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NINILCHIK - In Alaska there's nothing quite like digging for your dinner.
"Some beaches are easy and some are much more difficult. In the Ninilchik area it's relatively easy clam digging where a person can get their harvest of clams pretty easily," said Darrel Williams of the Ninilchik Tribal Council.
Beaches around Ninilchik and Homer are summer hotspots for recreational clamming. The clams coming out of Alaska's waters, however, have never been tested for paralytic shellfish toxins (PST) until now.
"This project is critical to start a baseline so that we can start understanding how much toxins are in our clams. Do we have an issue? We don't even know if we do or not so this starts getting that baseline," said Terry Thompson, the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve Manager.
The three-year, $120,000 "Recreational Shellfish Beach Monitoring Pilot Program" will test shellfish from around the state for PST. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Health solicited proposals from government agencies that wanted to participate in the program.
The Southern Kenai Peninsula is the largest area of the study with clams coming from Ninilchik, Homer, Port Graham and other spots around Kachemak Bay. Haines, Kodiak and Sand Point are also testing on a smaller level.
Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) happens when clams or mussels ingest toxic algae blooms, and anyone who eats that shellfish could get very sick and, in extreme cases, die.
"It can happen in a matter of hours. It's one of these things where long days and lots of extra sunlight increase the chances for a bloom," said Williams.
The Kachemak Bay Research Reserve Partnered with several agencies, including the Ninilchik Tribal Council, to test for the toxins. Thompson's group sent three sample batches to the State Environmental Health Laboratory in Anchorage throughout the summer.
Lab technicians liquefy the clams or mussels then add acid to simulate human digestion. The mixture is boiled for five minutes, which makes the toxins more potent for testing.
Microbiologists skim the final serum off the top of the sample and inject it into the abdomen of mice. If the rodents live five to seven minutes after the injection, the shellfish didn't contain any detectable amounts of PST.
"Any sooner than that and it means we need to start diluting it to figure out the exact toxicity and we need to start letting people know they're unsafe," said microbiologist Brian Watt.
While Alaska's oceans are too vast to regularly test recreationally harvested clams, researchers say this is the first step to figuring out what's in the water of the Last Frontier.
All samples from the Southern Kenai Peninsula testing areas came back with no detectable levels of PST.
Thompson says this pilot program is not meant to certify Alaska's beaches as "safe," because a toxic bloom could happen at any time. He says the only shellfish that's always safe to eat is that that comes from commercial farms because the clams are tested on a regular basis.


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Bob said what millions of us have been trying to get across to the Progressive/Socialist/ Commies responsible for the destruction they're doing to our Constitution and Bill of Rights . The very fabric of what made this country great. My question is. Why are so many people shutting their eyes and minds thus allowing this to happen?
I agree with you Bob , We have fallen behind mainly because our society has lost it's drive , it's work ethic, we don't celebrate achievement that come s from hardwork anymore. This generation celebrates sport stars who break the law and come out smellin like a rose! They celebrate celebrities who curse the very nation that made them multi-millionaires! We as a nation must get back to work, and if you REALLY cannot work ,well we can help, but if your drawin gimme money and your able to work, well either work or starve! Also quit lettin prisoners vote & appeal and open up an express lane for death row ,quit feedin them basturds and either fire the chair or put the I.V. in their arm! We gotta make some choices that are gonna seem mean to the liberturds, but if we're p*****'em off we're doin something right!! GOD BLESS & WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!
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I use my real name, I am in people faces , offensively free (offense as opposed to defense) Hollywood and our news have meleded into newtainment .... For everyone here who is upfront I applaude you! The greater the number of people willing to sign ther name to the Declaration Of Independence Once more the better off we will be!
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Unfortunately he ( the actor ) hit the nail on the head . We have a socialist state now with a fraud and usurper running it going by the name of barack hussein obama . He is right this use to be the greatest country in the world and it can be again as soon as We The People demand that US Constitutional law be enforced and the fraud obama removed from office . But that is not the only thing that need to be done . Our educational system need to get back to the basics and the belief in God let back into our schools . The return of accountability of student, parent and teacher . The US Constitution needs to be taught to our children at a very young age so they know what it took to make this country free and become the greatest country on earth . Finally the welfare state that started in the fifity need to go . It was meant to be a temporary support for those who needed it not a lifelong commitment by our government . This country is a constitutional republic and not a democracy with mob rule .
America can be The Greatest Country in the world if we throw the COMMUNISTS out Republicans and Democrats From our HOUSE. America is the most Beautiful country in the world
Excellent! oblama believes that millions of Americans have lost their homes, their jobs and their livelihood because he failed to tell a good story. Being president is not about telling stories. Being president is about leading, and oblama has failed to lead. Being president is about supporting small business, not writing thousands of additional regulations and introducing new taxes which destroy the middle class. No wonder Americans are losing faith in his presidency. Success is being punished. The desire to reach for the stars is being replaced with government dependency. No wonder America is no longer the greatest country in the world.
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When we started Alarm Grid we struggled with how we were going to stand out in a world of like a trillion other security companies. We were late to the game, no doubt, and in a world with as much competition as there is in an old industry like home security, it seems like there isn't much you could do to compete with the million minds that have come before you. Since then, we've done a lot of fun things that have helped us to gain traction, but my favorite strategy we've executed on thus far is our security FAQs strategy. We have built an amazingly large database of super relevant Questions and Answers, and our users love them. Before we begin, let me introduce you to our executive team: Eric is on the left, Sterling is in the middle and I'm the guy on the right.
