I was inspired by one of Randfish's posts a few month's back about MyBlogLog, a system that keeps track of how many times your site visitors click through an outbound link. (It's the system that Rand has been running lately on seomoz.org that displays a small popularity tag ...
Just ran a quick report today on SEOmoz to see how many unique domains sent the site traffic vs. how many unique links Yahoo! reports the site has. Interesting numbers: Yahoo! reports 12,600 links, but if I scroll to the end, that number dr...
I am running blogger on a couple of my sites and decided to try an experiment as an attempt to increase the frequency of my posts being emailed. By default Blogger adds a little email icon at the bottom of each post. I kicked it up a notch by placing a smiley beside it with so...
Rand made a post about MyBlogLog a couple weeks ago and I installed it on a couple of sites but kept the data private. Really interesting info that was very easy to collect. In summary it keeps track of how many times each of the outlinks on your pages is clicked. I have a hub site for an academic theme and recently I have been adding my own content. Af...
The analytics system I set up through MyBlogLog hasn't received many comments from users - hopefully you don't mind the little pop-ups over links; I personally think they're a very cool resource. This past week has been a good way to analyze what's been going on with the traffic to the SEOmoz blog (this doesn't count the tools, articles, or other pages on...
BugMeNot is a nifty tool that acts either as a one-time viewer for content sites or a plug-in that lets you surf through without entering a username or password. It reminds me most of the grocery store checkers who simply swipe the store copy of the "...
If you're a frequent reader of Aaron Wall's SEOBook (which is a good idea for anyone in this business), you've probably seen his super cool link-hovering graphic that shows the popularity of that particular outbound link as compared to the others on the site...
Alan's a smart guy - I met him in Toronto and have been recommending his consulting work ever since. I believe we actually shared a speaking panel and his style and substance both appealed to me. A new report I saw over a...
A thread at SEW today has some back and forth on the issue of Google's analysis of how long users spend on websites and whether this can affect rankings. Danny Sullivan notes that this metric has bee...
Some conversion rates are easy to measure - your site got 100 visitors from Yahoo! today and 3 of them bought your widget - a 3% conversion rate. Others, however can be very difficult to find. Promediacorp at SEW ...
The twin issues of fairness and bias in search engines has come to the forefront this week with 2 threads. Homer's twitching eyes and nervous hands should give you an idea of how the SEs might feel addressing these sensitive issues. The first, ...
SEO as we currently know it is a process defined by the optimization of a site's internal & extrenal link structure, as well as content type and placement. It is largely not a design or content development industry, and can in fact be done many times w...
Urchin, a well-known web analytics tool that runs on hundreds of thousands of websites, has been acquired by Google. While many in the search industry are surprised by this move, I see it as more of a calculated strategy of Google's to g...
The prediction power of a group is frighteningly accurate. Get a large number of individuals together and ask them to vote on the answer to a question and (as long as it has nothing to do with politics) you've got a nearly foolproof answering system. This group int...