Back in Google’s early days, people navigated the web using links, and this made PageRank an excellent proxy for popularity and authority. The web is moving away from primarily link-based surfing, and Google no longer needs a proxy – so what, in 2017, is the point in links?
Author: t-cap
Competing for Local Queries With No Physical Premises – Moz Post
If you don’t have a physical presence, there are some situations where you can still rank for local queries. Learn whether you should, how to identify queries to compete for, and recommendations on how to optimize for them.
Everything You Didn’t Know About Google Analytics – Measurefest
Hidden quirks, misleading metrics and tips and tricks for Google Analytics.
A Guide to Sampling in Google Analytics – Moz Post
Don’t let data sampling lead you astray. Learn when sampling happens in GA, how accurate it is, and what you can do about it.
Your Results Are Invalid – Conversion Conference
A walkthrough of the most common statistical pitfalls that marketers encounter in CRO testing.
Quick Fix for Referral Spam in Google Analytics
This article originally appeared over at https://www.distilled.net/resources/quick-fix-for-referral-spam-in-google-analytics/. That URL 404s at the time of writing, hence the new location here.
There’s been a lot of talk recently about referral spam and how it’s ruining everyone’s analytics data. While this isn’t cause for panic, it is very annoying, and depending on the size of your site it could be having a very meaningful effect on your data.
Continue reading “Quick Fix for Referral Spam in Google Analytics”Misuses of 4 Google Analytics Metrics Debunked – Moz Post
In this post I’ll pull apart four of the most commonly used metrics in Google Analytics, how they are collected, and why they are so easily misinterpreted.
Omniture for Beginners: 2015 Update – Distilled Post
This article originally appeared over at https://www.distilled.net/resources/omniture-for-beginners/. That URL 404s at the time of writing, hence the new location here. It’s obviously now wildly out of date, but I’m keeping hold of it for posterity.
Continue reading “Omniture for Beginners: 2015 Update – Distilled Post”How to Quickly (and Correctly) Track Google Analytics Across Multiple Domains – Moz Post
Out of the box, Google Analytics handles being deployed across multiple domains or subdomains extremely poorly. This quick easy post covers what you should be doing and how to do it.