Like anything done in marketing, there aren't a whole lot of "new" ideas per se. But the question needs to be how to execute it based on what's available to you. As I've seen Q&A strategies executed previously, I think there are two main ways to put them together. The first is the way companies like SEOmoz or Trulia have done it. Both use their base of strong, engaged communities to answer questions. Trulia relies on users looking for homes to ask, and realtors looking for business to answer. SEOmoz is generally relying on its community members who are interested in seeking experts or being experts to answer and ask questions. This model works really really well. I can't tell you how many times I've had an SEO question or an analytics question and ended up on one of the SEOmoz pages with a good answer from some person I've never heard of or met. Very helpful, extremely engaging. The other method is what sites without much of a community do: a bunch of old guys who know their product too well get together in a room and think of 100 questions about their products. Then they answer the questions in 30 words or less, brush off their hands, and call it a day.
When you know too much about your product, you can't know what questions users will ACTUALLY find useful
So we needed a method that sat between the community approach and the stodgy old-men-in-a-room approach. Since we don't have an engaged set of users and we're not that old, we needed to figure out a method of populating the database that sat in between the two approaches, and I'm proud to say, I think we figured out a great way to accomplish this.
If you're a business owner, you're probably wondering if this FAQ business is a good idea for you. When we gave the strategy a try on Alarm Grid, we had the same question. I poured through Google Analytics (GA) data and saw that users had already started coming into the site with questions. They weren't getting them answered, but they were asking them.
So, what I did was I used GA to power our entire Q&A engine. When we started, we honestly thought we'd be able to keep up with the questions that came in. We now have a backlog of over 10,000 questions we want to get to... and that's with just Honeywell products in our catalog. Our goal is to get 80% of these questions answered before we add more brands to the catalog. Wish us luck.
I'm presuming that you already have GA installed on your site, and that you know anything about how to log in to your account... so here we go:
This button unveils a glorious land of powerful analytics possibilities wherein you can create enormous value. The first thing you're going to want to do here is to make sure that you select "include" on the rule.
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Now I ain't no RegExpert. I am terrible at Regex. And most of you probably don't even know what Regex is, so I'm sure there are more efficient ways to write this. But so you understand what you've done, let me clue you in. You're filtering for anyone who comes to your site using the keywords within the parentheses including any query that a user makes that contains a question mark. The regex idiot proofs it so that you anyone can add weird capitalizations and still have their search filtered (at least that's supposed to be how it works). If you want to clean up the regex, feel free. I would love to see it done, it just doesn't matter that much since this works pretty darn well.
Now this is a bit optimistic. You really only need the maximum possible number of results from each day. The number starts small, but if you execute this strategy correctly, you may be seeing 500+ visitors each day asking questions and getting to your site.
Also make sure to change the "Frequency" to "Daily." You can actually make it as frequent or infrequent as you want. I recommend daily, because, particularly when you are only seeing a few FAQs a day, it's better that everyone gets a few FAQs in the morning before things get hopping. Think about it, if you have two employees pumping out two FAQs every morning, first thing, you will have 1460 FAQs in by the end of the year. The average FAQ, in our case, bumps our average daily uniques by 1/3 of an user. Each FAQ takes an average of 15 minutes to write. At the end of the year, we'll have used about 730 hours of our employees' time to grab an extra 5,000 unique visitors each and every month. That's a huge boon for an ecommerce site.
And that's that.
What I like to do is once a month, dump the spreadsheets into a big, master list. Then I can filter on the spreadsheet by keywords within the questions, which allows us to manage our more than 10,0000 outstanding questions. We generally attack them by subject. So, for example, we do a week of Vista 20P (which is a Honeywell product we carry) questions only or some weeks we answer all the questions people have asked about Alarm Grid's alarm monitoring. This is the most effective kind of inter-linking we could possibly put together. The Q&As are relevant, and the anchor texts are surrounded by perfect semantically relevant writing. We require all articles contain 300 to 500 words, even if it's just a simple answer. We also find that it's best not to bury the lead. So when a user lands on a page, start by answering the question, then put more text below it that will expound and further explain why the answer is "yes" or "no."
You can do a lot of other fun stuff as well with this strategy. For example, to root out duplicates, you could only have questions where the user doesn't land on a URL with /faq in it. Our system is accurate up to about 87% when we do this, meaning this uproots 87% of all duplicates. There are a ton of other fun ways you could run this engine, but there isn't enough time in a day. If you do something fun that is hugely helpful for you, I'd love to know about it.
So give this all a try! And then report back, Let me know and the rest of the Alarm Grid team know how it works for you!
Very nice explanation here. I used Google analytics for understanding user behavior . For instance once you get some organic traffic with keywords which are not our targeted keywords. And users are coming on those terms then I write the relevant content on that stuff and put the contextual linking to the landing pages. By this way our long tail keywords are getting ranked and we get a good amount of traffic eventually.
I'm really into more long tail strategies these days. I used to go after 1 or 2 big keywords on every page. I find more and more there is a ton of hidden traffic in the longtail of search, and that the traffic really supports those 1 or 2 enormous keywords because the links you get end up being really relevant, and the whole site starts to push up the big keywords you want to rank for.
Absolutely true Faisal, its very important to identify the keywords on Google analytics which are getting the decent impressions & traffic to the site, in order to make the best use of those keywords, optimize the already existing relevant landing page with the keywords or creating a new landing page with quality content if it really makes sense, to rank well and to get more click throughs from the serps. Not to forget, if two or more similar long tail keywords have the same search intent and if it makes sense to have a single landing page, just have one landing page. Having a separate landing for each and every targeted keyword is a bad user experience as it doesn't make sense and even Google hates it.
I love this post! It's great to see examples of what you've done in the real world, how it's helped, and how others can do it. I often see questions in Q&A that are asking how to find out what new content to write, and this will be one of the posts I can refer to. Thanks for writing this up!
Thanks Keri. It's been amazing for us as far as getting traffic, but more than that, it's an amazing exercise in building trust. Our customers visit 6-8 times on average before they make a purchase. These FAQs are often their first introduction to our company.
