Looking for a way to embed articles or images into your own website layout?  Embed Anything is an interesting new service that delivers you the chance to embed both on the fly.  The idea here is simple, let your visitors embed your content – rather than just taking it.

Here are a few key reasons for giving Embed Anything a shot.

• Embedded content comes with a link back to build SEO and traffic
• Embedded content is invisible to search engines
• Ad space contained within each embed lets you monetize embedded content
• Reporting and control over which sites are embedding your content

So when somebody sees an image or an article on your website they would like to use, they will be offered the chance to embed it, rather than just copying it locally.  This gives them an easier way to grab your content and re-publish it.  It gives you the chance to gain a few more eyeballs with a link or two you might not have gotten without the service.

Overall I think it is a neat idea.

So if you want to offer a new way to share your content out there, I would say give Embed Anything a shot.  I am really interested to see some real world feedback on it, to see how useful this service and tool is in the long run.

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. 

The first thing you will want to do is open up one of your website profiles in Google Analytics.  Next, under the visitor dashboard at the top, hit the tab that has the arrow pointing down on it.

Once you do that, you will see a link that says, "+ Create new annotation".  Click that link to create your new note.

Now, you will want to give the date you want the note to show up on in the first text box.  In the middle text box, leave yourself a note (I just put 2010 Redesign as my note), choose to make the note visible to other who have access to your Google Analytics report for this website or not, and then hit the save button.  Now you will see a little speech bubble come up on the date you added the annotation on.

You can do this as many times as you want.  It is a service put there to really make note of big website changes that you would like to mark in your statistics.  Events this would be perfect for could be:

• A major website redesign
• A change in your website advertisements
• The starting of a new landing page campaign

The possibilities go on and on.  I am just happy that Google provides us with such an open ended toolset to play with and customize to suit our needs.  Also worth making note of is the fact that your annotation will show up on your other traffic charts too, such as pageviews, pages/visits, bounce rate, and more.

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.

To get started, you will want to login to Google Analytics, go to your site’s profile.  Next, on the left side of the screen click on Traffic Sources and then Keywords.  This will take you to the Keyword Overview screen for your domain.

Now, you can see your most popular keywords.  This screen shows all the paid and non-paid keywords people use to find your website. By default, the keywords are sorted by highest to lowest by how many visits they have brought to your website.

Click on the comparison view to see how individual popular keywords compare to the website average.

So if I were to start advertising, I would want to target some of these better keywords for my website, such as “paint.net tutorials” and “wordpress alternatives”.  Even when you take advertising out of the picture, you could also say these would be good areas to focus on when it comes to future articles or tutorials.

Hope that helps you out when using and trying to understand Google Analytics on your own.  By understanding which keywords out perform the site average, you can see where you might need to shift your attention to in future marketing or website development.

Who doesn’t love a little traffic humor?  I’ve done my best to search the Web for some of my favorite traffic signs out there.  Some are real, some are questionable, and well – they are all something that would make you do a double take if you saw them on your way to work.

Are we watching out for falling cars, or crazy people in the streets?

Keep your hands on your brains at all times.

Well, which one is it?

You know they’re right…

Stopping with The Supremes?

… and finally, my favorite sign, warning you about the cautions of the sign.

Hope you enjoyed, and if you know of any other funny traffics signs you know or love, leave them in the comments.  Would love to check them out!

WooRank is an impressive new web site analysis tool worth singing the praises of.  I have several of these types of online tools bookmarked, and I have written about most of them.  The thing that separates WooRank’s analysis of a domain over any other tool is the plethora of information they provide to you.

After submitting mitchelaneous.com to the site, I found out tons of information I can turn around and use to make my web site even better.  Here are some of the details this online tool provides to you:

• Visitors
• Content
• In-Site SEO
• Home analysis
• Inside analysis
• Website compliance
• Off-Site SEO
• Popularity
• Directories
• Social Media
• Usability
• Website information
• Server
• Domain
• Related websites

WooRank is definitely my new favorite tool to find out how I can make my web sites better.  I got a WooRank of 53.1.  Can you beat me?  Plug your own domain name into WooRank.com and see what score you get.

When is a No Entry sign not a No Entry sign?  When it has dropped the smoke bomb and turned into a Ninja Entry traffic sign. Found via (about:blank)

As you can see – I have added the sidebar widget on my web site and so far I haven’t noticed a darn person leaking in via this deal. It could be too soon to tell though if this is going to be a winer or a loser.

Mashable!’s opinion seems to be you should be careful:

The buzz this weekend is focused on BlogRush, a traffic sharing service for bloggers. It’s literally everywhere. But many of us have seen these things before, and it’s worth noting that none have survived very long. Here are some notes we compiled from our Web 1.0 experiences.

John Chow seems to like it – then again, he is an A-lister who will probably get more out of this than anybody:

Let’s face it, without traffic it’s pretty hard for a blog to make any money. The more traffic you have, the more money you make. Everyone wants more traffic and we’re always looking for more ways to get it. Internet Marketing kingpin, John Reese, has came up a great way to help your blog get more traffic.

Blogrush, you only have a limited amount of time to impress me, so you had better hurry. I’ll give this a shot for a while then report back with the positives and negatives. If you want to join me in this little experiment sign up yourself with BlogRush and let me know your results.

Update: Well I am unimpressed and this whole thing seems sort of lame to me. Looks like they weren’t really ready for prime time. Taking the widget off my site for now – might be back later on once they get the bugs worked out.

That is why I plugged the Digg – add mirrors script into my Greasemonkey extension for Firefox. It adds a nice small box of mirrors to the side of the link on Digg. From here, if a link is down, I can still get to the content.