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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[AliMadkour]

great ,
installed!

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

Hello Hornstar,

How exactly is it not working?

as outlined in my first post. If you are running the ultimate side columns hack then it will not display the tab. When I disable the side columns hack it displays the tab.

I have noticed that the tab shows on threads tho, but it still does not show on forum home or in forums.

[Alfa1]

Can anyone comment if there is any performance decrease after installing this hack and Google Analytics?

Originally Posted by armthehomeless1

Does this have any adverse affect on the performance of the forum?

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I wonder abut this too. Most sites with Google analytics are pretty slow, because they need to connect to Google first.

This hack seems very helpful, so I would be interested to know if anyone has seen a decrease of site performance/speed after installing this.

[Quantnet]

The tab does not work on Firefox 3.5, 3.0.11 as reported by my users. It seems to work with Chrome and IE.

[Hostboard]

I can confirm that it does work with firefox 3.5. Users may have to logout and back in and I would recommend clearing both cache and cookies prior. Or at minimum force a page refresh to make sure they are not looking at a cached page.

Inconsistent behavior though:

Under IE8 the tab is on the left side of the forum but yet the Google page opens from the right. Did not do this in prior versions that I remember.

Under FireFox 3.5 the tab is on the left and the Google page opens from the left.

I do not believe this can slow down the forums when installed becuase from what I can tell it does not access anything until you click on the tab. However since images and javascript are being called from the VBSEO server on top of data from Google you are at the mercy of both services when used.

Also just to renote that this also does not work on the IBProArcade page.

[furst]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

Got it working now. Awesome.

The problem is with openssl module not enabled in php. once it's pointed out to me, everything works.

Could you tell me how to do this? I asked my host if they would do it for me, but they declined, stating a service price of $100.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by furst

Could you tell me how to do this? I asked my host if they would do it for me, but they declined, stating a service price of $100.

I have a VPS so I actually compiled php again with that option. If you have a shared server, I'm not sure how much you can do except paying your host.

[furst]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

I have a VPS so I actually compiled php again with that option. If you have a shared server, I'm not sure how much you can do except paying your host.

I have a VPS too... not sure how to compile php though.

[Quantnet]

You can recompile php/apache via ssh using the command /scripts/easyapache or from within WHM: Main >> Software >> EasyApache (Apache Update)

You'll find the option for Openssl in the Exhaustive Options list.

[gettingbetter]

This may seem silly, but... for those having trouble - are you SINGLE clicking on the Stats tab or DOUBLE-clicking? You must double-click in order for it to extend outward. At least that's how it works in Firefox. Took me over half an hour to figure that out. Hope it helps.