Scott Mallinson | Web Designer
For those who know me, I am a big fan of web applications and websites like FeedBurner, Google Analytics and Alexa for providing free access to statistics regarding websites that I maintain. They provide an insight into who the visitors are, where they come from (both in terms of referral website and geographic location) and what they are interested in. However using the aforementioned web applications and websites can have a negative effect as I’ll discuss.
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It has now been about a week, 7 days since this website got picked up by CSS Mania among other CSS galleries and I thought I’d share with you what affect getting listed on CSS galleries had on my website traffic, feed subscribers and bandwidth used.
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Since I redesigned this website I have paid more attention to the traffic that it receives, how well it gets indexed by the main search engines; Google, MSN and Yahoo and also what the visitors are looking at when they get to my website. This is all with the intention that I can improve the content on my website and make it more relevant if necessary.
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I know that this has long been covered elsewhere on the blogosphere, however it seems to have taken Google longer than the stated 2 weeks for them to gather benchmarking data for this website. Google Analytics data sharing is something that I have long been waiting for; the ability to compare your website metrics against others that are similar.
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what a formidable force they would be. I currently use both of the Google services to track user movements on my websites and to help Google index my websites.
Although Google Analytics is targeted towards search engine marketers it does incorporate some features that are of benefit for web designers, such as the Web Design Parameters section. I feel that this feature should be expanded further to encompass the features that Google Sitemaps currently holds, in particular notification of crawl errors from Google, top search queries, the crawl analysis and page analysis.
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