Nicholas Cifuentes asked:


Blogs.

As an Internet strategist – my life daily is consumed with social media feeds, blog alerts, feedburner stats, google alert updates, monitoring, strategizing, execution – all of these overused terms and time consuming tactics certainly take a toll on you.

But one thing I do often, as I do for all my clients, is research – taking notice of the growing digital space around me – thinking of ideas to implement innovative strategies among the community and with my clients.

One of those key strategies that are a must in today’s Internet spectrum is a blog.  A blog is key in driving not only traffic, but interest to your brand, product, or company.  Blogs help you appear authoritative in your industry – allowing you to give views on the latest events in your trade, offer reviews, insights, and so on.

This expands into relationship building tools, as you are able to speak more freely and in a more informal and personable style, as compared to how you direct the voice on your main website.  Through the blog channel, they are more likely to trust you, and then all the more likely to visit your main website and then click your links and possibly purchase your product.

It also offers insight for your customers, and allows them to leave comments and ’speak’ to you on a key level. In addition, blogs are extremely search engine friendly – through thousands of possible keywords and fresh, updated content on a regular basis – blogs are simply great facets to have on your website today.  Your simply misguided if you think otherwise.

*Read More for a detailed blog breakdown of the popular clothing line Free People.



Now, another aspect of blogs I enjoy are creating them, not only content strategy, but programming and designing them on a unique level.  One aspect of ‘branding’ a blog is considering the number of possibilities you have when actually build the blog.

How do you want to approach a design? Are you a creative or less scalable brand? Do you have the ‘assets’ to build a ‘creative’ blog? Do you have a content strategy built before you blog? Do you know how to ‘market’ your blog on a daily basis?

These are all important questions you MUST think about before diving into the blog space – thinking you know what to do, when you might need a refresher.

And always remember that blogs vary, depending if you are in the business-to-consumer or business-to-business parallel – but your Plan of Action (POA) should always remain the same.

Case Study.

Free People. A blog that does it Right.

Free People is a ’boutique’ style of women’s and young girl’s clothing – offered both online and in brick and mortar stores around the world.  It is a sister-brand to another well-known bohemian-type clothing, accessories and furniture store – Anthropologie.

Now, the Free People store design is a very creative, bohemian look that stylizes the brand well, and does many good things as far as marketing the brand on the main website – but their blog page does an even better job in terms of look, strategy and content.



First, when you come upon the page – you have a nice flash banner on the top portion of the blog that draws instant attention.  It’s 3-D style and moving parts, keeps the user engaged enough to move the mouse over the falling curtain rod and press it – which then drags the screen over, as if you were in puppet show – making note of their blog’s name “Caravan of Curiosities” – to keep the user engaged enough to follow through the blog to discover its true meaning.

Another side point here – naming your blog something different and marketing that along side your main brand is a nice change of pace on occasion.  But it won’t work for everyone – so carefully think about that before you go off and name your blog something completely different.  The nice touch here is that ‘Caravan of Curiosities’ still has an engaging tone to it, and how they display it in the blog is effective as well.

Working your way down the page – you recognize the 3-D style curtain outline the navigation header, which is simple – and elegant. And then just three blog pages dress the navigation header:

 

Blog: links to the blog homepage Videos: links to a custom video channel page in the blog Shop FP: links back to the main website

 

And from a design aspect – you have to appreciate the look with drawn curtains going down the sides of the pages – very instinctual and effective.



Now, the opening page here is the blog homepage – which after the navigation has your standard blog format and layout with a search box, archives, categories, and a blog roll entitled ‘favorites’.  They also added a store locator and 6 products that are simple photos and text that link back to the main store. The column layout is a three-column layout morphed into two columns, and in that side right column they squeeze in the blog widgets.  All of this is complimented by a great ‘notebook’ style background.  As complex and rich as this design is overall – remember, it is their content that gets the job done…not the design.  Even though I truly applaud them on such a layout – very engaging for a user to traverse through.



Finally, at the bottom of the page — a nice connection with the footer, in relation to the header — similar to how you tie any story together — you must connect the beginning with the end of a story…as you do a website — design and content including.

Content of Free People.

