A look in the table of contents shows the variety of topics ranging from basics like Web design on my favorite right and Web 2.0 Web Analytics. The author list reads German who is who of online marketing it like that, many of the names are known in the industry and recognized.

For all who want times taster pure free has a summary for each chapter and completely the first and second chapters as PDF download.

* Include vs. Excluse GA Filters (Lunametrics)
* Convert Data Skeptics: Document, Educate and Pick Your Poison (Avinash Kaushik)
* Rewriting The Beginners Guide Part I – How Search Engines Operate (SEOMoz.org)
* Negotiating A Web Analytics Vendor Contract? Check SLA’s (Avinash Kaushik)
* Woran erkennt man schnell ein schlechtes AdWords-Konto? (inside SEM)
* What and how to measure Online Travel and Hospitality websites (Dennis R. Mortensen)

The reader has a shop which generates a new session ID each time you visit and then packaged in the URL. It looks like this:

/ cgi-bin/shop/47125eba00685728274050f3360805ed/product/view/FRC3962246B

Changes the URL for each visitor to each beautiful statistics in the bucket is of course. My first advice would be to ban the session ID from the URL of course, because there it has nothing to find my opinion. But there is a solution with a filter for Google Analytics. You can simply take a search and replace filter and filter out the session ID by regular expression. Because I don’t have a shop with such URL structure unfortunately I could not test the filter. So take care!

And the filter would look like:

The regular expression \\w+ which searches for any character string of alphanumeric characters and numbers is important. If you know how long is the session ID, you could restrict the number of characters.

Because I did something on instinct the filter, I would very happy feedback and any corrections or problems in the comments.

And remember: always first create a copy of the profile, otherwise the data is gone. Filter unfortunately don’t apply to existing data, only for the future collected.

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On the screenshot you see a little problem. If you are a nerd like me and run 10 analytics tools plus AdSense on the page have, above to get to all riders. Unfortunately you can widen not any Firefox sidebar, at least on the Mac not.

Update: On the Mac you can place the individual tabs in WASP via CTRL-TAB.

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Posted on 10. October 2007 of Patrick Ludolph

Again one of those popular top 10 posts, ok there are 11. This time is about how you can convert to repeat unique visitors to a blog. This article is a free translation of an article from searchenginejournal. A point have I deleted and added to one.

1. RSS Feed. To have a sufficient not necessarily. Make your visitors as easy to access the feed. In addition to the mandatory link in the sidebar can accommodate a reference to the RSS feed also under each post.
2. Continuity. Write regularly and have always an ACE (article) the sleeve. Regularity must out did not hot every day 5 article but can also mean to write a good article per week.
3. Reply to comments. Users who post comments are very valuable. Fashioned gold too and answer every comment.
4. Give Aways. If you write about a product you could consider to make a competition it and giving away a little give away. Is of course may entail costs. A good example was the birthday raffle by Sergej, which has gotten comments of lots of on it.
5. Comment notification. Enable users of new comments via email to be informed. The result is a dialogue as a valuable addition to your post may. In this blog I had a class discussion about Flash SEO as recently.
6. Interaction. Create surveys or small quiz. In a survey you participated quickly and the results can be very valuable. A great SEO Quiz has put online a few weeks ago e.g. edge. You learn something and get even an award if to do not stupid ;-)
7. Top Posts. Show users which are the most popular posts of blogs. So they are aware quickly on the content, which were also many other visitors already interesting. WordPress you can let you do that by the plugin popularity contest.
8. Job offers. If you area you on a special move, think about it after job listings to your website to offer. Best example of this is the Job Board of Webanalyticsdemystified is.
9. Social Bookmark Buttons. Offer prominently the possibility of the users in each post, to bookmark this article in a social bookmark services. With a few clicks is sometimes the top lists. Seoigg.de brought me personally so many valuable visitors.
10. Teaser. Build a in your blog small teaser that you users indicate more interesting posts or future products.
11. Cross Linking. Offer related articles to each post. If a user is interested in the topic, he clicks on probably similar products. For WordPress there is plugin which allows that.

Certainly there are some more ideas to keep the visitors in the page and to animate the return. But as this is so with top 10 lists, it is easy after the 11th ;-). In the comments going further with further proposals.

Ars Technica reported a support Odyssey. Urchin customers were promised updates never received. Support requests to bugs that exist since the beginning until today not been solved.

Certainly Google Analytics the engine on-demand solution is and of course much more suitable collect the data as a software that is hosted on customer servers. Should Google however have interest in eventually play in the premium area, then they shouldn’t miss as soon as possible an update Urchin. Particularly for customers from the financial or insurance I fixed, there are great scruples using Google Analytics. I can’t say whether this concerns are permitted. I can understand it but always.

* Semmelstatz
* StatTraq
* FireStats
* Live
* WordPress Blogstatistik
* SlimStat

Why choose? I researched some time and found determined over 50 plugins that Chuck out numbers about WordPress in any way. Most of them are designed for very special requirements or have only very limited functionality. Finding it was important that the plugins give some basic information such as traffic, referrers, keywords etc. me, stop what you would expect as a minimum an analysis tool. Nevertheless, an exotic has crept in with live.

