Most SEO’s use some combination of Google Search Console (GSC), SEMRush and AHREFs. These are all wonderful tools that do different things. Google Search Console is obviously where most of our 1st party search data comes from aside from the likes of Google Analytics 4 (GA4). SEMRush excels at competitor analysis and keyword research data. […]
Category: Analytics
Is AI Search Impacting SEO?
Possibly. Let’s Index Growth To Normalize the Search Data. Like most SEO’s, I’ve been staying on top of the latest news around AI (especially Google AI Overviews / AI Mode and ChatGPT) to see how this might impact our industry. I’m currently working on three sites, two of which have enough AI referral traffic data […]
AI Model Infographic Test
I had a meeting recently where the president of the company was struggling to understand that Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Meta Ads attribution are not apples-to-apples comparisons. So that got me to thinking that having a chart or infographic to explain the difference would have helped to bridge the gap in understanding. That led […]
AI Model Data Visualization Test
A Head-to-Head Comparison of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and Perplexity AI Models One of the most common and beneficial use cases for AI tools is to help calculate numbers and visualize data so I wanted to compare the most popular LLMs to see how they compare. Time, efficiency and accuracy are all important so I’ve […]
How Heatmaps Can Improve Performance Marketing Results
Conversion rate optimization should be part of your SEO & PPC toolbox. SEO and paid search are obviously capable of driving a significant amount of traffic to a site, and for many sites it’s their primary method of web traffic generation. Driving web traffic is only half of the equation there however. What does user […]
Create SEO Python Code With Zero Coding Skills
Unlock Google Search Console Data With Google Colab & GSC API As a career marketing & SEO professional, I have a lot of different skills. I even taught myself Bootstrap when building one of the sites that I own. However, coding & engineering is just not my thing. As a marketing director I’ve always worked […]
Google Discover SEO – Another Reason To Blog
Blogging Can Drive More Than Just Traditional SEO Traffic I’ve recently noticed that almost every blog post that I’ve published on my fine art photography e-commerce site over the past nine months generates SEO traffic from Google Discover, usually within a day of publishing the article. While these blog posts do eventually drive traditional SEO […]
The Death of 3rd Party Cookies
How To Evolve Analytics Measurement & Attribution One particular issue has been causing me more headaches than anything else over the past several years including forecasting SEO. The gradual decline of 3rd party cookies has been especially painful. I don’t think I’m alone in this regard as the majority of websites today use Google Analytics […]