this case :-) Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" What other reason do you need? She’s an amazing photographer. (I I knew there was something else…) 5. Social media as the new support group?

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Let Your Freak Flag Fly

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I wasn’t going to talk analytics or measurement ( Chuck Hemann , K.D. Know What Works For You The idea of presenting to an audience about how his music inspired me to think a little differently in business got me excited. This led to an energy and enthusiasm to “get it right&# in a way that naturally seeped into the slides.

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