October 8, 2008 Comments (3)
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Spotted a post by Michael Stebbins over at Market Motive about the roll out of Yahoo! Web Analytics to some Yahoo! store owners, developers and advertisers. While I'm still not a huge fan of analytics from the search engines, I (and most small business owners) are still pretty big fans of "free."
Michael points to an older post by Dennis Mortensen over at Visual Revenue that explains the plan:
Yahoo! currently intends to provide the IndexTools Web Analytics service FREE of charge to clients and partners who accept the standard Yahoo! agreement.
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I think this is a fair tradeoff for an Enterprise class Web Analytics system?
Not familiar with Yahoo!'s Index Tools? Perhaps this will catch you eye...
...those of you who know me or heard me evangelize IndexTools as essentially 80% of the functionality of Omniture for a fraction of the cost - have to get used to the NEW NEW; 80% of the functionality of Omniture for FREE!
Dennis's latest post on the topic announces the renaming of Yahoo!'s Index Tools to "Yahoo! Web Analytics." For small businesses relying on Yahoo! stores as their e-com platform, this is good news.
If you e.g. are a Yahoo! store owner you can enable enterprise-class web analytics by simply ticking a box and we then automatically inflate the correct tracking script variables at runtime. You are of course allowed to turn this off and take control yourself if needed.
There are more details and some nice screen shots over at Dennis's blog post.
Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, an educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand. Jennifer specializes in common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A former search marketing consultant and in-house trainer, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children. Her primary clients now are a little girl named Elnora and a little boy named Emmitt.
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