What do you mean? We get traffic from it, we rank well for the questions, it helps for our site interlinking. It hits on all the fundamentals. I don't know what percentage of our ranking success can be attributed to this strategy. But I do know that it provides a great customer experience, and that it gains us lots of business, which is way more important to me than rankings for a pet keyword.
Thanks for this. We've been trying to figure out a solution for a customer who wanted to implement a Q&A. this is basically the answer to the question we were trying to figure out.
Thanks for the great ideas, Joshua! We'll have to think of ways to apply this to our help documentation here at SEOmoz. This could really help us make the best help content for our customers. We'll have to let you know how it goes!
This is pretty awesome. Huge amounts of content can be generated from this. If anyone doesn't want to go through the steps to reproduce the advanced segment (even though it's easy), here is a shared URL that will allow you to apply it to your own Google Analytics accounts:
One more comment - here's an easy template to make sure that the content for each answer turns out great:
h/t Dan Shure for tweeting that link.
Thanks... haha... h/t to Dharmesh for submitting that link to Inbound.org ;)
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Great stuff Josh! I particularly loved this sentence - "When you know too much about your product, you can't know what questions users will ACTUALLY find useful." So true! It's a great reminder to all of us that are really close to what we sell and how we sell it...perspective is incredibly valuable. These sort of data dives and processes are great for offering that perspective. Thanks for the post!`
Easy to follow and intuitive...thanks for sharing yet another way to use GA to help our business'!
Awesome Post junseth!!! thanks for sharing great tips will apply right away :)
Great post indeed. I'm a strong believer in monitoring site search closely. Site search are a great way to know what your community is interested at, and combined with advanced segments, it's really powerful. Few month back I wrote a post about that exactly. Check it out for further reading. Cheers, Dada.
Thanks Junseth,
Just implemented the above code & looking forward to see what kind of questions people are asking. Really, it is very important to have FAQ page on your site to answer users query no matter whats your nature of business is. If you can't solve users query, they'll not come to your site again.
Love this post - I just followed the steps and found a large number of questions which users have been asking which we have not covered on our site.
Good post, I regularly do this technique in Analytics. It is a widely underused tactic in content marketing and SEO. Usually instead of creating advanced segments to perform this, I will export entire organic keyword reports for say 12 months and use some excel wizardry to pull out who, what, why, how questions into different tabs. Then analyse what kind of questions are appearing multiple times, from that you can create content specifically answering these questions. Search is all about providing answers to what people are searching for, this kind of tactic specifically lets you find out what your visitors are really trying to find an lets you create answers for them.
We do this same thing Malcolm. We used to do it day to day, but that got out of hand. So now, what I do, is I segment our list by products. I put them in a spreadsheet, and then I filter for keywords, and then hand them off based on subjects. So, for example, when I want to get traffic for Honeywell's Total Connect product, I segment my keyword list by all queries having to do with "Total Connect" and then give it to my writers to do all Total Connect questions for a week. Then as those FAQs get indexed, not only does our main page for Total Connect start to move up in the rankings, we start getting tons of tangential traffic that are specific to that product.
We do the same thing with products as well, like the Honeywell L5100, or any question having to do with a VISTA series control panel. Th is has been amazingly effective.
"If you're a business owner, you're probably wondering if this FAQ
business is a good idea for you. When we gave the strategy a try on
Alarm Grid, we had the same question. I poured through Google Analytics
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with questions. They weren't getting them answered, but they were asking
them ... So, what I did was I used GA to power our entire Q&A engine."
This is a fine example of how giving users what they are already looking for naturally results in traffic and, most importantly. conversions. Thanks for sharing your Q&A Strategy, Josh, and for making this a fun and easy read, to boot. Well done!
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Yeah. We actually make sure to write down any questions that we get over the phone. We mine questions wherever we can get them. We use our Olark chat transcripts, phone calls, and this. The truth is, a lot of times, we get a lot of redundancy since not all the questions are answered. So, for example, if someone comes to our site by Googling a question they haven't answered, we will get that data in GA. But since their question wasn't answered yet, and we haven't grabbed their question to answer it, they will jump on Olark and chat with one of our representatives. We get the question twice.
My belief about data is that it doesn't have to be perfect or complete. Data compiling is trend analysis. If you miss 100 questions, but you get 900, you're doing pretty well. I would hate if we are only capturing 90% of the data, but you take what you can get. And in a world where things like last-click attribution are the norm because multi-click attribution can be expensive to implement, it's very obvious that we're a long way from perfect data.
This is brilliant, and I LOVE the real world examples.. context makes all the difference. A new API service recently launched (they're actively testing) that aims to help solve some of the same pains, essentially helping you figure out what your customers questions are before they ask them, check it out: Supportify
This is a really really really good idea! Can't thank you enough for this one!
This is brilliant and I'm going to give this a try. Love it.
BTW, as I'm also a biz owner, I've found the following to be helpful for FAQ's: 1) customers my q's actually ask me while on appts, 2) comments and q's on blogs, 3) going to answers.com and yahoo answers to see what customers ask and 4) looking at FAQ's on other competitive sites.
I love this idea as it can really generate a lot of long tail ideas. Thx.
Very thanks for sharing this. I like it. I uses Google analytics initially for knowing the number of visits, number or organic visits, keywords which brought visits, location of visits etc. Latest facilities included are really great. I am really fan of Real time option and goal setting.
yes we can track how the user come on our site with query by Google.
Google analytic also gives an amazing facility of goal and funnel tracking, by this we can track how many conversion done and how the visitors came to our landing page. We can reduce bounce rate by deeply analyzed it.
Fantastic share. I honestly have never done this before so it's exciting to have a new way of using Google Analytics. Also, I am a big fan of FAQ pages. They really serve a lot of value to users, reduce the amount of "questions" asked through the contact form and give a great source of content for you to be picked up on the Long Tail. Excellent share. Thank you.
