<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:rawvoice="http://www.rawvoice.com/rawvoiceRssModule/" ><channel><title>Dragon Blogger &#187; site analytics</title> <atom:link href="http://www.dragonblogger.com/tag/site-analytics/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.dragonblogger.com</link> <description>Blogging Tips, Technology news, with Movie Reviews and Entertainment posts mixed in for fun.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:00:30 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=</generator><itunes:summary>Blogging Tips, Technology news, with Movie Reviews and Entertainment posts mixed in for fun.</itunes:summary> <itunes:author>Dragon Blogger</itunes:author> <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit> <itunes:image href="http://www.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/itunes_default.jpg" /> <itunes:owner> <itunes:name>Dragon Blogger</itunes:name> <itunes:email>justin.germino@gmail.com</itunes:email> </itunes:owner> <managingEditor>justin.germino@gmail.com (Dragon Blogger)</managingEditor> <itunes:subtitle>Blogging Tips, Technology news, with Movie Reviews and Entertainment posts mixed in for fun.</itunes:subtitle> <image><title>Dragon Blogger &#187; site analytics</title> <url>http://www.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg</url><link>http://www.dragonblogger.com</link> </image> <item><title>Site Earning Estimates with Ministatus?</title><link>http://www.dragonblogger.com/site-earning-estimates-with-ministatus/</link> <comments>http://www.dragonblogger.com/site-earning-estimates-with-ministatus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Justin Germino</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google backlinks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ministatus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ministatus estimates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ministatus links]]></category> <category><![CDATA[site analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[site earning estimates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[website traffic]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dragonblogger.com/site-earning-estimates-with-ministatus/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ministatus is a web site that shows domain statistics and site earning estimates but is highly inaccurate and provides on partially useful data.<p><hr \> <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com/site-earning-estimates-with-ministatus/">Site Earning Estimates with Ministatus?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com">Dragon Blogger Technology and Entertainment</a> Copyright 2009 <a href="http://www.justingermino.com">Justin Germino</a>.  Share it freely, but please link back to this source. <br><br> Follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dragonblogger">Dragon Blogger on Twitter</a> <br><br> If you enjoy poetry visit <a href="http://www.wandererthoughts.com">Wanderer Thoughts Poetry</a> a unique and original poetry blog with over 750 poems and more added daily.</p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.dragonblogger.com/alexa-toolbar-creator-promote-site/' rel='bookmark' title='Alexa Toolbar Creator: Promote Your Site Now'>Alexa Toolbar Creator: Promote Your Site Now</a> <small>Alexa Toolbar creator helps you promote your website while still incorporating the benefits of an Alexa toolbar....</small></li><li><a href='http://www.dragonblogger.com/web-site-security-basics-part-1/' rel='bookmark' title='Web Site Security Basics Part 1'>Web Site Security Basics Part 1</a> <small>This article is for anyone who runs a web site professionally or as a hobby.Â  It doesn&#8217;t matter if you...</small></li><li><a href='http://www.dragonblogger.com/acne-treatment-review-site-research/' rel='bookmark' title='Acne Treatment Review Site Does The Research For You So You Don&#8217;t Have To'>Acne Treatment Review Site Does The Research For You So You Don&#8217;t Have To</a> <small>At almost 31 years old, I will be 31 next Monday I am one of those adults who is cursed...</small></li></ol>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I received an email that my site DragonBlogger.com was listed in <a href="http://ministatus.com" target="_blank">ministatus</a> and decided to go check it out.  It is some sort of domain listing site that compiles your metrics just like compete.com or some other sites, but I saw few sites that tried to estimate what your site brings in monetarily.  This was funny because when looking at the ministatus listing of DragonBlogger.com it showed probably monthly income of $1284.30 and this is about 8x more than I actually earn from my site.  The Daily Unique visitors of 1456 were also about 20% over estimated, so I am not sure how the system tries to calculate how much traffic to your site gets.</p><p><a href="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image7.png"><img style="background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image_thumb6.png" border="0" alt="image thumb6 Site Earning Estimates with Ministatus?" width="534" height="92" /></a></p><p>Either I could be doing more to earn more, or this site seriously over calculates the earning potential of sites as it does with my site.</p><p>On Search Engine statistics the Ministatus website shows only partially correct metrics showing far less indexed pages for Google than my site actually has.</p><p><a href="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image8.png"><img style="background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image_thumb7.png" border="0" alt="image thumb7 Site Earning Estimates with Ministatus?" width="407" height="445" /></a></p><p>Overall I didn&#8217;t find the information provided by <a href="http://ministatus.com" target="_blank">ministatus</a> to be that valuable to me in comparison to other sites.  The site is useful only for general averages but by no means is it as accurate as using your Google Webmaster tools or Analytics to collect true information.  It was however accurate at the time with its Alexa information for the date I checked.</p><p>-Dragon Blogger</p><p><hr \> <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com/site-earning-estimates-with-ministatus/">Site Earning Estimates with Ministatus?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com">Dragon Blogger Technology and Entertainment</a> Copyright 2009 <a href="http://www.justingermino.com">Justin Germino</a>.  