Now, with any website, content is king, always will be king, and on the Free People blog – it is King.  Content on blogs are crucial for search engines because you can create thousands of keywords, all of it search engine friendly, and all the content you create is new and updated – so search engines will love you for it.

Free People does a fantastic job with approaching the all around marketing term – “On Target, Off Topic”. Free People have a target audience, girls, young women ages tween to 45; easily, and for the more trendy women who may breach beyond that age – even an older woman can wear their clothing.  With that target audience in thought – as a marketer – go ‘off topic’ for a bit, and consider talking about content that is not directly related to you, but still, in a way, is connected.



Free People’s breaks up its blog into 26 different categories; topics such as art, books, decor, crafts, food, home office, magazines, polls, music, and so on.  At the same time, they intermix direct categories related to some of their external social media tools, such as their flickr, myspace, facebook, and download pages.

The point is, their content is intellectually placed, and interesting…which is even more important!  They do occasionally drop in content that will push a new outfit, piece of clothing and so on…but not as often as you think.  And they are blogging everyday – with NEW content, and using this to their advantage.

Video.

Another aspect of their content they included was a blog page devoted exclusively to video.  This custom designed video player they added features behind the scene videos of their monthly catalog shoots, as well as a video featuring their 2007 holiday party.  These simple videos are barely 1:30 minutes long, edited with appropriate music, mostly indie stuff, and cut to look a bit grainy and eclectic, as their brand appropriately exhibits now.



This simple idea of placing video on the blog is a great marketing tool.  First, the video takes an editor, all of about an hour to edit and post.  From there…he can take this video – submit it to any external video channels, i.e. YouTube, Viddler, and so on.  They can then upload them to their Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr pages – only enhancing their exposure – through something as simple as video.

For those who don’t know what this is or means; essentially this creates secondary brand exposure that allows you to initially reach out to possible consumers who might not have seen your brand before, allowing them to now find you.  It also allows you to create ‘backlinks’ to your website – this all counts in that SEO puzzle so many clients and people I speak to are always trying to solve.

Final.

Here is the point about all this – what this blog does right is pretty much EVERYTHING. What they do wrong, next to NOTHING, nearly.  And let’s be clear on this, they have people who are supposed to be blogging and acting as community managers to maintain this blog, and update their external social networking profiles, and so on.  This all takes time, and we all know what time ends up being — $$$.  But, the effect of what they have created has allowed them to ‘connect’ with their consumers, and harness new customers, and so on.  Their blog has been around since November 2006, and has amassed a huge amount of traffic daily to the blog.  Agreed – they are a major brand and can spark that type of traffic, but honestly, the simplicity behind their blog strategy only enhances those numbers.

Any company or brand that is thinking of starting a blog strategy need to follow a similar model in structuring their content and direction when beginning or ‘changing up’ a blog for your brand or product.



If you need help in developing a blog strategy for your business, feel free to contact me @ anytime. nicholas.cifuentes@gmail.com

Creating social networking websites is getting easier each day. However, designing successful social networking websites has three major requirements:

1. Uniqueness 

2. Lots of creativity

3. Lots of patience (time)

If a social networking website is designed based on these three aspects there is no doubt that the project will be a grand success. Here, in this article, you will find the necessity of the three main factors of social networking web design.

The need of Uniqueness

Everyone using the Internet will be aware of the fact that the Social Networking arena is overcrowded. Hence uniqueness of the social networking websites is very much essential to stand out from the crowd. To make your social networking website design unique, you will have to spend lots of time in analyzing the aspects of other popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace and Orkut. You have to offer the users of your social networking website with something different and useful that most of the other popular social networking websites do not offer. One of the reasons behind the popularity of facebook is the handful of useful applications. There is a cool application called “Compare me” which allows users to compare themselves with the peers. Providing such cool, interactive social networking applications in your own website will attract more people.

The need of Creativity

Creativity is very much essential for designing social networking websites. The above said uniqueness in social networking web design can be achieved only by vivid creativity. So where does the creativity come from? Creativity comes as a result of extensive research. With lots of social networking websites out there, learning what to do with your social networking website is very easy.

