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The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

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Re: The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

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For a more comprehensive list: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-devel...

Good recommendation - I'm going to link to that from the post as a corollary to the list from a technical/development perspective (vs. marketing/metrics focus).

Thanks for mentioning me in the post, was not necessary but appreciated nonetheless.

Re: The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

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Rand, This list is banal. About the only thing I Can agree with is installing some analytics software (preferably NOT Google Analytics) to monitor goals and traffic sources. The only thing you need to do when launching a website, or any business, is market your product off. Adding yourself to the various webmaster tools, tracking brand keywords via Google Alerts is all a huge waste of time and only makes sense (if it…

Could you explain why not Google Analytics and provide a few alternatives (and why they are better) ?

Re: The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

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Please consider cropping the number out of the title: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the relatively large number of things is part of the interest in this case.

Relative to what? Would it be OK if it were 15 things or 10? What about 5?

These sort of headlines have specific rules in the guidelines - I'm surprised it hasn't been changed already.

Re: The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

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Rand, This list is banal. About the only thing I Can agree with is installing some analytics software (preferably NOT Google Analytics) to monitor goals and traffic sources. The only thing you need to do when launching a website, or any business, is market your product off. Adding yourself to the various webmaster tools, tracking brand keywords via Google Alerts is all a huge waste of time and only makes sense (if it…

Could you explain why not Google Analytics and provide a few alternatives (and why they are better) ?

Well I don't like the idea of giving all your data to Google to exploit. I think the interface itself is nice and versatile but do you really want to give your ecommerce data to Google? If you really love it I think Google now licenses Urchin that you can host. Alternatives include, but not limited to: GetClicky Omniture Pwiki which is open source and can be modified Mint Log Files
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