299 Steps to Website Heaven

For a long time I used Google Analytics to provide webstats for me and for my clients - and it worked. Great stats, pretty graphs, nice figures - everything I needed.The problem I had was that I couldn’t get real time stats - I had to wait until the next day, by which time in some cases it was too late to react to surges in traffic.

I needed something that showed me what my visitors were doing and where they were coming from NOW, not yesterday!

And then I found GetClicky.

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Fantastic post from Chris Brogan on using Social Media to improve your marketing:

50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

1. Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve sharing.
2. Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques.
3. For every video project purchased, ensure there’s an embeddable web version for improved sharing.
4. Learn how tagging and other metadata improve your ability to search and measure the spread of information.
5. Create informational podcasts about a product’s overall space, not just the product.

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Thanks to the heads up from Neilsweb, you can get $250 of free advertising with Facebook - ideal for testing out campaigns to see if they’re worth spending money on.

Thanks Neil!

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If you’re an Ecademy member, then please read this post of mine regarding Business Clubs on Ecademy.

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A quick insight into the sites I visit on a daily basis:

1) Search Engine Watch - the first site dedicated to search engines, and still the best. Originally started by Danny Sullivan in 1996 (he resigned in 2006), this is a great site to find out the latest search engine stats, search engine news and more.

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