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Let me give you some advice first: listen to this podcast with your Google Analyics account open and in front of you. Justin Cutroni, this weeks guest, is an asbolute expert on Google Analytics, and he shows by explaining in a very easy way the most fascinating new functions that Google Analytics has to offer and which reports you as a blogger can use to improve your blogging.
The show discusses loads of features, from Advanced Segments and Custom Variables (and how nicely they’re integrated into yours trulies new version 4 of his Google Analytics WordPress plugin) to the new Intelligence and Alerts tab. Not only does he explain the concepts, there are some very practical tips, like:
- How to create an advanced segment to find the content on your site that is generating most AdSense revenue.
- How to create an alert for sudden traffic spikes from referring sites.
If you’re serious about blogging and are using Google Analytics, or want to start using it, the hour listening to this podcast is well spent!
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Adii Pienaar is a co-founder of WooThemes, a leading WordPress theme provider. WooThemes endeavors to maintain a tight connection with their users, an integral element of their success. Adii discusses what WooThemes is up to, what they’ve contributed to the WordPress community and how WooThemes innovates in addressing user problems.
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Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of one of the world’s most popular blogs – Mashable.com, which happens to be powered by WordPress! Since 2005 Mashable has been a leader in social media and technology news coverage in addition to hosting events like the recent media summit and social media day. In tip-packed show, Pete shares with us:
- Why he selected and continues to use WordPress,
- The secret formula of success for blogs,
- How to work with and develop teams,
- How to develop communities,
- How to measure growth and monetize,
- How to build a brand
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Today Joost is joined by Chris Coyier, one of the authors of Digging into WordPress and the founder of CSS Tricks. Chris and Joost talk about a lot of different subjects, ranging from their individual history with CSS sites to what Chris dubbed “the big three” updates in WordPress 3.0 (custom post types, menus, multi site) and to how Chris designs a site.
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Alex King is among the original contributors to the WordPress project (which has almost reached version 3.0) and a prolific plugin developer. As you might expect, over the years he and his team at Crowd Favorite have created numerous freely available products and tools for WordPress. A few of them include:
- Tagaroo: Suggests possible tags and flickr images for people, places, events etc.
- BackupMoxie: A streamlined and transparent backup solution for WordPress sites of any size.
- Analytics360: Bring MailChimp and Google Analytics statistics to your WordPress dashboard.
- Carrington: An easy to use yet powerful template system for WordPress.
- WordPress Help Center: On call WordPress support for tasks of any size.
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