Bad bots are affecting web analytics that are based on Javascript tagging. Learn about two ways to combat these user-mimicking spiders. Knowing they’re crawling your site is the first step in limiting their damage.

If distributed attacks on web analytics become common place, those of us doing SEO are in for a world of hurt… After all, how can you prove your worth if your statistics can’t be relied on? But, while painful, botnet analytics hacking really isn’t the end of SEO - let me explain…
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Red text isn’t always bad in Google Analytics. Just because something went down relative to other things, doesn’t mean it’s not improving on it’s own…

Yahoo! is acquiring IndexTools. So, what exactly will be the outcome? Will IndexTools become free? Will it get shut down completely in favor of Gatineau if Yahoo! and Microsoft merge? Let’s hope for the best…

Google Analytics’ new weekly and monthly graphing is a wonderful enhancement. We find that monthly graphs usually smooth the data too much and should be avoid, however the weekly graphing enhances the understanding of trends even on sites with relatively even daily traffic.