Web Analytics getting started step 2

web analytics getting started step 2

Continuing from "Getting Started in Web Analytics step 1"
Step Two: Read.. Read.. and Read and listen (podcasts/webinars)

Yes! you read that right, from my experience the more i read posts, articles, whitepapers, podcast and interviews the more insight and more information i get regarding web analytics.
The source is huge and good enough.

1.) Web Analytics Industry leaders and their "blogs"
Leading Web Analytics ASP's have their own blogs which is very informative.


Omniture - Matt Belkin's blog
lunametrics - Robbin Steif
ROI Revolution
Epikone - Justin Cutroni
Commerce360 blog

Read Industry Experts blog, subscribe to feeds. Add to your yahoo/aol/google pages to
keep reading industry updates. x

2.) Attend Webinars,webcast/listen to podcasts (archieved or latest)

WebTrends Webcasts
Omniture Webinars

3.) Webcast/Webinars Calendar
UK Events Calendar (Web Analytics and Measurements)
Web Analytics Association Calendar

4.) Finally blog list of all the noted industry experts, whose feed you should subscribe
knowing different perspective in industry. Here's the list again.. and growing

• Inside Web Analytics (M Belkin)
• Web Analytics & Affiliate Marketing (D Mortensen)
• Braden Hoeppner
• WebAnalytics.be (Aurélie Pols)
• LunaMetrics (Robbin Steif)
• Web Analysis (Anil Batra)
• WebAnalyticsDemystified (Judah)
• Aaron Shear on SEO
• WebAnalyticsDemystified (Eric P)
• ROI Revolution (T Seward)
• GrokDotCom (Bryan Eisenberg)
• Web Analytic Matt (M Hopkins)
• Web Analytics Graph Collection
• Instant Cognition (Clint Ivy)
• Web Analytics World (M Jasra)
• Inside Analytics (Eric Butler)

list I Hopefully i got most of the folks but you can check these blogs for more resources.

The second part/step is probably the best way to expose yourself to various analytical solution providers and reading new and different perspective in web analytics.


*The methodologies and concept of learning specified above is solely as per my experience, and may vary from person to person, i have used the best of my knowledge to plot best way to learn web analytics.

*This source of this blog is combination of information from many articles, blogs and personal experience, thanks to yahoo analytics group and fellow expert bloggers.