Archive for May, 2009

Canonical Link Rel vs 301 Redirects: Using Canonical Link Rel tag for SEO purposes

Back in February, Google announced their support of the Canonical Link Rel element, and it was also announced that Yahoo! and MSN would soon follow suit.  If you’re not familiar with it, think of the Canonical Link Rel element in terms of a 301 redirect–you can tell the search engines to ‘focus’ (though in this [...]

Act on Extremely Relevant Data with Advanced Segments

I recently wrote another guest post on the Bronto (an email marketing service provider) blog. This one relates to using Custom Segments to better track your email marketing campaigns. The entire post can be read here: Act on Extremely Relevant Data with Advanced Segments

Testing report discrepancies with Google Analytics (Advanced Segments)

So I ran into a brain-racking situation with my employer the other day.  A certain 3rd party advertiser is linking to one of our websites from several places on their all-flash website (and not for free mind you).  In an effort to gauge the utility of these links, I’ve been perusing through both Google Analytics [...]

Blogs/Articles for 2009-05-05

Blogs/Articles for 2009-05-05

The Changing Face of SEO - Duct Tape Marketing
Back to Basics: An easy way to spot quality traffic - Google Analytics Blog

Survey says… - Google Webmaster Central Blog
Guest Post - Creating an Image Rotator - Soh Tanaka
Don’t Forget About Us, The Web Directories - Search Engine Land
Dear Avinash: Web Metrics & Analytics Questions, [...]