I think this is great - I use something similar for blog content ideas too - it's a similar tactic to looking for FAQ candidates but you'll find a few terms which land on slightly related pages (or even your homepage) which you can break out into separate blog pieces - works hand in hand with your internal site search terms too
I would guess that another strategy that can many times be useful is to build content around what the related searches at the bottom are recommended by Google. I'd imagine if you rank high for related searches that would help you rank in general.
These tips are absolutely amazing. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you VERY very much!
We are planning to create a Q&A section on our website as well. What Q&A platform do you suggest to use?
That's awesome. In an ideal world, I would say you need to build your own. If you can't, there are perfectly good Q&A ones that you can use with systems like ZenDesk, or I bet you could even build one with WordPress. Anyone else? I'm not an expert in open source Q&A systems.
Just had time to read that great real live example post which opens a full set of further ideas to all GA fans. Easy to reproduce and super helpful!
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Thanks Joshua for this post. I put it into my GA. I can see that many people ask a partial phase over and over again (as I thought) "How much does it cost to ship .....". For the keyword phrases that I don't rank #1 for, I think an easy blog post with anchor text will work just fine to increase rankings.
BTW, I ain't no regex user either! LOL
You keep an informative blog as well. How would you say your traffic compares between the users reading your faq's and your blog. Would you say the faq section has been more beneficial to your business? I am always looking for ways to increase client interaction and we do run a very informative blog also.
I'm a fan of breaking all content into content types.
We're lucky to have the ability to build our system from the ground up. We have built a custom solution using the Spree ecommerce platform. The reason I don't answer questions in the blog is because Q&As are a distinct content type from blog content. Blog content is news about a company, it's fun articles we want to write about, it's information about our personal site, it's written in a fairly informal voice and it's linear; when you publish the blog post is supposed to matter. You can comment on today's events. FAQs are static, they are organized in a way that is unlike blog posts (in our system, we actually specify related products for each FAQ), they are very formal and informative, they are not time sensitive and should be relevant whenever they are read. It's a completely different content type.
Most of the time, I separate content types by what Google defines as a content type in Schema. But sometimes, you gotta make a judgment call - especially since they introduced the ability to customize your structured data. Different content types should be treated differently.
That said, there is nothing wrong with putting it in a blog post instead. I prefer not to do it, but I don't think that it will be any less effective. People don't navigate to FAQs generally, they come there through Google. So, if you are comfortable being less formal about their organization, a blog will be just fine.
But just for a good example of why we do what we do, think of all the opportunities our ecommerce site's organization allows us to rank for. Say someone searches the SKU "Honeywell L5100".Alarm Grid can rank in the following ways,Honeywell L5100 Main PageHoneywell L5100 KitsHoneywell L5100 Blog PostsIndividual blog posts about the L5100Honeywell L5100 FAQ Doorway PageIndividual L5100 FAQs (of which there might be 60).In a market where ranking for SKUs is a bit simpler than you might expect, having more than 70 opportunities to rank for a given keyword, not to mention interlink toward the benefit of the product's main page is an incredible boon.
@Hansen to answer your question about the blog. The problem with a corporate blog is that very few people want to read it. We do some fun things, like since we specialize in DIY home security, we get the opportunity to put the spotlight on some of our customer's fun projects. But, for the most part, our blog doesn't get a lot of traffic. About 3% of the site's entire pageviews come from a page that is at the address "/blog/.*", whereas the FAQs account for nearly 30% of the site's entire pageviews.
My ability to analyze this data is another reason I like to split content types out. I want to know about behavior of consumers who are going to the FAQs as opposed to those who are going to the blog. It makes it much easier to see who is going what when all I have to do is pull down data from all pages whose URL has a /faq/ in it as opposed to a /blog/.
Again, if you don't have the resources necessary to make an entire FAQ section, however, you should just put them in the blog. Google won't dock you, and your customers, for the most part, will be equally happy.
I was just about to make a similar comment. Mining analytics for your consumers questions is also a great way to get content for a blog if you aren't a site with a large Q+A section or FAQs. Sometimes I start a post with "a reader submitted a great question we wanted to share with you." Or sometimes even "Steve emailed us a great question.." At the end of the post, you can invite more of your readers to submit their questions as well. You can use the questions asked in SERPs as a catalyst to ask your readers to submit questions for future posts.
We do this same thing with videos. We actually take FAQs that were inspired by users, and then make a video about them highlighting the user who asked the question and then responding. Just remember, if you're going to do videos, always always always transcribe them. Google still sucks at transcription, and all it can really read is text.
Kudos on an excellent post. I had to implement it before I could comment. A real eye opener. Thanks for real practical advice on the Analytics segment.
I think this is a great post. You may refer to it as a Q&A strategy but it is actually a great Long Tail keyword strategy.
Great post! It's not really something many new companies think of doing, yet it's exactly the type of practice needed to gain a competitive advantage! Fascinating to have the practice explained from the point of view of the business itself.It shows you that there's always new approaches to take to get a step ahead of the competition, even in today's highly competitive era.
Cool. I love the way you have explained the Analytic behavior and settings. Specially described through screenshots. I am expecting more from you on this topic in next post.
Thanks for this fantastic idea.
I tried it and got a nice long list of possible relevant questions to answer on my property blog.
Also I stuck the reg expression in the SEO / Queries section / Advanced filter and guess what it works too.
So you can see the questions for which you may not yet be receiving visitors but could do with a new Q/A post (or do better)!
Most welcome. I am glad I was able to improve on it a little.
I was trying to figure out whether I could apply that to Google Search to find out how to question on blog/forums.
Sadly I failed. Have you build the same sort of query for Google by any chance?
I have a few questions and one specifically for Alarm Grid.
By the way, I love this post.
