Statistics Modifications - vBSEO LiveStats: On-Demand Search Engine Performance Reports - v.1.1.2

Overview
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• vBSEO LiveStats for vBulletin allows admins to instantly check their forum's search performance, without ever leaving the page!
• See benefits and examples below.
• Just click the hovering tab (viewable only to admins) to launch the report.
• An ultra easy to read micro report shows you how many hits you are getting, from which keywords, and from which sites.
• Find out how the entire forum is performing, or get stats only for the currently viewed page.
• Very powerful, but conveniently simple and user friendly.

Search engine hits are the rocket fuel of a successful forum. Stats tools like Google Analytics provide the data you need to measure your performance. However, it requires you to login into GA, and drill down into its many report formats. You know the result: Many admins simply forget about their stats most of the time, and really don't know which pages are actually performing (or not).

vBSEO LiveStats gives you all the data you need in a split second, without leaving the forum. You get all the valuable info to know immediately how your pages are performing, without spending any time figuring out the complexities of Google Analytics.


Benefits and Example Usage
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• Success - See examples below.
• Save time - Loads instantly, on-demand, while browsing your forum. You don't need to leave the page.
• Easy to use - Opens with easy to read micro-report ready for you. No drill down required.
• Instant info - Find out if a "page" is performing without ever launching Google Analytics (or trying to dig through it's many reports to get what you want)
• Secure - Only visible by admins with granted permissions.

Example 1 - Why is that thread so hot all of a sudden?

You notice more guest users are online. Several of them are reading and posting to a particular thread. You go to that thread and click "stats". LiveStats loads on demand and gives you the micro report. It turns out for the past 24 hours you are getting hits for one of your top keywords!


Example 2 - Was that email effective?

You send out an email to your forum members, telling them about an important new announcement. How many of them actually were interested? You browse to the announcement thread, load LiveStats on-demand. It turns out 25% of your members visited your announcement within 24 hours of sending the email.


Example 3 - Is my participation at another forum getting me any hits?

You have been actively posting at a related forum to build links and get some click through traffic. Are you getting any clicks by the visitors there? You browse to the page you were linking to, load LiveStats on-demand, and see if the site you are targeting is sending you traffic this week. It looks like you are getting some hits.


Example 4 - I installed vBSEO last month. How much new traffic am I getting?

You vBSEO-enabled your forum to get more search traffic, but you want to find out how well it's working. This will be your 30 day progress report. You load LiveStats on-demand on *any* page of your forum and click the link for your Global site report. You set the date for 30 days before you installed. Looks like you got 100,000 hits that month. Now you set it for the 30 days you had vBSEO installed. It turns out you had 105,000 hits the first month with vBSEO, so your traffic is up by 5%.


Example 5 - Are your new articles getting any hits?

You are building your content by writing new articles related to your forum topic. This week you created 10 new articles. As you visit each article, you load LiveStats on-demand and instantly see the total hits, keywords, and other sites that are sending you traffic since the article was created. Looks like 3 of your articles are doing better than the others. Common factor: A keyword rich title. It turns out LiveStats has helped you zero in on the best way to optimize your content to get more traffic.


How do you use LiveStats? Please tell us...


What does it do?
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• Securely connects to your Google Analytics account.
• Collects page data and generates micro-reports, on-demand.
• Admin-only "stats" Tab hovers for instant access on any page.
• When "stats" tab is clicked, LiveStats launches on the page.
• Micro search engine performance reports are displayed for the current page, or the full site.
• Admins can select date range, to check out performance for a desired time period.

How does it work?
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The LiveStats engine was designed to extract key performance data securely from your Google Analytics account, displaying the micro reports directly to logged in admins only.


Help Us Rename LiveStats!
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vBSEO LiveStats is the internal working name the vBSEO Team has given this new plugin. Do you like it? Can you think of a better name? Please let us know.


Click "Install"
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Please click "Install" to show your support for this script.


Installation & Configuration for vB 3.6.x - 4.1.x as a Plugin
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Follow the installation/upgrade instructions provided in the docs/readme.html file.

Google Analytics Accounts
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You must have a Google Analytics account setup and running on your forum to use vBSEO LiveStats. You can sign up for Google Analytics.


Compatibility
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Fully compatible with:

• vBulletin 3.0.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 4.0.x and 4.1.x
• All versions of vBSEO

Copyright & Licensing
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vBSEO LiveStats plugin is copyright protected by Crawlability Inc.

• You are free to download and install this plugin on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid vB license.
• Unauthorized distribution of any code and/or documentation, whole or in part, included here is strictly prohibited.

Revision History
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v1.1

• Update - vBulletin 4.x compatibility update
• Fix - Various bug fixes

v1.0 RC3

• Fix - Google Analytics compatibility update

v1.0 RC2

• Fix - Google Analytics login issue corrected

Other vBSEO Plugins
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• vBSEO - vBulletin Search Engine Optimization
• vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap
• vBSEO Conditional Signatures for vBulletin

vBSEO Affiliate Program
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[CoryHawk]

I get this error in IE.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:06:50 UTC


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 75
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://static.crawlability.com/livestats/livestats_b4.js?v=1.0b4

I can see "Global" stats but there is no reports in under the tab. I cannot use the drop down box to change the date either. Any help please.

