Key Advantages of LiveStats + Powerful Usage Examples

LiveStats is an on-demand search engine performance tool. Find out how any page is performing instantly, with a single mouse click!

How may hits? Which search keywords are sending you traffic?

The on-demand micro reports LiveStats gives you all the info you need to help accelerate your success. Examples of just a few common uses are given below.

How does LiveStats compare with "typical" statistic tool monsters of endless reports?

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LiveStats gives you the info you need to make decisions immediately, as you navigate your website. While all of the data is read from your Google Analytics account, you never have to load up GA or struggle to generate its various reports.

Example 1 - Why is that thread on your forum 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 you sent out effective?

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


Example 3 - Is my participation at another website 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 on your site, 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.

Any of the above examples can be completed in a couple seconds! Try to do the same with Google Analytics for comparison.

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

My questions:

1. Is this going to be a free plugin like the Vbseo Sitemap or a paid one?
2. Will it support Adsense tracking like GA?

1. Not sure, but right now it is free, so might as well use it
2. I do not know. Someone else should reply with that answer.

Originally Posted by wac

1. Is this going to be a free plugin like the Vbseo Sitemap or a paid one?

From the original announcement, yes, it is free, and will remain free. A pro version will be introduced in the future for a fee.

Livestats is offered free to all vBulletin license owners

This is really a true information. I really like this post. keep it up.

Is there a diffence between GA and this?? sorry just wanted to know which is which.

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