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7/8/2009 All About Google IV: Results Tracking Tracking Your Search Rankings and Results By Trent Blizzard, President Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc www.blizzardinternet.com

How to Track Search Engine Results

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If you aren't tracking on your website, how do you know that it's worth the investment? This is a presentation from a one hour webinar on how to track search engine rankings to make smart internet marketing decisions. This Includes: Why tracking rankings is misleading Strategic considerations Benefits and preferred tools for tracking For the full webinar on-demand, go to http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/webinars/

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7/8/2009

All About Google IV: Results Tracking

Tracking Your Search Rankings and Results

By Trent Blizzard, PresidentBlizzard Internet Marketing, Incwww.blizzardinternet.com

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Actual SERPs are very dynamic

Actual search engine traffic much more diverse than simple organic:Bing, AOL and YahooLocal, Video, PPC, etc

Quality of SERPs not factored into ranking data

Many people only track a few key phrases

Tracking is Misleading

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Tracking long-tail keywords

Tracking interior webpage rankings

Tracking multiple domains and subdomains

Tracking your “listings” on other websites

Evaluating total value and ROI of rankings

Tracking Challenges

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Measure and see progress

Watching for “Drops” is important

Tracking your competitorsCreate competitive benchmarksLearn from their keywords

Tracking your brand may be important

Benefits of Tracking

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Track overall search engine traffic

Multiply overall SE traffic by bounce (or conversion) rates to calculate quality SE traffic

Don’t overemphasize a few big keywords

Do some hand-searches in Google Local Do some hand searches and spot checking of any

ranking reports!

Strategic Considerations

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Google Analytics is the primary tool to analyze overall actual results, trends, etc.

SEMRush is the primary tool to get a big picture of your competitor’s rankings.◦ And Yours

SheerSEO and Exactfactor are two favorite tools for tracking a handful of specific phrases.

Tools

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Webinars:◦ All About Google IV: How to Track your Search Engine

RankingsJuly 8, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT

◦ All About Google V: How to Optimize Your WebsiteJuly 22, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT

Workshops:◦ All About Google

July 14th, Las Vegas, NV◦ Listings and Link Building Workshop

July 15th, Las Vegas, NV◦ Google and Foundations

September 29th-30th, Glenwood Springs CO

Learn More

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