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How-to video tutorials: Learn how much traffic is generated through social media for your websites

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Check out this quick video tutorial to drill down in Google Analytics and learn how those links and posts your staff makes on Facebook drives traffic to your newspaper’s website.

In case you were wondering, here are some of the top sites with high traffic from Facebook for April 2012.

- Cecil Whig, www.cecildaily.com: 30,383 visits from Facebook
- Star Democrat, www.stardem.com: 8,258 visits from Facebook
- Athens Messenger, www.athensohiotoday.com: 7,812 visits from Facebook
- Stephenville Empire-Tribune, www.yourstephenvilletx.com: 6,381 visits from Facebook

Want to use Cover It Live? Check out our video tutorial

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A handful of our newspaper website’s used Cover It Live, a free blogging software, to provide election results to their readers this week.

Since then, we have had some inquiries about how to use the software. So, here is a video tutorial on how to set up a Cover It Live account, build a live blog and embed it on your website.