Comments on: Are Pageviews Obsolete? http://www.conversionrater.com/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/ A discussion of online advertising, web entrepreneurship, and personal ramblings from Pat McCarthy.. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wabkmbokfx http://www.conversionrater.com/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-127214 wabkmbokfx Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:26:48 +0000 http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/#comment-127214 Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! hxluzihbdeksd Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! hxluzihbdeksd

]]> By: Pat McCarthy http://www.conversionrater.com/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-11267 Pat McCarthy Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:39:32 +0000 http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/#comment-11267 Hi Jeff, Did you post a comment that didn't show up on the site? I don't recall deleting any comment from you? I really enjoy your comments and your blog and writing. Pat Hi Jeff,

Did you post a comment that didn’t show up on the site? I don’t recall deleting any comment from you? I really enjoy your comments and your blog and writing.

Pat

]]> By: Jeff Molander http://www.conversionrater.com/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-11266 Jeff Molander Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:28:17 +0000 http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/#comment-11266 Pat: I cannot find another means to communicate with you so I am forced to use this form. I am wondering why you chose to not accept my comment here. I find your commentary and insights to be rather unique and have passed the URL around lately to respected colleagues. Are my comments somehow off the mark? Thanks, Jeff Pat:
I cannot find another means to communicate with you so I am forced to use this form.

I am wondering why you chose to not accept my comment here. I find your commentary and insights to be rather unique and have passed the URL around lately to respected colleagues.

Are my comments somehow off the mark?

Thanks,
Jeff

]]> By: Pat McCarthy http://www.conversionrater.com/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-11183 Pat McCarthy Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:50:17 +0000 http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/#comment-11183 Well, that depends on goals. Many people like blogs because you can read a lot of content all on one page. In that case blogs are pretty usable. However, if you're running ads where the number of ad impressions matters in how much you're paid, then blogs tend to not generate many page views which means bloggers are leaving some money on the table. So, I'm not really trying to say one idea or the other is right, I'm just saying that for some people page views are still a very important metric because it ties directly to revenue. And that while many consider Myspace a failure for the huge amounts of unneccessary page views, I think Myspace is happy that those page views generate revenue and don't really seem to cost them much of their core audience. Well, that depends on goals. Many people like blogs because you can read a lot of content all on one page. In that case blogs are pretty usable.

However, if you’re running ads where the number of ad impressions matters in how much you’re paid, then blogs tend to not generate many page views which means bloggers are leaving some money on the table.

So, I’m not really trying to say one idea or the other is right, I’m just saying that for some people page views are still a very important metric because it ties directly to revenue. And that while many consider Myspace a failure for the huge amounts of unneccessary page views, I think Myspace is happy that those page views generate revenue and don’t really seem to cost them much of their core audience.

]]> By: Robbin Steif http://www.conversionrater.com/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-11182 Robbin Steif Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:31:07 +0000 http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/#comment-11182 Pat, I don't do MySpace except to spy on my kids. And I still don't know much about it (I guess I won't be applying for a job at the CIA any time soon.) But isn't part of the "problem" the efficiency of page views in a blog (any blog, not just blogger), whereby the home page may include 10, 20, 30 posts, the equivalent of that many pages? Robbin Pat, I don’t do MySpace except to spy on my kids. And I still don’t know much about it (I guess I won’t be applying for a job at the CIA any time soon.) But isn’t part of the “problem” the efficiency of page views in a blog (any blog, not just blogger), whereby the home page may include 10, 20, 30 posts, the equivalent of that many pages?

Robbin

]]> By: Jeff Molander http://www.conversionrater.com/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-11166 Jeff Molander Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:51:09 +0000 http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/08/28/are-pageviews-obsolete/#comment-11166 Great thoughts. I was just alerted via email by LinkedIn (apparently this is a recent decision they made... check the results out http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&compare_sites=&y=p&q=&size=medium&range=2y&url=http://www.linkedin.com/)... to open themselves up to the Web (search engine indexes). Message from LinkedIn: "Odds are people searching for you on Google aren't always finding the real you. Take charge of your personal brand by publishing your LinkedIn profile to the web." HA! How can one say no to that? Somehow I managed to. I use LinkedIn specifically for the purpose of not being "mass" about my network and/or myself. IMO, this is a mistake for LinkedIn -- but then again I'm sure they'll be rewarded financially for this move. Great thoughts.

I was just alerted via email by LinkedIn (apparently this is a recent decision they made… check the results out http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&compare_sites=&y=p&q=&size=medium&range=2y&url=http://www.linkedin.com/)… to open themselves up to the Web (search engine indexes).

Message from LinkedIn:

“Odds are people searching for you on Google aren’t always finding the real you. Take charge of your personal brand by publishing your LinkedIn profile to the web.”

HA! How can one say no to that? Somehow I managed to. I use LinkedIn specifically for the purpose of not being “mass” about my network and/or myself. IMO, this is a mistake for LinkedIn — but then again I’m sure they’ll be rewarded financially for this move.

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