Comments on: Somebody Get Me a Statistician, Please. http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:27:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-25048 Alec Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:29:49 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-25048 Skibare: thanks for the tip. You have a new downline. Whoopjack: makes sense. Generally, I think the whole thing is way too complicated. Jason: I too am waiting to see what these more advanced tracking sites will do. Skibare: thanks for the tip. You have a new downline.

Whoopjack: makes sense. Generally, I think the whole thing is way too complicated.

Jason: I too am waiting to see what these more advanced tracking sites will do.

]]> By: Jason Drohn http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-25012 Jason Drohn Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:29:19 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-25012 A congratulations is in order, primarily. Your blog is very impressive and the visitor stats are amazing. I am new to the blogosphere (prompted by a few posts on how to start a blog- namely Randy Morin's and your own), but enjoy it immensely. I don't have much advice on the blogging side of it, but i have been into domaining for about a year and a half. Having used 5 different ad aggregator services and seeing mixed unique hit results (and drastically different profit percentages), I think it is safe to say that none of them is perfect, unfortunately. There are so many tracking statistics and algorithms that it is immensely difficult to narrow it down to one of two. Each site or company has its own protocol that they use. I have seen some advertising for beta versions of stat companies that actually record user's interaction with your site, and you may view them in a movie format. I think that that sort of tool will be hugely beneficial once the bugs get ran through it. It would be wonderful to think that there might eventually be a type of standard practice, an IEEE type of protocol, but unless you and I start it, I think it is wishful thinking! But I am up to entertaining that notion! A congratulations is in order, primarily. Your blog is very impressive and the visitor stats are amazing. I am new to the blogosphere (prompted by a few posts on how to start a blog- namely Randy Morin’s and your own), but enjoy it immensely.

I don’t have much advice on the blogging side of it, but i have been into domaining for about a year and a half. Having used 5 different ad aggregator services and seeing mixed unique hit results (and drastically different profit percentages), I think it is safe to say that none of them is perfect, unfortunately. There are so many tracking statistics and algorithms that it is immensely difficult to narrow it down to one of two. Each site or company has its own protocol that they use.

I have seen some advertising for beta versions of stat companies that actually record user’s interaction with your site, and you may view them in a movie format. I think that that sort of tool will be hugely beneficial once the bugs get ran through it.

It would be wonderful to think that there might eventually be a type of standard practice, an IEEE type of protocol, but unless you and I start it, I think it is wishful thinking! But I am up to entertaining that notion!

]]> By: WhoopJack http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-24991 WhoopJack Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:53:14 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-24991 I'll take a stab in the dark at explaining some of the differences in numbers between the differently placed google ads like the single post header and footer. Google cannot always find an ad to match the page quickly enough and in those cases it returns what they call a Public Service Ad, unless you specify an alternate ad by adding something like 'google_alternate_ad_url="http://blah.com/alt_ad_1.html"' to the adsense script block. When they display these PSAs they do not count the hit. I see this in some of my pages where I have a text based ad at the top and a graphical ad at the side. The graphical ads often don't get matches based on the content of the page and therefore are not returned nearly as much as the text based ones. Thus the graphical ad hit counts are usually lower than the text based. As a thought on the differences between the google analytics and adsense totals, possibly this could be due to more ad blocking software being configured to block actual google ads as opposed to the analytics script block. I’ll take a stab in the dark at explaining some of the differences in numbers between the differently placed google ads like the single post header and footer. Google cannot always find an ad to match the page quickly enough and in those cases it returns what they call a Public Service Ad, unless you specify an alternate ad by adding something like ‘google_alternate_ad_url=”http://blah.com/alt_ad_1.html”‘ to the adsense script block. When they display these PSAs they do not count the hit. I see this in some of my pages where I have a text based ad at the top and a graphical ad at the side. The graphical ads often don’t get matches based on the content of the page and therefore are not returned nearly as much as the text based ones. Thus the graphical ad hit counts are usually lower than the text based.

As a thought on the differences between the google analytics and adsense totals, possibly this could be due to more ad blocking software being configured to block actual google ads as opposed to the analytics script block.

]]> By: skibare http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-24900 skibare Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:04:08 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/15/somebody-get-me-a-statistician-please/#comment-24900 I have NO idea why MORE bloggers do NOT resell VOIP to the consumers like I do to ""MONETIZE"" the Blog! its FREE and it WORKS............the MONEY comes IN, I do nothing......... skibare I have NO idea why MORE bloggers do NOT resell VOIP to the consumers like I do to “”MONETIZE”" the Blog!
its FREE and it WORKS…………the MONEY comes IN, I do nothing………
skibare

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