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Track Your Ranking With Google Analytics
By Taylor Pratt
Expert Author
Article Date: 2009-01-07
With Google and other search engines continuing to roll out personalization updates, it is becoming increasingly difficult for SEOs to get an idea of their true ranking position. A personalized search result page can look completely different than the results a ranking tool would provide.
André Scholten wrote a guest post on Yoast explaining how Google Analytics users can get a better idea of where they rank for specific keywords. Although users will not be able to get the exact position, they will be able to figure out what page of the SERPs they rank on.
How do you do it? Google Analytics allows you to create custom filters for your analytics data. In this case, an advanced filter. I don't want to steal André's thunder, so head over to Yoast and read how you set it up.
Here is the screenshot he put up on Yoast that shows the effects of the filter:
The key to understanding your rankings lie in the data in the parenthesis. The result (pagina: 50) indicates that a user clicked through to your site from your listing on the sixth page of the Google SERPs. André also goes on to tell you how you can filter your keyword list to only display the keywords listed on a specific page of the SERPs.
Great post, André, and thanks for the tips!
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About the Author:
Taylor Pratt is a Search Marketing Specialist at nFusion, a results focused marketing agency. Taylor is a guest author on Marketing Pilgrim.
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