We have so many clients that are constantly inquiring with all types of questions regarding debt relief.
After checking on our Google analytics account, I found hundreds of questions that would fit perfectly into an faq page on our website.
I ran the report going back 2 years and it came up with tons of data/questions, that I can add to our faq page. Why not just add those questions and not worry about setting up the reports to get emailed daily?
Or I can post the page with the questions that we have, and then update it with more questions each month as we collect new data/questions.
What do you all think about that?
This question is for the Alarm Grid.
When I visited your faq section on your site, I like how you set up all the questions on one page, but then to see the answers you have to click on the link, where you are then brought to a new page. You can make hundreds of pages doing this on your site in a day, just by posting your faqs. Or do I have this wrong?
Anyways, I am wondering where you posted all of the answers. Are the answers on hundreds of pages in your blog, or on some type of back pages on your site?
I am just trying to figure out the strategy that we will use when we put the faq page up on our site at NoMoreCreditCards.com.
I am thinking that we should post a main page on our site called "FAQ". Then on that page we will have all of the questions, that link to the answers. Each answer will have its own page, but where should we put those pages?
Thanks - this is also a great way to find negative keywords to add to pcc campaigns.
very nice post by you, really google analytics is very helpful for businessmen and seo professional. The best part i like about your article was the use of screenshots to make it user friendly.
I've been going through some pretty rigorous Google Analytics training lately and it is crazy how much I still don't know. There really are so many useful features and it feels like there isn't enough time in the day to utilize them all. This is certainly a tool that could be used often to make sure your customers are getting the questions they want answers to... well answered. It's important to always be striving to increase customer satisfaction and this could absolutely be one way to do so.
I am happy reading your post. It is a great and useful for me. So far, I have not been able to take advantage of Google Analytic, except to witness the development of traffic to my blog. Your article is very helpful to capitalize the Google Analytic for the blog optimization. Thank you so much for the tutorial.
Great post, asking the right questions can be hard especially when you don't fully understand an industry :/It can be a problem building a campaign around limited information especially when the owner isn't available or staff are lazy, it can be a real pain! Having a set plan and questions can make the job of gaining information a lot easier!
This is such an innovative and impressive way to get the most out of Google Analytics. Props to you Junseth.
I see this being especially helpful when beginning an SEO campaign for clients who are industry-specific, or as I like to refer to it, industries I know absolutely nothing about. What a great way to ramp up your client immersion and audience analysis.
I look forward to more posts!
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Good way of getting a market share in a very competitive market.
Leveraging the force of UGC is very efficient, however users demand quality and quick interaction/communication, else they will support a different forum.
This is clearly a strategy that I will implement further down the line!
I just implemented some of these great tips! This post is timeless and awesome. This strategy really gives customers what they are looking for which in turn helps the search engine recognize you as the authority.
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The sous chef loves the granola bars that I make him to take to work. Recently, he's made several comments about how that recipe "must go on the blog" and "it's too bad you didn't take any photos last time you made them." Hmmm… am I sensing any ulterior motives here?!
So, since the sous chef thought you would all like these, here is my recipe for Almond Raisin Granola Bars. I've played around with these and you can basically add whatever you want to them and they work out. I'm not a big fan of store-bought granola bars because they are usually loaded with sugar and not much fiber/protein. And while I don't usually eat granola bars at all (I much prefer straight almond or peanut butter!), I must do my nutritional gatekeeper duties and keep the sous chef healthy and happy.
Recipe as follows: preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the following dry ingredients:
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3 tablespoons ground flax (we grind ours in a coffee grinder. You must grind it or your body cant absorb the nutrients)
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1/2 cup brown sugar
Then, add the wet ingredients and mix well:
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4 eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/3 cup natural smooth peanut butter (no sugar or salt)
Finally, add in your mix-ins! Any nut, dried fruit, or even chocolate will do. I added:
1 cup coarsely chopped almonds (no need to pre-roast since they'll cook in the oven)
1 cup organic raisins (probably a bit much for my taste but the sous chef loves raisins)
Bake in a 9 by 13 lightly greased pan for for 25 minutes, and you have your very own healthy delicious granola bars! Once cooled, I cut them into individual squares and freeze them. The recipe can also be halved to fit in an 8 by 8 pan.
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But not this year. No, this year I am just going to publish post after post of ridiculous Halloween stuff I find and call it Halloween Gone Good.
Today, I present Incredible Pumpkins - clearly some people think there are better ways to create a Jack O'Lantern than just hacking up a pumpkin with a kitchen knife. And while I admire them and their handiwork, there is not one of these pumpkins I think I could make myself.
I love this Polka-Dot Pumpkin, made with an apple corer, and putting pieces of one cored pumpkin into the other pumpkin:
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Better Homes & Gardens also has a slideshow entitled Quick and Easy Painted Pumpkins though again, if I was the one doing the "quick and easy" painting it would actually be slow and agonizing... just look at these incredible pumpkins!
The Silhouette Pumpkin:
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The Stenciled Design:
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Real Simple had some spectacular (but easy! really!) no-carve pumpkins, too.
I love this Chalkboard Paint Pumpkin:
Nothing says fun like kids wanting to change their pumpkin every day from now till October 31.
And last, I really love these thumbtack pumpkins.
Real Simple has initial and house number ones:
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And MadiganMade has these simply stunning gilded pumpkins that are completely covered with gold thumbtacks.
At least she has the decency to admit it was not easy and that it took forever to put in all those brass tacks.
And if you, like me, find that all this pumpkin awesomeness has left you feeling perhaps a little bit inferior, I leave you with one last equally cool idea that luckily requires almost no execution: The Masked Pumpkin:
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I also started watching EP's short films--mostly horror--and quickly became a fan.
Last year, Emerald Productions released a their first full-length film, Haunted, Inc., which Alicia and I loved. Check out the trailer and then read the interview, in which we discuss storytelling, movie making, creating art while making a living, and the perfect films to watch this Halloween season.
