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Sex pictures from China show beyond a doubt that SEX sells!

Three days ago I visited a website, saw something that made me laugh out loud, and which I found rather quaint, and thought I would seed it to Newsvine. It was about a sex theme park being closed down in China.

Make Your Google Analytics Data Public
Source: TechCrunch

Last year we called on Google to let users have the option of making Google Analytics data public. Today they've done that, in a fashion. They aren't aggregating the data into a public site (although adding it to Google Trends over time would make sense).

Google gives partners analytics on YouTube pages
Source: CNET.com

Google is giving brands and content publishers another way to track YouTube viewership metrics by letting them view it inside of Google Analytics.

Google Analytics Update
Source: blog.dagoosh.com

Google pushed an update to Analytics recently and changed the graphing feature just a little bit. It really drives me crazy, actually, for such a stupid thing.

Google Adds Gmail Previews, Links to Analytics for Admins
Source: PC World

Google rolled out enhancements to Gmail Wednesday, including the ability to preview some Web links within messages and a new feature that lets Google Apps administrators view usage statistics of their Gmail users in the Analytics service.

Google Analytics - Yes, it is a security risk
Source: The Register (UK)

To recap, Change.gov and BarackObama.com were both found exposing non-encrypted pages that Obama officials use to make post press releases and carry out other administrative tasks.

Boosting Traffic to a News Column

This article can be applied to Newsvine columns, but the basic principles are the same for any news-type blog or a website where you post up articles of interest. As far as Newsvine traffic, you are going to have a lot of competition from other users.

Google Trends for Websites
Source: imhe.blogspot.com

Google has just updated its Google Trends application to allow trend spotting by domain name. The new feature allows the same capabilities from the keyword trend search, but adds the ability to view trends by domain name. —ibid.

Free Google Analytics: A spammer's best friend
Source: zdnet.com.au

Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business.

What's Up with Vermont and New Hampshire?

During a moment of curiosity and boredom earlier today I decided to pull up my Google Analytics and delve a little deeper into it. Normally I just see which of my articles and seeds are getting the most page views and sometimes I check to see where my referrals are coming from.

Writing Newsvine Articles with Staying Power

It feels great to hit and stay on the front page of Newsvine with something you've written, whether it's detailed political analysis, biting satire, or a one-sentence philosophical treatise.

A year at Newsvine

This is my 201. and hello to everyone from me too. Member Since: 2/2007 Articles Posted: 200 Links Seeded: 1100.

Google Analytics Update

Google has recently rolled out a new Google Analytics version. Several users inquired about it, so we did a little bit of investigation. It simply requires an update to your tracking code, and Newsvine recently rolled out some support for it.

Using Google Analytics to Predict your Newsvine Earnings

This isn't an exact science by any stretch, because there are more factors involved in your earnings than just page views, but it appears to be a good indicator. So, here is how to (somewhat reasonably) predict your Newsvine earnings.

A Google Analytics Primer

Newsvine started offering Google Analytics back in August in response to author requests for more data on the performance of user generated content.

Using Google Analytics to Boost Traffic
Source: bloggingtips.com

Google Analytics is a great free statistics tool that provides comprehensive statistics on your site, and those statistics can be used to help you boost your traffic. It is pretty simple to install by simply inserting a snippet of code on your site.

When Google acquisitions go wrong: the disappointing story of Urchin
Source: Ars Technica

Google acquired Urchin, a company with enormous potential, in 2004. Google has since then taken analytics and ran while ignoring Urchin's existing customer base (with their service contracts) and their other software applications.

Tracking Website Traffic: 40+ Great Tools
Source: techmagazine.ws

These tool will give you a clear picture of who is visiting your site or blog, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and more.

Web site counters & analytics

We've had some discussion about Newsvine and Google Analytics, and that they are not working at the moment. Because my Newsvine analytics are not working, I thought, that I could check my another site, compare different site meters and write about that.

Google Analytics, My Newsvine Column and Raunchy Sex Facts

Thanks to a comment by BlaiseP on this BabelFish article, I learned about using Google Analytics on a Newsvine column. BF was writing about the frustration of seeding stories and writing articles and getting little to no response in the form of votes or comments.

Do you have a successful website?

17. September 2007 It is important to speak to the usability and web experts, get advice on what works best for your business online. However to really KNOW the success of a website it is necessary to work with numbers, to understand what they mean and what the consequences are.

Google Analytics Comes to Newsvine

For those of us who have been wanting to track our own stats on Newvsine -- today is a beautiful day: Customize Column :: Tracking Or, just go here.

New Features Added To Google Analytics
Source: analytics.blogspot.com

Google Analytics gets an upgrade and loses its beta status. New features include hourly reporting and clickable URLs.

New Google Analytics Rocks the Proverbial Socks
Source: modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk

Talk about a quiet rollout - the Google Analytics team must have been working a lot of late nights recently, as this evening they've released a completely overhauled interface for their analytics.

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