A friend of mine has opened a local business and not knowing what to do choose a URL with the name of her company (which is a playword). The chosen name is quite bad for google ranking because not meaningful: not indicating the nature of business nor the location (city).
I would like her to buy two new domains:
businessname-business-type-city.com
businessnamebusinesstypecity.com
is that still ok with google? I was doing that some years ago and ranked first on the search.
You can get as many domain names as you want, and set up the DNS to point to the ip of playword. But don't think it would be worth it, and no guarantee it would generate more hits.. Google search take location in consideration, so you're probably best of branding playword, and generate buzz in other ways; social media, flyers, many Google ads, and sponsored posts on Facebook
And be sure to have good semantics on your page
If the domain name is the name of the business then it is meaningful. Value of keywords in domain names has been diminished in recent times. Market the business, not the domain name. (And google local business results will help)
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In our website we want to launch country specific domains. so which one is preferred over another like add-on, parked domains or anything that i don't know.
our requirements is quite simple we want to publish country specific domain but the contents are mostly same except some price changes and unique features and/or languages for particular countries. so to take advantage of maintainability we want to use code from single directory in whatever choice we select.
right now we are in impression that we should go with add-on domain but i think we can also accomplish our requirements by using parked domains and detecting from which country domain the user is came from and render content accordingly.
Why not just go with a sub-folder like domain.com/us (for US for example) or maybe even a subdomain (us.domain.com [again, for the US version]) as explained here? Much better and cheaper alternative IMO than buying dozens of country-specific TLDs...
Scenario
I am working on a web application assume it www.abc.com which having a profile for all users
www.abc.com/username
and all users have a dashboard for controlling their profiles
Requirement
i have one analytics profile for www.abc.com but my requirement is
a to show stats to all users on their dashboard
can i get this by google analytics API
Visits
demographics
all traffic source
and keywords
i have integrated reporting by API on one of my project but that is for the domain . i am not sure for my requirement.
Resource-guru.com, what you can do is to pull all the data with page path dimension included, and then simply filter the results if the username string is found in the page path.
As for the second part of your question - you can get:
visits (metric)
traffic sources as well as keywords (dimensions, but remember (not provided) might make this useless report)
you can NOT get demographics data via API.
Hope this helps.
You can use the API to do this but remember your going to have an issue with the fact that you can only make 10k requests per day per view (profile).
The Demographics report displays age and gender. Those dimensions can be found under the Audience - Dimensions & Metrics Reference
ga:visitorAgeBracket
ga:visitorGender
ga:interestOtherCategory
ga:interestAffinityCategory
Traffic Source is just really just a mix up of ga:sourceMedium , ga:campaign maybe a few others depending on what information you want to display.
You may have issues with Keywords because due to ssl and trying to keep user info private Google has stopped recording this sometimes you get (not provided). But you can get that information from webmaster tools. Its just hard to merge it with your GA data then.
Keyword: The keywords that visitors searched are usually captured in
the case of search engine referrals. This is true for both organic and
paid search. Note, however, that when SSL search is employed, Keyword
will have the value (not provided).
I'm interested in finding an API (or even a website that I could screen scrape) that would let me find out popular websites used in a geographical area.
For example, I'd like to be able to do a call like so:
getWebsitesUsedByPeopleNear(latitude, longtitude, maxDistanceAwayInKm, fromDate, toDate)
and it would return a list of websites like so:
http://www.google.com
...
By popular, I mean that sites have a high # of hits over a certain time period, where the hits are coming from people in the above described zone (lat,long,maxDistanceAwayInKm)
EDIT: I think ISP's, Analytics collectors, and browser extensions would all be able to get this type of data. For example, Alexa shows some of this type of data, but not at the level of detail I'd be interested in. There's appears to be too "global", and at a country level. I'd like to see it at a city level.
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/CA
The only people that would have such precise information are the providers of the websites itself. Even if there was such a service (I know none) it would be depending on all the companies who host websites giving away the data. I highly doubt that this would be the case, which makes any information you get unrepresentative.
I want to know the page rank for certain key words against my page. For example I wrote "best movies 2012" my page does come, but in 30th to 50th page. I want to query in the result set Google gave against my keywords so that I can see the rank of my page and my competitors against typical keywords.
I think you may be confusing PageRank with positions. PageRank is an algorithm that Google uses to determine the authority of your site. This doesn't always affect the positions of certain keywords.
There are plenty of good programs and web services around that you can use such as
http://raventools.com/
Most of the good free web services have been closed down due to Google now limiting the amount of searches performed and charging for this data.
You could check out:
http://www.semrush.com
It's free but you have to register to get data.
There are several web services providing this functionality: http://raventools.com/ or http://seomoz.org/
Or, you can perform the task manually. Here is an example on how to query google search using Java: How can you search Google Programmatically Java API
You need to compare your webpage PageRank and website PR against those of the competition. The best indication we have of website PR is the HomePage PagRank.
Ensure that you do this for the appropriate Google domain - USA - Google.com - UK Google.co.uk etc
The technique is described in more detail on http://www.keywordseopro.com
You can repeat the technique for each keyword.
I have a client who over the years has managed to get their product to the top of Google for many different search terms. They're adamant that the new site shouldn't have a detrimental effect to their google ranking.
The site will be replacing the site that is on there current domain, as well as going up on to 5 further domains.
Will any of this lose the client there current ranking on google?
Google re-ranks the sites it has regularly. If the site changes, the ranking very well could... if more or fewer people link to it or if the terms on the site (the content) is different.
The effect might be good or bad, but uploading different content isn't going to make their rank go away overnight or anything like that.
Page Rank is most about incoming links. So if the incoming links won't be broken page rank will not be affected that much.
Though, overall ranking is not just Page Rank, so... further discussion is needed
if they retain current link structure they should be fine