Content is King

When it comes to your website visitors’ experience, content is king. Content comes in many forms and ultimately should be something that visitors are looking for and help them with a need or desire they have. The visitors on your website are there to find something of value. Will you give it to them?

Website Content Types:

Articles uploaded to the site such as news and how-to instructionsBlog postings and editorial contentComments and feedback to blog posts and articlesForums, discussion/bulletin boards and Q&A postingsAdvertising including classified adsOpinions and reviewsProduct or service catalogsListings such as employment opportunitiesDirectories including membershipLinks to other websitesDocuments such as academic research papers and white papersData such as demographics and financial analysesSite information such as company bios, privacy policies, return policies and disclaimersWikis that allow multiple visitors to update the contentEbooksPicturesVideosAudioAnd many more!

I would also add another type of content to the list: the content that visitors are looking for on a site but cannot find because it either does not exist or is buried in some obscure section of the site. Feedback from your visitors is really helpful on this one. Poll them periodically to find out what they want to see and find out if there are any improvements they would recommend for the site. Better yet, consider giving them the opportunity to write articles for your site. It could be a great way to engage your base and build your site’s content!

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Motigo now available in Italian

Would you like all your friends to see your website’s statistics? Show off how many visitors your site has? Make other webmasters go green with envy? With the new webstats Facebook App you can now do all this in your Facebook profile! It only takes a few clicks.

The Facebook App will display a summary of your website’s visitor statistics directly in your Facebook profile page. Special achievements, such as being on the top places of a certain webstats category ranking or having a lot of traffic from a certain country will be rewarded with funny ducks as bronze, silver and gold awards. There is even a special backpacker duck for country-specific awards. Previous achievements will also be displayed on your profile.

But that’s not all – we are working on new features to make the new Facebook App even more fun. Soon you will be able to collect and show off all your achievements in a trophy shelf.

Ready to start? This is how it goes:

Login to motigo.comClick on the Facebook logo on the right of your account overview

3. You will be automatically redirected to Facebook. Click then on “Add to profile”

4. Now, you only have to select which counter you would like to show on your Facebook profile. If you only have one counter, it will be automatically selected

5. Click on “Save”

6. Your traffic statistics will now be displayed on your Facebook profile

Enjoy it

If you have any questions about the Facebook App, you can contact our support team anytime!

]]>Many webstats users have asked us for a graphic counter that would display the number of page views on their website. Today, we are happy to introduce this new feature: Here is the webstats live counter in multiple designs to choose from!

With this new widget you can display a summary of your visitor statistics directly on your website to keep you and your visitors always informed.

The live counter updates automatically so there is no need to reload the page to update the numbers. It is displayed to all visitors who have Adobe Flash Player version 9 or newer (which covers 97%-99% of all users). Even if some of your visitors don’t have Adobe Flash Player, there’s no reason to worry – ALL visitors will be registered 

Want to get a live counter straightaway? You only have to replace the counter code on your website:

1) Login at Motigo

2) Click on “Webstats” on your account overview

3) Select the counter for which you would like to have a live counter and click on “Show html code”:

4) Select the option Live Counter and copy the counter code. Now you only have to replace the counter code on your website with this one and the new live counter will be displayed on your site.

All new counters will get the live counter code as default. If you’d rather have the small webstats icon your page, you only have to select the “Small icon” option to get another code.

]]>At Motigo Webstats you can now choose to have private statistics. If you do not wish to show your statistic page to other visitors, you can now protect your stats so that you are the only one to see them. As webmaster, you are now free to decide if you want to show your visitor statistics or not. It only takes you one click to turn your statistics private.

To protect your statistics:

1)      Login at Motigo

2)      Select the counter which you would like to edit and click on the tool icon:

3) Select the option “Enable private statistics”

4) Click on “Save changes”

Enjoy the new feature

If you have any questions, contact our support team anytime!

]]>With the new webstats feature “Exclude my own visits”, you can get more accurate visitor statistics by choosing the data that’s relevant for you. Up to now, your webstats counter registered all visits. The result: Your visits as webmaster were also registered amongst all the other visits. With our new feature you can now exclude your own visits and get more relevant statistics.

You’re wondering how does it work? It’s simple: It works by setting a cookie in your browser. However, if you delete your cookies or use a new browser or computer, you must log in and go to “My counters” to enable the function again.

