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Showing posts with label analytics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label analytics. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Get Facebook Insights about your domain! now not just fan page stats...

I was dinking around with Facebook graph API and Facebook connect and saw there is updated insights pages now... Ive seen my weekly stats for my fan page but then I saw little button to add a domain.

Heres the tag i threw in my <head> tag...


And thats all it took... i added both my root and subdomains because it lists as "all pages under www.cartercole.com and i didnt add the www so heres a peek at stats about likes and shares as well as demographics if you get enough clout...

I never knew this had been rolled out so if your trying to monitor your social reach on your sight you definably need to create your fanpage and verify ownership of your domain on insights

Facebook Insights add your domain today!
at 7:58 AM 1 remarks
Tags: analytics, facebook, insights, social networking

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Consuming Google Data APIs with ASP

recently i did a post about a forum spamming attack that I analyzed and included some exports from my Google analytics data...to create this report I used a HTTPhelper i created that wraps the WinHTTP object in ASP that makes it really easy to make external requests and pull data from the Google Data API. Its easy to pull different segments and data if you use the data feed query explorer to create the request url (the second test.url in the code below) then just parse the xml and output as desired... unfortunately i haven't found a good asp oauth (recommend one to @cartercole)

the code is here but i also have included it below in this post...

this post contains code see it here



its easy to pull data from the other APIs but its sometimes hard to find the correct service string tp pass so heres my cheat sheet. im all for helping / suggestions so please leve your comments they are always appreciated (and so are links)

Google APIService name
Google Analytics Data APIsanalytics
Google Apps Provisioning APIsapps
Google Base Data APIgbase
Google Sites Data APIjotspot
Blogger Data APIblogger
Book Search Data APIprint
Calendar Data APIcl
Google Code Search Data APIcodesearch
Contacts Data APIcp
Documents List Data APIwritely
Finance Data APIfinance
Gmail Atom feedmail
Health Data APIhealth
weaver
Maps Data APIslocal
Picasa Web Albums Data APIlh2
Sidewiki Data APIannotateweb
Spreadsheets Data APIwise
Webmaster Tools APIsitemaps
YouTube Data APIyoutube
and here is my HTTPhelper class... it does some cool stuff like build post data from a dictionary object and has all the stuff to do Authentication and setting headers for the request (much easier for me because i forget the methods and have to look them up) so if its helpfull for you please feel free to use it :) woohoo open source!


thanks for reading and i hope this helps you do more with the data APIs and get to your data more easily...
at 2:42 PM 12 remarks
Tags: analytics, API, asp, code, google

Saturday, December 19, 2009

the poor mans web beacon | tracking visits on 3ed party sites

i recently got one of my posts republished on Seomoz

and ive reached hits on my post...

(which is funny because ive only gotten 83 total from my blog)
so how did i get this pageview data from this third party site? its easy if you can inject an image on the page... which most of the time is pretty easy to do if you are publishing an article on another site. so when i wrote my post i created a custom j.mp url (same as bit.ly btw) to the location of my follow me on twitter image. by using a short url pointed at an image as the src of my badge that i put at the end of the post i was able to track the number of views my article recieved... heres the code i used in the post
and here you can see all the info http://j.mp/juicebeacon+ (you can get info on any bit.ly url by adding the + at the end) as you normally would about referrer (where the image was loaded from) as well as location information about the visits your article recieved

if you have any questions you want answered bother me on twitter im @cartercole
at 9:30 AM 0 remarks
Tags: analytics, tools, web beacon

Monday, November 30, 2009

Webmaster and SEO dashboard

UPDATE:

The dashboard below is great but if your trying to do some on-page analysis you need a good SEO Toolbar like my newly released SEO Site Tools to help you with your work... and if you interested in your external anchor text you should defiantly run on over are read about the keyword data I found in Webmaster Tools that is published nowhere else...

i find myself constantly wanting to have one place as a jumping point for me to review all my website stuff and the way chrome does bookmarks makes it where clicking to this post is actually faster(at least for me). but i figure this is one place to start from then i don't have to go looking through all the bookmarks. ill add more items here as i find more tools that i find useful for SEOs and Webmasters


SEO Site Tools is my Google Chrome Extension with over 21,000 users 
im sure you would love it too... try it today
at 8:39 PM 1 remarks
Tags: analytics, bing, google, keywords, SEO, tools, webmaster, yahoo

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Awesome Visual View of Google analytics data with Juice Analytics

so i was reading the google analytics blog as i often do and they have this awesome new tool for visualizing your websites analytics data and keywords so lets get into what these way cool tools do (the tool is here but read the article cuz i spent some time on it)


first at the bottom you get a timeline so you can see the volume of traffic your site has been receiving and colorize this ribbon timeline by bounce rate. its cool to be able to see how your content starts being read more or single view articles turn it more red

this is also cool because you can view what pages drive the most traffic and how the bounce rate changes from page to page (if your colorblind thats cool too they got a button to fix the contrast for yall)

you can see a little better here in this shot how the bounce rate changes from page to page and how some pages are much more popular then others. heres the little video that they put out to demonstrate the tool.



then they have this cool keyword visualization tool that shows keywords and how they relate to each other and a few different options to color by. i like either time spent on site or bounce rate to see what words seem to keep peoples interest longer or drive them away faster

you can see how some keywords are red and threw more bounces and then my linkbait for embedding your Google profile social icons and the Google profile badge have green text showing that they had visitors staying for a much longer period (this graph is colored by time on page) and again the cool demo video the juice guys put out



here is the link to the tool i hope you find it useful and liked the article... don't forget to re-tweet about it and let others know!
at 11:42 AM 1 remarks
Tags: analytics, bounce rate, google, keywords, visualizations
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