The need of time

Both the above said aspects involved in designing social networking websites depend upon time. The more the time you spend in designing your social networking website, the more will be the success of the same. Researching what the competitor social networking websites are offering and coming up with creative ideas to make your social networking website look unique will eat up much of your time.

Bottom line

If you lack anyone of these there aspects of social networking website design, it’s better to get some professional help rather than do it by yourself. There are many professional social networking web designers with hands on experience in the same. All you have to do is to express you requirement and they will take care of everything- from planning to effective social networking web designing. There are some unique social networking web design companies who offer promotion of your website along with designing. These Social networking web design services offered by the experts with strategic thinking will guide you to the path of success.



By: Jonathan Mac

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There are plenty of free blog providers around on the internet, so why should you jump on board this new revolution of people blogging about their interests, thoughts or work? Well, to start with, if you want to start a blog then getting one for free is a pretty good start.

Sub domain sites like choseit.com are excellent to use as they provide all the services that you will need in a blog without having to shell out any money to use it.

What you will get is a blog by the name of xxxx.choseit.com, for example, where the x’s are replaced by your name. This is a great chance to get your name known on the internet, and this is one of the reasons that you should use a free blog provider.

Do you have a business that you can promote or a special skill? If you make jewellery, for example, but have not yet got anybody to sell it on to, then why not start up a blog teaching people about your work? You can write all about yourself and show pictures of the jewellery that you have made. People might then want to order from you once they see how skilled you are, and so you have effectively found your target market.

In the same vein, if you have a website then you can use a free blog to get yourself more traffic. You will get back-links from blogging about yourself and also be able to tell more people about your site. If you increase the amount of people who know about your site then you will get more hits and possibly earn more money from your site or just be able to provide the service you offer to more people.

Yet another reason to make a free blog is to make money. You can obviously promote your company of website, but you can also use adverts such as blog sense in order to get money from the clicks people make. Adverts that appear will be related to whatever you blog about, so if people are interested enough to come to your blog, then the adverts will more than likely appeal to them too.

Finding a free blog provider is the ideal way to open up a whole new world of opportunities for yourself on the internet. You can start or promote your business, give out information or just talk about a topic that is close to your heart.

Sites such as choseit.com are good because of the fact that they are updated daily to make sure you get constant information and tips on how to make your blog a success. You will be able to use a variety of themes as a background and just start to make yourself well known. This is your chance to get in on the market, and believe me it can be fairly lucrative, so take it by both hands and get yourself a free blog today. You will not regret it.



By: Tyrone Campbell

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YouTube- a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.Now more and more people prefer to express our feelings and share our ideals with others use YouTube in this open and comprehensive world, no daunt, but have you face these problems before, when you want to download those amazing videos and save it forever, and enjoy it on our iPod from time to time?

This tutorial will tell you how to free download YouTube video and put it on your iPod, iPod touch, it includes three parts.

Part1: How to download YouTube video?

1. With Free online Video Converter

Free online Video Converter like http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/,http://www.zamzar.com, http://vixy.net/, KeepVid.com, etc are all web-based video downloader and online Video Converter, here we take Zamzar as example to tell how to download and convert YouTube Video.

Step1.Open this website: http://www.zamzar.com

Step2. Then go to YouTube http://www.youtube.com and find a video that you love. Copy the URL that in the Red box. Like this format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qptta92yEoc&feature=dir



Step3. Switch to “Download Videos” tab on ZamZar, paste your video file URL to the input box (figure as follow), choose the right format you want. as you want to put YouTube video on iPod, so you can select mp4 and convert your video directly(MP4 is also fit for PSP, Zune, Apple TV and other MP4 players. This online converter also can rip audio to MP3.), then enter your email address to receive converted file, then click “convert” to start conversion.

Step4. After the conversion finished, check out the mailbox to get the video please.

Note: You cannot convert the big video files using free online converters. It is up to 100MB. And the quality of the output files is just so.

2. With Firefox Video Downloader

A free Firefox plugin,also a quick and convenient way to extract your favorite YouTube videos using this add-on. Besides YouTube, this plug-in supports other video streaming sites including Metacafe, Google Videos and Dailymotion, among others

But you only use it to download YouTube video on Firefox OSX.

