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January 17, 2007

Some Conclusions About Stats . . .

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 8:37 pm

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Stats and Analytics . . .

This week on Tuesday Open Comments Night we talked about crazy stats, spikes, keyphrases, trends, ratios, traffic, backlinks, pageranks, SERPs, splog sites, algorithyms, RSS subscribers, patterns, plugins, goals, and search terms.

There was also mention of weather, grammar, punctuation, spelling, Mark Twain, Ferraris, a story in six words, full moons, reading tea leaves, gypsies, movies, The View, 24 Hours, Z-list meme, Alice in Wonderland, MyBlogLog meme, weird statistical stuff, workloads of small-business owners, and The Long Tail.

We shared hellos, grins, jokes, laughs, congratulations, poetry, advice, questions, recommendations, addictions (to stats), and goodnights. There was even something about measuring traffic and feet? (I didn’t see any food though.)

Anyway, a thought is that blogging for stats is not the answer. Writing about your passion is.

Sounds like many people use more than one tool to measure stats. Here are some of the tools and sites we mentioned that you may want to check out:

103bees
Alexa
Amibook
Askimet
Awstats
blo.gs
Blogbeat
Crazy Egg
Digg
EasyTask Manager
Feedburner
Google Analytics
Google Pagerank
Google Sitemap
gVisit
Habari
HitTail
Inc.com
Mapstats
Mint
Moveable Type
MyBlogLog
MySpace
Performancing
pingomatic.com
ReviewMe
Shortstat
SiteMeter
Squidoo
StatCounter
StumbleUpon
SuperStats
Technorati
Text-link-ads
The Blogging Times
Tracksy
Typepad
weblogs.com
WordPress

Here’s some of the links that were shared:

Thanks for the cool links and for being part of the conversation. I wish I could quote you all, but I know you have an idea of how much time it takes to make that long link summary happen each week. I hate to let it go, but I thought you’d understand.

So, for 2007, we’ll just tell the story and share the links that you bring. You can always read the comments - they’re all there.

After all, how DO YOU explain Open Comment Night, if you’ve never experienced it?

See you next Tuesday? I sure hope so.
–ME “Liz” Strauss and Sandy Renshaw

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5 Comments to “Some Conclusions About Stats . . .”

  1. January 18th, 2007 at 2:29 am
    Meikah Delid said

    Hi, Liz! Last Tuesday was yet again another useful, fruitful conversation I had with S.O.B. I’m checking out the tools now. :)

  2. January 18th, 2007 at 5:19 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Meikah David!
    We do get a lot covered in those conversation while we seem to be just chatting away. :)

    I’d love your ideas for other topics we might talk about. :)

  3. January 18th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
    Mike Levin of HitTail said

    I always like to chime in to remind everyone that HitTail is more of a writing suggestion tool than a stats program. We focus on just giving you topics you might write about in your blog–but of course appreciate every mention. Thanks, and good luck everyone.

  4. January 18th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
    Sandra Renshaw said

    Hi Mike,

    Thanks for dropping by with a comment. I’m looking forward to checking out HitTail. It sounds interesting.

    Sandy

  5. February 1st, 2007 at 3:34 am
    Mike Levin said

    Thanks for the response, Sandy. Looking forward to seeing you there.

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