When you need to analyse data in Google Analytics , one of the frustrating things is the ability to only export a maxium of 500 rows. If you are like me a need to analyse data ranges larger than 500 rows, then you could be there for an age pulling the data out 500 rows at  a time.

There is actually a fix for this which allows you to export up to 50,000 rows (although you still only see 500 rows in the Google Analytics browser view). Simply paste the following to the end of the url, “&limit=50000”. Now export the results to a .CSV file and see the results.

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There has been a lot of talk over the last few days about Google showing full page views in search results and today we are seeing this rolled out officially. As mentioned by Patrick at Blogstorm yesterday, Google announced that they will be rolling out previews over the next few days, and we are already seeing the results:

Its only appearing across a few search queries currently, and actually looks good for sites that have a design that fits with the preview option. Some sites have also gained an advantage with an additional pop-up being captured in the preview, see below for lastminute.com:

Has anyone else seen this appearing today?

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Marks and Spencer not ranking for their brand term?

November 9, 2010

Its not my first stop when buying online, but when my wife asked me to check some xmas present ideas on M&S I was surprised with the results in Google.  It’s strange to see that the main Marks and Spencer ecommerce site does not currently rank for any brand terms?

All the other sites such as M&S Money, [...]

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Google enters Flights Comparison – so what’s next in travel?

July 8, 2010

Last week we had the announcement from Google that they had reached an agreement to acquire ITA, a travel reservations software company based in Boston, for $700 million. At this stage Google are only entering the flights market, with ITA only focusing on airlines, not hotels or car hire. But flights are the perfect stepping stone into [...]

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Google offers long tail search links for location keywords

May 14, 2010

In their quest to provide the ultimate search experience, Google have added another new feature to the SERPs. Since Google has made the recent changes to its interface, some additional links have appeared just below the map when you perform a local keyword search.
When searching for restaurants for example, you would add a modifier such as “London restaurants”,  but for the larger [...]

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Women are using social mobile more than men!

March 12, 2010

Did you know that women are using mobile more than men for social networking? Research by Nielson indicates that women were found to use their mobile phones to send tweets and network with friends 10% more than men.

The research also displayed that of all the age groups the 35-54 age group had the most active mobile social networkers.
Smartphones are really starting to have [...]

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Social media overtaking search engines in Australian search

January 22, 2010

Recently Hitwise reported that social media was on the rise in Australia, and they were predicting that social media would overtake search engines in visits by Christmas 09.  This did in fact happen, and although this was not sustained as highlighted in the graph below, it certainly highlights the impact social media is having on search.
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Facebook and Youtube seem to [...]

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