I agree JamesR - averaging CTR when the universal search changes serps from query to query and brand vs generic queries becomes meaningless as the numbers are overly smoothed.

I only ever use them for budgeting and trying to get more money to spend...a heavily caveated explanatory tool.

ahem...to that last sentence.

Who says it is an Asu gaming domain....? That'd be too obvious!

I should be Catholic with the amount of guilt I feel. It's all wasted on me.

Forgot about Hugo - glad your still memory works.

Haven't been here for a while and feeling guilty for it...

Gertie - those reminder emails are working.

Folks,

Need to value a domain and although Sedo is first to mind has anyone used anyone else who they'd recommend?

Thanks

Thanks Gurtie.

Yes, an intro would be great. Cost not necessarily an issue. I am just looking at GA because it is already there.

Um. Not sure about the local people here. Unless someone at Th3Core knows someone in Melbourne/Sydney? Experience thus far is that the expertise isn't here yet. Online not at same stage as UK.

Thanks all. Much appreciated.

Great list Drastic.

I've been playing with them all and reckon I can get most of what I need with minimal fiddle. A task for Friday afternoon...

Few questions here...

I'm researching this in order to set it up - we don't have any systems in place bar Analytics and even that isn't implemented properly (task #1 at the moment). I'm responsible for all online acquisition and want to set things up with best foundation I can.

This means I have an open field for technology. Anyone set this up for scratch before?

Any pitfalls I need to be careful of?

Analytics' new attribution feature looks to be the winner at the moment simply down to cost, ease of implementation (once I have sorted that bit out) and we already have GA but I can't envisage GA's product being that flexible.

Has anyone had access to the beta and used it?

Can anyone recommend an alternative to Domain Tools to create a list of domains a company owns?

Ultimately need a solution for more than one company but every journey starts with a single step and all that.

Domains Tools too costly and manually is out of the question...

I'm with 4Eyes on this one - I've found providing a report with a singular review of ranking has meant spending time fielding questions like: 'then why can't I see that on my computer?'.

Rankings checking is useful as an alert or after the fact as part of an analysis of success/failures but I'd always want to couple it with traffic analysis and tie to conversions...if I can join up the data!

great vids.

it took half the first video before I realised they don't have matching warts on their foreheads....