I’ve been planning an overhaul of one of my sites lately. It’s like the old stories – a doctor’s kids are always sick, a dressmaker’s kids are always in tatters. And an SEO’s sites are languishing. My good old halloween site is still up top, but I have a...
WordPress Analytics
posted by chris
So you want Google Analytics on your WordPress site? And you don’t know which plugin to use? Look no further. It was a little surprising when I went through a bunch of my sites while writing this article. I had been utterly inconsistent with my analytics plugins. Some had an analytics...
Superbowl 2013 Ads
posted by Administrator
In my world, it’s all about the ads. With a hotdog chaser. There are lots of sites you can visit to see the top superbowl ads: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/super-bowl-commercials-2013-watch_n_2612632.html was ok...
goo.gl referral spam
posted by Administrator
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...
Penguin talk
posted by Administrator
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...
Analytics Tracking E...
posted by Administrator
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...
good seo
posted by Administrator
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,...
Web traffic on Chris...
posted by Administrator
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...
Beefing up Google Pl...
posted by Administrator
Another excellent post at http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/get-user-generated-content-published-in-google-places-business-listings-11636 by http://expertiseonline.net/ on Google Place pages. The two main takeaways for me were: 1. Using hCard format for your contact details on your website. 2....
Managing duplicate c...
posted by Administrator
I’ve been catching up on my SEO reading over the holidays, in particular SEOMoz posts. One post I spent time on was benjarriola’s on managing duplicate content at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical. Previously I thought you only used the...