While these tests were largely informal and consisting of a small sample size, they are still interesting to note. Local U and Ethical SEO Consulting had a combined sample of 112 respondents in their separate experiments.
While this clever application has helped close the loop between exposure and sales, sample size constraints can sometimes get in the way of performing more granular analysis. However, new applications that integrate big data sources into...
Those are things for which sample size trumps personal connections in revealing product quality. Are my 766 friends a large enough sample from which to mine that plumber recommendation, or the dermatologist I'm searching for?
Why this is good for SEO: The sample page and post “Hello World” is less problematic for SEO, but more important to remove for user experience. If you want to have better sample content you can download the WP Example Content plugin by Josh Ferrara...
When you're running sample pages for all given template types, make sure to check how many outbound links are on the page for all given template types. This can be done a number of ways, but some strategies include reducing the size of banners...
While panel data can be quite valuable given a large enough sample size, in practice panels are very expensive to maintain, which limits the depth and breadth of data that these firms can afford to provide and often renders panel data prone to...
On February 6, 2013 I noticed that over half of the links that once appeared in a client’s WMT backlink sample had “disappeared. It looks like Google may have recently reduced that sampling size. The worst time to conduct a link audit is when you...
Take the past 30 days as the sample size, so you can compare the monthly increase in profits you could generate. In the case of this example, we’ll focus on the following four sample tactics that tie into the bigger goal of maximizing profits from...
For more information on the methodology, sample size or data used by any one company, please click through to read their full report (where available). Each holiday, it gets more difficult to decipher the various reports we receive, as more and...
We found that, even by looking at a small sample of just the retail, financial services, and technology verticals, brands are leaving upwards of $112 million in unrealized sales on the table. Again, this is just a small sample of opportunity across...
Some good quality SEO agencies may choose to provide a representative sample of links placed if they have managed to place a number within a given time, so as to reduce time spent reporting or focus reports more on results than method.
Here's a sample file: The file size is limited to 2MB. The long-awaited Google Disavow Links Tool is now available. Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced the new Google Webmaster Tools feature today during his PubCon keynote, urging...
Page attention to the Page Load Sample, which reports the number of times Google has crawled this page to get the Average Page Load Time. A sample of one or two could be easily skewed by one slow day.
Too few and you don't get a big enough sample size; too many and it takes too long to sift through submissions. Publishing value-driven, quality content on your site is a major key to SEO success. And with the recent rollouts of Panda and Penguin...
A random sample is a sample chosen that allows all subjects an equal probability of being selected. For example, if you run an email test and send it to 5,000 people and your success metrics is clicks on the email, the volume you need to achieve...
While our sample size of 100 won't win any academic research awards, it should give us a sense of a user’s online information retrieval behaviors. Facebook is reportedly working on vastly improving what has long been poor search functionality on...
With this sample size, the resulting analysis should give us a good sense of how websites implement internal anchor text. Even with the ongoing changes taking place in the SERPs, SEOs still rate anchor text as the most important of all ranking...
Their sample size is far larger, at 3,500 pages, so I’m tempted to buy into this one a bit more. When studies come out this way – on a hot topic, with different methodologies and sample sizes, almost always by companies with a vested interest in...
It must be noted that this study has been criticized due to the small sample size, the fact that many of these sites have been showcased by Facebook as launch partners or sample case studies, and other variables (e.g.
Slingshot SEO and SpyFu also threw their hats in the ring; Slingshot in an examination of a slightly larger keyword sample size and SpyFu with a historical look at Wikipedia rankings over the last five years.
