Transitioning to GA4: Is this the Right Analytics Move for Your Team?
As you've likely heard, Google plans to fully retire Universal Analytics for GA4. Here's what you should know before the transition.
SEO Analytics
In theory, you could do SEO without measuring and reporting, but a solid grasp of analytics is essential to success. SEO analytics covers a wide range of topics, but often focuses on performance metrics around traffic, keywords, URLs, page speed, conversion rates, and more.
Beyond performance metrics, research metrics present another focal point of SEO analytics. This includes topics like keyword analysis, backlink research, and other areas to inform your SEO strategy.
Here, you can browse our top resources on SEO analytics, as well as find the most recent blog posts on the subject below.
SEO Analytics and Reporting : Check out our free SEO Learning Center where we've collected the top resources on analytics and reporting.
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Google Analytics : The most popular website analytics platform in the world, Google Analytics is a must-know platform for all SEOs.
A Beginner's Guide to Google Search Console : A companion to any web analytics platform, Google Search Console offers a wealth of SEO information to webmasters.
When and How to Use Domain Authority, Page Authority, and Link Count Metrics : SEO metrics have a special place in analytics. Rand Fishkin shows you how to use these popular metrics correctly.
The Complete Guide to Direct Traffic in Google Analytics : This article covers a very specific niche topic, but also an important one! Learn why that direct traffic in your analytics platform isn't what you think it is.
In Defense of Spam Score and the Concept of a Toxic Link
Google has suggested for a while now that bad links won’t have a negative impact on your site. Instead, the algorithm will supposedly be smart enough to withhold any positive benefit from such a link. Tom responds by discussing the benefits of tracking a metric like Spam Score.
5 Surprising SEO Test Results
Guest host Emily Potter takes you through a few tests that generated unexpected results for her team at SearchPilot, and what those results mean for SEO strategy.
Case Study: How the Cookie Monster Ate 22% of Our Visibility
The team at Homeday is currently carrying out a website migration in several stages, or waves, to reduce the risk of problems that have a large-scale negative impact. During the first wave, they encountered an issue with their cookie consent, which led to a visibility loss of almost 22% within five days. In this article, Hanna describes how they discovered and resolved it.
Measuring Link Building
SEOs have powerful metrics at their disposal to measure the success of their strategies, such as Domain Authority (DA) and Page Authority (PA). But how best to use them? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Tom shows you how to think about these metrics as part of a holistic approach to your link building analysis.
Your First Three SEO Tests
Emily Potter returns as a Whiteboard Friday host to share with you the first three SEO tests you should run to kick-start your SEO testing program.
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How to Win Potential Consumers with Customer Journey Mapping on Google
If your website is like most others, there is likely a mismatch between the content you provide, and what your prospective customers search for on Google. This article is about understanding those potential customers and their conversation with Google by using the customer journey mapping method to provide them with the best content.
How to Identify Whether Your Increased Traffic Is Spam
Your traffic has spiked! Before you celebrate, it's good to make sure that lift is in fact genuine users visiting the site, and not spam. Take 10 minutes to follow this checklist and determine whether or not increased traffic is, in fact, just spam.
SEO & Core Algorithms: How to Address, Analyze, and Affect
Given how cryptic Google typically is about core updates, it can often seem like we’re at the mercy of the algorithm, with no legitimate measures of our own to employ. However, there are in fact ample tactics at our disposal to address, analyze, and affect the outcomes of core algorithm updates.
Commercial vs. Functional vs. Emotional: A Case Study on Page Title SEO Testing
In our fast-paced day-to-day lives, we can often underestimate the power of copy, even though it’s the only thing between our business and our customers. To that end, Marty used SEO Testing to trial different copy types in product page titles, and want shares the results of that test in this blog.
How to Measure the Impact of Content Based on Intent
When it comes to measuring the impact of content, you might think of KPIs like “sitewide conversion rate”, or picture an upward graph that shows an increase in traffic. But are those metrics really meaningful? In this piece, Kelly argues that, no, they’re not. Instead, focus on getting actionable insights that can help your content flourish, by measuring its impact in a meaningful way.
Core Web Vitals: What Next?
The promised page experience updates from Google that caused such a stir last year are far from being done, so Tom takes a look at where we are now and what happens next for the algorithm’s infamous Core Web Vitals.