Yahoo’s Search Assist and tracking keywords
Dave’s post pointed me at the new look for Yahoo!, and Greg did some coverage on SEL. The coolest thing in there is Yahoo Search Assist, which Danny explains at length in this somewhat older post. It works amazingly cool and it might even make me consider Yahoo! a bit more often. Sean Hardaker raises [...]
Extracting click data from Google Analytics
Small note: Quite a few people asked how to check the outbound click and download data from Google Analytics, so I compiled a small howto on checking your outbound click stats. Update: I added a few more: How to check your image search stats and keywords Creating a Google Analytics filter for image search
Google Analytics for WordPress: my latest plugin
I just wanted to let you guys know that I’ve thrown the first version of my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin out there. You can download it from here, while you wait for me to write the page for it on this site! It automatically tracks outbound clicks from posts, comments, blogroll, it tracks downloads, [...]
Google Analytics and Google Image search: revisited
I wrote earlier about using a custom urchin.js to get Google Analytics to extract the keywords from Image Search. Now my colleague Roy recently spoke about this with an engineer from Google, and this engineer suggested that I could just rewrite the one function and add that as an extra javascript instead of using a [...]
Busting some SEO myths
Short note: A fellow Dutch SEO, Wiep, has done a nice post busting some SEO myths, worth checking out! The results: Google indexes a website if you add a Google Analytics code. Busted! Google indexes a website if you use Google AdWords. Busted! Google indexes a website if you add Google AdSense. Busted! Google indexes [...]
Getting Google Analytics to extract keywords from Google Image searches
Google Analytics doesn’t get the keywords people used to find your site using Google Image search, and thus labels them as “referral” instead of as “organic”. Google Image search gives you referral URL’s that aren’t really readable. The query string that the searcher used to get to that referring URL is hidden somewhere deep down [...]
Google Analytics: adding search engines
I’ve been diving a bit in to Google Analytics lately, and one of the things you’ll notice when you run Google Analytics is that it doesn’t recognize every conceivable search engine straight out of the box. For instance, Ilse.nl, still quite popular here in the Netherlands, doesn’t seem to be seen as “organic” in Google [...]
Running multiple Mint instances? Make updating easier!
I run three instances of Mint, and if I worked “the normal way” doing one of it’s rather frequent updates would mean having to copy the same files three times. Since I’m lazy, I don’t feel like doing that. What I’ve done is pick one “main” Mint install, and symlink all files in other directories [...]
Analytics conversions, please explain what’s wrong
I use Analytics on some of my sites to check conversions, but the conversion summary of Analytics drives me nuts sometimes. On the 29th, it shows me 8 conversions. On the 30th, it shows me 1 conversion. Then when I change the view to 29-30 it shows me… 8 conversions! Now the last time I [...]
Note to Mint users
If you’re a Mint user, you might want to add the new search.live.com as a search engine to your Mint config, since otherwise Mint won’t recognize these referrers as a Search Engine.The process is quite easy:add the following lines to the end of your engines.php: $SI_SearchEngines[] = array( ‘name’ => ‘Live.com’, ‘url’ => ‘http://search.live.com/results.aspx’, ‘domain’ [...]