How to exclude your own visits:

1. Login to motigo

2. Click on “Webstats”

3. Click on “Exclude my own visits”

This feature will only work for the most recent version of the counter code. It will not work for outdated or damaged counter codes.

Still have an old version of the code? You can get an updated code for your counter on your motigo account anytime:

This is how you get your counter code:

1. Login to motigo

2. Click on “Webstats”

3. Click on “show html code” under the counter’s name

4. Select the counter type (small icon or live counter)

5. Copy the code and paste it in your website

]]>Did you update your website and lost the code of your counter? Or just want to enable all new webstats features? Whenever you need it, you can get the code of your counter – just follow these steps:

1. Login to motigo

2. Click on “Webstats”

3. Click on “show html code” under the counter’s name

4. Select the counter type (small icon or live counter)

5. Copy the code and paste it in your website

If you have any problems implementing the counter, you can contact our support team anytime!

]]>Sharing is a good thing and with webstats’ new feature it’s easier than ever. With “Share my counter”, you can not only make your website known among friends and family, but also share your Motigo Webstats statistics by sending them an e-mail. We have made it nice and easy:

Do you have a counter already?

Just login at motigo:

Click on “Webstats” on your account overview:

Select the counter, which you would like to share and click on “Share”:

Now, you only have to fill in your friends’ names and e-mail addresses and click on “Send message”:

Are you creating a new counter?

When creating a new counter, you will receive a link to the Share-My-Counter page as soon as your counter has registered the first visits.

Enjoy the new feature!

… And don’t forget to tell your friends about your website and Motigo Webstats!

PS: This new feature will require using a reCAPTCHA before sending the message. To know more about reCAPTCHA, have a look at Motigo Lexicon. Want to use reCAPTCHA on your website? Find out how in Tips&Tricks.

]]>A CAPTCHA is a validation code (combination of letters and numbers), which you are asked to enter before submitting information to a website. CAPTCHA is actually an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” CAPTCHAs display an image that people can detect, but computers cannot and it is used to keep malicious computer “bots” and other automated programs from using Web forms.

Actually a good idea, but there’s a lot of time and effort involved in it. Approximately 150.000 hours are spent every day by users around the world trying to decipher CAPTCHAs. Sometimes they use distorted images like wavy letters or a background with a strong pattern, which makes it difficult for humans to read them too. ReCAPTCHA, which we use on motigo, aims not only to make this easier but also to give this lost time a useful purpose.

reCAPTCHA uses real words instead of the code fragments used by conventional CAPTCHAs. The words used by reCAPTCHA are words, which computers could not read when digitalizing a book. So, when you type a reCAPTCHA, you are actually helping to digitalize a book. Read more on the reCAPTCHA website .

Want to use a CAPTCHA on your website? Find out how in Tips&Tricks. For futher informations, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

]]>Motigo has re-arranged the top lists of the webstats catalogue. Up to now, the ranking was based on the daily number of Page Views of a website. Starting from now, the ranking will be based of the number of daily Visits instead (you can find this value on your statistic page under “Visits”). Why did we do it? We consider this to be a much fairer basis for the ranking, since the number of visitors of a website is hard to manipulate and so we hope to have a fairer website ranking for all users. Page Views and Visits

Page Views and Visits – what is the difference?

Page views is the view of one page in your website – every time a page is loaded, this is considered a Page View. It doesn’t make any difference if it is the same user visiting the page or not.

Visits are the number of individual visits to your website. This statistic is based on recognition of a browser cookie in the visitor’s browser. Therefore, the visitor is not counted again if he has already been visiting the site within the last 24 hours.

You can read more about the difference between Page Views and Unique Visitors here.

Still have questions? You can contact Motigo’s support team anytime!

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Virtual Assistant – What’s That?

Let?s create a mental picture.  Imagine an Administrative Assistant sitting at a desk in an office utilizing today?s technology to perform the routine and specialized administrative tasks that are critical to the success of your business.  Typing correspondence and reports, answering phones, making follow-up calls, responding to emails, creating documents and spreadsheets, managing and tracking your databases, building presentations, scheduling meetings and appointments, arranging your travel and communicating with your clients. She is a highly skilled administrative support professional with top level experience and? she?s there to support you!

Now imagine that same administrative professional performing all of the above tasks? from her own home office. Same level of skills, knowledge and experience. Same office technology and communication tools. Same highly proficient assistant performing the same administrative tasks only now she?s working from home and? she?s still there to support you!