Q: Emerald Productions in the house! Thanks for stopping by the blog.
The thing is only do what you know you can do well. There is a reason why it takes a team of hundreds to make a Hollywood film. Each person brings something unique to the table and it is important to realize that each individual's talent and pride can lift that key position to a higher level. A boom operator (sound guy) who prides himself in the clean sound he gets will enhance that aspect of the film. If you give that role to someone that sees themselves burdened by the task, they may put less care into the process and your final product will suffer for it.
As a person playing several roles, especially directing, you must not stretch yourself too thin and be sure that you can put the TLC into each hat worn. Ernie and I certainly stretch ourselves thin, but our pride in our work forces us to give it everything we have. From the mightiest executive producer to the smallest production assistant, every role is crucial to your film's success and you must respect that.
We also consistently have fun because we LOVE what we do. Your cast and crew see your excitement and feed off it. And if you continue to put out a great product, you'll find people standing in line to work with you for just the experience or mutual love of the craft. They know that when they work for free it is affording us the opportunity to put that money back into the picture. We never make any money either - our cast and crew know that every dime saved is put right back into the project.
It's funny, Ernie and I both love horror first and foremost, but have very different taste in horror. I was actually surprised that he was up for doing something so fun and light. But he loves Buffy and always saw Haunted, Inc. in that vein. I never watched Buffy, so I looked to things like Ghostbusters, Teen Wolf, and some classic ghost stories for inspiration.
Justin Plum is a childhood friend who studied painting and animation in school. He decided to lend his artistic sensibility to the project and has been working with us ever since.
Scott Alten and I co-teach the Absegami High School film institute. He spent a number of months growing an 80s style porn-stash for the flick.
When you are wired this way, you do it no matter what. A full time day job does nothing but inspire me. I use it to have money, to interact with new people, and to make me respect the "down time" I do get so that I use it and manage it in such a way that I can be most creative. It disciplines me.
However, seeing more of the world and putting myself in new surroundings have always led to inspiration. My girlfriend Carissa and I often take trips and I feel like I come back with a new idea every time. Recently we did Camden, Maine and Athens, Georgia and both locations have inspired my work and made their way into my writing.
I've always seen my short films as a chance to practice telling a story through cinematic means. If I do not challenge myself and bring myself out of my comfort zone, then I am not living up to my own set of standards. The only way to improve is to push yourself harder each time.
Our likes and dislikes are based on time and timing, where we were in life when exposed to a particular piece of cinema. I was born January 9, 1980. So, minus eight days and some odd minutes, I lived every moment of the decade of Garbage Pail Kids, legwarmers and glam rock. My movies tend to reproduce the tone and texture of the movies of my youth.
I worked as a critic for the Press of Atlantic City for a period of five years. I'm a cinefile: I like movies of all types. It just so happens that when an idea hits me, it's usually horror-themed.
Creature From The Black Lagoon: A classic creature feature flick. There is something about the underwater black and white photography that makes me fall in love every time and I have a soft spot for the underlying theme of unrequited love.
Bonus: This is one of my favorite Emerald Production shorts, GHOST LIGHT:


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Following formal criticisms from the European Union (EU), Italy has recently enacted new rules on the so-called Golden Share (Law Decree 21/2012).
Previous regulations prompted by Law Decree 332/1994 provided that, with respect to certain companies directly or indirectly controlled by the State and operating in the defence, transport, telecommunications, energy resources and other public service sectors, the State was to hold some special powers. These included the power to oppose the acquisition by investors of significant shareholdings representing at least 5% of voting rights, to oppose the conclusion of contracts or agreements between shareholders representing at least 5% of voting rights and to veto resolutions for the dissolution of the company, transfer of the undertaking, merger, demerger, transfer abroad of the company headquarters, alteration of the companys objects, amendment of the articles of association removing or modifying the special powers.
The criteria for the exercise of the special powers were provided for by a Prime Ministers Decree of 2004. According to the EU Court (Case C 326/07, judgment of March 26 2009), the cases in which the golden share could have been exercised under the criteria set forth by the 2004 were potentially numerous, undetermined and undeterminable. In other words, the latitude enjoyed by the Italian authorities gave those powers a discretionary nature, with the result of discouraging investors.
Therefore, the new rules aim at providing potential investors with a higher degree of certainty by removing those elements of administrative discretion that the former regulation entailed. The conditions for the exercise of the golden share are now objective, proportional, non-discriminatory and clearly defined ex ante. In addition, such conditions are strictly limited to exceptional circumstances which are likely to cause serious and irreparable harms to the fundamental interests of the State (public security and defence, security and continuity of supply of public services, guarantee of financial and managerial soundness of strategic assets, and democratic principles of the State).
We briefly describe the main features of the new regime below.
Law Decree 21/2012 has a wider scope of application than the former rules, as it applies to any company owning or controlling strategic assets in the fields of (i) defence and national security; (ii) energy, transports and telecommunications, irrespective of whether the State is a shareholder. Indeed, some commentators observed that the new regime should be referred to as Golden Powers, rather than Golden Share.
Basically, it is provided that - any act, resolution or transaction adopted or entered into by the companies concerned, which is liable of affecting the operation of the strategic companies, or the ownership and availability of the strategic assets, has to be notified to the Italian Government. A stand-still period of 15 days is provided.
Provided that conditions for the exercise of the golden powers are met, the Government could either: (i) make the transaction subject to specific conditions; (ii) veto the transaction (last-resort measure).
However, with respect to companies operating in the energy, transports and telecommunications sectors, the veto can be only opposed to extra-EU investors.
