Google just released some updates to Google Analytics and boy are they useful. Having used Google Analytics from private beta, I realized there was one feature missing which could be very useful in reporting - and it was released today. Have you ever ran a campaign for your website or started some marketing promotion and wonder why there was a huge traffic spike 3 months down the line? Google Analytics Annotations can solve that. You can now create custom labels and annotate throughout your accumulating web traffic data. This is very useful right off the bat, lets take a closer look.
Over the weekend I integrated a Twitter Profile Search Tool in my blog using the Twitter API and the jSON callback functions. What it does, is let you search Twitter profiles right from my blog, and display their latest Tweets. I have full control over the number of tweets to display, the amount to show, and more. The Twitter API and jSON functions are very cool, and this is only the beginning to what can be done with it. I started with a search tool because it is a very practical thing to make. Let’s dissect it a bit to see how it was done.
This is incredible. I just pulled up my stats for MyDentify Business Directory and I am at 3,780,049 page views for the year. My goal is so close I can feel it. I did a post about two years ago on Setting Goals for Web Traffic And AdSense, both short term and long term, and I have been right on track. My first big goal was to achieve 50,000 page views for the year back in 2006. It was tough that first year, but I did it. My goal after that was to double it, and I did, with 101,003 page views. My Next goal was to get 500,000 and boy was that tough. BUT I was able to even double that and for that year I reached 1,000,000 page views. Since last year and today, I have almost quadrupled in traffic. Which is so sweet. MyDentify has about 40,000 indexed pages of both static and dynamic content and my SERP results are great. People searching - Search Engines make up 74% of my traffic as of now, direct traffic is 14% and referring is 10% (I rounded the decimals). Read More…
This has been a busy weekend for MyDentify Business Directory. There have been many improvements on both the front and back ends. First off, Time for a background color change. Its now blue. Some other things most notably, is a quicker load time. I have made many modifications to improve a quicker connection to the rapidly growing database. Another load modification is how you search.
I just finished integrating Twitter into my blog. I have a static side column bucket which display’s 5 Tweets, then on my Twitter page, I have my 50 most recent ones for your viewing pleasure. I am still tweaking it so you may see something funky. But all in all, I digg it. Check it out and give me some feedback. I will also be integrating other social websites that I use daily. Ill keep you posted.
Hi im Tim and I love to do experiments and take adventures online. Professionally I am a Digital Media Producer out of Boston, MA and design, develop and produce interactive media.