When you’re trying to get a handle on how well your site is doing, it can be helpful to compare it to other sites on the Internet. Both Alexa and Compete offer up a ranking of your site compared to all the other sites they know about. However, both Alexa and Compete come up with their rankings by extending the data they do have to make a hypothesis about how your site is actually doing (similar to how Nielson does tv ratings by getting reviews by a very small percentage of US households). For B2B and Niche sites, the information may be problematic if the audience polled by Alexa and Compete does not accurately reflect the niche or industry in question. [Read more…] about Use Alexa & Compete with Caution for B2B and Niche Sites
Insights from Google Analytics Intelligence
Knowing about unusual traffic on your website or blog can help you determine whether or not certain campaigns or promotions are working. Being aware of events or sites which are sending you traffic is also important. Google Analytics provides a nice tool for alerting you to unusual patterns of traffic on your website or blog which is very useful for these purposes — Intelligence. Let’s take a closer look at some of the information you can gather from Google’s Intelligence… [Read more…] about Insights from Google Analytics Intelligence
Social Commerce – What is it, Who’s Doing it, How can You?
Another one of the buzzwords that gets thrown around quite a bit is “social commerce.” Like most of these buzzwords, the practice itself isn’t necessarily new. People have been using socializing to sell things since they first started trading. But new tools have allowed companies to extend socializing to bring much more value to their customers (and their bottom line). Let’s take a look at what social commerce means with today’s tools and marketplace.
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