The missing iOS6 referrer data
More and more search marketing data is lost due to (not provided) keywords and now iOS6 users appear as “Direct Traffic” although they come from Search. Continue reading
Category Archives: Google
SEO Ranking Factors 2012 – Infographic
UPDATE: Now also including an Image Search infographic. Martin Missfeldt has created a fantastic infographic depicting Google’s ranking factors as he currently sees them. Click on the graphic to get to Martin’s original blog post where you can download a … Continue reading
Java tool to download search query data
As Python is not really my mother tongue I decided to create a Java 6 version of the download tool for the search data in Google’s Webmaster Tools. To run it follow these steps: Unzip the archive into a directory … Continue reading
Downloading data from Google Webmaster Tools
Today, Google has published some Python scripts which allow an automated download of data from the Google Webmaster Tools, namely the Search Query data. UPDATE: I created a Java version of the Search Query downloader. Any feedback would be great. … Continue reading
Best Practice for tagging Global Multilingual Web Sites
New way to mark multilingual content Google recently announced a new way to tag content on multilingual / multi-regional web sites using the hreflang attribute in a rel=”alternate” link tag. A classic example for this would be Spanish language content for … Continue reading
Chrome users don’t send referrer data from Google Plus
Google Plus traffic reported to be down by 60% – Really? We all have heard the news that Google Plus is not developping as some people think it should. The Daily Mail even reported “Traffic plunges for Google+ as 60% … Continue reading
Should Google be happy about the FTC complaint?
How having an FTC complaint filed against Google might even be welcomed by the Search Giant In my last post I wrote about Christopher Soghoian‘s FTC complaint (PDF) against Google and why I think he is addressing the wrong organisation if he’s … Continue reading