Matt Cutts: Great question. So first off let me just remind people that Google announced this year that we do use site speed in our rankings but it’s not a huge factor. So maybe one out of 100 queries, which would correspond to 1 out of 1000 sites, might be affected. So it’s not the case that if your site loads just a few seconds slower than your other sites
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Matt Cutts: That’s a good question. To give you a little perspective the Google Analytics team is separate from the Google Webmasters Tool team. In fact they are in different locations. They use different code basis. They’re really sort of completely different silos within Google. So it’s not as if a ton of data sharing goes on between those two areas of Google.
I’ll give you one example way in which
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Matt Cutts: The answer is no. Webspan does not use Google Analytics. A while ago I went and checked and search quality in general does not use Google Analytics in ranking. So you can use Google Analytics or you could not use Google Analytics and it won’t affect your ranking within Google search results.
Now just to cover, in case you’re very very curious, one tiny corner case, which is: what
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Who, What, When, Where, Why and How questions we ask pretty much every day. And as you blog grows in size - maybe even becoming part of your business- it makes sense as this question about if to Google analytics is a simple way of keeping track of who visits your site, what they do when they get there, when they show up, where they’re visiting from, how they interact
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Imagine if you could dramatically boost your revenue from your Wordpress site without having to increase your traffic, subscription rate or advertising budget at all? It may sound too good to be true but using the Google Analytics plug in alongside your Wordpress website can easily help you to double your conversion rate, which is the number of sales you make per visitor to your site. And if you double
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If you have managed to create a website with good levels of growing traffic, it can be disheartening when the number of visitors starts to decline. It’s important not to panic or end up feeling low. Many bloggers have periods when their traffic plateaus or starts to decline. The important thing is to recognize it’s happening and take action to get your traffic back on track.
Here are five of the
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