Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

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. This is undoubtedly correlated to a greater frequency of blogging in August than in subsequent months.

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Quantcast Metrics Social Networking WordPress 161

Ari Herzog

JULY 16, 2010

of bloggers and other webmasters around the world use a free tool called Google Analytics to track website visitors and click-through metrics. I use it, and many bloggers I know also do. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.

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Privacy Analytics Blogger Google 118

Dave Fleet

MAY 25, 2011

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. Thanks, Dave.

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Compete Quantcast Sample Samples 277

Ari Herzog

JUNE 2, 2015

Everyone wants to be a blogger. I wrote the below list in 2013 and recently updated it, providing a primer for people who determine if blogging is right for them. Choose a name for your blog. Self-host your blog via WordPress.org. Forget about Blogger, Drupal, etc. Determine the blog’s focus.

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Folksonomy Quantcast Drupal Tips 70

Convince & Convert

JULY 17, 2015

Rather, attend any conference where bloggers in your niche vertical will be. We’ve attended all kinds of conferences—from pet blogging events to fitness blogger conferences—and they’ve all been useful in their own way. Use research tools to scout for vertical bloggers. Trade free samples for exposure.

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Publishing Quantcast BuzzStream Affiliate marketing 60

ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

It’s also now evident that Google has no love for low-quality sites and inbound links from them. Finding the most valuable guest blogging opportunities on high-authority sites takes time. You have to nurture a relationship with the blog owner, and that means human interaction, not automated emails. Look for social signals.

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Quantcast BuzzStream Reputation Google Reader 42

Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In that particular post I looked at the green industry from the perspective of a blogger and shared some of my findings. 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. Quantcast Visitor Demographics.

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Analysis Quantcast Data StumbleUpon 82