Archive for the 'Google Analytics' Category

Oct 23 2008

The “Recent Comments” Widget Works!

Hello, I'm an assistant editor providing writing advice. SN specializes in superhero writing advice, obviously, but most of the advice here applies to fantasy and sci-fi as well.

In the four weeks since we’ve added the Recent Comments widget, our comment-traffic is up about 800%.

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Jul 03 2008

We broke 25,000 hits for 2008 today!

Thanks for coming.

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Apr 30 2008

Using Google Analytics to Promote Your Book Intelligently

Authors, particularly new and unproven ones, have to use promotional events to drive sales. Google Analytics can provide useful information about which cities are worth promoting in. The conventional wisdom is probably that the most readers for the typical book can be found in large cities (NYC, Chicago, LA…) But you can probably do a lot better than just hitting up large cities.

For example, we’ve tabulated our numbers for January 2008 and found that Atlanta and Toronto currently have almost as many Superhero Nation readers as NYC.

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Apr 20 2008

Header Change: April 22

Usually, we wait a month before doing major header changes. However, we got slightly new art, so I wanted to rotate that in as quickly as possible.

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Mar 25 2008

Changes with Google Analytics?

Google Analytics reports that only 40% of our visitors on Tuesday were new. Previously, that number had never been less than 90%.

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