If you’re like me, you probably have a blog and use Google Analytics to track visitor activity. If you’ve not already got one, you probably want a “Most Popular Posts” section on your blog as it’s a great way for new visitors to find your best content. The only problem is that this would usually have to be hard coded, and would therefore need updating periodically after you’ve checked the “Top Content” report in Google Analytics, or it would require some server-side scripting and a database to track your page views and show the links dynamically.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could somehow use Google Analytics to display the “Most Popular Posts” section on your blog automatically? That would be a huge time-saver for you and would make it much more useful for your visitors as it would always be up-to-date. Unfortunately, Google Analytics doesn’t have an API, but here’s a method that doesn’t involve any server-side code or screen-scraping. All you need to do is use a few existing free services from Google and Yahoo and a bit of JavaScript.
Link Posted by Tim at July 19, 2008 03:42 PM | TrackBack