Running a Startup the Need-Want Way

December 24, 2008 by Abhishek Bhardwaj · 2 Comments
Filed under: Tips for Startups 
I am not writing this post because they’ve been saying that the economy is recessive. Need-Want Way has nothing to do with cost cutting or wise investing; it is more like a talisman or a lifestyle that anyone should adhere to no matter how good or bad the economy is. Its sole aim is to [...]

A sip of Social Media Curry

December 10, 2008 by Abhishek Bhardwaj · 2 Comments
Filed under: Social Web 
A friend shared this informative presentation on Social Media. Just thought sharing it on my blog will also be a good idea. We often fail to describe what social media is because there are no boundaries limiting it’s presence and extent to which it can expand. This presentation on social media  is an attempt to put [...]

Time on Site & Time on Page – Google Analytics metric mystery

December 6, 2008 by Abhishek Bhardwaj · 9 Comments
Filed under: Web Analytics 
When asked whether ‘time spent on site or page’ hold any meaning in a website’s performance, I have always said that, “if it means anything to you”. But before we can relate any performance measure to them, we need to understand how are they calculated and how relevant are these two metrics. How is Time on [...]

Alexa’s Top 1 million websites globally

December 3, 2008 by Abhishek Bhardwaj · 5 Comments
Filed under: Internet Industry, Tips for Startups 
The web information company Alexa has released a list of Top 1 Million websites on a global level. The list contains an ordered set of 1 million most popular sites of the world. According to this list Yahoo.com still leads the hall of fame with Google.com at the second place. Download the complete ranking list from [...]

Using Google Analytics to track Unique Visits from a referring site

December 2, 2008 by Abhishek Bhardwaj · Comment
Filed under: Web Analytics 
I was confronted with a problem of tracking unique visitors from referring partner sites. A friend was to pay his partners per click and he wanted to know how many unique visitors every partner site was generating. This would help him track efficiency of traffic and click fraud if any. Currently, Google Analytics does not show unique [...]