PostRank Analytics
The service is pretty clever and offers insight into your blog performance by merging social media measurement and quantitative data. The graph bellow shows an overview with timeline, indicators when you posted on your blog, and overall stats. Clicking on one of the post indicator leads to a more detailed report.
This detailed report shows individual posts with indication about the relative PostRank Engagement index, page views, time on page, and number of mentions in several social media outlets such as Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, etc. For individual posts, you also get all Twitter mentions.
Basically, PostRank Analytics allow you to better identify when, where, and how your audiences are engaging with your content, not only in the last week or month, but also today. It will help you find readers on all the important social hubs where they consume, organize and share content. You can not only see overviews of your audience engagement activity, you also see it as it happens, enabling better connection for timely conversation.
My take
A very interesting service worth giving a try. With so many data sources and different ways to look into social media and general web analytics data, PostRank Analytics provide an easy to use and pretty complete picture. Even if only $9/month, my worry is the number of clients willing to pay for a service that gathers data readily available for free from different sources, and particularly when so many bloggers are relying on a collection of free tools. Still, the insight and visualization is pretty useful, and serious bloggers should at least give it a try for a month (for free!).
2 comments:
I'll give it a try although I get most of that info elsewhere. The most interesting thing, though, is that they decided to go through the paid orad and not build an "audience", and try to monetize it later. Heck, we even have to give them our credit card info before getting the free trial! We all know how strong an incentive that strategy is to potential customers facing an unknown brand!
I guess 10,000 paying customers make for a stronger business model than 250,000 free riders...
Jacques: yeah, I agree that a smaller number of paid clients might be better than a large number of free riders. I also had the same feeling about asking for credit card for the free trial, which will certainly be a huge barrier for people who just want to give the tool a fair chance.
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