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Google Insights more addictive than crack

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Google just unveiled Insights for Search, which is like Google Trends on steroids. The world’s most popular search engine just let us loose in their search data playground. Please, join me in analyzing some of our favorite web celebs: Julia Allison vs. Kevin Rose. vs. Jimmy Wales vs. Mark Zuckerberg (worldwide, last 2 years) Mark [...]

How to Measure Any Website’s Traffic (For Free)

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Have you ever wondered exactly who, what, and when people are visiting your website… or your competitors’ websites? Without knowing your audience it’s difficult to make improvements towards your end goal, whether that’s becoming internet famo, selling more widgets, or just getting more page views. Here are a few free analytic tools to help you [...]

Thursday at noon is the best time to post (for social media)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

10,000 popular posts on del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, and Mixx compared by their AideRSS “Postrank”. AideRSS’s measurements are more or less the aggregate number of Diggs, del.icio.us bookmarks, and Google Blog Search activity for a specific post, which prompts some concern about homophilly within the data set. Either way we are always ecstatic to see people [...]

Google Me

Monday, April 21st, 2008

elspethjane.com via hotchickswithdouchebags.com

Massaging the statistics

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

#1: Brad Feld recently proclaimed your analytics are very wrong, specifically referring to: issues w/ tracking “widget” usage (like embeds), a new and imprecise science at best RSS subscriber overinflation, caused by services like Google Reader auto-subscribing new signups to your RSS feed, inaccurately jacking up the subscription numbers. This discussion just points out the [...]

Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb/Hitwise sez: Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 – YouTube has seen a remarkable 32% growth in visits during that period. YouTube’s market [...]

YouTube look ‘n feel upgrades

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

* More clicks to get at the stats. Don’t they know that’s all we care about?! * Recommended for you and “Friend Activity” which includes their favorites. +1 for data mining * “Most active videos” (?) * Redesigned homepage. Cleaner, customizable, nice. * “playlists” now “quicklist”, with actual instructions (finally!!) * “Advanced search” Throw in [...]

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