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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. Powering Your Crawler with Google Analytics Content Grouping. You already know your crawler is powerful, but if you’re like me and enjoy pushing the limits of just about everything, you’ll be asking how you can power up your crawler even more! And how exactly can I supercharge my web crawler with this feature? It’s not too complicated, and here’s how. Behavior Site Content All Pages. You can set the secondary dimension to organic, or simp...

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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. My Roadmap To Becoming An Expert. My website has only been live for a week now and I’ve already had people ask me Dude, what’s up with your site? Well rest assured that I am. And just to prove it, I’m going to make all of my analytic data from those 4 platforms publicly available. Why would I do this? A3) Also, if you want to connect with the real big experts, make yourself an expert as well. Experts like experts. Now I’m not crazy enough...

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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. Broken Parameters and URL Shorteners. We all know that improper tagging on our tracking URLs results in lost and inaccurate data, but what will it look like in Google Analytics when your parameters are broken? The video below answers that question as well as demonstrates how URL shorteners handle tracking parameters. Chris Bawden is an SEO and Analytics professional working fast paced in the Tech Industry. And take his Data Keeper's Oath.

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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. The Comprehensive SEO Competitive Analysis. I completed the largest SEO competitive analysis of my career so far. It took roughly two weeks, 6 tools, and a few gallons of espresso. I’m sure you can find resources telling you how to perform a competitive analysis, but many of them tell you how and leave you hanging on what to do next. To start with, I built off of this handy workflow from Moz. Similar to building a wall around your sandcas...

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SEO Humor | Chris Bawden - Christopher R. Bawden

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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. Did you hear Nintendo got hit hard by the new Panda updates? It turns out they've been selling Links for years. What do you get when you cross Hannah-Barbera with SEO? Did you know that SEOs on average are healthier than the general public? It's because we prefer organic. An SEO walks into a bar [pub, tavern, club, saloon, brewhouse] and orders a drink [beer, beverage, ale, spirit, stout]. Yeah that's what my CEO said.

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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. Becoming an Expert - Lesson 1. I know you’ve heard this one countless times, as have I, and it’s so fundamental that it could almost be considered Lesson ½: Make a plan. Telling someone to plan their site, their project, their strategy before they start is so trite that I almost didn’t write about it, but I promised to share my experience the whole way so I’ll just keep it short. My Roadmap To Becoming An Expert. Well rest assured that I ...

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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. Chrome Incognito Window Analytics. There's no question that secure searches and increasing privacy have a large effect on collecting analytics. Features such as Chrome's incognito window make it easy for users to browse without a history of searches or cookies, but how much does the incognito window compromise our analytic data? Here's a quick real-time demonstration to show you. And take his Data Keeper's Oath. Deal of the Day:.

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http://www.crbawden.com/articles/i-built-a-website-on-a-crappy-platform

Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. I Built a Website On a Crappy Platform. Here’s the basics in case you haven’t read my other posts: I purposely chose a crappy platform and a crappy DNS on which to build my site so I could experience problems first hand that new, small businesses often experience. You can read more about that here. If you’re wondering. Rdquo; and see the first image). I’m also proud to say that my Sasquatch SEO. Image is indexing well:. Not a single one o...

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http://www.crbawden.com/articles/who-sees-links-you-share-on-twitter

Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. Who Sees Links You Share On Twitter? Someone recently asked me to send them my personal contact information over Twitter. Instead of just declining, I shared a blank Google doc over Twitter and recorded it. Because that's how I do things. As a true experiment I'd like to actually pull the log files of a recently published page just after sharing it on Twitter, but time is limited. any volunteers to host an experiment? Deal of the Day:.

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Graphics Designed by Chris Bawden - Christopher R. Bawden

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Christopher R. Bawden. A Data Keeper's Oath. SEO Swag and Apparel. Creating Quick and Relevant SEO Images. Great images are great for SEO, they can enhance your content and increase click-through rate of your links. Unfortunately great images that are relevant to your content can be difficult to find or expensive to buy so sometimes it pays off to create your own. The following are samples of images I've created for my content, although I claim no greatness here. Gary Bettman Smuggling Cash. It started w...