Comments on: SEO Pivot Tables

By: How to Optimize a Sitemap Index File | Blind Five Year Old

How to Optimize a Sitemap Index File | Blind Five Year Old — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:14:07 +0000

[...] so on and so forth. Grab the results from Webmaster Tools and drop them into Excel and in no time you’ll be able to slice and dice the indexation rates to answer the following questions. What’s the indexation rate for [...]

By: aj

aj — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:33:46 +0000

Thanks Craig, I’m glad I could help clear some things up.

I’m using Excel 2008 for Mac in the examples. The different versions do have different UI – sometimes radically different. The newer versions seem to have an easier, more intuitive interface for pivot tables.

If you have a different version, you’ll have to ferret out how to map the functionality to UI combination I describe in this version to the functionality to UI in your version. Hope that helps.

By: Craig addyman

Craig addyman — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:24:54 +0000

Finally a clear explanation of pivot tables thanks. Question. What version of excel is this and is it the same in 2007? Oh and you have a new reader

By: Don't Average CTR | Blind Five Year Old

Don't Average CTR | Blind Five Year Old — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:03:30 +0000

[...] analysis is using Excel’s AVERAGE function on Click Through Rate (CTR). As I mentioned in my SEO Pivot Tables post, do not do this. Here’s why averaging CTR is [...]

By: Andy @ FirstFound

Andy @ FirstFound — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:07:21 +0000

Well, that’s getting bookmarked so I can refer back to it. Cheers!

By: Jon Santillan

Jon Santillan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:24:20 +0000

Superb walk through using pivot to layout your report on SEO.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:58:14 +0000

Absolutely fantastic! Super useful and helped me make some great graphs. Legend!