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One of My Favorite Google Analytics Views

good_bad_ugly It's time for another look at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of analytics and reporting.  Today, I wanted to write about the Good -  in this instance one particular report that is the product of the marriage of  Google AdWords data with the functionality and reporting pizazz of Google Analytics.   This great report is the AdWords Keyword Position Report. Assuming you have correctly linked your AdWords account with your Analytics account you will be able to dive into this treasure trove of information right now. The Adwords position report tells you what position your ad was in when it was clicked on.  You then can segment out this position data by conversion, bounce rate and time on site.  The reason this is good should be semi-obvious...being #1 in the paid results is a great thing for click volume but it is not a great quality filter. Discerning, deep diving browsers looking for real answers to their pain points will look for the ads beyond those in the top positions.  Thus, this report will help you get some additional mileage out of your PPC campaigns as you begin to do your homework, understand the qualitative differences between clicks and plan an overall PPC strategy for max coverage (impression share) in the position (bid rate) that is most aligned with your business goals. To get to the Keyword Position report within AdWords, click "Traffic Sources" > "AdWords" > "Keyword Positions" Good luck!

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Some Interesting SEO Blog Posts

Here was an interesting post on the best wordpress permalink structure - interesting that Matt Cutts weighed in as well.  The comments section here - where I weighed in -  really disproves the central thesis of the blog post.  There has been a lot of ink spilled on this topic and this should be the final word for some time to come. If you're wondering about SEO and wordpress then you should come around soon to realizing that Wordpress is an incredible, awesome platform for creating blogs and static sites that are quite optimized. Matt Cutts popped into a few sessions at SMX last week and confused people.  Nothing new  - it seems that the idea that Google will be adding weight to dofollow links that actually have traffic flowing through them is catching on.  Equally interesting is his advice to worry less about about pagerank sculpting and more about getting valuable content further up in the site hierarchy.  This seems logical - but on the other hand many of the most content heavy websites (like newspapers, article directories, etc.) have the majority of their current a few clicks deep.  So it seems not entirely clear how large, content sites can get pages further up the hierarchy - other than ensuring content pages aren't  too deep. That is it for this week - we'll see what next week holds

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