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Rankings that make sense
We've written about rankings here before, for instance: how to track them with Google Analytics, part I and part II and even why they are worthless (the latter post by Eduard, who has, starting december 1st, joined us at OrangeValley!!), on top of th...
Google Analytics plugin updates
One of my most popular plugins is my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, having been downloaded almost 700,000 times. This post is to let you know that this plugin is going to be getting quite a few updates in the coming month, the first of which ...
Comment Tracking in Clicky
So one of the things I've always wanted to do is use an Analytics tools API to enrich the data about a visit. Clicky is one of the few tools out there that have a well detailed API that allows you to push in extra data during the visit. The extra dat...
Track SEO rankings and Sitelinks with Google Analytics II
Earlier this year I did a guest post on this site to show you how to track your SEO rankings with Google Analytics. It was quite some news for a lot of people, just take a look at the 300+ comments. And now it's time for the follow-up. Google's new t...
New SEO reports for Google Analytics
In this article I’ll use the SEO filter, made by Andé Scholten, to make some new interesting SEO reports in Google Analytics. I realized that the data, provided by the filter, had given me some new opportunities. It wasn’t possible in Google Ana...
Easily get your Google Analytics account ID
Ok I'm kinda bummed: why doesn't Google just add a field to Google Analytics that gives you the account ID, instead of telling people who want to track Google sites to extract the account ID from the javascript code... Well I'm here to make it easier...
The analytics issue with Twitter
digg_url = 'http://yoast.com/twitter-analytics/'; Twitter is great for traffic, but just how great it is, well, you'll never really know. Why not? You'll ask. Well, the only traffic you'll see coming from Twitter is traffic that comes through Twitter...
The analytics issue with Twitter
Twitter is great for traffic, but just how great it is, well, you'll never really know. Why not? You'll ask. Well, the only traffic you'll see coming from Twitter is traffic that comes through Twitters web interface. And most people I know don't use ...
A Rankings Filter in Analytics: the video
Because André's excellent post raised a couple of questions, I decided to do a video on how to implement the rankings filter. It explains how to do the first and second filter André mentioned in his post, I've added a third filter to lowerc...
A Rankings Filter in Analytics: the video
Because André's excellent post raised a couple of questions, I decided to do a video on how to implement the rankings filter. It explains how to do the first and second filter André mentioned in his post, I've added a third filter to lowerc...
Track SEO rankings with Google Analytics
Some months ago I created a Google Analytics filter that enables you to track your Google rankings. I blogged about it on my own Dutch analytics blog and saw there was more interest in it then usual. Joost walked by and offered me to do a guest post ...
Track SEO rankings with Google Analytics
Some months ago I created a Google Analytics filter that enables you to track your Google rankings. I blogged about it on my own Dutch analytics blog and saw there was more interest in it then usual. Joost walked by and offered me to do a guest post ...
Technorati Pepper for Mint
I've been playing with the thought of developing a Pepper for Mint for ages, but never got to it. Tonight I decided to do it, and it turned out to be incredibly easy! So I've developed a Pepper that has two panes, one displays your Technorati scores ...
Measuring SEO: why rankings are worthless
While Joost is enjoying his well deserved honeymoon, he asked me to do a post as guest blogger. "As long as it's anything about search", he said. Alright, that's not so hard :) I thought I'd dive into the discussion of search engine rankings and what...
The "Yoast Post" and more
Mel Carson has done a great great post (cough) on the MS AdCenter community blog, thanking me for my work on the AdCenter Analytics plugin. Well, Mel, my pleasure (and kudos for the great headline :) )! This is a post from Joost de Valk's SEO Blo...
Web Analytics Congress: the learnings
I've had a great day at the web analytics congress, the keynotes by Neil Mason and my good friend Avinash Kaushik were inspiring as ever, and Mieke from Independer.nl had a nice presentation. Not much real news in there for me, but very, very inspiri...
Web Analytics Congress in the Netherlands
I'm currently at the web analytics conference here in the Netherlands, where Neil Mason of Applied Insights is doing the keynote speech, saying he doesn't actually like web analytics, but rather calls it online marketing optimization and I feel stran...
Piwik - Open source webanalytics
I got a tweet from @zjuul today, because he was modifying (and has since released a beta version) my Google Analytics plugin to work with Piwik. Piwik is an open source analytics tool, in it's very early stages of development. I've been looking at it...
Heroes coming to Holland
In the coming few weeks, a couple of my friends and heroes are coming to Holland! First, Kris Jones from Pepperjam is coming to do the keynote at Affiliate Dag 2008, the very first Dutch affiliate conference with over 500 people registered already! ...