But let?s go a step further and take away her employee status and along with that the cost of her benefits, health insurance and vacation pay. Let?s not forget that heavy annual salary not to mention the cost of office space and equipment.  Now we?ll eliminate the standard 40-hour work week and make her available only for the number of hours that you really need her. Finally, let?s have her offer you a great rate for her superior service.

What you now have is a Virtual Assistant (or VA).  A member of one of the fastest growing business trends of the last 20 years. VA?s are independent contractors, service providers who specialize in providing administrative support services to clients in ongoing, collaborative professional relationships.

Virtual Assistants have become the practical administrative solution for small and medium sized businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs and mobile professionals that need high level professional administrative support but may not have the space, budget, or workload for a conventional employee.

Imagine Administrative Support in a whole new way - Virtually! 

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Did you know that… You can get your counter code anytime in your motigo account overview?

Did you update your website and lost the code of your counter? Or just want to enable all new webstats features? Whenever you need it, you can get the code of your counter – just follow these steps:

1. Login to motigo

2. Click on “Webstats”

3. Click on “show html code” under the counter’s name

4. Select the counter type (small icon or live counter)

5. Copy the code and paste it in your website

If you have any problems implementing the counter, you can contact our support team anytime!

Tags: counter, counter code, statistics, update, webstats

This entry was posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 08:54 AM and is filed under Did you know that..., tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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What are CAPTCHAs?

A CAPTCHA is a validation code (combination of letters and numbers), which you are asked to enter before submitting information to a website. CAPTCHA is actually an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” CAPTCHAs display an image that people can detect, but computers cannot and it is used to keep malicious computer “bots” and other automated programs from using Web forms.

Actually a good idea, but there’s a lot of time and effort involved in it. Approximately 150.000 hours are spent every day by users around the world trying to decipher CAPTCHAs. Sometimes they use distorted images like wavy letters or a background with a strong pattern, which makes it difficult for humans to read them too. ReCAPTCHA, which we use on motigo, aims not only to make this easier but also to give this lost time a useful purpose.

reCAPTCHA uses real words instead of the code fragments used by conventional CAPTCHAs. The words used by reCAPTCHA are words, which computers could not read when digitalizing a book. So, when you type a reCAPTCHA, you are actually helping to digitalize a book. Read more on the reCAPTCHA website .

Want to use a CAPTCHA on your website? Find out how in Tips&Tricks. For futher informations, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

Tags: blog, captcha, forums, guestbook, homepage, services, spam, website

This entry was posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 09:54 AM and is filed under Motigo Lexicon. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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New at Motigo Webstats: Live counter for your website

Many webstats users have asked us for a graphic counter that would display the number of page views on their website. Today, we are happy to introduce this new feature: Here is the webstats live counter in multiple designs to choose from!

With this new widget you can display a summary of your visitor statistics directly on your website to keep you and your visitors always informed.

The live counter updates automatically so there is no need to reload the page to update the numbers. It is displayed to all visitors who have Adobe Flash Player version 9 or newer (which covers 97%-99% of all users). Even if some of your visitors don’t have Adobe Flash Player, there’s no reason to worry – ALL visitors will be registered 

Want to get a live counter straightaway? You only have to replace the counter code on your website:

1) Login at Motigo

2) Click on “Webstats” on your account overview

3) Select the counter for which you would like to have a live counter and click on “Show html code”:

4) Select the option Live Counter and copy the counter code. Now you only have to replace the counter code on your website with this one and the new live counter will be displayed on your site.

All new counters will get the live counter code as default. If you’d rather have the small webstats icon your page, you only have to select the “Small icon” option to get another code.

Tags: live counter, services, visits, webstats

This entry was posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 09:55 AM and is filed under Motigo news, New features, tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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What is Internet Marketing?

Internet marketing in its simplest definition is the marketing of goods and services via the internet. Because of the explosive growth of the internet as a medium, the definition of internet marketing has expanded to include not just web pages but also email, mobile and search engine marketing and optimization.

A good internet marketer is someone who is not only creative with designing great marketing campaigns but also technically savvy and able to leverage the full range of marketing capabilities available on the internet today. A good internet marketer will also be ethical and employ internet marketing fundamentals for the purpose of adding value to customers. He or she will also be budget conscious and adept at finding free and low-cost ways to market a company’s products and services.

