Category Archives: What’s New

Expanded AddThis Analytics Now Available in Live View

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Which pages are trending, right now? Which searches are bringing traffic to your site, and what words are visitors copying in order to search or email friends? What interests your visitors, and what are they saying about your website or blog? Find out the answers to these questions using your newly expanded AddThis Analytics Live View.

What’s Live View?

The AddThis Analytics Live View provides a look at what’s happening right now, across your site or for a specific page, including:

  • A map showing where people are interacting with your pages
  • A list of your top content, right now, based on shares and traffic back to your site
  • Your viewers’ interests, and what they’re saying about your content on Twitter

The Live View also introduces new types of information to help you understand how your audience is interacting with your site:

  • Searches: How many searches are bringing traffic to your site? What are your visitors looking for? Live View displays a list of top search keywords and phrases.
  • Text copy tracking: While searches indicate what brought users to your site, text that visitors copy can help you understand what they found interesting, and whether these keywords align with your search meta-data to help maximize SEO. Learn more…

Zoom Into a Page

Interested in a particular page that’s trending? Zoom in for a closer look by clicking on it’s title, and discover how your visitors are interacting with that page, what searches brought them there, and what your audience is saying about that page on Twitter.

What do you think?

We’d love to hear what you think about the new AddThis Analytics Live View. Drop us a line in our forum with your feedback, and if you have any questions or need technical support, please visit our new Support Center.

AddThis Now Supports the Google+ Follow Badge

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AddThis now supports the Google+ badge for your branded Google+ pages. By displaying this button on your website, you will make it easier for your supporters to follow you on Google+.

The Google+ badge comes in small, medium and large sizes so you can easily customize it for your site’s design.

A couple tips for implementing the button:

1. You must include the URL of your Google+ page so the minimum value code would look like:

Example:

<a g:plusone:href="https://plus.google.com/102383601500147943541/"></a>

2. Similar to our Google +1 button, Google+ Follow badges come in multiple sizes; there is the option for a “Large version” that includes on page following. This button comes in a regular size and smaller size declared by either “badge” or “smallbadge”, respectively. There is also the buttons that solely link out to the brand page and those are “small”, “medium” and “large”.

Example:

<a g:plusone:href="https://plus.google.com/102383601500147943541/"
g:plusone:size="smallbadge"></a>

If you combine Google+ Follow with Facebook Subscribe and Twitter Follow buttons, you’ll have all your brand pages covered.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

AddThis Uses the Latest Sharing Tools – Do You?

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You may notice that the sharing menus on our blog and other pages on AddThis.com look a little different today. We’ve rolled out some new tools that are simple and streamlined.

These updated tools are designed to boost sharing by showing more of the viewer’s personalized services as a simple, friendly list. We’ve also redesigned and expanded the AddThis email form to be even easier to use.

If you want to try out these buttons for your own site they are available here.

Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback – we’d love to hear from you.

 


AddThis Now Supports Sharing to Pinterest

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This morning we are very excited to announce that AddThis now supports sharing to Pinterest! You can now start pinning interesting and fun images to your board.

Pinterest is a rapidly-growing image sharing social network which according to Businessweek has seen traffic grow 7x in the past 5 months. The site allows users to create “boards” for inspiration and has been furiously adopted by DIY crafters and bloggers.

To get your site set up with a Pinterest button follow the steps here. Please let us know if you have any questions!

Track Your StumbleUpon Clicks with AddThis Analytics

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StumbleUpon is one of the most popular sharing services on AddThis and can be an important driver of new traffic to your site. Now you can use AddThis analytics to track the number of clicks to your content from StumbleUpon, also known as “Stumbles”.

Just like our Facebook, bit.ly and Twitter integrations, you do not need to make any changes to start receiving StumbleUpon data. StumbleUpon stats are shown on the Content Detail page of the associated story, which you can find by clicking on any piece on content in your Analytics dashboard or from the Content tab.

If you have any feedback or requests for other 3rd party tracking services you would like to see in the AddThis Analytics, please post in the comments below or email us.

AddThis Integrates with Google Social Plugin Analytics

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We know many of you out there use Google Analytics to help measure your site traffic and how users explore and engage with your content.  We also know how you rely on AddThis to enable sharing and to provide social analytics for your website.

Over the summer we have been working with Google to integrate AddThis analytics into Google Analytics via their social plugin analytics.  Today the Google Analytics team announced that publishers using AddThis “will now have first class integrations with Social Plugin Analytics.”

For publishers who use Google as their primary source for site analytics, injecting AddThis social insight data into Google Analytics enables you to analyze user interactions from our sharing tools as well as Facebook Like and Twitter Tweet right inside Google’s dashboard.  Of course all of your real-time and rich audience data will still be available in your AddThis dashboard, too.

It is very easy to get AddThis for your site, and even easier to integrate Google Analytics.  Get started today.

Twitter Mentions in AddThis Analytics Now in Real-Time

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Along with our 5th birthday, AddThis is closing in on another fun milestone: 2 million Twitter followers! We wanted to say thanks to all our supporters today, particularly our Tweeps. We have loved connecting with you in 140 characters or less!

To celebrate, AddThis Analytics’ Twitter Mentions feature is now in real-time! This means anytime a URL from your domain is publicly tweeted, you will be able to see it – RIGHT when it’s been sent. You can find the Twitter Mentions on the Summary tab of your analytics as well as on each content detail page.  See what people are saying on Twitter about your brand or specific content in real-time.

As always, we love hearing your feedback. What is your favorite part of the AddThis Analytics? What other pieces of data would you like to see that will help you understand the social interactions taking place on your site? We’re all ears!

5 New Services to Share with AddThis

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This week we released 5 new services into the AddThis menu. Godudu, Ketnooi, Raise Your Voice, SkyRock, and WebShare.

We are constantly updating our service list to make sure that it is easy to share content everywhere online. If there is a service you like to use that is not included in the AddThis menu, please shoot us a note and we’ll do what we can to get it in there!

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email us or post in the comments below.

Address Bar Sharing Available in Chrome

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The AddThis Address Bar Sharing Analytics feature is now available with in Chrome versions 14 and above. We can now track copy and paste data from Safari, Firefox and Chrome, which covers 50% of the browser market share.

For those who do not know, Address Bar Sharing Analytics is a feature that measures how often users share your site by copying the URL from their address bar and send it via email. IM or other channels. Getting this data is a great way to understand ALL of your content that is being socialized and better understand where some of that direct traffic is coming from.

Turning on Address Bar Sharing Analytics for your website is super easy and only takes one additional line to your AddThis code:

<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};
</script>

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

Live View Now Includes Facebook Comments

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In the AddThis Live View, AddThis shows you which pages on your site your visitors are sharing and returning to in real-time. Now you can also see when a visitor comments on one of your pages on Facebook.

Facebook Comments in AddThis Live

The AddThis Live View helps you know when articles are going viral, which articles are generating feedback, and which services your visitors use most. With these insights you can make real-time decisions about where you should be focusing your energy – right now.

Don’t have facebook comments on your site? Facebook tells you how to integrate them. Also, make sure you use the Facebook XML Namespace on your site. Not familiar with live view? Learn more about Real Time Analytics