Google took away our sources with Not Provided, but luckily they gave us Webmaster Tools Search Queries to compensate. This works really well for general SEO ranking for keyphrases. Unfortunately it doesn’t fare so well for Local SEO. It doesn’t give ranking data? It does. You can sort by impressions, clicks, ranking and keyword to…
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New Universal Analytics tracking code not Working?
We implemented the new Google Universal Analytics Tracking Code on our client’s sites and it did not track. The code was there, but no data was being collected. No traffic = bad, so we reverted back. We determined that sending m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g using my email client returns m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a..async=1;a.src=g What happened? Through some exhaustive troubleshooting our programmer…
Keyword Research – What did you say?
While doing keyword research the other day I came accross an interesting pairing: dentist tree This struck me as an odd thing to look for. Trees are not usually associated with dentists nor can you find dentists on them. So how do we arrive at this? I ran the search and there are a few…
Google Analytics Tracking Code Javascript
I was curious about how the javascript tracking code from Google Analytics that you’re supposed to put at the bottom of your web page. It allows Google to collect information about visitors to your site, but how does the Google tracking code work? Tracking Code Let’s first look at the javascript. This is the code…
Google Analytics Not Provided
A new parameter has shown up in my Google Analytics as of October 14th. It shows up instead of a keyphrase, says (not provided) and I’ve spent a few days trying to figure out what it is. What’s different? I had to figure out what circumstances would cause a user visit to be different. Since (not…