Further, a reciprocity condition is provided. Without prejudice to the Governments faculty of opposing a transaction when the applicable conditions are met, it is provided that extra-EU investors willing to purchase a stake in a strategic company are only permitted to do so if their native country allow Italian citizens and companies to be stakeholders of those countrys companies at the same conditions. However the reciprocity condition applies without prejudice to the international treaties entered into by Italy or the EU.
The new regime does not repeal the existing rules on the possibility, for State-owned companies operating in the strategic sectors, of introducing in their by-laws a limitation, to the purchase of a stake by any individual or company, to 5% of their shareholding (provided for by Law Decree 474/1994).
Conclusively, if correctly and proportionally applied, the new regime seems likely to turn into an effective instrument for providing legal certainty and thus for attracting investments in Italy.
Valentina Bonfitto's pratice focuses on competition law and regulatory issues of network industries, especially in the field of energy and electronic communications.
Valentina holds a Decree in Law from La Sapienza University of Rome (2004) and an Master in Antitrust and Market Regulation from the Centre for Economic and International Studies - CEIS - Tor Vergata University of Rome - Faculty of Economics (2006).
Before joining the firm she gained experience in an important law firm in Rome specializing in EU law and competition law. She also joined a national research project at AGCOM, the Telecom Regulator, on high-speed broadband networks.
She has been admitted to the Bar in Italy (2006/2007).
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Whether you occasionally play a casual game of chess or you play competitively, this tournament chess kit is one of the best there is for the money and a great choice for anyone. This complete package includes our ProTourney Plastic Chess Set and two extra queens, vinyl rollup chess board, chess bag, and scorebook. Our ProTourney knight is simply spectacular with a graceful profile and intricate features that create an elegant stallion bust. The other pieces are perfectly proportioned and have purely traditional Staunton design. Pieces are triple weighted and feel great in the hand and are stable on the board. Players love the look and feel of this set!
The Chess Bag is made from a heavy canvas material that will withstand the rigors of frequent use and travel. Inside, the bag has 2 zippered compartments for chess pieces and a zippered compartment for a chess clock. The chess board is held in place by Velcro straps and you'll even find pockets for storing books and pencils. An adjustable shoulder strap and handle makes carrying it a breeze. The chess board is made from a soft, pliable vinyl with a cloth backing. It's easy to clean and flattens out nicely. This tournament kit also includes a 50 game scorebook for up to 100 moves per game, a diagram for each game, and spots to record other tournament information.
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Email your sports events, youth league registration and other metro-east recreation news to email@example.com, send a fax to 236-9773 or mail them to News-Democrat, P.O. Box 427, 120 S. Illinois St., Belleville, IL 62222.
MON-CLAIR LEAGUE HALL of FAME -- Former Mon-Clair League president and San Diego Padres scout Van Smith will be inducted into the league's Hall of Fame Nov. 17 at the Millstadt VFW. Also scheduled to be honored with Hall of Fame induction are former players Brett Crawford and Mark Ludwig and former player, coach and manager J.R. Potthast. Tickets are $15 each for the 5:30 p.m. banquet and can be obtained by calling Syl "Tuffy" Mueth at 476-9179 before Nov. 6.
INSTRUCTIONAL CAMP -- Belleville Parks & Recreation Department and Lindenwood University-Belleville will host a youth baseball camp for players in grades 2-8 Nov. 17-18. Instructors are Lindenwood coaches and players and include training in hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and running. Fee: $50 for one session, $75 for two sessions and $100 for three sessions. To register, call 277-9785 or 233-1416.
BLUE SOX TRYOUTS -- The Blue Sox Baseball Club select program will hold tryouts for its 9-under, 10-under and 11-under teams for the 2012 fall and 2013 spring seasons. Interested players from the O'Fallon and Shiloh area should forward player information (age as of May 1, 2013, position, etc.) and contact info to firstname.lastname@example.com.
COLLINSVILLE EXTREME -- Collinsville Extreme 12-under team is looking for a middle infielder, preferably one who can pitch, for the 2013 season. call Coach Lyday at 314-70407481 or email email@example.com. The Collinsville Extreme 14-under team has an opening for a pitcher and an assistant coach for the 2012-13 season. Call Coach Phelps at 789-5132 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
SO. ILL. SELECT LEAGUE -- The 2013 Southern Illinois Select Baseball League (SISBL) is now forming for teams ages 9-under through 14-under at the Freeburg Sports Complex. The USSSA-sanctioned league will be run by Glen Polacek and the SISBL. For more information, call Glen at 792-6880 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
BASEBALL, SOFTBALL LESSONS -- The Batter's Box in Belleville is offering baseball and softball lessons in hitting, pitching and fielding. 207-4549.
JETS TRYOUTS -- The Jets Basketball Club will be holding tryouts for the 2012-13 season Nov. 18 at Belleville West High School. Grade 3-4 Boys and Grade 6-7 Girls: 1-2:30 p.m.; Grade 7 Boys and Grade 8 Gils: 2:30-4 p.m.; Grade 8 Boys: 4-5:30 p.m. Players should arrive 30 minutes before tryout begins. Dana Morgan, 514-9893 or email email@example.com
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT -- FSP Thunder coach Britt Booker, a former player at Colorado State, and Gibault High coach Dennis Rueter are offering a player development program. Coaches will focus on basketball-specific skills and drills but also stress quickness, jumping and strength. Program on Sunday evenings with each sessions limited to 12 players. For more information, call 277-7111.
FLAG FOOTBALL TOURNEY -- The 42 Foundation is hosting the Jesse Hacker 5-on-5 Flag Football Tournament 9 a.m. Nov. 24 at Citizens Park in Belleville. Tourney open to boys and girls, under 18 must have parental consent. To register or for more information, call Dana Fitch at 235-2276
HORSESHOE TOURNEYS -- Horseshoe Tournaments will be held Nov. 4, Nov. 18, Dec. 2 and Dec. 16 along with dates through April, 2013 on Sundays beginning at 11 a.m. Fee: $10. Gives an opportunity to get qualified for the world or state tournaments. Dave Shreve, 910-8558 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
GOLF LEAGUE -- Thursday Night Men's League, a team match-play league, now forming at The Prairies of Cahokia. Wes Bell, 332-6944.
