Video explaining how Google Analytics can help improve your website Thread poster: Triston Goodwin
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Hi again...
I made another one...
This video explains how Google Analytics can help improve your website (which we made for free in a previous video). For those that are unfamiliar with Google Analytics, it's a free service offered by Google that helps you keep track of how many visitors you receive to your site, how they find your site, and what they do while on your site. For example, I saw that I was getting a lot of visits to a couple of my blog posts, but that peop... See more Hi again...
I made another one...
This video explains how Google Analytics can help improve your website (which we made for free in a previous video). For those that are unfamiliar with Google Analytics, it's a free service offered by Google that helps you keep track of how many visitors you receive to your site, how they find your site, and what they do while on your site. For example, I saw that I was getting a lot of visits to a couple of my blog posts, but that people would just drop off the site and not look at anything else. So I started to add links to other blog posts or some other call to action at the end of each post to engage my readers a bit more. And it worked!
If you are currently marketing yourself online, this is a good tool to have and understand in order to evaluate how well your current marketing plan is working. If you're just starting, this will help you see how your efforts influence your website and can help you take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Plus, you can see if there is anything "broken" on your site (like my visitor leak!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb55CMPhLtk
If you like these kinds of videos, make sure to subscribe to my channel. I upload this kind of stuff every couple of weeks. There's a big red "subscribe" button right underneath the video.
Also, if you have any questions about online marketing, or if there is something that you would like to see more of, let me know and I'll do what I can!
Thanks!
-Triston
[Edited at 2014-12-15 07:06 GMT]
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| | | | Thayenga 
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Well, of course it's free. After all, this enables Google to harvest more and more information on a wide-spread level.
| | | | Triston Goodwin
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TOPIC STARTER | You already guess the twist ending of my next video! | Dec 15, 2014 |
That's true, but they're already scanning your website with their crawlers. Personally, I think that they provide all this information and let you see your sites weak spots so that you will by ads through them in order to generate more traffic.
Though advertising through Google is WAY better than through Facebook.
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| I fail to see how this is related to translation | Dec 17, 2014 |
Sounds more like advertising a Youtube channel to me.
Plus justifying Analytics with crawlers is a sign that you might be lacking some knowledge on the matter. Or worse.
There are non-intrusive alternatives to this service.
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Triston Goodwin
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Pierret Adrien wrote:
Sounds more like advertising a Youtube channel to me.
Plus justifying Analytics with crawlers is a sign that you might be lacking some knowledge on the matter. Or worse.
There are non-intrusive alternatives to this service.
This video is part of group that I've been working on that explains how to build a free website to help people market their translation services. I had mentioned that in the original post and this is posted under "Marketing for translators".
In regards to using Google Analyics instead of another system, the idea is to keep things simple. The CMS that we've been using makes integrating Analytics really easy. Google Analytics is used a lot here and provides a lot of really helpful information. Plus it's free - which is the main concept behind the videos.
Based on the positive responses from the other videos, I figured this information was appreciated. I apologize if this looks like some sort of advertisement
| | | | Samuel Murray
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Pierret Adrien wrote:
Sounds more like advertising a Youtube channel to me.
It's posted in the "Marketing for translators" forum.
There are non-intrusive alternatives to this service.
Not really. If there were, you'd have told us about them, wouldn't you have? (-:
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| | | | Samuel Murray
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Pierret Adrien wrote:
Piwik is one.
Piwik isn't free, though. To use Piwik, you need to hire a web host to set it up and run it and host it. Google Analytics is a free solution that requires nothing more than signing up.
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| Great, thanks! | Dec 18, 2014 |
Triston Goodwin wrote:
If you like these kinds of videos, make sure to subscribe to my channel. I upload this kind of stuff every couple of weeks. There's a big red "subscribe" button right underneath the video.
I have your playlist bookmarked, but I just depend on your post for updates, heh heh. I haven't actually started implementing any of the stuff I've learned, but even though my website (www.japan-translate.com) is in Wordpress and not Weebly I'm sure I'll be able to apply most of the principles within. I'll be working on the site over the holidays... I think... maybe. Thanks a lot and keep it up!
| | | | Thayenga
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| 2 sides of the "same" medal | Dec 21, 2014 |
Triston Goodwin wrote:
Though advertising through Google is WAY better than through Facebook.
Well, as far as spying is concerned, there's not really a difference.
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TOPIC STARTER | A sore subject... | Dec 21, 2014 |
I worry that there are scarier groups than Facebook and Google spying on us :/
I have advertised on Google, Bing and Facebook without any real success. Facebook seemed like a scam, though. I received a ton of likes, sure, but they were mostly from young kids from countries that I wasn't targeting and not the specific groups that I was after. It was a total waste of time and money.
I'm trying to decide whether or not to make this video simply because I know that I'll be ... See more I worry that there are scarier groups than Facebook and Google spying on us :/
I have advertised on Google, Bing and Facebook without any real success. Facebook seemed like a scam, though. I received a ton of likes, sure, but they were mostly from young kids from countries that I wasn't targeting and not the specific groups that I was after. It was a total waste of time and money.
I'm trying to decide whether or not to make this video simply because I know that I'll be throwing money out the window. At the same time it might help others avoid my mistakes and decide if paid ads are a viable option. I have learned a lot more about paid advertising since my last attempt (about six months ago) and it might work better now. ▲ Collapse
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