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27 most popular Web Analytics blog posts of 2008

Thursday, December 11th, 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!

Alex Cohen interviews Dennis R. Mortensen on SEO and Analytics (+3 SEO Tips)

Monday, March 24th, 2008

This being the third low priority post in a row, turning it from hello magazine for nerds, into a Danielle Steele miniseries and now into an Interview Saga… I did an interview with Alex Cohen over at Search Marketing Gurus on the matters of SEO and Analytics the other day; Titled (funny enough): SEO, Analytics [...]

The difference between a KPI and a Metric

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Summary:How does one decide if a Metric qualifies as a Key Performance Indicator? and if so, what are the characteristics of an excellent online marketing KPI? I am actually an extraordinarily positive advocate of creating and using KPIs and I truly believe that one has to understand that using KPI and Metric interchangeable is not [...]

Search Engine Benchmarks: Visit to sale conversion rate

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Summary Microsoft adCenter emerge as the better Search Engine (Paid Search advertising Platform) – from a visit to sale conversion point of view – above Google and Yahoo. Looking at a site wide non-segmented visit to sale conversion rate is almost meaningless, but used properly, it is a fair metric to use in paid search [...]

Search-dominant visitors vs. Navigation-dominant visitors. (+ how to segment)

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I somewhat recently wrote an article on how to determine the width of an internal search box. However; this post do not debate whether you should have an internal search tool to begin with and if so, how prominent you should feature it. So please notice the previous post as a successor to this post, [...]

What and how to measure Media and Content websites

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

By media and content websites, I am talking about pure online media properties like CNET as well as companies (e.g. traditional newspapers like New York Post) who must somehow, either be in the midst of an involuntary transitioning of readers, from offline content consumption (their paper) to online content consumption (their website) – or in [...]

In qualitative analysis 5-8 users are enough

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

First; if you do not read Robbins conversion blog – add it to your list, it belongs there. Secondly, there was a great post the other day: Conversion on a limited budget: Users vs experts – which you should read. I had a reply to the post or more precisely the one comment saying: “I [...]

Use Web Analytics to determine the width of your Internal Search Query box

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

This is fairly mundane task that all of us should do once in a while – making sure that one of the most important site utilities are optimized for optimal user experience (usability) and thus in the end optimal site success; as in MORE money! And the search utility can easily be concluded being among [...]

Best Practice Comment: Title, Heading, File name and Document name. (Caption)

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I think we all agree that creating a “Caption” for a text (blog-post or other web copy) is much more than winging a quick title including a couple of keywords. I would like to conclude (not suggest) – that when creating a “Caption” you have to take the following upper level related elements into consideration [...]