Tag "analytics"
29 Mar 2012
Reviews, Social Media Floost caught my attention because it states that it can help you find readers who are interested in your content, thus helping to build your reputation, followers and traffic. Along with unique profiles that can include include large HD background images, Floost serves as a simple blogging platform much like Posterous and Tumblr. It’s a simple service, yet has quite a bit to offer. Let’s take a look. Getting Started Floost allows ...
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20 Oct 2011
Reviews, Social Media If you’re still active on your Facebook account and looking for a great way to stay on top of things with your friends, you’ll love Wisdom. Just like the name implies, the app gives you in-depth “wisdom” about yourself and your friends. It’s kind of like an analytics tool for your Facebook account because you get to see statistics and insights that you won’t find anywhere else. Also it lets you sort through ...
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22 Jul 2011
Productivity, Reviews Most business and blog owners love to keep up with their data such as traffic/analytics, sales/revenue, Adsense earnings, etc. Unfortunately, it’s a pain to have to sign and out of these data sources on the Web; plus it’s rather time consuming if you’re doing this many times a day. Klipfolio Dashboard aims to be a solution for this and lets you organize all of this data into a single dashboard on the Web. On the support site, ...
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07 May 2011
Personal, Reviews If you’re like most Twitter users, you’re concerned about your building your following as well as your reach and influence. It’s only natural, since maintaining a strong Twitter following is an importance step in building and improving ones brand and online reputation. It takes a lot of work and often a lot of different online tools to measure your reach and influence so that you know what you’re doing right, but more ...
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26 Mar 2011
Reviews, Social Media Buffer is one of those tools that can come in handy for any Twitter user, but it’s especially useful for busy people who don’t have the time to tweet as often as they’d like. One of the keys to building a great network on Twitter is to constantly share useful information with your followers. This is what Buffer allows you to do. You can customize your own schedule of times for tweets to be posted and simply add tweets to your ...
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21 Oct 2010
Software & Programs When it comes to statistics, there are countless applicaitons that will let you know what happened last week, yesterday or even last hour, but few will give you a clear picture as to what is happening on your site right now. That is a void that ChartBeat is hoping to fill. The premise behind ChartBeat is very simple. Rather than telling you how many visitors and pageviews you had on X day and time, it is going to tell you how many people are on ...
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16 Oct 2010
Reviews, Social Media There are tons of tools out there that let you view your statistics on Twitter and see how influential you are. Twitalyzer is an impressive Twitter analytics tool that goes above and beyond. Even though there are 3 types of paid accounts, you can get everything you need and more just from the comprehensive free account. To get started either enter your Twitter username and go, or login via Twitter OAuth. Without signing in you can only see your ...
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07 Oct 2010
Blogging Around my home, it is definitely that time of year again. Halloween is just a few weeks away, the outside decorations are already up and work inside our small charity haunt is moving at a fever pitch. It was at about this time last year that I wrote a post entitled “5 Things Haunting Taught Me About Blogging“, which was a look at some of the lessons I got about life and blogging through running a haunted house. With another year down ...
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29 Jul 2010
Blogging It had been so long since I’d signed up for the Reinvigorate beta that I’d practically forgotten what it was. – and the name didn’t give it away. As it turned out, Reinvigorate is a web-based analytics program (it also has a desktop reporting program) so I promptly accepted my invitation to test it and downloaded and installed the WordPress plugin, entering my site ID to enable it to start tracking. (If you’re not ...
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29 Apr 2010
Blogging Michael Martine has started an open discussion on his blog: what do you wish you’d known earlier? Since it’s always good to see where you are and what you’ve learned, I thought I’d respond here. Blog hosting One of the first things I wish I’d known was the value of self-hosting your blog. I think free blogs are a great way to find out if you like blogging, but then you should host your own blog as soon as you can. ...
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