I haven’t done a direct comparison of features of the statistics plugins. The idea was to create a matrix which will permit a feature comparison, but I gave up that after a short time because the plugins are too different.
Terms

The plugins almost all live in an own terminology. Views, uniques, visits, visitors, hits, UserCount… it’s all going. Unfortunately a definition is what now exactly measured the term in any of the tools. It is therefore too damn difficult to compare the numbers, because you never know what everything is included.
Search engines and bots

One advantage of plugins is that they can measure the traffic of bots and search engine crawlers. The disadvantage is that this traffic at all the plugins cannot be separated from the user traffic. This is probably the main reason that so huge differences lie in the traffic.
The numbers

First I would like to present the measured figures of each tool. You can see, the bandwidth is really great. As I recorded with visits, uniques and PI’s from Google Analytics into the table. For almost all tools although absolute numbers are strongly different but the trend is largely identical. Only StatTraq is completely out of the ordinary and SemmelStats also has a small break.

Semmelstatz

Semmelstatz is my personal favorite among the WordPress plugins. You can get a quick overview of the most important data on a page. Blog statistics, history after days (configurable), referrers, keywords and top 10 posts and comments. Anyone can view the raw data sets to get more details. Nice, I think you can see how many users are currently online and read what contribution.

In the settings you can configure how many entries you want to see the individual statistics and how long a user is considered online. Hint: The last 9 days when the traffic view, so that you can compare Monday to Monday. Semmelstatz may exclude among the bots off the record.
StatTraq

This plugin is because with an own surface. Once you click on the link in wp-admin, you have your own look & feel what not particularly succeeded in my opinion. This menu has clearly the major points for users, page views, referrers, keywords and some other information. StatTraq allows bots the statistics exclude settings which is very positive. Still, I find the numbers despite exclusion of bots still very high.

On the page SE saturation can give to the State of the own page in the search engines supposedly. There, however, no pages appear I index Google, what I believe to be a rumor. Links to the AddUrl pages of search engines I think a bit silly. Really too bad, because the approach is not so bad.
FireStats

This plugin is actually completely ruled out. Firstly it offers no history, then always visitors of last 24 hours indicates it which is very unusual and last it installs twice on the same server. The problem is that FireStats files in the / tmp folder stores and then used by all FireStats installation on the server. This results in error messages, and sometimes strange numbers when switching to the other installation. While managing multiple pages can be set in the settings, but that brings something me only when I share the server with other users, as I need to enter the information of all FireStats installations on the same server there.
However, FireStats has some nice features. The summary worthy of your name and is very straightforward. At a glance with each other get the last referrers, search terms, most visited pages and some more statistics. Some of the sections allow more details about a small plus sign to get such as all visited pages in the referrer. Well I think that you get the raw records displayed.

As additional feature you can display the comments the country, browser and operating system of the comment.

If wouldn’t be the problem with the multiple installation and one at least of one complete day display the numbers could leave, FireStats would be a simple tool that shows the most important information at a glance. But it is unfortunately not really useful.
Live

Live is completely out of the ordinary and is not a serious statistics or tracking plugin for WordPress. Because I but had installed it in order to research, I will introduce it anyway. Live is a plugin that shows you the current traffic on your blog. No more and no less. Posts, comments and feed access are indicated by different icons and also you can see the referrer and the IP address. That’s it already.
WordPress Blogstatistik

This is the official statistics plugin of WordPress itself. For the installation you will need an API key, you should already have if your Akismet uses.

Well I think the graphics which can view as days, weeks or months and thus displays a simple trend. This may not even Google Analytics ;-)

Including get displayed key figures very clearly. Referrers, top posts, keywords, clicks and incoming links, and each whatever the figures of today and yesterday. Thus there is always a direct comparison to the previous day. Would have been still also display this data for whole weeks or months to desirable.

All in all looks good the official WordPress statistics plugin. Now the traffic from bots could filter out it would be first choice.
SlimStat

SlimStat based ShortS Act and is a quite complete plugin which displays all important data. The main summary shows last traffic today, yesterday, downloads and last month. On request you can display the numbers for whole days, weeks or months. I give no credence only unity “Uniques”, because the figures are very high. With this plugin it seems to be that the BOT traffic included is and will be counted as a unique visitor.

Get displayed, the origin of traffic domains, keywords and hosts each with different voreingestelten filters. With the “recent resources”, you get very beautifully displayed whether access through the feed was or was a “normal” reader. I suppose that this point is “unusual” for search engines and other bots.

Behind each entry you will find a small button which you can set a filter. This is one of the best features and stands out completely from the other plugins. The complete report on traffic clicking just behind “Google.com” in the domain list is filtered by this domain. Here one can speak of a Profiler begin.

Then a few pretty graphics that last week and this month show the Trafficverlauf of today, hiding behind a further menu item. The graphics displayed feed traffic separately from decent visitors.

SlimStats offers also a click path display, where you can see which pages a visitor inside looked at.
Conclusion

Live hits something out of the way and can be recommended as sole statistics plugin. Firestats falls on installation issues and indicating missing out a decent period of time. I find absolutely unsexy StatTraq alone from the surface, a plugin must be integrated into the WordPress interface for my understanding. Also übezeugen StatTraq functions not really.

When the other plugins, it is somewhat a matter of taste. My personal favorite is Semmelstatz because it is fast and clearly arranged and the numbers appear less utopian like other tools.

Particularly the official WordPress statistics plugin and SlimStat liked me. I can thoroughly recommend both. Slimstat mainly due to the simple filter function. None of the featured plugins is what the claim but also can be suitable for Web Analytics. Quickly just current trends pointing and look, what is going on the page should be the main task and the three Favorites meet all very well.

Now I have sore fingers and hope to have given you a good overview. Writes what use you out in the comments. Certainly I forgot an important plugin ;-) but now will I download schmeißen first some plugins again.

Currently the site is still not well filled. Even a “no documents found” throw some links in the navigation and still yawning emptiness there is in the related topic forum. But as this is when new things: all beginnings are difficult. Check it just times out.