4 Crucial facts Google Analytics can tell about your readers

Here are 4 crucial cues about your readers that you can get by observing your Google Analytics data. Just like in any project, knowing who you cater to helps you in increasing your work's quality. Google Analytics help you bridge that gap by answering your most asked questions. Why Google Analytics? GA will help you understand where your website or blog visitors come from. Let us think...

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Tips for Comment Moderation. What Should you keep and what should you delete? Part 2

Comment moderation is one of those important aspects of managing a blog which tells the readers about the integrity and quality of the blog.  A previous article on Tips for comment moderation talked about protecting a blog's image against comment spammers. This is the part two of the series. The Link Factory Type A very ancient breed of comment spammers often use a technique known as...

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An interview with Vinay at TechPrevue

Here we have an eminent blogger with us today. He isn't like the type you see every day. He helps vernacular blogs.  What attracted me towards TechPrevue was the desire to understand the challenges faced by a vernacular blogger. My understanding that SEO techniques do not work at blogs containing vernacular language was further cemented by Vinay's admittance.  Read as Vinay explains...

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Why some countries hate your website

Its 2:00 AM and you're sitting in front of your computer with chips in one hand and a beverage in another. You are reviewing the analytics data. Where do the visitors come from? Where do they go?  Which pages they visit and for what time etc.  You start thinking, "Hey! Why are my visitors more from US than UK. Why are there minimal visitors in China and why are hordes of them in Australia?" The...

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Do Pages with questions as title receive more clicks (Part 2)

This article is the complete study conducted by codemakit Website Research. If you feel that the contents are too technical for you, you may want to read the simplified summary presented at part I of the article first. Based on the data obtained from 190 Web Pages and their page views, the following observations were found. The data available were the number of views, and the date of publication...

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Do Pages with questions as title receive more clicks (Part 1)

There exists a very contended view that, If you write an article with a question as its headline or title, it will receive more clicks and the webpage as a whole would be more successful.  codemakit in the past has published material on improving the readership of any blog like, using specific publishing schedule, controlling Spam, creating apps, organising your blog content etc. Though...

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Why are bounce-rates never a perfect Indicator for your website's health

Bounce rate comes under the purview of gateway metrics. Also your bounce rate may not be the perfect indication of the health of your website.  Traditionally it is incurred that, a visitor who leaves your website has done nothing or learnt nothing from the page and hence your troubles were worth nothing. "Modern theory dictates that it is possible that the user/visitor got what he/she...

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What are Disavow Links and How do I use them?

It is a well-known fact that the quality of a site is judged by the content and the links. Content is controlled by the website owner, but what would you do when you find out that your website is getting visitors from questionable which cause aspersions on the web owners and the website itself.  How does that happen, you ask? The story goes like this. An anonymous friend of mine used to...

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Tips for Comment moderation, what should you keep and what should you delete?

Any proven website would always feel the wrath of comment spams. The secret would always be a powerful comment moderator which blogger does provide, thankfully. How would you protect your Blog's image from comment spammers. Tips for Comment moderation, what should you keep and what should you delete? Meaningless comments One of the most easily found and the most easily structured comments,...

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