Category Archives: Blogging Tips

This category is for my blog traffic building tips. I usually will data mine my blog traffic for clues and I show you how to do it too!

Text Mining Blog Keywords In Rapidminer and Google Analytics

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Tom

So I finally got around to downloading some keyword data from Google Analytics for the time period of 2/17/11 through 3/17/11 just to see what’s driving my site traffic.  I did a simple text mining process in Rapidminer to build my keyword … Continue reading →

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Referrers to Neural Market Trends

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Tom

I use Google Analytics and I probably should use more it in conjuction with Rapidminer to do more data modeling, but it’s a question of free time; something that’s a luxury right now. For fun I’m posting my top 10 referrers for … Continue reading →

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February 2010 Income Report

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Tom

I decided to tweak out this blog's web income in January and posted my first income report this year as a starting metric.  Below is February's income report, which is showing a pattern of growth, mostly due to my new Rapidminer … Continue reading →

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Calling All Direct Mail Marketers

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Tom

One of the video tutorials I'm working on is how to build and use a direct mail marketing model using a Decision Tree learner.  Rapidminer can be used for small, medium, and larger marketers as a data discovery tool that … Continue reading →

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January 2010 Income Report

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Tom

In January of this year, I decided to ramp up my posting frequency again for Neural Market Trends.  Part of the reason is to data mine blog traffic data for the express purpose of learning more about SEO and Internet … Continue reading →

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SEO Tip – Tweak Your Robots.txt file

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Tom

As an effort to help search engines index my site better, I installed a robots.txt file. The reason why I did this will become clear in a minute. When you run a blog, search engines will parse your site and … Continue reading →

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SEO Results – Alexa Rankings

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Tom

Ever since I analyzed my blog’s traffic using data mining and neural nets and began implementing a lot of the SEO tips and tricks I’ve read, I started to see a steady rise in my Alexa Rankings. I was tickled … Continue reading →

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Data Mining

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Tom

I posted about the power of Data Mining when analyzing your blog’s traffic and how to maximize your Google Adword advertising relative to your Adsense earnings, but I forgot to mention one critical thing! Search Engine Optimization (SEO)! SEO is … Continue reading →

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Maximize Your Adsense By Data Mining Your Blog’s Traffic

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Tom

If you’ve read my Build Your Blog Traffic Using Excel & Data Mining post, then you should be able to figure out what your busiest day is, what your most popular category is, and your optimal posts per day by … Continue reading →

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Build Your Blog Traffic Using Excel & Data Mining

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Tom

This past Saturday, I posted about using data mining to look for patterns in your blog traffic. I wrote that you can use something called an Excel Pivot Chart report to get a better feel for how your readers are … Continue reading →

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Blog Traffic Analysis Using Data Mining

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Tom

Yes, you read correctly. You can data mine your blog’s traffic using a simple web statistics data collector like Google Adwords. I’m doing it right now for Neural Market Trends and I’m finding out some very interesting information. I found … Continue reading →

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