Blog Posts
1/26/2012
The purpose of this post is to answer one specific question: How to find out exactly which Google Adwords Display Network site was responsible for a conversion recorded in the Goal Funnel Visualization section in Google Analytics.
1/15/2009
If you've done any Pay-Per-Click campaign management, you know how expensive PPC can be. Additionally, PPC campaigns can require a significant time investment, as you must constantly be tweaking your ad text, keywords and bids in order to maximize your advertising dollars. And nothing is more frustrating in PPC campaign management than doing all that work, spending all that money, and getting very few clicks or a poor Clickthrough Rate.
11/4/2008
In my last YouMoz entry, I wrote about the use of definition syntax in traffic generation. I expained why one of the pages on my website was garnering so much additional traffic when compared to other pages. We found that a good deal of web searchers were still using the "define:" sy...
9/22/2008
As I've been watching my traffic stats lately, I've noticed something quite interesting. One web page on my domain is receiving significantly more traffic than the others. It took me a while to figure out why. Where was this extra traffic was coming from? Finally, I figured it out. The page in question is ...
7/1/2008
About a month ago, I posed a question in the Q & A section of SEOmoz. THe question was: How does a website cross the threshhold from a PageRank 4 to a PageRank 5? A member of the SEOmoz staff answered that there is really no formula or set of criteria that will push a site from PR 4 to PR 5. However, I'm not so sure I agree with that statement. While there probably is n...
4/10/2008
Do Search Engines Give Preference to Certain TLDs (Top Level Domains) Than Others? This question has been circulating around SEO circles for some time now. SEOs are always looking for “white hat” methods to improve search engine rank placement (SERP), and so naturally one of the questions we ask concerns preferential treatment of TLDs. The general consensus amo...
3/17/2008
Though I by no means consider myself an SEO "expert" (is there such a thing?) I try always to take a pragmatist-positivist approach to SEO techniques. That is, I research a technique; try it out on a personal site; observe the results; record the data; repeat the experiment; then publish the findings.Unfortunately for our industry, many SEO "specialists" have...
3/6/2008
I am a new SEOMoz premium member, and I have just been absolutely LOVING all the great tools! I especially like the Term Targeting tool, and I've used it on my personal site with striking success. I had no idea how un-targeted certain pages were! And other pages I thought they were targeting certain keywords, come to find out, really weren't. After revising a few pages according ...
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