How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

Update: Google’s team has tracked down my test site, most likely using the source code I shared and de-indexed the whole domain.

Here’s what I did:

  1. User lands on my page (referrer: google)
  2. When they hit “back” button in Chrome,
 

SEO Experiment: CTR Manipulation

1,500 Mechanical Turk workers were instructed to:

  1. search for [money term]
  2. search for [money term, test site brand]
  3. click on [test site]

mechanical turk

I wanted to see if a follow-up search and high CTR had any impact on Google Suggest and …

 

Does link disavow tool do anything?

This is a case study involving dejanseo.com.au domain and impact of link disavow file removal on its vulnerability to ongoing algorithm updates. Our reasoning for this test was that brands “Dejan SEO”, “Dejan Marketing” and domain “dejanseo.com.au” had enough recognition …

 

How people read online [2018 Survey]

A survey of 1,001 users* shows that most web users skim and scan through web content looking for items of interest.

  • Sample Size: 1001
  • Targeting Audience: Users on websites in the Google Surveys publisher network
  • Sampling: Representative
  • Age: All Ages
 
Predictive Analytics With Google’s Search Console Data

Predictive Analytics With Google’s Search Console Data

SEO is supposed to be strategic. There’s just too much work to do it all at once. By following my framework you’ll be able to easily surface extraordinary opportunities and prioritise your work accordingly.

In the last two articles I’ve …