Link building is one of the more difficult tasks a website owner or seo will need to tackle on their way to a high ranking site. Luckily there are a ton of tools out there that make the job quite a bit easier. Let's take a look.
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Lots has been going on this week. We've got a new canonical link tag being accepted by all three major search engines, a cool new online text editor from mozilla, personal email campaigns, Zoomable User Interfaces, paper based information design, and a cool new script from our very own Erik Vold.
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When you are deciding how to allocate your online dollars you will want to have a solid understand of how your campaigns have performed in the past. A great way to get a quick high level handle on this is with the All Traffic Sources Report.
So let's start with a couple of definitions. What do Source and Medium mean?
Source is the referring site, that is, the domain of the site that a visitor has clicked on; a link that has taken them over to your site. Some common referral sources are search engines (both paid and organic), a link from an affiliate's site, a blog or article, an email, a partner or any other site that has a link to you. It could even be a document with an embedded link to your site.
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We have boxes with unnecessary words and instructions:
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A few months ago a friend of mine made one of the most important purchases that someone can make in his life by buying his first house. Like most first time home buyers he wasn't able to build it from scratch and ended up buying an older home that needed some occasional maintenance. Squeaky doors, clogged drains and leaky faucets are all items that need to be fixed from time to time. Depending on the problem, you can fix some of these items yourself and if you can't you should at least be aware of them so that you can call in the professionals.
Building a profitable website can be very much like maintaining a home. There are too many site owners that are in the dark of where potential problems could be hiding. In order to find issues or evaluate progress, owners need to get there hands of a few items that can shed some light on how things are doing.
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The userscript is very simple, in the image below the checkbox circled is automatically checked (if it wasn't already because your faster than code), and then the create button (circled below) is pressed. It works for both A/B test setup process and the MVT test setup process.
To install this script:
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This week we have more of my rants about design and usability, PPC hilarity, an awesome screencast of the jCrop plugin, and more!
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Next up in the Google Analytics Power User series we will review path analysis using Google Analytics' Funnel Visualization Report. When you went through the process of configuring the goals for your website you had the option of setting up or defining a funnel for your goals. Funnels are most applicable to goals that have a well defined path that a visitor will follow prior to completing the goal. Examples of this would be the shopping cart of an ecommerce site, or the steps in a web form prior to submitting it, or an online reservation system... Not all goals can or should have a funnel.
If you like this post then please consider subscribing to our RSS feed.Shopping for a coffee grinder recently, I visited my favorite coffee site, www.greenbeanery.ca. After finding a model I liked and navigating to its product page, I noted a link to reviews at the bottom:
Naturally, I wanted to see the product reviews. So I clicked the link and was frustrated. Instead of reviews, I got a page telling me there weren't any:
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Try it:
Timestamp converter
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