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 »
My writing stinks you say. Eh…you may be right. I check my spelling, and try to make sure everything is correct. Still though, I know I need help.
Good news for me? It looks like I just found some help, and have even put this post to the test. It’s the Document Readability Test. The test reveals the number of characters, sentences, and reading comprehension level. The results also show ways to improve readability of text, and lists the most offending sentences. Continue reading »
Google’s Webmaster Tools unleashed a pretty cool tool today to help you improve your websites load time. The tool is called Site Performance, located under the labs portion in the Webmaster Tools.
Looking at my own graph, it appears they have been tracking average load times since the end of July. For this site, the average load time is 2.4 seconds. Something I’m pretty happy about, but wouldn’t mind finding a way to bring it even lower. Continue reading »
Google’s Webmaster Tools Dashboard now comes complete with a keyword significance chart graphing your keywords. They rank the keywords found on your site by count, and in their words should “reflect the subject matter of your site”.
The list displays only one word keyword phrases, and appears to go as low as three characters. It noticed BWI on this site without a problem. I’m just wondering why usability isn’t over design for this site.
The unfortunate part about this new feature is the fact that when you download the list in CSV format, numeric values are not show along with the keywords. It’s just a list of words, but at least they are prioritized order.
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