Step1. Free download and install the Video downloader extension tool for Firefox here

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Step 2. After installation, restart your Firefox browser, go to a YouTube page of your own choosing, you can see a small icon to the status bar at the bottom of the Firefox window , just click that and you can download the video you are currently watching. this will then open up video downloader. Simply click the “Download Link” tab to whichever videos you wish to download. It’s very easy.

3. With software of download YouTube video

There’re many software to download YouTube video, like Wondershare YouTube Downloader, Orbit Downloader, 4U download YouTube video, Xilisoft download YouTube video. Here I introduce Wondershare YouTube Downloader for example, it not only download YouTube video, but also convert YouTube video to all popular formats like avi,mp4,mpg,wmv etc.

Step1: Download and install Wondershare YouTube Downloader

Step2: Launch YouTube Downloader and play any YouTube video.

YouTube Downloader will sniff the playing video automatically, and then a pop-up window will ask you to download the videos or skip. Once you select “Download”, YouTube Downloader will start to download it.



Part2: Convert YouTube video to iPod with Wondershare YouTube Downloader

Step1: Select any videos in the downloading list firstly, and then click “Convert”.

Not only can YouTube Downloader download and put YouTube videos to iPod, iPod touch, but also it can convert flv files into MPEG, AVI, WMV ,WMA,mp3 etc.

Step2: Set the target format and output path of the converted files.

It’s really convenient for you set up output format, even the some parameters are also available for you to adjust. And there are a large numbers of formats for you to select.

Step3: Click “OK” to start converting, and the conversion is completely under your control. You can also click “Open” to browse the converted files freely.

Part3: Put YouTube video to iPod, iPod Touch, iPod Nano via iTunes

You only need three steps to put YouTube video to iPod.

Step1: Launch iTunes. Click downloaded YouTube videos and select “Add File to Library”

The added files will be automatically classified in the Music or Movies Category under LIBRARY.

Step2: Click My IPOD under the DEVICEs firstly, and tick “Manually manage music and videos” option in the Summary window:

Step3:Drag the YouTube videos from the library file list to your iPod ,iPod touch

Then click the YouTube videos under MY IPOD, you can enjoy YouTube video on iPod.

After you have put YouTube video to iPod, now you can enjoy your YouTube video with your friends and your family.

For first time bloggers, a free blogging web site is a great way to get started in the blogosphere. Popular blogging web sites like Blogger and Eponym allow users to set up and host a blog without paying any fees at all.

This encourages people to start blogging, because the fact that one of these sites can provide you with all of the tools that you need to get your blog up and running without spending any money means that you have nothing to lose by starting a blog.

The fact that it is so easy to find a way to blog for free is one of the reasons why so many people who have never had any other kind of web presence before find themselves drawn to blogging.

By signing up with a free blogging web site, you may find it easier to get listed in search engines that you would if you were starting your own blog from scratch. For example, Google runs the free blog hosting site Blogspot and crawls its pages very often looking for updates, so if you have your site hosted by Blogspot you are almost guaranteed to be listed on Google’s blog search engine.

This easy access to search engines can take some of the work out of promoting your blog, and can help you gain a following with a minimum of marketing effort.

If your blog attracts a large readership, you may want to consider moving your site. Many people feel that being hosted by a free blogging web site gives a blog a kind of amateur flavor that is fine for a new member of the blogosphere, but is not appropriate for a high-profile blog. Having your own domain can help you make your blog feel professional, and finding a company that will host your domain is not difficult or expensive.

Once your blog takes off, you will probably be able to sell enough advertising space to be able to afford to buy a domain and pay for a hosting package, and still have money left over. However, it does not make sense in most cases to invest in these glossy luxuries before you have a sizable readership.

Starting your blog on a free blogging web site is a great way to build a following before you spend any money on your blog. If and when your blog becomes popular and you are ready to take the next step and purchase your own domain, your readers will follow you to your new home. The fact that it is possible to use a free blog host like Blogspot, Blogger, or Eponym as a kind of incubator for your blog is great news for bloggers everywhere.



