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Posted: 28 Nov 2012 01:59 PM PST

Blogging is becoming more and more popular these days, with the rise of comprehensive page builders and blogging services. In an effort to monitor and increase their traffic, many bloggers are looking to analytics programs to help them with managing their websites. It’s getting more popular every day, but why should you add analytics to your blog?

It’s Free
This is something that some people don’t seem to know about website analytics, but you can actually get the best analytics platform of all for your blog without paying a penny. Google Analytics is widely used by both individuals and is available for download at no cost. There is a premium version of GA that offers extra services for an annual subscription fee, but many have found the basic package to be more than adequate for their websites’ needs. It’s a free program, so you have nothing to lose.
Understand Your Audience
Systems like Google Analytics gather certain pieces of vital information about your visitors that can be very valuable for optimizing your website, gaining popularity, and meeting customer demands. For example, you can check to see where your visitors are coming from by tracing back links to see how they found your website–a great tool for marketing. You can also see how people are navigating your site, which pages they read first or last, which can help you optimize your layout. Learning more about your audience helps you to engage and interest them more easily.
Monitor Traffic
The ability to monitor your traffic is vastly underestimated in its value. People have always said there’s no such thing as bad publicity, there is such a thing as bad web traffic. Search Engine Optimization is one of the buzz words of the day, and it relates to optimizing your website to that it gets a higher ranking in search results from sites like Google. However, certain kinds of traffic, such as links coming from spam websites, can actually hurt your page rank. Analytics helps you to monitor your traffic in order to easily spot and fix any anomalies in your site’s traffic.
Check Up On Speed
How often do you spend time browsing your own website? Probably not much–you’re busy after all, and you have a thousand and one other things to worry about. So you may never know when something is wrong with your site until it’s too late. Using analytics software helps you keep track of how fast your pages are loading, so you can make your website faster and more accessible.
Social Media Marketing
The possibilities for social media analytics are practically limitless. Social media networks are some of the most widely accessed online networks in the world–especially networks like Facebook and Twitter. These are some of the best platforms for creative marketing that you have at your fingertips. You can check on your pages’ popularity in the most popular social networks and utilize these platforms as marketing territory to expand your readership.

How to Recycle Your Old Laptops and Tech Gadgets

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 01:59 PM PST

Gadgets and assorted technological accouterments has become the norm. It’s pretty incredible when you track the rise of the gadget over the course over the last decade or so. The coolest new thing you can buy used to plug into the wall, and now it fits into your pocket or backpack. What’s more is that these incredible machines and devices are being churned out at a breakneck pace — Apple’s iPad, for instance, is already in its third generation, in just as many years since it was first introduced at one of the company’s now-legendary product reveals. Steve Jobs and his company really changed the game when they introduced iOS, and the tablets and smartphones that ran it, and Google was quick to catch up. Now the open-sourced Android OS is available on a number of carriers and phones, and the Nexus line of Android tablets and phones provides an affordable option to consumers that easily rivals Apple’s line of iOS-based devices. With updates coming fast and furious, it can get a little overwhelming to keep up with. Another issue is disposal — gadgets like laptops, smartphones, and tablets have specialized components in them that can’t exactly be dumped out with the rest of your household garbage. So what’s the best way to recycle your old gadgets and laptops? We’ll talk about some of the solutions that you can use to make sure you’re properly disposing of all that technology.

Doing a quick search for the local tech recycling center in your area is one of the most basic ways to start. There are plenty of institutions and organizations in just about any major area that dedicate themselves to giving people a way to avoid disposing of dangerous electronics components in ways that are going to harm the environment. They’re also specialized to make sure they ship these parts and pieces to faculties where they can be re-made into components for other machines, so that you’re recycling at the same time.

You can also call up the manufacturer of your gadgetry, as they might very well buy back your gear. Of course, this will come at a pretty steep discount, but they might have a program in which they refurbish your equipment and sell it to another user. This is perfect for someone looking to find that perfect PC wholesale deal, and great for you not feeling like you’ve just trashed your computer and the environment along with it. If your gear is still in working order, you can even post it on CraigsList or any other classified service to see if there’s someone who’s willing to buy it, trade for it, or simply take it off your hands. There are a ton of ways to recycle your old technology instead of simply throwing it away, and with a little bit of effort you can make sure you’re having the most positive impact on the environment possible.

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