MOONLIGHT SCRAMBLE --Miracle League Moonlight Golf Scramble, a nine-hole scramble under the lights, set for 5 p.m. Nov. 3 at Yorktown Golf Course in Belleville. Fee: $50 per person. All proceeds benefit Miracle League, which enables disabled children a chance to play ball. Brenda Wagner, 791-6733.
CHILI OPEN -- Chili Open tourney with tough pin placement and tee locations 9 a.m. Nov. 10 and Nov. 11 at The Hills Golf Club in Lebanon. Play either day or both, $55 includes golf, chili, skin game and prize money. 537-4590.
CROSSOVER BACKWARDS TOURNEY -- Crossover Backwards Tourney 9 a.m. Nov. 3 at The Hills Golf Club in Lebanon. Fee: $50 includes golf, food, skin game and prize money. 537-4590.
GINGERBREAD 5K RUN -- Belleville Parks & Recreation Department's annual Gingerbread 5K Run is 8:30 a.m. Dec. 1 in downtown Belleville. Race host is former Olympic distance runner Craig Virgin from Lebanon, a 2011 USA National Track & Field Hall of Fame inductee. Fee: $20 adults, $15 for 18-under; late entry fee or race day fee is $25. To register, call 233-1416 or visit 510 W. Main St., in Belleville from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
ELITE FT -- Elite FT offering a six-week program in Alton (Nautilus), Glen Carbon (The Sports Academy) and O'Fallon (Vetta). Programs offered include strength and speed for athletes of all sports for ages 6 to 18; individual/team training; Juniors soccer for ages 2 to 7; soccer skills ages 8 to 14. New indoor classes start every 7 weeks. Call 972-1830, email email@example.com or visit www.EliteFT.com.
SWAT 14-UNDER -- Girls select fast-pitch team is seeking a pitcher and position player. League games at Laderman Park in Belleville, plus four to six tournaments. 559-9577 or email email@example.com.
METRO-EAST SHOXX -- Metro-East Shoxx 18-under girls select team seeking a pitcher and infielder for the 2013 season. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
MIDWEST FREEDOM -- Midwest Freedom 16-under girls select fastpitch team seeking players for the fall 2012 and summer 2013 season. For a tryout, call 401-3214.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FALCONS -- Southern Illinois Falcons 12-under select fast-pitch team needs an experienced pitcher and catcher for the 2013 season. To schedule a tryout, call Brad Ragland at 444-9644 or Jeff Mueller at 223-0293, or email email@example.com. Southern Illinois Falcons 10-under select fast-pitch team needs one pitcher to complete its roster for this fall and the 2013 season. To schedule a tryout, call Jay Ozier at 781-4142 or email email@example.com.
LADY HURRICANES -- Highland Lady Hurricanes 14-under girls select team is seeking players for the 2013 season. Second-year 14-under team plays in Collinsville League and four to six tournaments. Jerry Holzinger, 781-4065 or email email@example.com, or call Kent Lewis at 910-8957 or email email@example.com.
DYNAMITE -- The Dynamite 12-under girls select fastpitch team has openings for the 2012-13 season, especially for a No. 1 pitcher. To schedule a tryout, call Dan Klostermann at 882-5842 or 314-517-9690 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. More information available at www.eteamz.com/dynamite.
MIDWEST FREEDOM -- Midwest Freedom girls select fast-pitch team holding 14-under and 16-under tryouts for fall league, summer league and five summer tournaments. For a tryout, call 401-3214 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
TOMAHAWKS -- Tomahawks girls fast-pitch organization located in O'Fallon has openings for 16-under , 14-under, 12-under and 10-under players for the 2012-13 season. Wayne Bendall, 407-5061.
COLLINSVILLE EXTREME -- Collinsville Extreme 18-under Gold girls select fastpitch team has one open roster spot. Jen Stahlhut at 558-2931 or email email@example.com. The Collinsville Extreme 14-under team is seeking a pitcher and catcher for the 2012-13 season. Coach Murphy, 791-8403 or email email@example.com.
KINGS POINT ELITE PROGRAM --Kings Point in Belleville offering a Tournament Tennis Elite Program beginning Nov. 5. This 13-week program designed for tournament players, high school players and players able to compete at the tournament level in their age group is limited to 12 players for each of two programs Monday-Sunday or Wednesday-Sunday. Four hours of tennis with two meetings a week. Fee: $490 for Kings Point members, $560 for non-members. 277-7715 or email email@example.com.
ST. CLAIR FALL PROGRAMS -- St. Clair Tennis in O'Fallon offering a Junior Program for ages 4-17 with after-school and Saturday morning classes available. The Excellence on the East Side program is for juniors who play in tournaments and high school tennis; focus on fitness, nutrition and mental training along with weekly competitive play session. Also available are adult beginner lessons, leagues and cardio tennis programs. Private and semi-private lessons also available. 632-1400 or visit www.stclairtennis.com.
SW ILLINOIS TRYOUTS -- The Southwest Illinois Volleyball Club has scheduled tryouts for the 2012-13 season . All the 15-under through 18-under tryouts are at the Family Sportsplex in Belleville. Girls 15-under: 7-10 p.m. Nov. 16; Girls 16-under: 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 17; Girls 17-under: 1-3 p.m. Nov. 17; Girls 18-under: 3-4 pm. Nov. 17. Tryout fee: $10. For 11-under through 14-under information call Jeff Juenger, 971-8395; for 15-under through 18-under information, call Julie Deien, 531-1353 or Emily Heimann, 444-4550.