Google Analytics Archives — Search Engine Marketing Chicago, Inc.

What the scourge of referrer spam means to you

March 24, 2015April 27, 2017 by Gary Sigman

Gary Sigman

For a long time it was true that the more traffic that your website got the better. No more. Not exactly. Coders have been spoofing Google Analytics accounts to make it appear that visits are coming from what seems to be a never-ending list of websites. These “visits” are fake.…

Online marketing overview 2013

July 9, 2014April 27, 2017 by Gary Sigman

Gary Sigman

Online marketing overview: The state of SEO, PPC, SMM and SEM

Search engine marketing factors 2013

August 29, 2013April 27, 2017 by Gary Sigman

Gary Sigman

Where is your website traffic coming from?

August 15, 2011November 26, 2014 by Gary Sigman

Gary Sigman

Recently a client asked me what was the cause in a large spike of traffic to his website. By looking into his Google Analytic stats I saw that there was one day on which search traffic for the name of his company jumped. This is an example of validation, a…

Are you benefitting from the increase in mobile traffic?

November 15, 2010November 26, 2014 by Gary Sigman

Gary Sigman

We are seeing an ever-increasing amount of traffic to the websites that we monitor from iPhones, Droids, and Blackberries, and predict that there will be an increase in Windows 7 Mobile access. We have also seen websites from clients, prospective clients, and competitors that really don't show up on mobile at…