27 most popular Web Analytics blog posts of 2008
The 3 most popular blog posts from the 9 most influential Web Analytics bloggers – All In all the 27 most popular Web Analytics post of 2008!
Last Christmas, punch drunk on Scandinavian Glogg, I managed to create a 18 most popular Web Analytics blog posts of 2007 post. Based on that and my general Christmas euphoria, I decided to do a repeat of my little Elf endeavor. I asked each of the good people below to send me their 3 most popular posts of 2008… and here goes the list:
Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik:
- How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips.
- The “Action Dashboard” (An Alternative To Crappy Dashboards)
- Tracking Off-line Conversions: Hope, Seven Best Practices, Bonus Tips
Web Analytics Demystified by Eric Peterson:
- How Yahoo! buying IndexTools changes Web Analytics
- How to measure visitor engagement, redux
- What is your web analytics communication strategy?
VisualRevenue by Dennis R. Mortensen
- The difference between a KPI and a Metric
- What and how to measure Social Networking websites
- Online Video Analytics - KPIs
SemAngel by Gary Angel
- Two Cultures
- I Comment – Therefore I AM…Satisfied/UnSatisified/Already Engaged
- Web Analytics - Behavioral Segmentation
GrokDotCom by Bryan Eisenberg and co.
- 33 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better
- The Ultimate Google Analytics Plugins, Hacks & Tricks Collection
- How to Prioritize Your Optimization
Lies damned lies by Ian Thomas
LunaMetrics by Robbin Steif and Co. (Jonathan, John and Traci)
- Advanced Segments vs Profiles & Filters
- Copying Goals in GA (A Firefox Extension)
- Linking AdWords and Analytics
Web Analytics World by Manoj Jasra
- Online Competitive Intelligence Factors
- 5 Great (Free) Web Analytics Tools You Might Not Know About Yet
- Ultimate Google Analytics Resources
Digital Alex by Alex Cohen:
- Campaign Tagging with Google Analytics
- A Basic Website and Marketing Analysis Method
- 7 Ways to Measure and Improve Your Website
If I forgot you in my little list above, do throw me an email and I will make sure you are on the 2009 list.
Fa la la la la..la la la la!
Dennis :-)
December 11th, 2008 at 11:36
Hey Dennis,
Thanks for including me on your list! I officially owe you a drink at the next conference where we overlap :-)
-Alex
December 11th, 2008 at 11:42
1 Mojito for Dennis Please.
Cheers :-)
December 12th, 2008 at 5:36
Have to push more and get to the list in 2009… : )
December 12th, 2008 at 9:06
Thanks for sharing :)
Good to see that the majority of this posts contain a star sign into my Google Reader account!
December 12th, 2008 at 9:16
Hey Petri,
hard work usually works in any industry. ha ha.
See you in 2009 and have a merry Christmas :-)
Dennis
December 12th, 2008 at 15:19
Great compilation of best blogs, I hope you can update this in 2009
December 19th, 2008 at 1:50
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December 26th, 2008 at 13:50
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April 2nd, 2009 at 18:10
Running a web site without analytics is like flying a small plane over high mountains in a horrendous thunderstorm…… never fun and always dangerous!
May 9th, 2009 at 16:42
Great set of posts, really. Good to see a good cross-section, as well, between those that are just rolling with Google Analytics, and others that are digging in with all the rest.
July 21st, 2009 at 20:59
Great set of posts, really. Good to see a good cross-section, as well, between those that are just rolling with Google Analytics, and others that are digging in with all the rest.