Why do I have visits with a duration of zero seconds in Google Analytics

Sunday, 26 June 2011 12:57

What does it mean when your analytics report is telling you that a visit to your website was of a duration of zero seconds?

Strange referring sites appearing in Google Analytics reports

Thursday, 02 June 2011 11:53

This is what is known as Referral Spam.

Referral spam will show up as strange site address's in your Google Analyics reports under Traffic Sources.

Typically you can recognise them by referring sites listed that have all or one of the following:

Google Analytics - why are there keywords with zero visits

Thursday, 28 October 2010 13:37

In Google Analytics, scroll to the bottom of the list of keywords used by visitors to your site  (found under traffic sources).

You will often see keywords that have 'zero' number of vists.

Why is this?

Five facts you have to know about your website

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:00

Ask yourself these five questions - the answers contain opportunities for more business!

Matt Cutts blog is a must read

Monday, 12 October 2009 11:35

If you care about how Google search works, that is.

There are a lot of blogs I read. Some regularly. Some not so much. One I do read often is Google's Matt Cutts.

Matt is the head of Google's webspam team (whatever that means), but what is important is that he knows more about how Google's search works than 99.99% of the planet.

He also writes funny yet informative, to the point blog posts and particularly useful video blogs. And he just seems like a decent bloke.

Read the disclaimer - the comments are quite funny - it would be nice to work for someone who a) pays you a lot and/or b) pays for travel to conferences etc (read: think you are worth the $$). I'll see how I feel when people are banging down my door offering gifts tho.

Everyone should love web traffic stats

Tuesday, 01 September 2009 19:20

A couple of news items this morning had a theme of web traffic statistics, hence the theme of today's post.

A lot of people we speak to can't answer the question "How many visits do you get to your website?" - much less know what keywords they used to get there or which is the most popular content on their site. If you have a site, it's pretty much critical that you know what people are doing on it.