Glowleaf.net X-rayed

Sep 18

Glowleaf.net X-rayed

As I mentioned in the previous post, I will analyze the data from this blog, in order to show you how I do an analysis for a client, and how you can learn to do the same for your sites by example.

And, no, I am not ashamed to post the real data here. Why should I be? Most of the SEO data can be seen externally, and I am not ashamed to post my measly traffic stats neither.

Please note, this is not the SEO analysis, it’s the data analysis of the traffic, its origin, and behaviour.

But, since SEO is quite important, lets devote a paragraph on it to take it out of the picture.

The site glowleaf.net has:

Domain age: 2004
PageRank: 3
Indexed pages G:128 Y:199 M:85
Links G:11 Y:653 M:0
Technorati authority 199
Technorati rank 22,922

All quite normal up to now. MSN never shows much anyway, so no need to bother. Almost 80% of the pages are indexed, and all exist in the supplemental index. Except linkbuilding, there is not much we can do for seo.

But then we have this table of incoming links from Google Webmaster Tools:

Page			External links
All pages (total links)			855
http://www.glowleaf.net/			851
http://www.glowleaf.net/famous-failures/			1
http://www.glowleaf.net/google-black-hole-the-lite-version/			2
http://www.glowleaf.net/oldest-domains-on-the-net/			1
All pages (total links)			855

Oh, this is bad. Sure, 855 incoming links are all fine, but there are almost none to the internal pages. We can squeeze out some information out of this.

This means, that we have no “popular” page, a page that you are quite known for. What do I mean? Take for example Bluehat Seo Empire post, or the Wickedfire Skittles thread, or Yoast’s Wordpress SEO guide.

Most popular sites, have similarly popular pages like the above. I had it in the back of my mind to create something like that, and this popped up unexpectedly, my TLA vs TNX review got popular.

I did want to make something like that, but this one happened by accident. The page got links from various fora, but the Google Webmaster Tools have not updated yet. Of course, it still has a long way to go regarding popularity, but its something.

So, how do we fix our deeplinking problem? One simple way is to simply submit every article we write on social bookmarking services. I do that anyway, and as you see, they don’t show on the table above.

Another way is to use Bluehat SEO’s Pingcrawl Plugin. It creates deeplinks on every one of your posts. I am using it now, the deeplinks will take some time to show up.

The obvious way is to build links to our internal pages, but I am a “fire and forget” person…

Next post will be on traffic analysis.

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