Google Analytics displays Image Search as “Refering Sites”, not “Search Engine”. Since I have quite some traffic coming from Image Search I really wanted to know what keywords people were using. Internet Marketing Insight has a great solution that will do exactly that. (I never got other solutions that did the URL rewriting in Javascript to work…)

But you can make this script even more useful by adding country-specific referers (like “images.google.com”, “images.google.de”, etc.). Just add the individual hosts with the specific TLD to the Analytics script:

pageTracker._addOrganic("images.google.com", "prev");
pageTracker._addOrganic("images.google.de", "prev");
pageTracker._addOrganic("images.google", "prev");


This will display the specific TLDs individually in Analytics and catch all the rest under “images.google”.

So, schon vor ein paar Moanten habe ich in der Charity Auktion von Paul (SEO Munich) ein paar tolle Mediadonis Merchandise Artikel zugunsen der Münchner Tafel ersteigert.

While browsing the keyword phrases of the new website of a customer, I was really, really buffled by one certain result. of course this customer didn’t target this keyword in any way and no page contains this term. I can’t find any related incoming links too.

It’s not much traffic, but probably I should 301 this page to a dedicated site, which offers the searches what they are looking for

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With all the current Social Media Optimization Hype you might miss out on one social media site, that might really matter for your future SERP Rankings. Does your website feature a “Add to Google Bookmarks” button? Google Bookmarks is of course nothing else but Big-G’s clone of del.icio.us With the other current hype in mind, which is of course personalized search, having as much visitors as possible telling Google that your website is worthy of bookmarking should be obvious. Setting up a link is easy:

Add to Google Bookmarks
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&title=Onlinenerd24&bkmk=http://www.onlinenerd24.de&labels=nerdfun,nerdblog,%20blog%20&annotation=News%20aus%20der%20shell%20f%C3%BCr%20alle%20Onlinenerds

Format a link to http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark and add the following urlencoded parameters:

op=add

title=Title of your page

bkmk=URL to bookmark

labels=Tags to label your bookmark

annotation=Annotation to the bookmark

After clicking this link, the user either has to log in to his Google Account or is immediatly prompted with a form, where he can review the data and finally add the bookmark. I haven’t figured out, if there is a way to diretly add the bookmark, without this intermediate form. This would be nice.

I use this feature on some of my pages, especially on pages that require a membership. Members, who signed up to my services and probably even pay for this seem to love the ability to get “easier” access to the websites by adding it to their bookmarks. I think people tend to see it as a nice service, when you offer this simple feature.