For those who use Twitter to promote your forum might be interested in a new service from Ad.ly who provide some metrics data on your twitter account and your followers. Some data is free. More comprehensive data can be purchased.... (Continue reading)
The bounce rate is one metric that can be used to analyze what is happening on your forum. It is defined as the percentage of visits to a single page on your site and they leave your site from that... (Continue reading)
Google’s Page Rank is updated on a daily basis internally and a snapshot is exported to the Google Toolbar for us to see on a somewhat irregular scale (see the dates). What we get in the toolbar is a historical... (Continue reading)
What forum metrics do you use? How do you monitor the health and growth of your forum? There are many ways to do this and everyone has their preferences. I use a spreadsheet and for each month monitor: Number of new members... (Continue reading)
Everyone is familiar with Google’s PageRank or PR score for a website based on Google’s analysis of links to a page. Not many are familiar with Bing’s (formally MSN Search and Live Search), Page Score. You can see your score... (Continue reading)
PageRank (PR) is the term that is trademarked and an algorithm patented by Google. PageRank is the link analysis algorithm named after one of the founders of Google, Larry Page. The algorithm assigns a numerical value to each page on... (Continue reading)