Company’s have found that internet marketing, whether done exclusively or in addition to traditional marketing, comes at a significant cost advantage and wide reach. In addition, many customers expect a company to have an internet presence that will benefit them in some way such as through promotions and dissemination of useful information. These two facts have cemented the importance of internet marketing to any company serious about being relevant in the 21st century.

One of the huge benefits of internet marketing is the speed at which a campaign can be created, implemented and results analyzed for action. Web site statistics can be analyzed on a daily basis to determine which campaigns are more impactful and should be expanded while other campaigns can be dropped cold after very little investment. Analytics reveal to internet marketers who their visitors are, what content most interests them and leads to conversions.

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Avoiding Broken Links

Most experts recommend using custom 404 Page Not Found error messages and redirects for pages that cannot be found on your website. 404 errors can happen for a number of reasons, all of which you can do something about that will benefit your site visitors.

One source of 404 content errors is a search engine not being up-to-date with your site’s content. Use a site map and publish it frequently to the major search engines. This Another reason for 404s is bookmarks from other sites, emails or links saved to someone’s favorites that are no longer valid. A 404 Page Not Found error could also be caused by site administration problems like broken links and scheduled maintenance activities.

You should check your site for broken links periodically to avoid link rot. Also, organizing site content with a pre-defined taxonomy and using permalinks can reduce the amount of reshuffling and re-categorization of content needed in the future. Finally, avoid dead end pages that have no links back out to other pages. While this does not produce page not found errors, it can be just as annoying to some visitors.

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New ranking on the webstats catalogues

Motigo has re-arranged the top lists of the webstats catalogue. Up to now, the ranking was based on the daily number of Page Views of a website. Starting from now, the ranking will be based of the number of daily Visits instead (you can find this value on your statistic page under “Visits”). Why did we do it? We consider this to be a much fairer basis for the ranking, since the number of visitors of a website is hard to manipulate and so we hope to have a fairer website ranking for all users.

Page Views and Visits

Page Views and Visits – what is the difference?

Page views is the view of one page in your website – every time a page is loaded, this is considered a Page View. It doesn’t make any difference if it is the same user visiting the page or not.

Visits are the number of individual visits to your website. This statistic is based on recognition of a browser cookie in the visitor’s browser. Therefore, the visitor is not counted again if he has already been visiting the site within the last 24 hours.

You can read more about the difference between Page Views and Unique Visitors here.

Still have questions? You can contact Motigo’s support team anytime!

Tags: page views, ranking, visits, webstats, webstats catalogue

This entry was posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 AM and is filed under Motigo news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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New at Motigo Webstats: Share your counter

Sharing is a good thing and with webstats’ new feature it’s easier than ever. With “Share my counter”, you can not only make your website known among friends and family, but also share your Motigo Webstats statistics by sending them an e-mail. We have made it nice and easy:

Do you have a counter already?

Just login at motigo:

Click on “Webstats” on your account overview:

Select the counter, which you would like to share and click on “Share”:

Now, you only have to fill in your friends’ names and e-mail addresses and click on “Send message”:

Are you creating a new counter?

When creating a new counter, you will receive a link to the Share-My-Counter page as soon as your counter has registered the first visits.

Enjoy the new feature!

… And don’t forget to tell your friends about your website and Motigo Webstats!

PS: This new feature will require using a reCAPTCHA before sending the message. To know more about reCAPTCHA, have a look at Motigo Lexicon. Want to use reCAPTCHA on your website? Find out how in Tips&Tricks.

Tags: counter, New features, statistics, webstats

This entry was posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 09:56 AM and is filed under Motigo news, New features, tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Protect your stats: How to enable private statistics

At Motigo Webstats you can now choose to have private statistics. If you do not wish to show your statistic page to other visitors, you can now protect your stats so that you are the only one to see them. As webmaster, you are now free to decide if you want to show your visitor statistics or not. It only takes you one click to turn your statistics private.

To protect your statistics:

1)      Login at Motigo

2)      Select the counter which you would like to edit and click on the tool icon:

3) Select the option “Enable private statistics”

4) Click on “Save changes”

Enjoy the new feature

If you have any questions, contact our support team anytime!

Tags: counter, private statistics, statistics, visits, webstats

This entry was posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 09:43 AM and is filed under Motigo news, New features, tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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