For years (yes, prior to me joining Yahoo!) I've been using Google Alerts to send me topic updates into my Yahoo! mail inbox. If anybody hasn't used Alerts, it's a great way to keep you up to speed on topics such as "web analytics" or "online advertising" or "attribution"...or ANY topic for that matter.
Alerts has also been a great way to send referral traffic to this Yahoo! Analytics blog. In years past, each time I've written a new post, it's been picked up by Alerts and it's been shown in their Blogs update section. Lately however, I haven't seen any of my latest blog posts show up in Alerts. Therefore, I'm seeing a direct decrease in referral traffic of late.
Strangely enough, I always see Avinash Kaushik (Google Analytics evangelist) related blog posts show up. Hmmmmmm....must have been a change to their "relevance" algorithm......
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