Thursday, November 10, 2011

Use of Content Drilldown in Google Analytics Report

This report has very useful information to help Internet marketers optimize websites for the search engines and users. Read this report to find out more about what this report is and how to use it.
 
Report Overview

The Content Drilldown report can be accessed by logging into your Analytics dashboard, clicking Content and then clicking Content Drilldown. The report looks something like what you see on the left.

This report contains information about the page views, unique page views, bounce rate and % exit for each page in your site. By clicking each page link in the report data, you will be able to get more detailed information on the particular page to help you figure out how your users are finding your content, to help you find the keywords they are using to get there and to help you optimize your landing pages. You will also be able to see a site overlay report for any of the pages you wish, to help you see the highly clicked areas and to put together a bigger picture of the navigation trends of your users.

A more detailed page report looks like what you see on the right. When you click the page link, it will take you back to the Top Content tab as these more detailed reports are available from any content report in the series.

Making this Report Work for You

The information provided to you on these reports is of great use to you because it helps you decide where and what sort of changes need to be made across your site content.

By using the navigation analysis seen on the left, you will be able to tell how each visitor gets to your content. If you look at this factor on the pages you have targeted for advertising, you will be able to judge how well certain advertising campaigns are doing in not only bringing people to your site, but how people are responding to the ads. These are good reports to use in conjunction with the Traffic reports to track your campaigns.

By using the landing page optimization seen on the right, you will be able to better judge the keywords that you should be using to try to rank in the search engines and earn traffic. It will help you in keeping information relevant to your target audience so as to keep them on the page long enough to get them interested in other content, and perhaps making a purchase if purchases are your goal.

The important thing to remember is, regardless of the results that you are seeing, you should analyze and discuss ways to make them better. You should always try your solutions on a trial and error basis so as not to completely alienate and upset the existing traffic base that you have. It will take time, patience and maybe even some user studies, but it can be done.

Friday, October 7, 2011

What is Google Dance & when it occurs?

Search engines in one way or other need to index or categorize web pages based on some criteria so that the search results is reliable to the user who searches for the contents. As google became a popular search engine the importance to site indexing by google was given a great hype.

Google dance is the time period when google sends its spiders to crawl a website to check for its contents, it is said to be happening once in a month, nobody has got any better idea about when google is indexing the web pages. In recent times indexing is done regularly. At this point of time the ranking of a website can fluctuate or dances, when checked on the servers in the data centers of google. Chances of a higher ranked website getting disappeared all of a sudden from (SERP) or Search Engine Resulting Pages is more.

Google has got several data centers and servers now and the google sends its spiders to check the websites from any of these servers. These spiders check for any change in the content of the website even a minor change is reflected as it checks for relevancy of the content and so many other factors like back links, fresh content, keywords, coding standards, domain names, etc.
   

Google regularly sends a crawler usually known as a “Fresh Crawler” to get the fresh content updated in a website. At longer interval a “Main crawler” checks the data collected by the “Fresh Crawler” as well as the old content already stored in the data centers. Based on both the old and new content as well as the relevancy of the website, the index and page ranks of a website are determined by Google. At the same time the “Main Crawler” updates this information in all data centers of google spread across the globe one by one this time period is called “Google Dance”.

Google usually indexes the pages after a “Google Dance” with an appropriate page rank purely based on the criteria’s google requires. Most of the webmasters look at “Google Dance” with wide open eyes as it’s all about how a website is getting indexed with the worlds number one search engine.
Reference: http://buildmylink.com/articles/Google-Dance.html

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Free instant approval web directory lists

Are you looking for lists of directory which grants instant approval? These list will help you to get instant links of your sites which will ultimately rank your site in major search engine: Google, Yahoo and Bing.

