<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><channel><title>Social Media Examiner | Blog measurement goals | Topic Replies</title> <atom:link href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/feed/</link> <description>Blog measurement goals - Forum Topic in the Group Blogging</description> <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:47:26 +0000</pubDate> <generator>http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5</generator> <language>en</language> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12559</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12559</link> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/" title="Kristi Hines" rel="nofollow">Kristi Hines</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/boxcarmarketing/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/boxcarmarketing/' rel="nofollow">@boxcarmarketing</a> That's why I track the numbers. &#160;It's not really about the numbers themselves, but whether they are moving in an up or down direction that I'm most concerned about. &#160;</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12412</guid><title><![CDATA[Monique Sherrett replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12412</link> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:11:50 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/boxcarmarketing/" title="Monique Sherrett" rel="nofollow">Monique Sherrett</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> If your blog is part of an ecommerce website then I like to use multi-channel funnels to see what interactions (in particular blog interactions) led to a purchase. I set up goal funnels and event tracking to [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12314</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristy C. Cartier replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12314</link> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:55:59 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kc_kreative/" title="Kristy C. Cartier" rel="nofollow">Kristy C. Cartier</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow">@kristi-hines</a> I'll take a look at Peer Index. They are just tools after all :) Also, thank you for the Open Site Explorer link. I'm going to be tweaking my association's website so this will come in handy.</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12184</guid><title><![CDATA[Frederic Gonzalo replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12184</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/fredericgonzalo/" title="Frederic Gonzalo" rel="nofollow">Frederic Gonzalo</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow">@kristi-hines</a> Oooh, this is great stuff. Thank you, Kristi. Very helpful, and much appreciated.Cheers,</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12141</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12141</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:45:06 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/" title="Kristi Hines" rel="nofollow">Kristi Hines</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/fredericgonzalo/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/fredericgonzalo/' rel="nofollow">@fredericgonzalo</a> Domain Authority and Linking Root Domains are numbers that tell you how your site is doing with off site optimization (aka, links). &#160;I grab those from&#160;<a href="http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensiteexplorer.org</a>. &#160;You don't [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12140</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12140</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:43:31 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/" title="Kristi Hines" rel="nofollow">Kristi Hines</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kc_kreative/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kc_kreative/' rel="nofollow">@kc_kreative</a> I use Klout more for overall gauging, not for the actual score. &#160;So it's not about what the number is, but whether the number is increasing or decreasing. &#160;Another alternative is PeerIndex (&#060;a [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12136</guid><title><![CDATA[Frederic Gonzalo replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12136</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/fredericgonzalo/" title="Frederic Gonzalo" rel="nofollow">Frederic Gonzalo</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow">@kristi-hines</a> Awesome post, Kristi! Thanks for the spreadsheet, I will be using this moving forward, even though I have yet to understand a few of these metrics (Domain Authority? Linking Roots Domain?). Will [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12128</guid><title><![CDATA[Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12128</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:53:50 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/joanmuschampfagnani/" title="Joan Muschamp (Fagnani)" rel="nofollow">Joan Muschamp (Fagnani)</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow">@kristi-hines</a> thanks, some good sources to track. I agree with <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kc_kreative/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kc_kreative/' rel="nofollow">@kc_kreative</a> about Klout<br /> &#160;<a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/birgitjohnston/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/birgitjohnston/' rel="nofollow">@birgitjohnston</a> Personally I think success needs to be measured thoughtfully, based on where you are. For a new blog, set [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12095</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristy C. Cartier replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12095</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:10:13 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kc_kreative/" title="Kristy C. Cartier" rel="nofollow">Kristy C. Cartier</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow">@kristi-hines</a> I would not recommend Klout. Their analytics are suspect and they take the liberty of scraping your Facebook &#038; other accounts for their own end game. I'm not sure if MyWebCareer,&#160;&#060;a [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12071</guid><title><![CDATA[Birgit replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12071</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:27:29 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/birgitjohnston/" title="Birgit" rel="nofollow">Birgit</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> Thank you @Kristy-Hines. Great post - VERY useful, thank you!</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12069</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Blog measurement goals in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/#post-12069</link> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:20:39 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/" title="Kristi Hines" rel="nofollow">Kristi Hines</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/blog-measurement-goals/" rel="nofollow">Blog measurement goals</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/birgitjohnston/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/birgitjohnston/' rel="nofollow">@birgitjohnston</a> I measure a variety of things monthly in a spreadsheet including:<div>RSS &#038; Mailing List SubscribersNumber of Posts &#038; Guest PostsTwitter Followers &#038; FollowingKloutFacebook Fans, Post Views, &#038; Post [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> </channel> </rss>