Published at June 8, 2009
in General.
Why Google Analytics Reports Less Orders Than Actual Orders?
- In Google Analytics, if a user comes to your site twice within thirty minutes without closing their browser, they’ll register as one visit. Other web analytics solutions may treat this behavior as two visits.
- If cookies are disabled, Google Analytics is cookie-based analytics programs, and if the cookies are disabled it will not count the visit or order.
Reference:
www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55614
Published at June 5, 2008
in General.
Traffic to your website means nothing if it is not targeted to your specific product, program, opportunity, or business. In order for traffic to be most effective, it must be targeted to your specific market, program, product, etc.
If they’re not targeted, they’re wasting bandwidth.
References:
http://blog.seoptimise.com/category/google
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Published at March 9, 2008
in General.
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Troy Farooque is a Google Adwords Certified Professional and Certified SEO Professional with 9 years SEO agency experience. Check out his SEO blog http://www.seous.com/blog/
Published at June 17, 2007
in General.
A common myth these days revolves around the usage of the term “Hits” This term “Hits” is often used synonymously with “Visitors” It is extremely important to understand that a hit is not a visitor. A hit is basically triggered as any action from the server. In other words, it might be 1 hit for a page to load. Another hit for a logo to load. Perhaps a menu cluster of 10 buttons (10 graphics) could render 10 more hits. In short, just one visitor could generate multiple hits for each page they view. When you are examining traffic overall, your #1 concern should be with your “visitor count,” sometimes identified as “user sessions.” Focus should not be on the “hit count.” Our attention should always be on actual visitors.
Published at December 17, 2006
in General.
SEO consultants prefer to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com for SEO purposes. The thought is that some incoming links point to their non-www domain and some point to the www domain. So if the domains are consolidated, incoming links are as well. SEO consultants who use this redirect usually see instances of search engine rankings with and without the www in their listings and want to consolidate their efforts.
Add the following four lines to your .htaccess file, replacing ‘domain.com’ with your site’s domain:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
