Top 10 Social Networks and Blogs in 2011, MySpace Beats Google+
Wait, MySpace had more unique vistors per month in 2011 than Google+ did? Although Google+ was released in beta in July, the service opened to the public in September. According to Nielsen the top 10 U.S. social networks and blogs in 2011, by unique vistors per month were: Facebook – 137.6 million average unique visitors per month Blogger – 45.5 million average unique visitors per ...
Evaluate Post-Click Behavior with Google Campaign Tags
For the uninitiated, Google Analytics is an enterprise worthy measurement tool for your website. It is simple to install and provides an easy-to-use interface to extract important data about your website visitors and their content consumption habits. By using Campaign Tags with Google Analytics you are able to create even more data points about your ...
Google Analytics Beta Graphs Web Traffic by Hour
Google announced their new beta version of Google Analytics in late March of 2011 and I’ve been excited to get my hands on the new interface ever since. One of the most exciting changes was to see the ability to graph your website traffic by hour. Until recently only certain areas of the tool would ...
Interactive Research Toolbox
This article is the first in a series of articles about the various toolboxes I use. As I have grown from a Web developer and designer, something I still do for recreation, to a digital planner and strategist I have found a variety of tools that I could not live without. When I begin a ...
How to force Feedburner to update your feed
If you haven’t heard of Feedburner skip to the end of my post to learn more. However, if you do use Feedburner and occasionally run into a problem where your feed publishes a rogue post or you wish to remove a post entirely, you may be interested in knowing that you can force an update ...
Rupert Murdoch, the news industry, and their fight against Google
Rupert Murdoch has recently suggested that once News Corporation launches a paid content strategy they may block Google from indexing the content. I understand that the newspaper world is having an extremely tough time with establishing an interactive / digital strategy. And they are having an even harder time finding a way to monetize their ...
Google Latitude, When Will It Catch On?
I’ve been watching Google Latitude closely for several months for a few reasons. Google and Latitude can offer: Scale: Google’s service is far reaching, and my content is a bit future proof knowing that the company is not disappearing over night Maps: The integration with Google Maps immediately adds functionality that others are trying to ...