Comments on: New Ways To Track Keyword Rank

By: Jim Robinson

Jim Robinson — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:11:34 +0000

It’s the former. It drops off gradually as you hit those high numbers – not just sporadic entries. I think image search makes a lot of sense here since you can pretty easily view that many results in an image query. Plus the site in question is very image focused. Great insight, AJ. I’m going to dig in further.

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:51:14 +0000

Jim,

I’m thrilled that it’s been working for you. So the question here is how often you’re seeing those high numbers? Is it often or are they outliers?

If it’s the latter, I’d guess that there are some people actually going back that far, perhaps in some sort of research mode. I know as an SEO I’m often on pages that no one else would ever get to regularly.

If it’s the former, it might be image based search results. I used to see the cd parameter passed by image referrals but haven’t recently. But perhaps a few still do based on datacenter (?) or some other oddity.

By: Jim Robinson

Jim Robinson — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:49:30 +0000

Hi AJ. I’ve found this post extremely valuable and re-read it a number of times. I implemented this using Event based tracking in Google Analytics on a site that gets around 3M search referrals per month, so I’m getting a nice volume of data.

One thing I’m seeing, however, is event values like 820, 737, 644, etc. Any thoughts on what’s happening when the cd parameter is populated with numbers like these?

By: E-Rock Christopher

E-Rock Christopher — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:34:06 +0000

Thanks for the great idea! Found this after reading Justin’s site. Implemented the idea using Google Tag Manager, which in of itself is pretty cool. Now if there was a rockstar way to get that (not provided) info!!

By: Rankings vs. Tráfico: ¿Cual es la finalidad del SEO? | Sergio Redondo

Rankings vs. Tráfico: ¿Cual es la finalidad del SEO? | Sergio Redondo — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:23:09 +0000

[...] ¿realmente podemos asegurar a nuestros clientes unos rankings específicos? Yo diría que no. A.J. Kohn lo explica muy bien cuando sentencia con frases como estas: …the way many use rank needs to change [...]

By: Tyler Magnusson

Tyler Magnusson — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:37:04 +0000

I have to admit I’m a bit frustrated with Google’s crackdown on SEO tactics. I understand they’re trying to fold SEO from its own separate discipline into the more general umbrella of digital marketing, but Google’s emphasis on content marketing and social signaling is being shoved down our throats. In an attempt to move away from something that can be “gamed,” they’ve moved towards something else that can still be gamed.

Perhaps I’m just a bit frustrated that a few things I could once do easily, like tracking keyword rankings and finding competitor keyword phrases are being marginalized.

By: George Phillip

George Phillip — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:31:05 +0000

Hey, thanks for the rank tracking tips. Must admit I haven’t seen this one before

By: Is There Life Beyond Rankings?

Is There Life Beyond Rankings? — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:00:21 +0000

[...] One of the tricks with rankings is that any one keyword may only be a tiny piece of the puzzle, and that individual ranking will naturally fluctuate even on a good day. So, why not look at rankings over a group of keywords? AJ Kohn did an excellent post on this idea – what he called “rank indexes”. [...]

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:15:04 +0000

Cool snippet,

I’m interested too in tracking my websites in italy/usa/germany.
Giorgio are you sure that your problem is not related to the keyword placement which could occurr on the 2nd result page?

By: Giorgio

Giorgio — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:44:54 +0000

Hi AJ,

I implement this on my blog but seems like that it can only provide 30% of the whole data.

My blog’s total organic visits is 8000 per month but total events for ranktracker is only 2,303. Many keywords can’t be found in that report.

I changed document.referrer.match(/google\.com/gi to document.referrer.match(/google\.fr/gi because it’s a French blog. Can you tell me what’s wrong?

Thanks!