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Blog Visits Increase Despite No Tweeting

Ari Herzog

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. Every blogger is different so my metrics will unlikely be the same for anyone else who gives up on Twitter. This help you, Phil?

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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. Before installing the customized JavaScript code on a site, how many people read the terms of service ? Keep reading. Thousands (millions?)

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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. This is important, as we often use Compete.com and similar sites to report on potential reach of coverage for our clients.

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On Weirdoes, The Long Tail, Seth Godin And You

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Along with being one of the biggest business Bloggers in the world, most people know him as an author and a thinker (and people like that tend to speak their minds having never really done the physical labor of growing a company). Boom, it's gone." " Did that get your attention? Vancouver Sun - not yet published. american idol.

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How to Use Niche Publishers to Drive Revenue

Convince & Convert

The most common way to build affiliate networks is to use discount sites. These sites succeed in bringing in new customers, and that’s always a good thing, right? While coupon and discount sites drive most of affiliate programs’ volume, the customers they attract are usually more loyal to the original site than your brand.

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

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It’s also now evident that Google has no love for low-quality sites and inbound links from them. So, when it comes to guest posting, you have to ensure that you associate your name and brand with authority, or at least quality, sites only. Finding the most valuable guest blogging opportunities on high-authority sites takes time.

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The Ultimate Guide to Professional Product Review Pitches

ProBlogger

Product review blogs are one of the best ways for ecommerce sites to spread the word about their products and build backlinks to increase organic search traffic. In order to keep a steady stream of products to review coming in, it is almost inevitable that smaller bloggers will have to pitch to vendors. This stuff is all great.

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