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Yahoo! Web Analytics: Segmentation Made Easy

Let me give you a tip. If you want to run a successful web site, then get to know your visitors better. The companies that really understand who their visitors are tend to be the most successful because they're able to get the greatest return out their visitors. They get more engagement from their visitors, their visitors click on more links and pages, and their visitors tend to convert more. Part of understanding your visiting audience comes down to figuring out which segments of your audience perform the best. Once you figure that out, life gets much easier because now you know who you should be developing and targeting your web site content for. In Yahoo! Web Analytics, it's easy to figure out who your audience is with its demographic, geographic, and interest group data. For example, by visiting the 'Age and Gender' report you'll quickly see what age range and gender group visits your web site the most. By visiting the 'Interest Group' report you...

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New Yahoo! Web Analytics Quick Start Guides Available!

Tweet The Yahoo! Web Analytics team has just released two great Quick Guides to help get you up and running with Yahoo! Web Analytics. The first guide is the Quick Install Guide : Our Quick Install Guide contains some basic information for the newer Yahoo! Web Analytics user so that you can get up and running as soon as possible. Questions answered include: •Where do I actually get my tracking code? •Where do I put the tracking code? •How do I check the tracking code?   The second guide is the Custom Fields Guide (a very valuable guide for those who want to get more out of Y!WA ) :   Our Custom Fields Guide will give you lots of great information on YWA custom fields and how you can use them from set-up to reporting. We cover what they are, provide some use cases and illustrate the scopes and carry-over options.   For more information and links to the guides, head on over to our Yahoo! Web Analytics Blog: http://www.yanalyticsblog.com/blog/2010/07/ywa_quick_guides/ ...

Yahoo! Microsoft Search Alliance Video

While this post is not analytics related, I thought it was worth posting due to the importance of the Yahoo!/Microsoft Search Alliance. Here's a very cool animated video explaining the alliance: http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/advertiser/archive/2010/07/15/new-video-from-the-yahoo-and-microsoft-search-alliance-what-does-it-mean-for-you.aspx#comments With regards how the alliance will affect web analytics (especially Yahoo's 'Full Analytics' and 'Conversion Only' products), I'll be following up with a post in the near future!