This was actually a question that was asked while I was guest lecturing at a local university. This is the answer I gave: “Build a website.” That’s all. Thanks, hope you enjoyed this article. Kidding. Really, though. Build a website. Why? Well, it’s quite simple: You will know what it takes to build the stuff that you … Read more
So I’ve run novelty websites before that have gotten way more traffic than this, but for my personal site I’m pretty pumped to see that there is actually a visible (predictable) traffic trend! Not just that, but most of them speak English – so hopefully most of them aren’t robots! Some of the most popular articles … Read more
Wow, what a hiatus! 1 year. Let’s take a look at this year in review. New job New city New state New website I’m out of news. Let’s pick things back up but not quite where we left off. I plan on elevating this guy to 15,000 feet. Since I’m no longer in consulting, I … Read more
There’s a reason it has been a while since I’ve posted here. That’s because I have been steadily working on building out the framework for my new website Measure Boards (http://www.measureboards.com). What is Measure Boards? Simply put, it’s intended to be a community for web analysts. Yes, I know we have a Yahoo group; but let’s … Read more
Sometimes I’m using Google Analytics and every time I reload the page… the interface changes. Google has now merged what was the “Home” dashboards (Real-Time, Intelligence Events, etc) into what was the “Standard Reports”… or is that vice versa? So everything is consolidated, which makes total sense now. Why should the Dashboards, Real-Time, and Intelligence … Read more
Hey everyone – This post was written by Neil Shapiro. I worked with him on an Analysis Exchange project for Childspring International. He volunteered to write a guest post about social media that offers an interesting perspective on conversion measurement: First came Web Analytics – and the end of the day it is all about … Read more
Here we go again – personal site Mk. 2. Let’s see if we can do this again… so I’ll start off with a mission statement. I intend to write at least one article per week. They will be short and sweet. Why? Because I hate making long posts and I don’t think being long-winded is … Read more