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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. 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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Blog Visits Increase Despite No Tweeting

Ari Herzog

The below graphs and data from Google Analytics say the rest. Comparing the present to the past is more evident with data from Quantcast , a company that has measured my site for years. Here is Quantcast data of unique visitors from 2009 to present. The above subject says it all. This help you, Phil?

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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

Everyone wants to be a blogger. Forget about Blogger, Drupal, etc. Think about having guest bloggers, especially if you’re taking a vacation. Use Google Analytics or similar to track metrics. Consider Quantcast and Alexa. After eight years at it, I know something about digital storytelling. Create a logo.

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How to Use Niche Publishers to Drive Revenue

Convince & Convert

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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The New Writer’s Guide to Evaluating Websites for Guest Posting Opportunities

ProBlogger

It’s also now evident that Google has no love for low-quality sites and inbound links from them. But if you’ve just started building your reputation, you can’t approach authoritative bloggers yet, because you’ll have no evidence of what you can write about, or how well. Ensure the website has a clear design and a sitemap.

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

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.