This document discusses how analytics can be used to improve SEO. It covers analyzing organic traffic sources and types, keyword performance, content that drives traffic, link building efforts, international SEO opportunities, and optimizing images. The key points are to understand what traffic is converting, which keywords and pages perform best, how to optimize content and links based on analytics data, and leverage local search engines and keywords for international markets.
2. ANI LOPEZ
SEO Manager &
Analytics consultant
at VKIStudios.com
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3. INDEX
1. The most basic
2. Keywords analysis
3. Content analysis
4. Link building
5. SEO for images
6. International SEO
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7. THE MOST BASIC
conversion & revenue
How much does organic traffic convert?
traffic should always be related to:
goals
• amount of goals
• per goal value
e-commerce
• revenue
• average revenue per transaction
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8. THE MOST BASIC
conversion & revenue
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visits from organic dropped down
10. THE MOST BASIC
organic traffic types
branded (= direct)
Users query search engines using brands
palace hotel barcelona, place hotel, ritz barcelona, hotel rich barcelona
non-branded
Users query search engines using generic terms
hotel luxe barcelone, 5 star hotels in barcelone. best hotel in barcelona
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11. THE MOST BASIC
organic traffic types
advanced segment
branded
keyword : matches regular expression
pala|place|palc|ritz|rich
non-branded
keyword : does not match regular expression
pala|place|palc|ritz|rich
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12. THE MOST BASIC
organic traffic types
advanced segments
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16. KEYWORDS
how are keywords performing?
typical SEO keywords work
• keywords research and analysis
• content pimization
• keywords evaluation
• repeat previous steps
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18. KEYWORDS
how are keywords performing?
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top 19 keywords by visits
only 5 are related to this
company’s services and
products.
bad keyword research or
bad content optimization
27. LINK BUILDING
analyzing link acquisition
Not all traffic at referral report is real one.
Links from emails clicked at web mail like
GMail or Yahoo Mail are counting as referral
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28. LINK BUILDING
analyzing link acquisition
Advanced segment
localhost|vkistudios|mail|search|google|yahoo|^[0-9.]+$
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31. SEO FOR IMAGES
traffic from images search engines
Advanced segment
^(/imgres|/images/view|/images/search)
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32. SEO FOR IMAGES
traffic from images search engines
/imgres Google Images
/images/view Yahoo Images
/images/search Bing Images
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35. INTERNATIONAL SEO
geografic origin & language
Example: company having sites for Spain and
Latin American countries (domain by country).
Spain's site:
How much traffic not coming from Spain?
(Latin America or else where) 21.65%!!!
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36. INTERNATIONAL SEO
local search engines & keywords
Filter: segment keywords by
country specific Search Engines
• create a new custom filter
• check 'advanced'
• Field A -> Extract A : Campaign Source : .*
• Field B -> Extract B : Referral : ^http://([^/]+)
This regular expresion means: everything from 'http://' till the first '/'
• Output To -> Constructor : Campaign Source : $B1
• Field A Required : Yes
• Field B Required : Yes
• Override Output Field : Yes
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