How do I use my Google Analytics Account? How do I track Organic Vs. PPC traffic? How do I track conversions & visitors who leave abruptly? This article will answer these questions and more.
If you would like a overview on using your Google Analytics account this article is a must read. I have tried to provide a brie analysis of each of the features of the Google Analytics account.
Don’t forget to post your questions about Google Analytics in a comment after this post. I will answer all questions and post a FAQ on Analytics in a few days.
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What is the Google Supplemental Results?
According to Google: “A supplemental result is just like a regular web result, except that it’s pulled from our supplemental index.” - “We’re able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index”

If you didn’t know better you might think it is a good thing. The way Google words it it almost sounds like you might want to get into the supp results and in fact Google has received emails asking to be added to the supplemental index.
I personally think Googles description is lacking.
But what does Supplemental mean? - According to Dictionary.com - Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency.

So these are sites that Google decides deserve a burial service and shouldn’t come up in regular searches. But how does google decide a site deserves burial over another? Does it have anything to do with new sites, sandbox, duplicate content or maybe something else? How can I get out?

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Okay this post won’t help you get higher rankings on Google or anything but might give you a laugh.

Lol I got this error message on my computer just now and man did I found it funny.

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This image has not been tampered with at all. It appeared on my computer using IE7 when trying to goto ‘www.google.com’ spelled correctly. It wasn’t just once. It happened everytime I went there. And yes IE works fine
Is this MSNs new way of deterring google traffic to them? lol

“We are sorry google cannot be found… not sure why but what the heck try out MSN search”

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It is generally accepted among SEO that .Edu/.Gov domains have more worth than .com domains or at least it was. Then Matt Cutts(the Google guy) wrote in his blog that a .edu domain is worth no more than a .com domain. As soon as this happened I saw SEO who had believed this for years bend and changed their opinion to Matts side.

So is it true? Is Matt Cutts just saying this to keep .Edu domains clean from spam link builders or is he correct?
Are Education Domains of greater worth or are .com domains just worth less than other extensions?
I believe that Education Domains have greater worth than .com domains and this article aims to provide some evidence of that.

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