Google fills out your search forms

Occasionally I have found sites that on their home page you would have to select a company or product from a drop down box, and then enter the site from that information. Until now, Google could not access those pages without being provided direct links. Sites with these types of pages were often called the "Deep Web" or the "Invisible Web", because search engines could not access them. Google has said in the past that they believe that 80% or more of web pages are "hidden" to them because … [Read more...]

More Metrics – What Pages are Seen (First)

Learning how our web site works is an important task. We've seen some simple examples in previous steps (visits, page views, and unique visitors) as well as determining how long someone visited your site, and which was the last page they viewed.Most of these metrics were simple to user, and that is fine. However, now we want to look at the flip-side of which pages people leave on, that is what pages they are viewing, and which ones do they view first. This is which pages people go to first, … [Read more...]