June 4th 2009 10:33 PM
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The Web Analytics Wednesday held in Toronto yesterday was a big success. Thanks and much respect to Patrick Glinksi for organizing the event, and AT Internet for sponsoring it.
Who knew Web Analytics Wednesday could be so much Fun and a Great Party (not me)?
Google Analytics is an excellent web analytics tool and does a very good job for most websites. A gap in Google’s offering is the lack of real-time results. This can be a problem for websites with high volumes and daily campaigns where every hour counts. Web analysts who are anxious to receive recent data can get frustrated.
Here are two great free web analytics tools that complement Google with real-time web analytics capabilities that I use:
YouTube now has over 100 million US viewers, with over 14 billion videos watched last January alone. Its potential in generating significant web traffic and branding is enormous. YouTube is essentially a giant search engine, naturally lending itself to SEO.
YouTube’s search algorithm is broken down into: Title, Description, Tags, Rating, and Number of Views.
Here are 20 SEO Tips for YouTube that really work:
I’ve been using Firefox as my web browser ever since it launched as an alternative to the crappiest browser on the market, Internet Explorer. One of the great things about Firefox is its many useful extensions and plug-ins.
For people interested in SEO and using Firefox as their browser, the Accessibility Extension is a match made in heaven. It has saved me a lot of time in optimizing my own site for SEO, and lets me see how well optimized another website is in seconds.
Here are my four key reasons I think the Firefox Accessibility Extension is awesome for SEO:
Twitter has evolved into an excellent social media tool with lots of potential. It is useful for a range of activities including: driving website traffic, reading news, professional networking, sales, hiring, and making friends. Regardless of why you are using Twitter, your success is 100% dependent on building an effective Twitter List. The Twitter List is your online social network of people (‘tweeps’ in Twitter slang).
So what are the most effective ways to build a Twitter List? What are some major pitfalls to avoid?
