Our Web hosting agency provides us with Web Trends (a version from the dark ages) yet they refuse to apply the browsers.ini filter to our tracking configuration to filter out search spiders. My company does not want to switch hosting agencies because the one we have is so reasonably priced. So, I am considering setting up Google Analytics for our sites. I don’t want to wind up in the same situation though – does Google Analytics filter out search engine bots from tracked data?

According to our dark ages Web Trends, search spiders are approximately 75% of our traffic. Therefore I completely mistrust the accuracy of pretty much all the metrics – visits, page views, average visit duration, bounce rate, etc. Do you think Google Analytics can provide us with a more accurate measure of our sites’ performance???

I want to use google analytics to optimize my website. I haven’t registered yet though, because I’m not ready to–my site isn’t up yet. I’m just curious how the whole thing works.

I am a beginner but have learned a lot about search engine optimization (SEO). We have worked on Google AdWord campaigns, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and used Google Analytics. We used a broad search as well as an industry specialized search, which has obviously been more cost effective.

I have recently submitted our company and link to multiple industry directories with higher PageRank than ours. I have used free keyword tools found in AdWords, Analytics, and Search Marketing, respectively, as well as the free tool on wordtracker.

Also, we have recently created static pages to our web site for added content. Hopefully our recent steps (directory submission, upping our bids in PPC programs, and creating content based pages) will work.

Can anyone help on ways to direct more traffic to our site? Help us maximize our ROI? We usa a dynaminc web site but want to raise our PageRank and site visits.

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How do you use website seo analytics to make more money? I see this all the time but have no idea what they are used for or how. Http://seositehelp.com has this dodad where you put in your website address and a whole bunch of stuff pops up. All I understand is visitors and page rank….what do i do with the rest of these numbers?

Our company has a good customer base built up since 2002 and currently is undergoing a rebrand from one website domain which is No.2 on Google Page 1 (using organic search keywords ‘personalised cards) www.remind4u.com

I am undergoing SEO work but I need to know more about how soon it will take Google to recognise the new website and domain www.funkypigeon.com and the 301 redirect traffic and be on page one as remind4u.com is at present.

The new website has been SEO optimised by myself in advance, HTML tags, keywords, ALT tags, Google Analytics is set up and Google Webmaster code installed, some directories and backlinks already in place, we have a blog, facebook page, twitter account, bebo and myspace, everything is set for the launch on Friday 9th October.

So, when the day comes for the 301 redirect to be applied, the old site will slowly lose rank, but how soon (hours / days / weeks?) will the new website build up Google’s trust and ranking?