Archive for Erdal

author photo

post thumbnail

Search Trend March ‘09 Belgium: top rising search “carrefour” ?

I was analyzing the search trend (with Google Insights for search) in march 2009 for Belgium and have noticed (amazingly) that Belgians entered “www.carrefour.be” in Google.
Why would you search for www.carrefour.be ? What’s the reason behind this?
The trend in “Google Trends” shows us that especially Walloon people have entered the keyword “carrefour” in the [...]

April 4th, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data

GA Notes is a Firefox extension that lets you add business data to a profile. Notes appear in a concealable table at the top of every report.
Any GA user who views a profile, and has the Firefox extension, will see the notes entered for the profile. You can add notes, edit notes and delete notes. [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

Increase Online Visibility for Sales and Links

The greater your company’s visibility is online, the more links your site will get. People link to sites they know or have heard a lot about. The more a person is exposed to your company name, the more familiar it will be to them. That equals more links and more direct sales.
Here are some methods [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

SEO Tips : Increase Ranking and Website Traffic

• Create a website with valuable content, products or services.
• Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 30 words in your page content and
spread them evenly throughout the document. Keyword density: 5%
• Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract [...]

March 26th, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

Page-Level Algorithmic Penalties On The Rise From Google

Tom C has posted a great article about Penalties from Google.
* Do I have a penalty?
* Why do I have a penalty?
* How can I get rid of my penalty?
Unfortunately, they’re elusive to tie down. Since you get penalties (generally) for doing [...]

March 23rd, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

3 Ways to Quickly Compare Your Site with Your Competitors

Again a great article from Ann Smarty(author of Search Engine Journal).
Do you like comparing your progress with your competitors?
By doing that you can evaluate how fast you are moving or how much you need to do. Below I am listing just a few tips on what and how you can compare.
Compare social media presence:
BizShark graphs [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many

According to Comscore the number of people accessing news and information on their mobile device more than doubles in a year.

Read the full article on Comscore

March 19th, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

How to write a Chrome extension in 3 steps!

Matt Cutt is explaining how to write a Chrome extension in 3 steps!
I just installed a “hello world” Chrome extension from this Chrome Extension HOWTO page. When you surf to www.google.com, the Google logo is replaced with a Lolcat:

1. Install the developer-channel version of Google Chrome.
I don’t know if this is 100% necessary, but new [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 1: Awareness

Read below the great article from Tim Ash (Search Engine Watch).
The well-known AIDA conversion sales funnel and how it governs all Web conversions.
The AIDA stages are:
Awareness
Interest
Desire
Action
Let’s examine the first of these in more detail.
Awareness, and its close cousin attention, are scarce commodities in our fast-paced world. We’re constantly bombarded by information [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer
post thumbnail

2nd Web Analytics Wednesday in Gent (25 Mar ‘09)

Web Analytics Wednesday is the biggest social network for web analytics professionals. bSeen is hosting and sponsoring the next event in the beautiful location of Ghent!
What? A very interesting, practical and hands-on actionable seminar with case studies, vendor presentations and networking possibilities for all companies who like to turn Web Analytics into a dicipline with [...]

March 13th, 2009 | Erdal | 0 comments | Lees meer