When testing sites I always check the Hostname report in Google Analytics, to make sure I’m not accidentally including local or staging traffic in my clean profile. Lately there has been traffic from www.goo.gl/Qv87. On every site I check. Rather than visit the actual site, which is...

Google likes to name updates to their algorithm. Last year was a large change known as Panda, which targeted ‘thin’ affiliate sites, with minimal added value – typically MFA (made-for-adsense) sites with lots of ads. There were various mini-releases/refinements to the Panda...

Just testing the Google Analytics reporting that is provided by permanent URL redirects. I’ll post results when I’ve finished. Christmas redirect Lingerie redirect The above two links are each redirects. The first redirect is a 301 (permanent) redirect sending traffic to...

I wish I’d come up with this infographic of the Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors from searchengineland.com, used with permission. Click on the image below to visit the site, with a full explanation of the SEO components. Nicely grouped into content, html, architecture, links,...

It’s always funny when you see a professional-level site with bad seo. It makes you wonder what else the developers are blinkered about. Not all my hobby sites have had my magic tricks applied – if the site content isn’t finished I don’t want everyone to find them. And...

Just noticed that I had 5561 hits on Christmas Eve to my Christmas site. That’s not bad for one day. Looking at the analytics, those 5561 visits were from 5261 absolute unique visitors, and they made 10,013 pageviews. That amount of traffic was a bit of a spike – usually the site...