By: Don Alexander

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Jason Cochran asked:


Step 1: Choose Your Passion

What does passion have to do with it? I just want to make money!

Well making money might be a good reason for starting a blog and money CAN be made, but in the end creating and maintaining a blog that is going to last is more about your passion or your driving force. Ask yourself this question;

“What would I do everyday, for the rest of my life, without ever being paid to do it?”

Whatever answer you come up with is your passion. That is what your blog should be about; YOUR PASSION. That is what you should be blogging about. Write for yourself before you right for someone else. Money and fame are just icing on the cake.

See, when you first start writing your blog, there most likely WILL NOT be any money returned from your time investment. Making money is usually a result of long hours invested in gaining subscribers and avid readers and becoming known as an “expert”. You might decide to monetize your blog, but without people reading your blog, how are you going to make money?

Remember this:

THERE ARE NO GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEMES RELATED TO BUILDING AN A+ BLOG!!!

Sorry to dash your dreams but if you are looking for the “key” to riches beyond your wildest dreams, then please go somewhere else; you won’t find it here.

Step 2: Write Down Your Goals

Most likely if you write down your goals those goals will happen. This is because making yourself actually think about what you want to accomplish is half of the battle already won.

“Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail.” ~ English Proverb

What do you want to accomplish? How are you going to deliver your message? When you are finished, what is it going to look like?

Step 3: Visit Some Other Blogs

Do some research and check out what other people are doing with their blogs. Learn what blogging is in general. Don’t just search for blogs in your niche, but also in general. There is alot to be learned from others that have already put up there own blogs. Posts some comments so that you can start to get a feel of what the whole blogging process is. While you are researching be sure to bookmark those blogs that you have visited and write down interesting ideas that pop into your head. You might not remember where you have been only a day or two earlier.

Step 4: Choose a Blogging Software

There a bunch of options when looking for your blogging software. I would start by doing a search on Google for Blogging Software. Don’t be intimidated by the 62,000,000 + results returned back to you.

For the scope of the article, I am going to talk about WordPress (http://www.wordpress.com). I chose WordPress for my blog not only because it is the most popular, but also because it is backed by a huge community, has some really useful plugins, gives you loads of control and is easy to use. You can either signup for at www.wordpress.com or find your own hosting provider to host the blog for you. If you are new to blogging then signing-up at www.wordpress.com might be your best bet. There are many of bulit-in extras like stats that track your visitors that are beneficial. Best of all it is FREE!!

Step 5: Buy a Domain Name

Buying a domain from a domain registry such as GoDaddy will make your blog appear more professional. Choose a domain name that not only fits your blog’s purpose but also has keywords in it. For instance, if your blog is about gardening, then choose a domain such as “MyGardeningBlog.com” or “My-Gardening-Blog.com”. The .com, .net, .org, etc extension is not important although .com extensions are generally recognized as the default.

Step 6: Customize Your Blog

Customizing your blog is very easy with WordPress. If you choose to host your blog with www.wordpress.com then you can choose from dozens of pre-installed templates. You can also Search Google for additional templates that are either FREE or low cost for around $45 a template. If you find a template that is not provided by the hosted service then you can simply upload the new template to your account. The control panel that comes with the hosted service is very easy to use.

If you are daring enough to modify the template by hand you can do so. WordPress is built in a web site scripting language called PHP. If you are not familiar with PHP then this route is not for you. You can, however, find additional resources online either at the WordPress website or by doing a Google search.

Step 7: Install Helpful Plugins

WordPress is easily expandable by the use of “Plugins”. Plugins are little pieces of software that are created by a 3rd-Party developer that accomplish simple tasks such as helping you manage your Google Adsense(http://www.google.com/adsense) ads or backing up your WordPress installation. There are many plugins to choose from and you can search for them at www.wordpress.org.

Step 8: Write Your “About” Page

When you are ready, you can describe the blog and its purpose in an “About” page. Be as descriptive as you can about the target audience and what you will be providing in the blog.