  1. www.advertisewebdirectory.com
  2. www.affiliatewebdirectory.com
  3. www.alwaysdirectory.com
  4. www.blackhatdirectory.com
  5. www.blogvisiting.com
  6. www.bookmarkingdirectory.com
  7. www.digitalwebdirectory.com
  8. www.directoryamericans.com
  9. www.directoryaustralian.com
  10. www.directorybahrain.com
  11. www.directorybirmingham.com
  12. www.directorycanadian.com
  13. www.directoryenglish.com
  14. www.directoryeuropean.com
  15. www.directorygerman.com
  16. www.directoryglasgow.com
  17. www.directoryindustry.com
  18. www.directoryitalian.com
  19. www.directorykorean.com
  20. www.directorymanchester.com
  21. www.directoryold.com
  22. www.directoryrss.com
  23. www.directorysouth.com
  24. www.directoryspanish.com
  25. www.directoryswiss.com
  26. www.directorysydney.com
  27. www.directoryunited.com
  28. www.directoryunitedstates.com
  29. www.dofollowsocialbookmarking.com
  30. www.featuredwebdirectory.com
  31. www.forumcomputer.com
  32. www.internationalbusinesslisting.com
  33. www.polandwebdirectory.com
  34. www.regulararticle.com
  35. www.regularlisting.com
  36. www.seoweblisting.com
  37. www.suggestwebsite.com
  38. www.toyonasic.com
  39. www.unitedarabdirectory.com
  40. www.wickeddirectory.com
  41. www.advertisingwebdirectory.com
  42. www.austrlialinkdirectory.com
  43. www.blueprintsdirectory.com
  44. www.businessweblisting.com
  45. www.canadianlinkdirectory.com
  46. www.chinalinkdirectory.com
  47. www.decentwebdirectory.com
  48. www.developerswebdirectory.com
  49. www.directorybritish.com
  50. www.directorydelicious.com
  51. www.goldenwebdirectory.com
  52. www.goldwebdirectory.com
  53. www.hostinglinkdirectory.com
  54. www.indianlinkdirectory.com
  55. www.japanlinkdirectory.com
  56. www.latestwebdirectory.com
  57. www.netbuildersdirectory.com
  58. www.olderdirectory.com
  59. www.phonewebdirectory.com
  60. www.recentwebdirectory.com
  61. www.regularwebdirectory.com
  62. www.rsswebdirectory.com
  63. www.searchengineslink.com
  64. www.secondwebdirectory.com
  65. www.seochatdirectory.com
  66. www.sitepointdirectory.com
  67. www.specialwebdirectory.com
  68. www.standardlisting.com
  69. www.tokyolinkdirectory.com
  70. www.uklinkdirectory.com
  71. www.unitedkingdomsubmit.com
  72. www.unitedstateswebdirectory.com
  73. www.urdirectory.com
  74. www.viewsdirectory.com
  75. www.warriorwebdirectory.com
  76. www.whitewebdirectory.com
  77. www.wickedfiredirectory.com
  78. www.growingdirectory

Thursday, April 28, 2011

How to Prepare for Interview

It is not very easy to prepare for an interview. The way to crack a job interview is not just by giving answers, but the ‘right’ answers with point to point answers. For explaining answers in better way, the knowledge and the practice of job interview is an essential thing. Often, Interviewees commit one big mistake that is to answer the question which he does not know at all. In this case, simply say, I do not know than giving wrong answer. When the interviewer finds that he is trying to mislead him, he becomes irated and just ignore such a candidate by saying that you will be called later. Here are some important tips on how to get it right.

Create a strong and good looking resume. Build a compelling case on why you fit the job role:
The presentation of your Resume should be attractive and all the academic information should be mentioned in chronical order. The process of giving a job winning interview starts by forming a strong resume. A resume gives first impression in the mind of the Interviewer and works as an entrance test to get an interview. A candidates resume should be clean, concise and convey strong points in fewer words. For example, instead of saying, “I am an exceptional guitarist”, one can say, “I was the lead guitarist of an award winning rock band back in college”.

Collect some information of your potential employer
Every recruiter wants a candiate to have prior knowledge of the organization. So you should collect some basic knowledge about the organization by visiting the websites of the company that you are contemplating joining. it is advisable to do a primary research before going. After all, the employer has lots of interviewees and they have many options to choose other one. Always, try to some extra ordinary that you posses and others not.

Highlight your strengths & experience
During an interview it is important to highlight one’s strengths and experiences that appropriately fit the needs of the role. The employer will be assessing the interviewee’s fitment with the job role, and in order to respond appropriately, one needs to understand the specific needs and expertise relevant to the position one is applying for. Never criticize your current employer: There is a saying ‘whatever goes around, comes back,’ it is never helpful to criticize your current employer and cite that as one of the reasons for changing your job. You may be talking about your prospective employer the same way in the coming years. It is helpful to focus on the lack of challenges in current job fit not being in line with your career aspirations, want of greater responsibilities and the learning opportunities your new employer offers as some of the reasons for seeing a change.

Be confident
One should always remember to be fiercely confident, show willingness and enthusiasm for the job and appear as a genuine person who loves what he/she does.

Prepare and remember new updates
Before the critical day it is helpful to prepare by reading your resume critically, reading up your prospective employer and speaking to your consultant in detail about the job & employer. Remember opportunity knocks only once, better be prepared to interview with it.