[Arved Yagami]

Didnt work. In the page stats always shows an "incorrect login" msg. In the Global stats it says "You should specify both login and password".

Both are correct and configured in the admin panel but I just cant login. The product didnt retrieve the Google ID but i entered it manually.

[Bouncer222]

all works good, except one tiny thing/concern I noticed...

When you scroll and the stats tab is enabled on the left or basically anywhere on the webpage, it looks as if it breaks pages in half during scrolling of the page, and then its fine, as if some parts of the page take slower to scroll and some sections of the page scroll faster.

It's because of this stats tab for sure, because it wasnt before, i disable product and it goes away, how can we fix this? or can you please put a fix out on the addon? thanks

[Hostboard]

Going back my argument about this modification was it calls images & files from VBSEO (Crawlability) instead of including them and allowing you to self host them. My reasoning was if VBSEO's site became unavailbe then this modification becomes 100% useless.

Well sure enough VBSEO is down and all I get is a RED X and wicked slow load times until it times out trying to pull images and files.

Again I like VBSEO (I own and run their software) but I think releaseing a modification like this should contain ALL the files to allow it to work OR at least a warning that it will be useless if the hosting server becomes unavailable.

As a side note if you go through the XML file you download (when their server is available) all the images and necessary files. Then edit the XML file to point to the new locations of these files. I would do it for you but VBSEO will not allow even simple fixes to their files to be posted as already demonstrated when I tried to provide a fix in an earlier release fixing this so it worked with vbAdvanced.

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by Hostboard

Going back my argument about this modification was it calls images & files from VBSEO (Crawlability) instead of including them and allowing you to self host them. My reasoning was if VBSEO's site became unavailbe then this modification becomes 100% useless.

Well sure enough VBSEO is down and all I get is a RED X and wicked slow load times until it times out trying to pull images and files.

Again I like VBSEO (I own and run their software) but I think releaseing a modification like this should contain ALL the files to allow it to work OR at least a warning that it will be useless if the hosting server becomes unavailable.

As a side note if you go through the XML file you download (when their server is available) all the images and necessary files. Then edit the XML file to point to the new locations of these files. I would do it for you but VBSEO will not allow even simple fixes to their files to be posted as already demonstrated when I tried to provide a fix in an earlier release fixing this so it worked with vbAdvanced.

Yes I agree 100% their site is down again and guess what the images are not working and slow site load times again...errrr I think I will try what you suggested about editing the xml file then post the updated version if I get some time

[Hostboard]

Unfortunatly VBSEO wil not allow you to post any modification of their code even if it as simple as entering a vBulletin variable so that the correct directory structure is read. They will just have it pulled. Been down that route already...

[biftek]

installed but getting errors
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)
Timestamp: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:21:48 UTC


Message: Permission denied
Line: 19
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://static.crawlability.com/lives....jquery.min.js


Message: Permission denied
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URI: http://static.crawlability.com/lives....jquery.min.js


Message: Permission denied
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URI: http://static.crawlability.com/lives....jquery.min.js

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)
Timestamp: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:22:02 UTC


Message: Permission denied
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URI: http://static.crawlability.com/lives....jquery.min.js


Message: Permission denied
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URI: http://static.crawlability.com/lives....jquery.min.js


Message: Permission denied
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Code: 0
URI: http://static.crawlability.com/lives....jquery.min.js

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by Hostboard

Unfortunatly VBSEO wil not allow you to post any modification of their code even if it as simple as entering a vBulletin variable so that the correct directory structure is read. They will just have it pulled. Been down that route already...

Yea they can have it pulled here on vb.org but not if I post the plugin and files on my personal server.

[vBSEO]

Originally Posted by Hostboard

Unfortunatly VBSEO wil not allow you to post any modification of their code even if it as simple as entering a vBulletin variable so that the correct directory structure is read. They will just have it pulled. Been down that route already...

May I ask, under what circumstances, or, what vBSEO rep had a modification to the LS code pulled from vb.org?

We are all for making things as easy and hassle free as possible. The beta LS was made a plugin, however, it was made clear when first released that the ultimate goal was to make it SaaS, and hosting those files was a first step towards that goal.

We have recently devised a method for async js file loading, and will be applying it to LS in the near future. That should resolve any issues with slow loads if vbseo is down for whatever reason. That said, you guys are free to do your own modifications and host the files on your servers, no problem. Once the new file loading approach is implemented, I see this becoming less of an issue though.

Juan

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by vBSEO

May I ask, under what circumstances, or, what vBSEO rep had a modification to the LS code pulled from vb.org?

We are all for making things as easy and hassle free as possible. The beta LS was made a plugin, however, it was made clear when first released that the ultimate goal was to make it SaaS, and hosting those files was a first step towards that goal.

We have recently devised a method for async js file loading, and will be applying it to LS in the near future. That should resolve any issues with slow loads if vbseo is down for whatever reason. That said, you guys are free to do your own modifications and host the files on your servers, no problem. Once the new file loading approach is implemented, I see this becoming less of an issue though.

Juan

Juan, here is my post that included a copy of your XML file that I modified to incorporate {$vbulletin->options[bburl]}/ so that it would work with vbAdvanced. It was also posted on vbseo.com and agreed that was the fix and latter incorporated in to the product.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=19

Can you please show me where in the description above it says that the files are remote hosted? Also what is SaaS? I am unfamiliar with that acronym.

Thanx