Tag Archives: Google
Etsy :: What is Etsy Web Analytics?
Here are the instructions that Etsy published for setting up Google Analytics for an Etsy shop. The first step is the same for everyone, with different names for the web sites, of course, but there is no magic there. The … Continue reading
SEOmoz | Overcome the Google Analytics Learning Curve in 20 Minutes
As recently as a month ago, I was a victim of a state of mind I call Analytics Dismissal Disorder. This mindset is common after hearing about the importance of analytics, installing the tracking code and then getting overwhelmed by … Continue reading
SEO – how to pick a keyword, search traffic vs. competition
I explain how to pick the best keywords for you to focus your efforts on. The trick is to balance the number of searches for a keyword each month with the number of other pages on the Internet that contain … Continue reading
How do we get Google to crawl the site again?
Selma asked me on the Walton.com Facebook Fan Page “How do we get the SE’s to crawl the site again? (“SE” is search engines, if you didn’t know.) This is a great question and deserves a great answer. I told … Continue reading
Ten With Tess – An Interview On SEO Success
Last week, I wrote an article, Do You Love To Talk? SEO for Comment Virgins, urging people to leave comments on other people’s blogs to increase their own SEO. Among the 7 people who followed directions and commented on the … Continue reading
Can I Buy You A Drink? Google Juice, Pointing, and Farms
I recently received a comment that asked: I had heard that one way links to your site are better. That mutual linking decreases the Googlishiness of your site. I would like to hear more on your thinking about this. There … Continue reading
How To Beat Your Competition In The Search Engines
I’m sure that you’ve downloaded and read my free book on SEO, The Care And Feeding Of Search Engines, A Simple Guide To SEO. In it, I discuss a strategy to beat your competition by looking at who links to … Continue reading
The 10 for 10 Challenge
The easiest and fastest way to build traffic to your site is to post comments on other sites, using your web address. This does two things. First, it builds inbound links to your site, boosting your SEO and ultimately getting … Continue reading →