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Google's Universal Analytics Available to Everyone

Many people have been using Google Analytics (GA) to keep track of visitor traffic to their websites, web pages and e-commerce endeavors. Although it’s always been a useful, powerful marketing analysis/monitoring tool, GA has offered rather limited metrics-in comparison to the recently-launched Universal Analytics (UA).

Competitive Keyword Research - Identify The Big Players

When doing competitive research we often come across situations where the previous research has been done on a keyword-by-keyword basis, yet there is no clear picture of the competitive situation for a keyword category. It’s very seldom that all your organic traffic comes from one main keyword term - if your site is well established, it’s more likely that your visitors will be spread over a range of closely related keywords. For that reason, it is important to identify the competitors that are ranking across several (if not all) of your core keywords.

Google analytics showing (Not Provided) keyword data?

On 18th October Google announced that they would be encrypting search results for logged in users. What does this mean for website owners? It means that a certain percentage of your keyword data that you are currently using to track your conversions, identify your most valuable visitors, and plan your content calendar, will now show (Not Provided) instead of the actual keyword phrase that the visitors used to get to your website.

Is your content good enough for Google?

google quality site content guidelinesEarlier this year Google’s panda update was rolled out, many sites that were deemed to have “thin” content took a hard hit in their rankings, some losing up to 85 percent of their traffic and revenue. A large percentage of those sites have never regained the traffic they had before the algorithm was implemented despite fixing what was supposedly wrong with their content.

How do the search engines see your website's keywords?

One of the most common problems we see with the websites we audit is a lack of relevancy for the site’s intended main keyword or key phrases.In some cases the primary product/service landing page does not even mention the key phrase it is trying to rank for, in others the wrong keyword is being used repeatedly.