Learn to master the world of Google Analytics with these terrific posts.

Adding Notes to Google Analytics Timeline

Did you know that in Google Analytics, you can easily make annotations for big events happening to your website?  I am going to share with you the very simple way I made note of all my recent website designs in just a few steps. 

Find Your Site’s Best Keywords in Google Analytics

Google Analytics offers a lot of good information, but not everybody knows how to read it.  Today, I will show you how to compare your best performing keywords that bring people into your web site and compare it to the average traffic of your website.

Free Google Analytics Training from Google

While checking out what it takes to become an authorized Google Analytics consultant, I stumbled across a series of videos online that anybody can use to get to know their own Google Analytics account a little better. 

Site Usage in Google Analytics

I have been using Google Analytics since its debut, and love it as a stats tool.  I probably use it more than I have any tools built into a hosting account.  Some people might be overwhelmed by some of the terms though, so to break it down I thought I would take a look at the first thing you see, the Site Usage section.

What to do When You Find Yourself Getting Popular

Looks like my post-Firefox 3 bump in stats is starting to come to an end for Firefox Facts.   While the madness was going on (one post got up to 80+ comments!) I came up with a few tactics to try to milk the proverbial press cow as long as I could.

Popular Posts via Google Analytics

How does one pull up the most popular links on their web site or blog using Google Analytics? This one took me a little while to figure out, but finally found the right way and the quickest steps on how to get this done. I love Google Analytics more so than some of the other web site statistic scripts out there.

Is there anything else about Google Analytics that drives you batty? Leave a comment and let me know. I will try to answer your questions or give you more detail in a future post.

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• For the Love of Great Wallpaper
• 24 Personalized Start Pages
• Project Management with Scrumy
• Free Custom Desktop Icons from Mitch!
• My Birthday Present for You… Freaks!
• Fake Man from Mega Man 9 Ready for Your Desktop
• Top 5 Google Pop-up Bookmarklets
• Watch Night of the Living Dead for Free!

Hope you enjoyed, and if there is something you’d like to see more of or less of coming into November, please let me know. 

Know of any other sign-based wallpaper that is worthy of praise?  Drop in a comment and share with the rest of the of the Mitchaholics out there.

If you overlook its flaws it is a great way to spread the word about yourself or pickup on small delights your friends might send your way during the day. Here are a few more ways to get more from Twitter.

Twitter Greasemonkey Scripts

• Intercepter – Replace Tiny URL links with the real links they are pointing to
• Twitter Unread Marker – Marks the number of unread messages
• Tflickr – Twitter from Flickr
• Twitter Kill Heart – Ditch the love on Twitter
• Twitter auto-refresh – Sets Twitter to auto-refresh every X seconds

Twitter Firefox Extensions

• TwitBin – Go twitter in your sidebar
• Tweetbar – Toolbar for Firefox to help with twittering
• TwitterFox – Add twittering to your Firefox status bar
• Twitter from Search Box – A quicker way to post via Firefox

Twitter Resources and Help

• Twitter Help – Twitter’s official help web site
• 5 Things to Twitter About – Inspiration for the needy
• How to Use Twitter – 10 awesome examples
• TwitterFeed.com – Feed Your Twitter your RSS feed
• More Help on How to Use Twitter – Learn to Twitter the right way

Have any more suggestions? Send them my way or drop in an comment. Would love to hear any and all Twitter tips you might have.

Hosting Shock and Awe – Episode 136

Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.

• How can RegisterFly keep registering domain names?
• Tip on how to use Google Calender to organize your hosting mess!
• Mitch’s web hosting new year resolutions!
• Learn how to create a static web site using WordPress!
• What is the price you pay for your cheap hosting plan?
• No midgets and/or fairies were harmed in the production of this podcast!

Moving from Web Host to Web Host – Episode 137

Special! – When moving from house to house, you have to pack up all of your belongings in the old house before you can move, right? The same could be said when you are moving from web host to web host.

Shiny Happy Hosting – Episode 138

Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.

• GoDaddy, Beavers and the .ME Domain Extension
• Network Solution and Sneaky Domain Name Registrations
• Pingdom Tools – Ping, Traceroutes, and Page Loading Tools
• Beginner’s Guide to Overselling your Hosting Services
• Webnode – Free Hosting with a Kick (and great perks!)

Talking Data Protection with R1Soft – Episode 139

Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.

• Why you should be using R1Soft for your server backups!
• Who is DJ Netizen and what does he have to do with Mario?
• How Personal and Work Lives in Hosting Merge Together
• What does a “server backup” company really do?

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