Those of you that use Google Webmaster Tools, good news! They are now graphing top search queries, revealing clickthrough ratios.
Looking at my old road rage site, MonkeyMeter.com, I found my best keyword was really “road terms”, and not road rage, though I get more hits for road rage type searches. When Google users search road terms, 7 out of 10 of them will visit my site. That’s a number I like to see. Continue reading »
When the the king of search looks to optimize its own content for search results, you know it’s not by going out and buying back links. They get those free of charge by their millions of users who love their resources. So what can Google do to improve their own rankings? They optimize their code on-site. Continue reading »
Two weeks ago I wrote about how Google is slowly releasing annotations for their Google Analytics. Some of my sites had it, and some did not. Well, it appears all of them have it now. Checking Google’s Analytic blog, I saw no mention of it finalizing it’s release. Continue reading »
It’s killing me!!! A new feature for Google Analytics is rolling out, and though they have given it to me on some of my accounts, they have not given it to me for Best Web Image yet.
Google is now slowly releasing the Annotations feature for their analytics. It allows you to make a comment about a specific date. This is something I have already been practicing using Microsoft’s Outlook Journal. I call it Journal Analytics. Continue reading »
Huh? The goal is to have more goals? You may be thinking this is a stupid idea. I don’t actually want more goals though. My primary goal for 2010 is to have my “goals”, that I defined using Google Analytics, to occur more often. My goal is to increase my goal count.
I’m sure many of you have Google Analytics running on your site, and already know what a great resource it is. Are you using it to its full potential though? In my most recent post, Your Website is Better than You Think, I mention a potential goal for websites owners. That goal was to get your visitors to do something on your site. Continue reading »
Obviously, keeping your website pages small is a great way to ensure your site loads quickly. I’m also guessing many of you want to add a little flair to your site, so at some point you will have to say enough is enough. Hands down, you announce you have made your site load as fast as it can. Unfortunately, if you thought you were done speeding up your site by crunching file size, there is still more to do. Download time is one thing, rendering that download into a page the visitor sees is a whole new game.
Google’s advice to improve rendering speeds heavily relies on optimizing your CSS file. They also mention to make sure to specify image sizes as well. You know, with width=”this” and height=”that”. Continue reading »
It’s time for another post to help your site load faster. My last post, Suggested Methods by Google for Speeding Up Your Website, finished off with caching. The next step to take for speeding up your website is to minimize round trip times, RTT.
RTT refers to all the requests required when a user accesses your website. This is not a size of file issue, but a number of requests issue. For example, my home page currently has 24 resources that need to be requested and transferred. The less the site has, the faster the transfer. Continue reading »
Sticking to this weeks theme of speeding up your website, I thought I would address the most likely source of all our visitors, Google. Google may not be your primary source of visitors, but I’m sure you are getting at least a fair percentage of your traffic from them.
To make sure they are happy with your site, a good start would be to make sure you have taken their recommended steps to ensure your site is optimized for fast loading. Continue reading »
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