Schedule Statistics Reports By Email
December 9, 2009
If you have a free Google Analytics account linked to your website you can navigate to any section of your statistics, then schedule a report to be emailed to you/someone else every week/month/day.
The sort of reports you might benefit from seeing regularly are:
- Weekly Summary (the first page you see when you click on View Reports)
- Most popular posts by title (look under Content tab, then Content by title)
- Posts by a certain author (go to Content by title, then add author’s name to the filter box)
- New subscribers to your newsletter (first setup a goal with your subscribe page url, click on Goals)
Email Yourself a Weekly Summary
- Login to your Google Analytics account.
- Click on View Reports beside your website address
- Click on the grey Email button at the top of the page
- Fill in boxes to send report immediately or click the Schedule tab
- Enter additional email addresses ro recieve the report or leave as send to me
- Add a subject (tip: setup a mail rule to put these emails into a Stats folder under your inbox)
- Add Description (mostly useful if emailing to others or if you are creating lots of reports)
- Choose format (pdf is easy but excel compatible formats mean you can keep all stats in a spreadsheet)
- Choose how often you would like to receive your report
- Tick Comparison box to include a comparison of previous month/week.
- Click Schedule button.
Email Report Showing New Subscribers to Your Newsletter
This is really useful if you use the Post Notification plugin to send an email newsletter from your WordPress website as it doesn’t notifiy you of new subscribers. I really like comparison feature on this one too so you can see which of your new content is enticing more subscribers. [Read more]
Manage Rotating Banners & Graphics
December 3, 2009
The Ad Minister Plugin for WordPress allows you to easily add, manage and track banner ads, square ads, text ads and skyscrapers to any section of your website. Add as many ad graphics as you like to each location and they will display in rotation (a different ad every time your readers visit a new page).
Not Just Advertising…
Not only is this plugin perfect for sponsorship advertising and affiliate banners, it is also great for displaying a variety of promotional graphics and text of your own. I have used it to display screenshots of websites I have designed in my sidebar. These change each time a new page loads so keep the site fresh and show my readers a better selection of images.
Download the Ad Minister Plugin…
Click on any post on www.ebossnow.co.nz to see the above screenshot in action.
How to Add Rotating Banners to WordPress
- Download the Ad Minister Plugin…
- Activate the plugin.
- Define the positions you would like your ads to appear in by pasting a line of code into the appropriate php file (after posts – index.php, next to logo – header.php, in sidebar – sidebar.php). Download the sample code. Make sure you change the position description each time to something unique.
- Go to the Ad Minister page under Tools [Read more]
