Tag: Geekscribes

Unknown Traffic Source or Improper Tracking?

by
Guru

Statistics

I had quite a nice surprise today. Visting the homepage, I saw the feed counter showing 35 subscribers. I was awed. It just took 1 night to shoot from 25 subscribers to 35?

I kind of headed to Google Analytics to take a look at the reports. Fortunately or unfortunately, there were nothing to help me deduce the magical source.

My suspect list.

  1. Tutorialized
  2. Good Tutorials
  3. Search Engines (primarily Google)
  4. Some referring weblogs
  5. Direct Traffic

We have 8.56% Direct Traffic (quite very low), 19.84% Referring Websites, 71.60% Search Engines.

I have heard people writing we get most of our traffic from search engines. And the above mini-stats confirmed. Given the unappropriate way I have used my Google Analytics tracking potentials, I have got a rather handicapped statistics report. Who is to be blamed? I guess me. 😛
There is an emerging need to track internal traffics and proper outside geekscribes traffic. Got any tips? Throw it in the comments.

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Follow us on Twitter Today

by
Guru

Twitter

Fishing for subscribers is not a so easy task. Be it feed subscribers or email subscribers. I have brought back to life our Twitter account. Time to get some followers. 😀

Motivations of use Twitter (Follow us on twitter)

  • New posts updates directly in your twitter account
  • A level of proximity between YOU and US.
  • Short tips and tricks to be digested on your twitter

How can I use twitter?

There are many application for using twitter. Here is a small list:

  • TweetDeck – Based on Adobe Air
  • TwitterFox – Firefox Addon (Get updates in your web browser)
  • Twhirl – Based on Adobe Air
  • Twitter Web Interface (not an application)

The aboe mentioned would be sufficient to cater for your needs. I would propose you to use TweetDeck. 😀 It may seem bulky, but no, it is give an added benefit to “workflow”. Don’t forget to Follow GeekScribes.

Changes on GeekScribes

by
Inf

Over the next few days, I’ll be making some changes as to what GeekScribes really is about.

This blog, or I should say co-blog, started as a collaboration between Guru and myself, so that we have a common place to blog all of our articles instead of on our separate blogs. Since we mostly blogged about tech articles, this collaboration works well for us.

Unfortunately, I guess Guru is a bit busy these days and he will probably not be writing very often for now (until I can find him to… persuade him to be less busy! :P).

Anyways, what the hell is this post? It’s just to tell you about the “new” GeekScribes. Of course, you will still find your tech articles here, and probably a good dose of sarcasm from me. So what are these changes about?

Firstly, a new slogan. We found that the old one doesn’t really match us much. You will see the new one up there near the site name.

Second, we’ll be expanding the scope of what GeekScribes covers. Tech and news is fine, but we’d like more. So expect to see more topics on GeekScribes soon. What topics? Articles about anime and manga, movies, music and other similars. The full extent of the scope has not yet been decided, but GeekScribes will no longer be a tech-only blog.

Finally, there will probably be changes in the post categories. Also, though I’m not sure, you might see a change in the tone of my posts.

That should be about it. Before I do changes, I’d like to know what you think. (Thanks for voting! Comment if you want.)

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