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Web Analytics News, Tools and Discussion by Garry Przyklenk

Entries for February, 2010

Meaningful SEO metrics and where to find them

An unfortunate recent statistic unearthed from the Factual Blog has shown that less than 30% of businesses worldwide are using Google Analytics on their websites out of a 4 million site sample set (via Manoj Jasra at Web Analytics World Blog).  Unfortunate only because there seems to be a booming interest in search engine marketing, [...]

Custom variables are frosting on your web analytics cake

There is a lot to be said about implementing web analytics on a site, and using that data to improve customer experience and a company’s bottom line.  Guys like Avinash Kaushik, Eric Peterson and Jim Sterne all advocate that baseline implementations provide a boat-load of traffic data that will never be looked at in a [...]

Measuring ROI – Lesson 2: Becoming a data diplomat

Divorcing yourself from opinion, or qualitative analysis, or wishy-washy suggestions can be a tough task.  Some stakeholders are statistically savvy and can look at numbers objectively, opting to do their own analysis – perhaps by using separate business intelligence. However, most people want to read interesting insights, even if it’s just to look smart at [...]