Social Bookmarking with Delicious and YWA

This is a guest post by Carl Rowlands, a Yahoo! Service Engineer in the Client Services team, which advises on Yahoo! Web Analytics (YWA) implementation and best practice.

For all those interested in the many web analytics resources which exist on the internet, we suggest making use of the Delicious (a Yahoo! Company) social bookmarking service. We’ve made a start and set up a specific YWA tag in Delicious here.

Of course, there are plenty of other features in Delicious that make it an ideal training and self-education tool for anyone looking to learn more about web analytics.

For example, if we look at the ywa_support_resources bookmarks, as above, we can choose the links which relate specifically to YWA, by clicking on the tag ‘ywa’. This means we can easily extract and share resources which relate specifically to YWA, and easily differentiate these from the resources relating to web analytics in general.

And then, once we’ve drilled down to ‘ywa’, we can also choose those links which provide comparisons between different tools, by clicking on ‘comparison.’

Of course, with any social networking service, the more people that use this, the better it will work. The good news is that Delicious is now accessible using any Yahoo! account.  It’s easy to log in and start adding to our collective knowledge of YWA and web analytics.

As well as this, the Delicious tag search facility provides a peer-generated selection of sites across a range of analytics-related topics. It’s well worth a look.