Share it freely, but please link back to this source. <br><br> Follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dragonblogger">Dragon Blogger on Twitter</a> <br><br> If you enjoy poetry visit <a href="http://www.wandererthoughts.com">Wanderer Thoughts Poetry</a> a unique and original poetry blog with over 750 poems and more added daily.</p><p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.dragonblogger.com/alexa-toolbar-creator-promote-site/' rel='bookmark' title='Alexa Toolbar Creator: Promote Your Site Now'>Alexa Toolbar Creator: Promote Your Site Now</a> <small>Alexa Toolbar creator helps you promote your website while still incorporating the benefits of an Alexa toolbar....</small></li><li><a href='http://www.dragonblogger.com/web-site-security-basics-part-1/' rel='bookmark' title='Web Site Security Basics Part 1'>Web Site Security Basics Part 1</a> <small>This article is for anyone who runs a web site professionally or as a hobby.Â  It doesn&#8217;t matter if you...</small></li><li><a href='http://www.dragonblogger.com/acne-treatment-review-site-research/' rel='bookmark' title='Acne Treatment Review Site Does The Research For You So You Don&#8217;t Have To'>Acne Treatment Review Site Does The Research For You So You Don&#8217;t Have To</a> <small>At almost 31 years old, I will be 31 next Monday I am one of those adults who is cursed...</small></li></ol></p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.dragonblogger.com/site-earning-estimates-with-ministatus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Google Analytics:  Content Drilldown &#8211; Pivot View</title><link>http://www.dragonblogger.com/google-analytics-content-drilldown-pivot-view/</link> <comments>http://www.dragonblogger.com/google-analytics-content-drilldown-pivot-view/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Justin Germino</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[analytics content drilldown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[analytics how to]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog Guides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[blog help]]></category> <category><![CDATA[blog tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[blogging tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GA pivot view]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Google Analytics content tab]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google analytics for blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google analytics information]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google analytics pivot view]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leveraging Analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[site analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[using analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wordpress analytics]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dragonblogger.com/?p=3508</guid> <description><![CDATA[It's no surprise that 4 of my top 10 pages were dominated by Google searches and related to NBC Heroes which accounts for about 35-40% of my blog traffic<p><hr \> <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com/google-analytics-content-drilldown-pivot-view/">Google Analytics:  Content Drilldown &#8211; Pivot View</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com">Dragon Blogger Technology and Entertainment</a> Copyright 2009 <a href="http://www.justingermino.com">Justin Germino</a>.  Share it freely, but please link back to this source. <br><br> Follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dragonblogger">Dragon Blogger on Twitter</a> <br><br> If you enjoy poetry visit <a href="http://www.wandererthoughts.com">Wanderer Thoughts Poetry</a> a unique and original poetry blog with over 750 poems and more added daily.</p>No related posts.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I discovered a new view under the Content Tab -> Content Drilldown in Google Analytics the other night, this &#8220;Pivot&#8221; view is which is found by pressing the right most button next to the graph buttons just on top of the statistics shows you your top pages, and which referrers yield you traffic to which pages.</p><p>With this I was able to see which specific pages StumbleUpon sends traffic to, vs Google and Entrecard as well as much more.  I was surprised that a single post of mine about the HP Gift Card giveaway from September received over a thousand hits from StumbleUpon in the last thirty days.<br /> <a href="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pivotview1.png"><img src="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pivotview1.png" alt="pivotview1 Google Analytics:  Content Drilldown   Pivot View" title="pivotview1" width="530" height="404" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3509" /></a><a href="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pivotview2.png"><img src="http://cdn.dragonblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pivotview2.png" alt="pivotview2 Google Analytics:  Content Drilldown   Pivot View" title="pivotview2" width="530" height="366" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3510" /></a></p><p>It is no surprise that 4 of my top ten trafficked pages were dominated by Google searches and related to NBC Heroes which accounts for about 35-40% of my blog traffic so far these last two months.</p><p>Currently 61% of my blog traffic is Organic Search traffic and I am averaging between 18k and 20k pageviews for the month.</p><p>-Dragon Blogger</p><p><hr \> <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com/google-analytics-content-drilldown-pivot-view/">Google Analytics:  Content Drilldown &#8211; Pivot View</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dragonblogger.com">Dragon Blogger Technology and Entertainment</a> Copyright 2009 <a href="http://www.justingermino.com">Justin Germino</a>.  Share it freely, but please link back to this source. <br><br> Follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dragonblogger">Dragon Blogger on Twitter</a> <br><br> If you enjoy poetry visit <a href="http://www.wandererthoughts.com">Wanderer Thoughts Poetry</a> a unique and original poetry blog with over 750 poems and more added daily.</p><p>No related posts.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.dragonblogger.com/google-analytics-content-drilldown-pivot-view/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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