Tag Archives: metrics & analytics
4 Types of Analytics (Non-)Users
For many people, analyzing web traffic is like flossing: we know we should do it, but we’d rather not and say we did. In fact, as data-driven marketers, we’ve seen enough examples of people having a love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with their web data that we thought we’d share some of the classics. (Of course, [...]
The Algorithm is Not the Goal
Every day there are new adventures in the SEO quest to understand Google’s algorithm. Yesterday, Andy Beal reported on an interview Eric Enge conducted with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, and the big news was that 301 redirects (if you don’t know what they are, just think of when you enter a web [...]
Will Google's New Music Service Affect Your Business? Surprise: It Might.
When I first moved to Nashville in February of 2003, I was in pursuit of a dream: I wanted to develop my songwriting and write hits. It did not escape my notice that the industry was changing, even then, and that the distribution models that had ensured songwriter royalties were being disrupted, so that I [...]
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Email Address History, No Service?
An article in today’s InternetRetailer.com daily news called “Why retailers can probably trust consumers with lots of Facebook friends” caught my eye: Accertify announced today a deal to incorporate into its fraud-screening process data from Rapleaf, a company that has indexed over 600 million e-mail addresses, and tracks such information as how many social network [...]
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