tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146093362011-12-14T21:46:52.352-05:00Learn about web site and RSS metrics and the techniques for collecting and analyzing them. The level of discussions are aimed at web site and RSS feed publishers, with the occasional discussion aimed at more technical readers.blogslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263250561416943757noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14609336.post-1135927938430783162005-12-30T02:30:00.000-05:002005-12-30T02:32:18.436-05:00

My new RSS Cases (case studies) blog has been live for about 2 months now, but it's officially live for about a week. The blog covers reviews of hardware and software related to content syndication, as well as case studies targeted at content marketers/ publishers and feed developers, as well studies of RSS Metrics (traffic analysis). As I've previously mentioned, the blog is a combination of my

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This blog is about to be incorporated into a single blog called "WebGuru" that will be available at my new geekSchool/MathGurus Online website (http://www.mathgurusonline.com).The WebGuru blog will contain posts about webmastering, web programming, and website analysis in general. This includes tips and techniques for Perl, PHP, XML, CSS, mySQL, javascript, data mining/ net metrics/ web analytics

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Hello everyone. I'm back from vacation. (Hey, I still worked 16-20 hours a day on my blogs and websites, so it wasn't really a vacation). I apologize for the batch posting of this message to all of my blogs, but I'm still madly reorganizing my blogs and this is the fastest way for me to communicate with readers... (The most current links to most of my blogs and website projects can always be

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After several weeks of thinking long and hard about it, I've decided to stop posting to this blog. Instead, I'm spllitting and combining several blogs, including this one. The less technical posts about data mining, web analytics and net metrics will be posted to my BlogSpinner blog. The more technical posts that involve programming techniques and/or mathematics will be moved to my "Webmastering"

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I recently registered a couple of new domains - one for me and one for a client. I also took advantage of this very large, very well-known hosting company's special deal: buy a non-domain product and get a domain for a ridiculously low price. And the basic hosting plan for one year meant a similarly ridiculously low monthly cost. It ertainly beat what I used to pay only 5 years ago. Even my

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If you're running a blogsite and have built it up with a fair bit of traffic, you may be finding some extreme fluctation in page views over time. While some fluctuation is normal in a fairly visible website/blogsite, extremes may be pointing to deeper issues. The first question to ask yourself is: Do my posts generally stick to one tight topic area? If they don't, this might be the reason for the

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NOTE: This entry is co-posted on my GeoPlotting blog.With the invention of the wi-fi laptop a few years ago, it's become harder to accurately track unique visitors to your website/ RSS feed/ blogsite visitors. Anyone who commutes a lot with a laptop may end up appearing as 3 or 4 different visitors in your web server access logs, possibly even as being from different cities. This of course

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Multiple Moving Averages (MMAs), as I mentioned in yesterday's post, have incredible value for determining what data trends have gone by, as well as for predicting what trends may come. I've noticed that there is an incredible skew in visitors to my consulting website coming from Korea and China. That in itself isn't bad. What's bad is that they are consistently trying to access the same

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Moving Averages (MAs) are a powerful technique used to see short- and long-term trends in any time-based data. For example, stock market day traders use MAs using a "window" of a specified number of days to produce a "sliding average" of a stock's price, or of a market index. The resulting MA graph shows a smoother curve than the daily graph. From the MA, and assuming you have a reasonable window

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(Note: This posting is very similar to one posted at my GeoPlotting blog.)Pixl tracking is a technique that originated when Internet marketers wanted to know if and when email subscribers opened their email. The basic concept is very simple: Send out an HTML-formatted email to subscribers of your e-newsletter or anyone who has given you permission to send the email offers. In the email,

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I've been a bit remiss in posting to this blog because I've been deep in planning and co-writing an e-book on RSS Metrics, as well as plotting out a new RSS Metrics blog. I have a lot of blogposts written but I haven't decided yet (1) whether this blog will parallel the new Metrics blog over at MarketingStudies.net; (2) whether the two blogs will discuss separate issues; or (3) whether I should

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This blog straddles the line between technical and non-technical discussions. This posting leans more toward the technical in terms of how to use the information here. However, if you are an RSS Publisher, knowing what the PAT (Peak Access Time) metric represents is worthwhile and may help keep your web site and RSS Feed running smoothly.PAT or Peak Access Time refers to the time of day that your

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This is the second is a series of blog posts discussing a variety of RSS Metrics. Please note that the names I use for various RSS Metrics in this blog are my own and may not be standard. In truth, there are no standards, hence why I've made up my own terms - albeit based on terms used for other types of Internet-related metrics. These terms are subject to change in later postings (but will be

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I've been taking a bit of a time-out from my RSS blogs to work on an e-book with Rok Hrastnik of RSS Diary. Rok is a busy young man with several writing projects on the go, one of them being "The Truth About RSS Metrics", a short e-book that he has asked me to be an associate author on. Rok is handling most of the marketing-related sections and I'm handling most of the technical aspects.

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One of the RSS Metrics that is extremely sought after by RSS Feed publishers is the ADR or Average Daily Readership. The method for calculating this value is a bone of contention. I always tell my clients that metrics have to be of value to you. Tell me how you want to define each metric you want collected, and I'll know what to do.The essential idea behind ADR is to calculate how many unique

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Wondering how RSS Metrics differs from regular web site metrics? So are a lot of new RSS feed publishers. Before I answer this question, let's assume a couple of things. Firstly, let's assume that your RSS feed lives on the same web server as your regular web site. Secondly, let's also assume that you have a raw RSS XML file for your RSS feed (as opposed to generating the RSS XML feed using a web

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Greetings!This blog is a companion to the blogs RSS Marketer and RSS Developer. All three of these blogs are associated with three books that I am writing on RSS - both at a marketing and a technical level. Because of numerous other projects taking up my time, I'm hoping to update these three blogs at least once a week until the books are complete.

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