September, 2010

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Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic

Occam's Razor

Make love? Direct Traffic? Really? I am not kidding. Direct traffic contains visitors that proactively seek you out, everyone else you have to "beg" to show up on your site! Yet this question seems to bedevil a lot of people: What the heck is Direct Traffic? As if that was not sad enough, even people who do know what the definition of Direct traffic is rarely focus on it or work hard to tease out the opportunity that exists in Direct traffic.

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End of Dumb Tables in Web Analytics Tools! Hello: Weighted Sort

Occam's Razor

Arthur C. Clarke said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That quote comes to mind when I think of a new feature in Google Analytics that carries the unassuming name of Weighted Sort. It is an advanced implementation of technology (mathematical algorithms in this case) and when used it very much feels like magic!

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