by ekoppel | Oct 19, 2011 | Analytics, Google, SEO
Google officially announced that over the next few weeks, it will begin encrypting search queries and results for signed-in users. This change will increase privacy and security for all signed-in users. However, for us web analysts (and Google Analytics users), this...
by mtraphagen | Oct 12, 2011 | Analytics, Free SEO Tools, Google, Paid Search
Google has handed a graduation diploma from Google Labs to its Page Speed Online tool, which is now “in the wild” as they say. Find it at https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/. It’s home page couldn’t be more simple: just enter your...
by mtraphagen | Oct 3, 2011 | Analytics, Google, Paid Search
Now you can see how your campaigns stack up against competitors in your same verticals with a new feature added to the Opportunities tab in the AdWords interface. To use it, click “Analyze Competition” on the Opportunities tab. You can choose to compare...
by mtraphagen | Sep 27, 2011 | Analytics, Facebook, Social Media
Last week I wrote about “What Facebook’s New News Feed Means For Your Marketing Efforts.” I wrote that I believed the new News Feed, with its non-chronological, algorithmically-ranked, Top News and Recent Stories (as well as the Twitter-like real...
by mtraphagen | Sep 15, 2011 | Analytics, Facebook, Social Media
Facebook has been adding a flurry of new features recently (many obviously in response to the challenge of Google+). Most of them have been so big that some smaller but important additions may have slipped by unnoticed. One that Page admins will appreciate is a new...
by mtraphagen | Sep 7, 2011 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Social Media, Twitter
What kind of social media marketer do you want to be? You want your marketing efforts to live “where all the retweets are strong, the ROI is good-looking, and the account engagement is above average.” (Apologies to Garrison Keillor!). But where is that...
by mtraphagen | Sep 2, 2011 | Analytics, Google, Paid Search
Google announced yesterday that they are adding a new metric to the AdWords online account management interface. The metric shows the estimated bid it would take to (theoretically) place your ad regularly in the top positions above the organic search results. Combined...
by ekoppel | Aug 22, 2011 | Analytics, Google
Last week, the Google Analytics Team announced it was modifying how they track sessions. This change will not affect your historical data, rather, it will affect only data going forward. Based on its research, the Google Analytics Team expects that most users will...
by mtraphagen | Aug 2, 2011 | Analytics, Google, Paid Search
Whether trying to make decisions about account optimization or trying to generate accurate reports for clients, one of the most frustrating and disconcerting anomalies occurs in comparing conversion results between Google AdWords and Analytics. In both number of...
by mtraphagen | Aug 1, 2011 | Analytics, Google
As you may have noticed by now, if you are logged in to Google while searching using Google, +1 icons now appear not only by every organic search result, but also next to each paid search ad. What does a click on +1 next to one of your ads do? In brief: +1 is...
by mtraphagen | Jul 27, 2011 | Analytics, Google, Paid Search, Social Media
Almost overnight it’s everywhere on the web. It’s the Google +1 button, and if you’re an SEO-conscious webmaster and/or site owner, you’ve already got it on yours. It’s already abundantly clear that Google has big plans for this little...
by ekoppel | Jul 18, 2011 | Analytics, Google
John J. Barton, the creator of Firebug, announced he is going to work developing the next generation of web dev tools for Google. In my opinion, Firebug is the best web development tool available in a browser today and has been one of the most invaluable tools for me....
