Using Google Analytics 
and Webmaster Tools to 
improve your website
Since last month 
WordPress 4.0
Since last month 
Authorship has gone away
Since last month 
I picked up a Chromebox
Since last month 
We moved to Teamwork
Since last month 
Gonna get an Apple Watch?
Next month on October 16 
Backing up, updating and restoring your 
WordPress site
On November 20 
Cindy Miller: Writing for the web
What we’ll cover today 
• High-level overview of Google/SEO 
• Google Analytics 
• Google Webmaster Tools 
• Tracking down a traffic spike 
• Technical SEO
What we won’t cover today 
• Keyword research 
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High-level overview of SEO
How Google was born
Links are votes
Google doesn’t search the internet
Indexing
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SEO is like...
SEO is like...
The rules aren’t changing
SEO lag
Google Analytics
www.google.com/analytics
Google Analytics by Yoast
Choose your date range
Compare dates
Custom Dashboards
Real Time → Overview
Audience → Overview for the past 30 days
Monthly overview for past 12 mo
Compare to previous year
Audience → Geo → Location
Audience → Mobile → Overview
Acquisition → Overview
Acquisition → All Referrals
Acquisition → Keywords → Organic
Filtering out branded keywords
Filtering out branded keywords
Filtering out branded keywords
Acquisition → Social → Network Referrals
Acquisition → Search Engine → Queries
Setting up segments
Add Segment
New Segment
Hide semalt sourced traffic
Now you can compare them
Google Webmaster Tools
www.google.com/webmasters/tools
Confirm your site: Five options 
1. HTML file upload 
2. HTML tag 
3. Domain name provider 
4. Google Analytics 
5. Google Tag Manager
Google Webmaster Tools
Search Traffic → Search Queries
Search Traffic → Links to Your Site
Search Traffic → Links → More
Google Index → Index Status
Crawl → Crawl Stats
Crawl → Sitemaps
Tracking down a traffic spike
Big spike on July 3
Acquisition → Overview
So what happened?
So what happened?
Make note of that
Make note of that
Technical SEO
Speed 
tools.pingdom.com
1597 lines • 1.6 MB 
423 lines • 0.5 MB
Optimize images
Optimize images
Mobile 
ami.responsivedesign.is
Mobile 
2012 2013 2014
Canonicalization and redirects 
GreenMellenMedia.com 
GreenMellen.com 
GreenMellenMedia.org 
GreenMellonMedia.com 
GreenMelonMedia.com 
→ www.GreenMellenMedia.com
EMDs and URL Structure
Next month on October 16 
Backing up, updating and restoring your 
WordPress site

Using Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools to improve your site