James Clark | Technically Product

I'm a freelance web analyst. I also write how-to guides for digital marketing and product people. Find me on BlueSky @technicallyproduct.bsky.social

[James Clark | Technically Product @technicallyprod]

I know this isn't the airport and I don't need to announce my departure... but I'm taking a break from Twitter. Elon Musk's ill-informed and irresponsible comments about the UK have made me uncomfortable being here. Currently I'm checking out BlueSky: https://t.co/XCrsSzCpG3

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@JamesWelbes I'm real people!

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@ryan_murton @kelvmackenzie Most council workers, like binmen, now work for private companies because the work has been outsourced. Your council tax pays for shareholder dividends not workers' pensions

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Struggling to stay on top of developments in technical SEO? I'd recommend taking a look at Tech SEO Tips newsletter. The fact that this week's edition mentions one of my articles only serves to highlight what an excellent resource it is ;)

[Nikki Halliwell @NikkiRHalliwell]

Roll up, roll up for another weekly edition of Tech SEO Tips Newsletter.

This week we explore the importance of Organisation schema and show some tools you can use to help generate your own JSON-LD markup.

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SEO question! I have a client with inbound links to a non-canonical version of a page. Is Google smart enough to attribute the link equity to the canonical version of the page?

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Anyone used the "codeless" ad units in Google Ad Manager (GAM)? Do I still need to define the slot in the Google Publisher Tag, or are they completely codeless?

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Every day's a school day when you're self-employed. Nearly four years in, I've just had to generate my first 'statement of account' for a client. Until now it's just been invoices. Have I levelled up my accounting game?!

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Want to create high-value custom reporting for your clients in GA4? Need to know the difference between reports and explorations? I've got you covered!

[Crystal Carter (she/her) @CrystalontheWeb]

New on @Wix SEO Hub🔥 Customize reports in GA4 to inform clients and secure buy-in https://t.co/TM8nxd3Rvm

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Wrestling with Looker Studio today! Its latest party trick is resetting the date range control every time I add or change a filter...

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@RegSimpkin I have to admit it doesn't make much sense to me. The state pays interest to itself on money that it borrows from itself...?

[James Clark | Technically Product @technicallyprod]

@RegSimpkin A big chunk of those interest payments are made to the Bank of England, which holds gilts (government bonds). The BoE is state-owned so those payments never leave the public sector

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@YellsOnPolitics @0ldoini @JonnElledge Bayeux Twopestry?

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Like all the very best tips, this is blindingly obvious in retrospect! And yet had never occurred to me. Nice one, Chris

[Chris Long @chris_nectiv]

SEO Tip: Want to get around Search Console's 1,000 row limit? Simply create a report in Looker Studio to unlock a lot more query data:

If you manage a site that gets a lot of query data, than Search Console's 1,000 row limit oftentimes isn't enough. While you'll have data about the top queries to your site, you'll lack insights about longer tail & lower competition queries that you could optimize for. As well, you'll be limited in how much data analysis you can do around your entire keyword set.

Fortunately, you can get a lot more query by creating a simple table Looker Studio. Here's how you do it:

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@NeworpK @jrc1921 @HMHB19 I'd nominate this one. "Why should they get benefits and not even have to work?" Seems to be the politics of envy to me

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@KatieKeithBarn2 @alanefuller Could you set up a business phone number using a virtual number? I did that for EEAT (not Google Business) and it's a really cheap option https://t.co/FmC1mgbYvr

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Signed up for a very well known automation service on Friday afternoon using a work email address. Logged back in this morning to find nine emails from them! OK, you automate your email campaigns too, I get it - but everything in moderation please

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@garicgymro Depends on the chocolate. Smarties, Maltesers etc are both chocolate and sweets (candy). A bar of Dairy Milk is chocolate but not sweets.

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B2B publishing and media sites - please consider joining my benchmarking group on Databox! It's free, and will let us see benchmarks for key GA4 and Search Console metrics https://t.co/0TCrzzdd26

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@EJWoolf I think the idea is that you praise specific actions instead. “That was a kind thing to do”. It probably stems from the notion that kids make good/bad choices rather than being intrinsically good/bad themselves

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@Bobby_Dean Any chance of bringing the Go Bus back? That was brilliant