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SEO Analytics – Regular Expressions, Filters and long tail SEO – VKI Studios Blog

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:56:44 +0000

Regex and Google Analytics First off we have the standards: * ^s*[^s]+s*$ – one keyword * ^s*[^s]+(s+[^s]+){1}s*$ – two keywords * ^s*[^s]+(s+[^s]+){2}s*$ – three keywords * ^s*[^s]+(s+[^s]+){3}s*$ – four keywords * etc. You can also use ranges (remember my post on Regex?) to sort your keywords into groups. Unfortunately, while the range command {x,y} works just fine in filters, it won’t work [...]

SEO Audit Tool Comparison

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:22:17 +0000

SEO Audit Tool Comparison by Rhea Drysdale on 11/05/2010 · 31 comments | SEO At Outspoken Media, we love SEO audits. Link development and online reputation management may be our bread and butter, but three of us not-so-secretly pine for the SEO audit. If I have the time, I will fight with Dawn over who takes the [...]

How to Turn Google Analytics Into Your Own Rank Tracker Using Custom Variables

admin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:40:28 +0000

The How Getting this properly set up was remarkably easy for me, and I have so very little programming knowledge, so I would imagine most wouldn’t have much issue. I used PHP, as I was working with a WordPress site, but I’m sure you crazy hackers can do the same in most any [...]

The Value of Google Result Positioning – Chitika Research

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:02:59 +0000

The Value of Google Result Positioning May 25th, 2010 How much is the top spot on Google actually worth? According to data from the Chitika network, it’s worth a ton – double the traffic of the #2 spot, to be precise. In order to find out the value of SEO, we looked at a sample of traffic [...]

Multiple Domains vs Subdomains vs Folders in SEO | Web SEO Analytics

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:33:07 +0000

The table below shows the various factors that we examined along with the 3 methods: Different Domains Subdomains Folders GEO Targeting High Medium Low Authority, Trust, Domain Strength No authority is inherited A part of authority is inherited The authority is inherited SERPs Increased number of results Increased number of results in some cases Limited number of results per domain Sitelinks [...]

21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:41:42 +0000

Framing the process In my questions, I asked link builders to respond within this framework: 1. Linkable Asset. Definition: what’s “linkable” varies from vertical to vertical. Cash is almost always a linkable asset, as are available jobs, events, expertise for interviews and many other forms of great content. 2. Link Target. Definition: what types of sites, pages, and [...]

SEOmoz | Long List of Link Searches

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:40:41 +0000

A Few Basic Rules: 1. You should perform all of these searches at each of the major engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN & Ask – yes, even Ask, as they often link to some very valuable and achievable link sources). I’m illustrating using Google for simplicity and brevity. 2. At Google and others, it often helps to show [...]

18+ SEO Excel Functions | Blind Five Year Old

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:42:37 +0000

SEO Excel Functions LEN Character Length in Excel The LEN function returns the number of characters in a cell. It’s particularly handy in creating the right title and meta descriptions. Remember to keep your titles to ~60 characters and meta descriptions to ~150 characters. TRIM Phantom spaces at the beginning or end of a cell can be maddening. So before [...]