Web analytics, written for people who have to make the number hold up in a meeting.
Scraping is one of those skills that stayed relevant while everything else got hyped. The tools changed a lot in the last 2 years though. If you learned Python the standard way, you know requests, BeautifulSoup and Selenium, the typical course libraries. That trio still works but it’s no longer the best starting point for … Read more
Despite all the noise in the SEO industry, LLM visibility/traffic is a reality and something we need to study and consider. The question that matters is whether this data can actually improve your LLM positioning. The answer is yes but there are a lot of caveats and details to consider to understand how AI systems … Read more
Build a GA4 + GSC pipeline in Dataform step by step. Sources, staging, marts, incremental tables and assertions, with copy-paste code. No data engineer required.
Hermes Agent is the real beast of automation right now and it’s super underrated with Web Data. Imagine being able to run entire workflows and tasks like scraping or content management or reporting from your palm. This is now possible, especially if you have done the setup described in my previous article about having n8n … Read more
Setting up n8n on a VPS to run it self-hosted while saving money and having unlimited workflows for Web Analytics use cases.
SEO work has always been based on data but now it’s even more striking. Understanding data and being able to analyze SEO data independently is one of greatest perks you can ask for. Any professional, not just marketers, can earn more and get more things done with data and IT skills. Sure, you are not … Read more
There are several ways to access Google Search Console data: UI, API and BigQuery Bulk Export. All of them use different criteria to sample and aggregate data, causing discrepancies and results that don’t always match. You should be able to know and explain ALL the discrepancies across the 3 data sources for the success of … Read more
Content Auditing was one of my first struggles when I started doing SEO. Most of the information online is theoretically correct but lacks the depth and actionability we need. For this reason, I’ve prepared this ultimate guide to show you what you can expect from an actual content audit. Google results show techniques and methods … Read more
Small websites also need to have a basic stack for Analytics. Otherwise how are they even supposed to understand their digital business? I show you one of the many alternatives you can choose from, based on my experience. P.S. I tried to simplify the topic and avoid going into too much technical detail. This is … Read more
Google Analytics 4 data modeling is an underrated topic… yet one of the most important things to do if you want a serious Analytics project to succeed. After working with it for quite some time, I will share my learnings with you on how to transform the data so that it’s usable. P.S. I am … Read more
The Analytics world is flooding with AI hype and misinformation. Every day brings new promises: AI will build your dashboards, AI will do all your analysis, AI will replace analysts entirely. It’s nonsense. But here’s what’s not nonsense: LLMs are genuinely useful for specific parts of Analytics work. I’ve spent the last year testing LLMs … Read more
I often talk about managing content but how can we ensure this process is smooth? If you are a professional or own a small website, there is no need to use tools like Airtable or NocoDB. Obsidian is a FREE alternative that I use to handle pretty much all of what I do now. Mind … Read more