<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>George Chaney - Official SEO Blog &#187; Tracking Results</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.seokingblog.com/category/website-development/tracking-results/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.seokingblog.com</link>
	<description>George Chaney is dedicated to helping the small business owner succeed in big business!</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:41:06 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Tracking Screen Resolutions And Their Role On Bounce Rate</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2010/04/30/tracking-screen-resolutions-and-their-role-on-bounce-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2010/04/30/tracking-screen-resolutions-and-their-role-on-bounce-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tracking Results]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seokingblog.com/?p=466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy for web developers to assume that most, if not all, viewers of a website will have a decent-sized, modern high screen resolution. But then again, you know what they say about assuming. The fact of the matter is that there are still a wide variety of different monitor resolutions in use out there. Fortunately, using tracking software such as Google Analytics, we&#8217;re all easily able to keep an eye on what screen resolutions our websites&#8217; visitors are using. Here&#8217;s an example from a year&#8217;s worth of analytics for one sample site (with 184,055 total visits in a year) and how typical screen resolutions break down: Screen Resolution Number Of Visits Percentage Of Visits 1024 x 768 56,464 30.68% 1280 x 800 39,537 21.48% 1280 x 1024 21,469 11.66% 1440 x 990 17,861 9.70% 1680 x 1050 12,294 6.68% 1152 x 864 5,053 2.75% 800 x 600 4,897 2.66% 1920 x 1200 4,427 2.41% 1280 x 768 3,830 2.08% 1366 x 768 2,766 1.50% These are just the top 10 most popular screen resolutions used by visitors. Believe it or not, there is actually a long tail of 573 additional different screen resolutions that we could add to this [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seokingblog.com/2010/04/30/tracking-screen-resolutions-and-their-role-on-bounce-rate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Google Updates Sitemaps</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2009/06/12/google-updates-sitemaps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2009/06/12/google-updates-sitemaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tracking Results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google sitemap update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google sitemaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sitemaps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seokingblog.com/?p=347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to publish a small note addressing the Google update to sitemaps. If you&#8217;ve seen a shift in the search rankings and more specifically, the rankings of your site, it&#8217;s to be expected. I have compared the data ever since google noted in the old sitemaps that they were changing over to a new system. Unfortunately, the new sitemaps had out dated data. This means, Google was not keeping the link counts up to date based upon the data the older version of sitemaps was showing &#8211; in the form of back links pointing to your website. When Google switched over to the new sitemaps, they used the out of date link data for websites and the spread in link counts for several sites we market was in the thousands. Needless to say, losing that many links in your profile can dramatically impact your rankings, which is exactly what happened. Now, if this link data is the most current, it would imply google has significantly devalued certain links. However, across the multiple sites we promote to lesser degrees and or simply monitor, the main impact came on sites that were building the vast majority of link citations this year. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seokingblog.com/2009/06/12/google-updates-sitemaps/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Tracking Traffic Is Absolutely Essential</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2009/01/21/tracking-traffic-is-absolutely-essential/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2009/01/21/tracking-traffic-is-absolutely-essential/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tracking Results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bounce rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tracking navigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tracking traffic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic from search engines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seokingblog.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tracking website traffic is not just about counting the number of visitors finding their way to a website or blog – after all, that’s the easy part.  Rather, it’s even more revealing to watch visitors and keep track of how they interact with the site.  Tracking all aspects of web traffic is absolutely essential because of the guiding information it will uncover and make transparent. Tracking Traffic Reveals What Pages Draw The Most Visitors By tracking all the details of your site’s traffic, you’ll be able to see which pages draw the most visitors from search engines.  That means these pages, through content and SEO, are working to deliver traffic.  Use the successful pages as a template to build even more comparable successful pages.  It’s also helpful to know how long the visitors stick around on a specific page – the longer they stay, the more relevant they find the page’s content. Tracking Traffic Uncovers Which Pages Are Losing Visitors Just as keeping track of your website’s traffic is the ideal way to find out which pages work most effectively to attract targeted visitors, effective traffic monitoring also uncovers the pages that are failures.  Let’s face it, building content that [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seokingblog.com/2009/01/21/tracking-traffic-is-absolutely-essential/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

