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Recent Web Analytics Articles

Most Important Clicks to Track on Your Website

That SEO strategy is all for naught if you're not watching the right metrics. Here's how to measure success.  Read more

7 Tools to Get More Out of Pinterest

If you're going to use the photo-pinning platform, turn those "pins" into sales. Here are a few tools that can help.  Read more

How to Fix Your Website

Are you getting the most out of your website? Here are 18 tools and websites you can use to test theories and make improvements.  Read more

2 Web Metrics Every Entrepreneur Should Know

What do visitors really do when they come to your website? These two metrics will tell you.  Read more

Attract Record-Breaking Traffic to Your Website

Base your Web-content decisions on strong data about what your target demographic wants, instead of what you want.  Read more

3 Ways Big Data Will Transform Your Company

Greylock Partners' data czar DJ Patil takes a look into the future of data--and what it means for you.  Read more

8 Great Twitter Tools You Aren't Using

If you aren't getting the results you want from Twitter, the problem might not be Twitter; it might be you. These tools can help.  Read more

Get Website Users to Stay Longer: 7 Tips 

Advice from Emerson Spartz, founder of Spartz Media, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.  Watch video

A Clever Way to Spy on Your Competitors

Get to know what your rivals are up to online. Don't worry--it's legal.  Read more

Facebook Ads: Are You Paying More & Getting Less?

Demand has driven ad prices higher even as click-through rates dropped. Have you checked your Facebook performance lately?  Read more

How to Get Good Social Media ROI

Seven things you must do to make sure your campaign is measurable and effective.  Read more

9 Ways to Get More Out of Google Analytics

Already know and love Google's data tools? Here are nine cool features you may not be using--but should.  Read more

Google Analytics: 7 Tricks for Smarter Web Analysis

Most businesses aren't taking full advantage of free, available website data. Here are a few items you are probably missing.  Read more

5 More Habits of Customer-Obsessed Companies

Firms like Intuit, eBay, and PayPal are intensely focused on improving online user experience. Here's five more ways you can be, too.  Read more

How to Dig Deeper into Your Web Analytics

Get a better handle on what you're tracking and why. Here's a good place to start.  Read more

Redesigning Your Website in 2012? Ask These 3 Questions First

Web visitors don’t want to hunt around your site to find what they need. Don’t make them.  Read more

Is Your Website Due for a Redesign?

Need a quick fix or a complete overhaul? Here are a few ways to know.  Read more

The Top Tech Investment of 2011

It wasn't apps or cloud computing, if that's what you’re thinking. Here’s where CIOs spent their money, and why it matters to your business.  Read more

How Analytics Drive My Web Strategy

FamiliesGo! founder Eileen P. Gunn writes about the underlying web analytics that steer her business decisions.  Read more

The Secret to Winning With Web Analytics? Starting Right

Google's digital marketing evangelist breaks down five steps to starting your company on the right web-analytics track.  Read more

Why Social Influence Matters to Businesses

Eight industry insiders define what social influence means, how to measure it, and why it truly matters.  Read more

How to Measure Your Brand's Online Influence

How certain diagnostic and analytic tools can help spread your online influence and spark interest in your brand  Read more

How to Reduce Your Website’s Bounce Rate

Do people come to your site and then immediately leave? Then you’ve got a bounce rate problem. Here’s how to go about tackling it.  Read more

Case Study: When Your Website Crashes Constantly

Could InsuranceAgents.com co-founders Seth Kravitz and Lev Barinskiy survive constant website downtime?  Read more

4 Essential Data-Mining Tools

Statistical analysis software such as Google Chart API and SAS Analytics help companies make the most of their data.  Read more

Using Predictive Analytics on Web Data

Traditional Web analytics are great for optimizing visit level metrics. Here's how you can go beyond that, and use predictive analytics to form long term rel...  Read more

Three Ways to Get to a Web State of Mind

Businesses that are going to have an active presence on the Web need to operate like a Web company. They need to post new content and quickly, measure whatâ€...  Read more

How I Did It: Omniture's Josh James

He built a Web analytics company into a powerhouse, then sold it to Adobe for $1.8 billion.  Read more

The Problem with Web Analytics

Is a unique visitor really unique ? If other people browsing online are anything like Union Square Ventures' Read more

Free Pricing Analytics For SMBs

You can't do anything about the economy. What you can do is price your company's products and services more smartly to squeeze out maximum dollars. The qu...  Read more

Adobe Will Acquire Omniture

In a marriage of "art and science," Omniture, the web analytics technology company, will be acquired by Adobe for $1.8 billion.  Read more

A Business Intelligence Software Primer

Applications that extract data buried inside spreadsheets and databases for key analytics were once too complex and expensive for small businesses. Then soft...  Read more

Improving Your Sense of Site

Your web analytics report is filled with clues on how to boost sales.  Read more

Six Ways to Track Your Competitors Online

Who needs industrial espionage these days? Keeping tabs on your main competitors has never been so easy. You can use the Web in a variety of ways to make sur...  Read more

Tech Talk: Search Helps Customers Find Filters

A Minnesota-based water filter company found that adding custom search to its website increased sales from online customers.  Read more