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        • TheUniqueSEO
          TheUniqueSEO last edited by

          Hi Guys

          I just spotted in the Google Analytics > Traffic Sources > Search Engine Optimisation > Queries section a keyword that on the 27th Feb went from generating 35 impressions per day to 2000 impressions per day.

          This was down to people searching for a newly launched product.

          Does anyone know how I can identify any increases like this easily?  I only came across this by accident, and I am 1 month behind the times.  It would have been ideal to pick this up closer to the time so I could capitalise and write some great content on the topic.

          Thanks

          Paul

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          • MattAntonino
            MattAntonino @TheUniqueSEO last edited by

            I totally dorked up the cells in step 9 - I fixed that in my answer above.

            As far as the Step 10 - 11 thing, I don't think I did.  I think you skipped the second half of step 10. 😉  Here's my original text, with bold.


            1. Highlight the cells from H1 to H12.  Grab the black square in the bottom right of the border box.  Drag this selection down all the way to H2000.  **Copy all your cells from A1 to H2000 and paste values to remove any formulas.  We want just text now.  **

            ---------------------

            Instead of copying and paste values for Column H, I just said do the whole thing.  At this point you only want text so it makes sense.  I was going to edit but I think the correct step is already in there.

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            • MattAntonino
              MattAntonino @TheUniqueSEO last edited by

              😄  I'm glad you liked the answer.  Sometimes it's difficult to take the time to write up a long answer like that but once in awhile it just happens and comes out.  I had a feeling others may like being able to mess with that sort of data so why not, right? 🙂

              I'll write it up soon - I think I may do a bit on "playing with your food data in Excel."

              I'm going to go make a few edits to my post so it has all the right steps.  Thanks!  I see that I messed up my Bs and Hs.  After awhile I think I lost track of typing up each step and tried to recreate in my head what I had done. lol

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              • TheUniqueSEO
                TheUniqueSEO @MattAntonino last edited by

                Excellent, did it, got data, very happy.

                Just incase anyone else comes across this there is 1 correction to the above, and 1 missing step:

                1. To match keywords to their change line, follow this specifically.  In H4, type =B1  This should now say your keyword.  Manually type in a few of these, so go to B8 and insert the formula =B5, then do the same with B12.  The formula is =B9.  You should see three keywords in Column H.

                should be

                1. To match keywords to their change line, follow this specifically.  In H4, type =B1  This should now say your keyword.  Manually type in a few of these, so go to H8 and insert the formula =B5, then do the same with H12.  The formula is =B9.  You should see three keywords in Column H.

                So you only put this formula in Column H, referencing column B.

                Then, between Step 10 and 11 you need to copy column H and do Paste Values, otherwise when you sort in step 11 you will end up with #REF errors.

                This has yielded some excellent data for me to slice and dice.

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                • TheUniqueSEO
                  TheUniqueSEO @MattAntonino last edited by

                  WOW!

                  That is the most detailed response I have seen in a Q&A.  Thanks for going to so much detail.

                  Definitely write this up as a YouMoz, as I have a feeling this would be a great interest to a lot of people, and could well get promoted to the main blog.

                  Right, I'm off to fire up Analytics and Excel and see what I can see.

                  This truly is brilliant.  Thanks so much.

                  Keri, thanks for the heads up on the alerts blog post.  I have used alerts, but for some reason I just didn't think to use these to identify changing trends in keyword usage.  So I will give this a look also.

                  Thanks Guys

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                  • KeriMorgret
                    KeriMorgret @MattAntonino last edited by

                    Ahh, the problem is that the OP changed jobs, and the new person removed those custom alerts. I hadn't realized that until just now. Thanks for letting me know, and I'll see if we can do anything to get it fixed.

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                    • MattAntonino
                      MattAntonino @KeriMorgret last edited by

                      Thanks for the endorsement Keri! Appreciate that.

                      From the post you linked - it doesn't look like the Grab It link works with the new Analytics.  Those are great alerts to setup but maybe someone can write up a 2013 version.

                      TY!

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                      • KeriMorgret
                        KeriMorgret @MattAntonino last edited by

                        Awesome response here! I'd also like to add we did have a great YouMoz post two years ago about essential alerts for GA that would email you when certain events happened. It's at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/7-essential-google-intelligence-custom-alerts-that-keep-me-sane.

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                        • MattAntonino
                          MattAntonino last edited by

                          Sure, you mostly care about ones that have already jumped up in impressions or clicks, right? I'm going to be very specific on the steps but this isn't as hard as it looks.


                          1. Go to Traffic Sources > Search Engine Optimization > Queries

                          2. Select a date range and then use "Compare to" and use "Previous Period."

                          3. Set Show Rows to 500.

                          4. Sort the table by Impressions.

                          5. Copy all the data from the table starting from "1. keyword" and finishing with the end of the table (last change%).  Paste this data directly into Excel. You should have columns A-F used, it'll look very messy.  Something like the attached "sorting1.jpg"

                          6. Find & Replace "% Change" with "Change"

                          7. In Column G put this formula:  =IF(LEFT(B1,6)="Change","Yes!","")  Copy this formula from G1 to G2000.  Every line that says "Change" should now say "Yes!" at the end.

                          8. Copy column G and use "Paste Values" to remove the formula and leave only the "Yes!" in place.

                          9. To match keywords to their change line, follow this specifically.  In H4, type =B1  This should now say your keyword.  Manually type in a few of these, so go to H8 and insert the formula =B5, then do the same with H12.  The formula is =B9.  You should see three keywords in Column H.

                          10. Highlight the cells from H1 to H12.  Grab the black square in the bottom right of the border box.  Drag this selection down all the way to H2000.  Copy all your cells from A1 to H2000 and paste values to remove any formulas.  We want just text now.

                          You should see a list of keywords in column H now, every 4 cells or so.  Check Sorting2 attached.  The rest is very simple.

                          1. Sort by Column G, Sort by Values, Z to A.  This should be looking valuable now.

                          2. Delete Rows 501-2000.  All rows should be "Yes!" now.

                          3. Delete Columns A, B and G.  Feel free to move Column E to Column A if it makes you feel better. 🙂

                          4. Insert a new Row 1 at the very top.  Label each like this:

                          Cell A1: Impressions

                          Cell B1: Clicks

                          Cell C1: Avg Pos.

                          Cell D1: CTR

                          Cell E1: Keyword

                          1. Highlight Row A and push View > Freeze Panes > Freeze Top Row.  Highlight all the data, press Ctrl T to create a Table.  Now you can easily sort any row and sort through your data.  See sorting3.jpg attached.

                          It's really not as complex as it looks.  Just use the two formulas, follow the steps and boom, sortable and pretty data.

                          (I may write this up as a YouMoz post with better screenshots, maybe a video tutorial or something, so thanks for giving us the chance to help!)

                          sorting1.jpg sorting2.jpg sorting3.jpg

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                          • Bryan_Loconto
                            Bryan_Loconto last edited by

                            The fact that you went from generating 35 impressions per day to 2000 impressions per day, could mean that one of your pages is on the first page of a SERP that has high traffic. However, that can also mean that it is in the last spot and not driving any conversion.

                            To find out the keyword go to secondary dimension and select: Traffic sources > Keywords

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