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Author: gabs

  • Been hit by google Penguin update

    With all the talk of Penguin update I came across this guy: Data on the real google Penguin update coming in 🙂

  • google Keyword (not provided) UK update

    Sadly google yesterday “started” rolling out it’s switch to https, the ssl search which does not pass the keyword data from the search results to your server. Over 120% increase in  Keyword (not provided)  from my UK traffic See this blog from yesterday http://www.seroundtable.com/google-ssl-worldwide-14836.html Anyway … Here are the stats to show off the massive impact on…

  • When a Ski resort taps into Social media

    For 7 years now, year on year I go to a resort in Austria. Some 7yrs ago the resort was small and not to well known. Each year it has grown from strength to strength… When I have sometime I’d like to blog about the massive changes to the promotions the ski resort of Saalbach…

  • Banking link bait from virgin money.

    Link bait and money 2 of the dirtiest words for an seo heehehe .. Well virgin headed up by no other than Sir Richard Branson has began his assault on the UK banking sector taking over North Rock (bits of it) to become a “high street bank” A few weeks ago I got the invite to a “Mystery Event”…

  • UK traffic trends up to Christmas

    I love trends and this is always an interesting one… The lead up to xmas in the UK. Here is the traffic for 3 sites. The first one has nothing to do with xmas and you can see a drop off of some 80% in traffic due to xmas. 100% UK based and the site…

  • New twitter interface December 2011

    So today I log in twitter to get the sexy new interface.. I can’t see much buzz about it on twitter so thought I better blog it here: Here is the main screen shot: Here is the “new” @connect (same as the twitter iphone ap) Here is the new “Discover” which is showing trending #tags…

  • The sexy “Visitors Flow” comes to Google Analytics

    Stunning from google… Simply stunning.. Google have updated the new Analytics with visitors flow which a visualises the flow on your site.. Below is a little sample on one of my sites. The options are the same as all new sections of analytics with flow vs keywords, campaigns etc..   Nothing on http://analytics.blogspot.com/  about this yet and no…

  • Google Analytics visitor bug for single day view

    Using google Analytics  “new” interface on a single day view I have a massive bug regarding “Visits” vs “Unique Visitors” I really can’t work out the numbers google is using?  Feel free to comment but this seems to be a “view by day” bug as the weekly/monthly the figure are fine. Here is the screen shot:…

  • Google webmaster tools UI update.

    Google have updated the UI of the front dashboard page in webmaster tools . Here is a screen shot: The really interesting thing is the “Sort: By site health” ??? interesting use of the word health…. Also google are showing the word “New” in bright yellow for domain added within (in my case) the last…

  • Google Analytics reporting update

    I spend hours looking into site analytics, making on site changes and pointing links and testing, testing and more testing looking for impact and trends across loads of sites. I noticed today that on Friday 22nd July google changed things which has effect the reporting in google Analytics. The impact in one case has had 523% change…