Is Your Home Business Blog Hot Or Not? Free Tools Help You Find Out
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are you wearing your fingers to the bone posting to your home business blog? If so, wouldn't you like to know whether your blog is hot, or not? I just ran across this fabulous online tool called ClickTale, which takes tracks how visitors are moving around on specific pages in your blog.
Once you install the free tracking code, ClickTale literally generates a heat map showing which parts of your home business blog are hot, and which are not.
The heat map is easy to read: red (well, really pink) means that a particular area is hot, while a cool shade of blue indicates areas that were not visited.
Shades of teal, yellow, and orange indicate areas on the blog page that have medium traffic.
On the heat map, when you hover over each color zone, you get a pop-up box that shows how many seconds the visitor lingered on that section.
Using ClickTale you can discover how far down your visitors scroll on your blog, how long they hover on various links, and how they move their mouse around the screen.
You can actually watch a "movie" of various people's visit to your blog.
A little yellow circle highlights the movement of the visitor's mouse around the page.
This tool provides a little voyeurism fun for your blog.
Obviously, you can't use this tool as your only form of analytics for your home business blog, but you can add it to your online toolbox of tracking software.
You still need hard-core analytics like Google Analytics or a statistics tracker plugin on your blog to give you reliable trend information over time.
However, ClickTale can give you some creative insight into how your visitors view and use your blog.
It gives you a "feel" that you can't get from cold, hard numbers.
ClickTale does also have some link analytics data, but it's not as deep or complete as you would get from a regular analytics package.
ClickTale has a free limited version, which gives you access to a certain number of heat maps, link analytics, and video captures.
You can also upgrade to any of their three paid plans.
If you just have a straightforward home business blog, I would suggest going with the free version.
The other versions are for more complex e-commerce sites.
Other kinds of free software that you might want to check out for tracking visitor traffic to your home business blog or monitoring online conversations about your home business blog include WhosTalkin, Backtype, Twitter Search, and Serph.
are you wearing your fingers to the bone posting to your home business blog? If so, wouldn't you like to know whether your blog is hot, or not? I just ran across this fabulous online tool called ClickTale, which takes tracks how visitors are moving around on specific pages in your blog.
Once you install the free tracking code, ClickTale literally generates a heat map showing which parts of your home business blog are hot, and which are not.
The heat map is easy to read: red (well, really pink) means that a particular area is hot, while a cool shade of blue indicates areas that were not visited.
Shades of teal, yellow, and orange indicate areas on the blog page that have medium traffic.
On the heat map, when you hover over each color zone, you get a pop-up box that shows how many seconds the visitor lingered on that section.
Using ClickTale you can discover how far down your visitors scroll on your blog, how long they hover on various links, and how they move their mouse around the screen.
You can actually watch a "movie" of various people's visit to your blog.
A little yellow circle highlights the movement of the visitor's mouse around the page.
This tool provides a little voyeurism fun for your blog.
Obviously, you can't use this tool as your only form of analytics for your home business blog, but you can add it to your online toolbox of tracking software.
You still need hard-core analytics like Google Analytics or a statistics tracker plugin on your blog to give you reliable trend information over time.
However, ClickTale can give you some creative insight into how your visitors view and use your blog.
It gives you a "feel" that you can't get from cold, hard numbers.
ClickTale does also have some link analytics data, but it's not as deep or complete as you would get from a regular analytics package.
ClickTale has a free limited version, which gives you access to a certain number of heat maps, link analytics, and video captures.
You can also upgrade to any of their three paid plans.
If you just have a straightforward home business blog, I would suggest going with the free version.
The other versions are for more complex e-commerce sites.
Other kinds of free software that you might want to check out for tracking visitor traffic to your home business blog or monitoring online conversations about your home business blog include WhosTalkin, Backtype, Twitter Search, and Serph.