Step 9: Start Posting to Your Blog

This is actually the hardest part. If you have done your homework on what your passion was and you did some research, then you most likely did some blog posts in your head. Don’t sweat coming up with great and astounding ideas or intricate essays. Remember the KISS method and Keep It Simple Stupid! (OK I had to break this rule for this article but you know what I mean…)

You have to remember who your audience is in general. Most people read blogs rather than other forms of information because they are short and to-the-point snippets of information that can be easily digested. I think this is just normal human behavior in a conventional society. There is far too much information on the internet and too little time to try to consume it all. Blogs satisfy our normal curiosity like small little squares of chocolate would satisfy our sweet-tooth.

Step 10: Marketing (and maybe Monetizing) Your Blog

Since you have been blogging your little heart away, wouldn’t it be nice if people actually read it? Here are a few ways, among many, to go about marketing your blog.



Google Website Submittal(http://www.google.com/addurl/) - This allows you to easily add your new blog (or website) to Google. I also suggest you submit to Yahoo and AltaVista and any other search engine or directory you can find.

Google Adsense and Adwords – Adwords allows you to advertise on Google and Adsense allows you display ads on your blog that match your content. If any visitors to your blog click on the advertisements you get paid for it. What a concept!! Be sure to check the other suggested affiliates and ad networks under the “Money Makers” section of this blog.

Google Sitemap – This is a FREE plugin for WordPress that you can install that will create a Google Sitemap of your blog that can be used to allow your blog to be better indexed by Google.

FeedBurner – Another plugin and service that is FREE that allows you to do some really neat things with your blog’s feed. The feed of your blog is what allows someone to subscribe to your blog. It is a file that contains all of your posts in a specific file format called RSS that an “aggregator” (or “feed reader”) such as Google Reader can read and keep track of. You would want to use an aggregator because it keeps track of the different blog feeds that you have subscribed to and allows you to read those blog feeds all in one place. Although you do not need FeedBurner to allow your blog to be subscribed to, it has some really great features that you need to check out.

Comments – Visit alot of blogs and subscribe to them. Try to be the first to leave a comment with a link back to your blog.

Forums - Forums are the same way. Just be careful that you are truly leaving a comment about the thread and not just trying to advertise your blog.

Signatures – When you leave a comment or send an email make sure you use a signature that has your blog address.

Write Articles – Turn you blog posts into an expanded article that you can put on a tutorial or eZine (Electronic or Online Magazine) website such as ArticlesBase.com(http://www.articlesbase.com). Make sure to add a link back to your blog.

Word of Mouth – Don’t forget to tell the people you know about your new blog and keep them updated on what is going on. Ask them to become subscribers to your blog.



I hope you have enjoyed this introduction into the world of blogging and I hope that you find your passion. Please be sure to comment on this blog post and leave me some feedback. Also be sure to ask me any questions that you might have. I will be glad to help you in any way that I can.

Upload Video to Blog Software – it seems like converting to Webvideos has never been easier. It seems like the latest VDO streaming converters truly offer an easy solution for Webmasters. Looking for tips on how you can easily put movie files on your Webpage? Start reading this article.

Quick overview

Upload Video to Blog Software transforms your videos to the Web’s most popular display format called .FLV. In order to publish your new Webvideos all you have to do is add a simple .html code to your Webpage(s) and post the new files onto your Website’s hosting server. Just for you to know you have just generated streaming webvideos – they are available in real time with no download waiting time.

Benefits

This technology undoubtedly provides several important advantages:

Compressing raw movies to 10% or less of their original file size! It helps your visitors feel more comfortable doing business with you online. Easily transforms your Site(s) more impressive. It enables you to be more creative and persuasive. Website(s) visitors today respond more to movies than to text.

We could easily find many other benefits provided by this technology, simply because it isn’t just about file conversions – it is about providing you with a powerful marketing tool that can truly take your on-line business to the next lev

Quick summary

Upload Video to Blog Software easily transforms digital movies conversions automatic, fun, and highly effective process. It is time for action, so at this point it is highly advised to evaluate this unique solution and experience how it easily enables you to further promote your online business.



By: Ben Goldman

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HitBox Professional from Visual Science

At Live2Support, we continuously evaluate web analytics and visitor site analysis systems of both the subscription and downloadable variety. We must admit that it is a real jungle out there with thousands of free and paid products available to assess your visitor traffic. Since Live2Support’s chat software has a large number of in-built traffic analysis tools, we are able to provide reliable comparisons against a functional benchmark.

