Get your Google Analytics in infographic form thanks to Visual.ly

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Self-proclaimed social media gurus have a new tool to their arsenal. (And so does the person a little too busy to keep up with analytics for his or her Twilight fanfiction site.)

Visual.ly, the website that makes infographics a lot easier to make before (and also brought you the uber-fun Twitter Showdown now makes understanding Google Analytics easier than ever.

The new (and free!) feature which creates a snappy and aesthetically pleasing snapshot of page views, visitors (including new and returning ones), time and pages per visit, how Facebook and Twitter-adored your website is, bounce rate and organic search results. All you have to do is add the Google Analytics code into your site (if you haven’t already), create a Visual.ly account (if you don’t already have one), grant Visual.ly access to your Google Analytics, and then voila! There are also buttons that allow you to share the report quickly.

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The beginner’s guide to YouTube Analytics

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As well as being the most popular video site in the world, YouTube is also the second biggest search engine next to Google, its parent company. Considering that over four billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube, we’re spending more time than ever on the site. Now that the site has been given a new layout, one that places a greater focus on subscriptions, it’s now more vital than ever to understand your audience and what content works best.

Since there are more companies using YouTube to drive sales and brand awareness, it’s as good a time as any to learn about it and see how you can improve your channel.

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10 Vital Online Services To Monitor Your Website And Enhance Its Accessibility

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If you think that after creating a website the job is done, you are wrong. You need to constantly monitor the availability and the accessibility because if you let it unattended, a little problem can ruin everything. You need to monitor if your website is online, how fast does it load, how it reacts on stress tests and so one. There are many online tools that are able to help you with these things but as we know, not all are efficient. Below you can see a list of 10 most important tools that will help you make sure your website is working ok.

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10 Amazing Useful Tools to Evaluate Your Website

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A good web design is the one which your visitors find easy to navigate. If they find your website difficult to understand or slow, then they would definitely leave without trying to find the required information any more. The design of a website is an important factor in the success of your website. Slow loading content, tough navigation or broken links etc can affect your visitors’ experience. Do you wish to know if any of these things are affecting the success of your website?

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Making the Most of Social Media Analytics

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Don't believe the next social media expert who tells you "social media is intangible" when it comes to building your brand. Sure, it's difficult to calculate a precise return on investment for social media marketing efforts: Just ask General Motors, which pulled $10 million in Facebook advertising last month because it couldn’t track measurable results. But social media reach is more measurable than some people would have you believe.

"Obviously this is a very new space so there isn't one established way to think about it," said Linus Chou of Google Analytics in a presentation at BlogWorld & New Media Expo in New York City this week.

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10 Little-Known Ways to See How Much Traffic a Website Gets

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When the average person visits a website for the first time, their eyes follow an F-pattern.

When I visit a website for the first time, I look at something else. In less than a second, I have a decent idea of how much traffic that website gets which helps me decide whether or not to stay.

Knowing how much traffic a website gets helps you validate the website’s content and lets you know how much traffic you need to get to see similar results.

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Adobe Expands Its Social Analytics Lineup With Adobe Social

Must be something in the air. Less than a day after Google announced that it’s adding social media reports to Google Analytics, Adobe is unveiling its own social analytics tools.

Even though the company is best known for design software like Photoshop and development technologies like Flash, Adobe also pitches itself as a digital marketing company — a point that the company emphasized in its most recent earnings announcement. This week Adobe is hosting its Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City (near the headquarters of Adobe-acquired analytics company Omniture), where it’s announcing the new product, called Adobe Social.

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11 Google Analytics Tricks to Use for Your Website

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Do you know what is the most common question that I get every day on social media, forums or email?

"How to get insights about my Google Analytics data?" People approach me saying that they have a Google Analytics account for years, but they look only at page views or the number of visitors they get.

And this is wrong, this is so wrong when they have powerful free Web Analytics tools that they can leverage to learn more about their visitors and use those insights to better serve their visitors.

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11 Top Twitter Statistics and Analytics Tools

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List of 11 Top Twitter Statistics and Analytics Tools which are very useful to analyize data.

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Wall Street analysts calculate whether Zynga is worth $8.9B

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Zynga is about to begin trading as a public company on Thursday, but the value of the company is up for debate, based on reports from some well-known Wall Street analysts and other financial experts.

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How You Should Really Be Using Analytics For Marketing

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We live in the golden age of business analytics. Too bad that so many people turn to analytics to stop discussion instead of enliven it, and believe in analytics instead of common sense.

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iPhone 4S still running out at most retailers, says analyst

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Almost a month after its debut, Apple's new phone continues to run on low or empty at most retail outlets, according to a series of checks by Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore.

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8 Simple Tools to Manage and Analyze Your Twitter Efforts

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Like using Twitter but wish you could streamline the process? Want to use Twitter to analyze keywords,

If you’ve been using Twitter for a while, you’re probably already familiar with tools like HootSuite and TweetDeck.

So let’s go a little deeper. Here are some simple tools that can make it easier to...

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Twitter launches analytics service

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Twitter today announced an analytics service for publishers--especially the publishers of the 3 million sites that use the "tweet" button.
On stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Twitter's Director of Web Business Development April Underwood rolled out Twitter Web Analytics, a service that makes use of technology the company got in its July acquisition of Backtype.

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Foursquare guns for Yelp, one feature at a time

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Foursquare has launched a new feature that allows users to create distinct lists of the places they’ve checked into or plan to visit in the future. This new functionality brings the New York City-based Foursquare more into the realm of user-generated recommendations long-dominated by review sites such as Yelp.

Previously, Foursquare allowed users to create “tips,” or recommendations of certain places, but they would all be together in one unsorted list. The new feature allows you to create specific groupings of places like the top 10 happy hour spots in your neighborhood, or the five best baseball stadiums you’ve ever been to. Lists can also track the places you want to go in the future, such as a list of 10 places you plan to see on your upcoming trip to Tokyo.

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