Welcome back. You’ve made it to part three, where we’re going to start having a bit of fun with the R language and SEO data. Hopefully the first couple of parts gave you a bit of a grounding in the basics, how to use R packages and how to get Google Analytics and Search Console data in R. Today, we’re going to do some simple visualisation work on that data using the GGPlot2 … [Read more...] about R For SEO Part 3: Data Visualisation With GGPlot2 & Wordcloud
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R For SEO Part 2: Packages, Google Analytics & Search Console With R
Hello and welcome to part two of my series on using the R programming language for SEO. Hopefully you enjoyed part one and are raring to go with today’s piece. Today, we’re going to be looking at R packages and as an example, we’re going to be using packages to directly pull in data from Google Analytics and Google Search Console. That’s right, no more downloading CSV exports … [Read more...] about R For SEO Part 2: Packages, Google Analytics & Search Console With R
R For SEO Part 1: The Basics
The R programming language has lots of benefits for SEOs, but it just doesn’t get as much love in the space as Python. I get it. The barrier to entry is a little higher and there are some things that you can do with Python or other languages that R is just not built for, but when it comes to analysis of chunky datasets or common SEO analytical functions, R can do it just as … [Read more...] about R For SEO Part 1: The Basics
Keyword & Topic Clustering For SEO With R
Keyword and topic clustering for SEO has been a hot topic for years, but one of the things I’ve noticed is that there’s been a distinct lack of discussion around how to actually do it. There’s just been a torrent of theory and a handful of (rather expensive) tools which say they’ll do it for you. With that in mind, I thought I’d spend a bit of time putting together a really … [Read more...] about Keyword & Topic Clustering For SEO With R
Bulk Resizing Images With R & Magick
I recently had to resize an awful lot of images for a client’s site in order to improve their load time. The site is very image heavy, but some of these images were over 6mb, which has serious ramifications for SEO and general user experience, especially on mobile. In today’s post, I’m going to take you through the solution I came up with, using R to resize the images to … [Read more...] about Bulk Resizing Images With R & Magick