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How to Remove Semalt.com in Google Analytics

Posted on July 20, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

There’s a website (domain name) that shows up as a referral in your Google Analytics. Semalt.com bills itself as “Semalt is a professional webmaster analytics tool that opens the door to new opportunities for the market monitoring, yours and your competitors’ positions tracking and comprehensible analytics business information.” Okay, fine. But to be honest with you, most likely you do NOT want any traffic from Semalt.com. In fact, it’s not real visitors, it’s just a “bot” that is making it look like there are visitors from their domain name to your website. Real visitors are generally not coming from a website called Semalt.com to your website. So, to accurately see your referral and website visitor traffic in Google Analytics, I recommend removing this or “excluding” semalt.com in your Google Analytics tracking. Here’s how to set up a filter in Google Analytics to filter out this domain name (or any other domain name) in your Google Analytics.

First, you need to log into Google Analytics. Then, click on the “Admin” tab at the top, as shown below.

google analytics admin tab [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines, Web Analytics

Throwback Thursday: LookSmart Search Engine Circa 1999

Posted on July 17, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Do you remember LookSmart? Back in 1999, the LookSmart website looked like this:

looksmart

Back in 1999, you could search the web from the site’s home page, or you could click on one of their categories, and then a few more clicks… and then finally get to their content. For example, there was shopping content: [Read more…]

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Google Drops Real Name Policy

Posted on July 15, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google just dropped their real name policy. So, starting now, this means that there are no restrictions on names you can use when signing up for services such as Google Plus and YouTube. As you might recall, Google+ had revised their real name policy back in 2012, saying that only .1 percent of users have submitted name appeals, and the majority (60%) of these users want to simply add nicknames. But now, they’ve changed all that. You can use any name you want.

google real name policy

Here’s part of the post and statement from Google that was just made regarding real names: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Quality Rater Guidelines 2014

Posted on July 12, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

I just got ahold of the latest copy of Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines, with a date of March 2014. It’s an interesting read, all 160 pages of this document. There are a lot of new phrases and concepts that are included in this latest version, but honestly there’s are really not many new surprises. But, if you’re in the online marketing business, are an SEO, or own a website, then you really should take a look at the latest guidelines, if just to make sure that your website or your client’s website(s) are compliant with Google’s latest Quality Rater guidelines. There may be some things that you can improve, I’ve found a few things that I’m going to pay attention to from now on when I perform complex SEO Audits for clients. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines

The Real Reason Google Removed Google Authorship Photos From Search Results

Posted on July 11, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Relevant content in organic search results distracts people from clicking on sponsored search advertisements.

— Bill Slawski (@bill_slawski) July 11, 2014

I know that’s a really long title for this post, but I wanted to get to the point with the headline. We all want to know the real reason why Google removed Google Authorship Photos from the search results, right? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Throwback Thursday: Altavista Search Engine, Circa 1996

Posted on July 10, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Back in 1996, I was spending my spare time (early mornings and evenings) trying to rank web pages that I built in raw html code. There were no WYSIWYG editors out there, or at least I didn’t have access to any. I created websites using notepad and html code. And it worked really, really well. It wasn’t that difficult to get your web page ranked in most of the search engines, as long as you had a good title tag, meta tags, and the right content on the page.

altavista search engine, circa 1996 [Read more…]

Filed Under: Search Engines

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