Comments on: Has Twitter become more important than Google for traffic generation? http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2009/07/has-twitter-become-more-important-than-google-for-traffic-generation/ Web Analytics, Social Media and Search Marketing Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:53:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Social Media and URLs | nuze.me http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2009/07/has-twitter-become-more-important-than-google-for-traffic-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-3019 Social Media and URLs | nuze.me Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:16:23 +0000 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/?p=5249#comment-3019 [...] He goes a little further out in saying that browsers like Google Chrome might end up bypassing search results and pick the best results for you, ahead of time, limiting choice even more; not sure I agree that’s happening – but I think it’s worth noting.  Jonathan mentions using Tiny Urls, while helpful for Twitter, defeat branding and also make it harder to track traffic, for a variety of reasons I covered in a recent post – has Twitter become more important than Google for traffic generation? [...] [...] He goes a little further out in saying that browsers like Google Chrome might end up bypassing search results and pick the best results for you, ahead of time, limiting choice even more; not sure I agree that’s happening – but I think it’s worth noting.  Jonathan mentions using Tiny Urls, while helpful for Twitter, defeat branding and also make it harder to track traffic, for a variety of reasons I covered in a recent post – has Twitter become more important than Google for traffic generation? [...]

]]> By: Social Media and URLs | Web Analytics Blog | Web analytics http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2009/07/has-twitter-become-more-important-than-google-for-traffic-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-3020 Social Media and URLs | Web Analytics Blog | Web analytics Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:47:59 +0000 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/?p=5249#comment-3020 [...] He goes a little further out in saying that browsers like Google Chrome might end up bypassing search results and pick the best results for you, ahead of time, limiting choice even more; not sure I agree that’s happening - but I think it’s worth noting.  Jonathan mentions using Tiny Urls, while helpful for Twitter, defeat branding and also make it harder to track traffic, for a variety of reasons I covered in a recent post - has Twitter become more important than Google for traffic generation? [...] [...] He goes a little further out in saying that browsers like Google Chrome might end up bypassing search results and pick the best results for you, ahead of time, limiting choice even more; not sure I agree that’s happening – but I think it’s worth noting.  Jonathan mentions using Tiny Urls, while helpful for Twitter, defeat branding and also make it harder to track traffic, for a variety of reasons I covered in a recent post – has Twitter become more important than Google for traffic generation? [...]

]]> By: Visits über Twitter richtig messen - Twitter bringt mehr als du denkst http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2009/07/has-twitter-become-more-important-than-google-for-traffic-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-3021 Visits über Twitter richtig messen - Twitter bringt mehr als du denkst Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:32:08 +0000 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/?p=5249#comment-3021 [...] Marshall Sponder greift in seinem neusten Post das Thema Traffic über Social Networks auf. Die Web-Analytic Tools unterstellen Google [...] [...] Marshall Sponder greift in seinem neusten Post das Thema Traffic über Social Networks auf. Die Web-Analytic Tools unterstellen Google [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Foucher Web Design http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2009/07/has-twitter-become-more-important-than-google-for-traffic-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-3022 Jonathan Foucher Web Design Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:16:04 +0000 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/?p=5249#comment-3022 I guess it was quite late when you wrote this ;) The reason analytics can't report all the visits coming from tweeter is because they don't come from twitter... They come from tweetdeck, twhirl, twitterfox, and all the other apps of sites that use the twitter API. Few people use the web to read tweets... Search yoast.com for that problem. He gives a solution to that issue. Basically, you add utm variables to your url to get Google analytics to tell you where your visitors come from. I guess it was quite late when you wrote this ;) The reason analytics can’t report all the visits coming from tweeter is because they don’t come from twitter… They come from tweetdeck, twhirl, twitterfox, and all the other apps of sites that use the twitter API. Few people use the web to read tweets…

Search yoast.com for that problem. He gives a solution to that issue. Basically, you add utm variables to your url to get Google analytics to tell you where your visitors come from.

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