The web statistics service from Visual Sciences called HitBox Professional is among the more popular solutions being used today. We will tell you about its many features in a moment but first we need to tell you that it is not free. Monthly subscriptions to HitBox Professional start at $26.67 a month and goes up from there depending on which plan you choose. But before you fish out your credit card, we ask that you first sign up for a fully functional demo version of the service.

It is a good idea to first use the demo version of the subscription service just to make sure this is what you are looking for. Visual Science is strong on customer support and so if you are one of those users who will need help during the initial stages of implementation, we recommend that you consider HitBox Professional seriously.

HitBoxProfessional and its Features

HitBox Professional provides real-time web site analysis. This means that you can watch visitor activity as it takes place on your web site. HitBox Professional is equipped to show you where your site visitors are coming from a search engine results page, web site, directly from a web browser etc. which web pages on your web site they are looking at, and which navigational paths they take through your web site. The program also tracks customer orders, customer behavior and revenue, and accurately identifies the optimal sources of customer acquisition. HitBox Professional enables you to pinpoint which promotion or incentive program on your web site is generating maximum heat.

The end result? Web analytics programs like HitBox Professional can help you devise powerful strategies to increase visitor conversion rates, and in the final analysis, improve the quality of customer service.

Downside

Many users and web masters consider HitBox Professional to be good value for money. Its pricing structure, however, can be misleading. Subscription plans are based on monthly page views and if your page views happen to be higher than the allowed number in your plan and exceed the limit, it costs extra. The extent to which HitBox Professional is page view sensitive is not determined by you but by external factors such as visitor traffic and Hatbox’s interpretation of this data.

Although HitBox Professional touts many advanced-level report generation features such as the ability to send reports to your inbox and the ability to export traffic data to Excel spread sheets, we have to make sure that you aren’t biting off more than you can chew. To eliminate the possibility of feature overkill, you might want to consider first signing up for a trial demo version before you subscribe to the service on a regular basis.

Google analytics

Google Analytics is a service offered by Google and is designed to generate comprehensive site visitor traffic data and statistics about the visitors to your web site. Like most other Google services, Google Analytics is free and is extremely easy to install and use.

Although the intended purpose of Google Analytics is to help web site owners who participate in Google’s PPC programs like AdWords and AdSense with traffic analysis, anyone can use Google Analytics. It provides data on most critical web site traffic issues such as where your site visitors are arriving from, how long they are staying on your site and their geographical origin. If you have used Google Analytics before and feel like commending Google for its elementary and yet highly effective approach to traffic analysis, you might want to hold off. This tool was originally developed by Urchin Software Corporation and was subsequently acquired by Google in April 2005 like You Tube, Jaiku, Blogger, Adaptive Path’s Measure Maps and Feedburner. If you happen to be using any type of PPC to increase site traffic and your conversion ratio, Google Analytics is a safe and sure bet for you. This is because its reporting functions are known to be accurate and mostly tally with similar data from other traffic analysis solutions.

Google Analytics allows you to choose from eighty distinct reporting features all of which update in one hour or less. You are allowed to monitor up to fifty web sites although many web masters are able to sneak in a few extra URLs while Google looks the other way.

Downside

With annual revenues of $10.6 billion and a worldwide full-time employee base of 15,916, it is hard to expect Google to be less than perfect. However, there are programs which can prevent Google Analytics from compiling traffic statistics through overtly vigilant gate keeping. Pop-up blockers like Adblock and computer privacy services like Tor do a great job of keeping Google at bay.

Conclusion

If your web site has either a customer or a content orientation, it makes perfect sense to sign up for a traffic analysis service. From a technical perspective too, this is not a complex task. All you have to do is to paste and embed Java script on to your web pages, upload your updated web pages and activate the site. Just as an aside, we would like you to know that Live2Support too comes with extremely powerful web analytics attributes. All the important features offered by HitBox Professional and Google Analytics are available in Live2Support which gives you the added advantage of getting potent live chat features and web analytics in a single functionally integrated environment. And we provide full-fledged customer support too!



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