Introducing Concentrate for Long Tail Search Analytics

We are pleased thrilled to introduce Concentrate™, an innovative long-tail search analytics tool. Concentrate is for SEO and paid search professionals who want to make sense of search keyword data and make the most of search investments.

Check out the demo here. Or try out the free version here (you’ll need admin access to a Google Analytics account).

We built Concentrate because we saw a fundamental conflict in the world of search analysis: On the one hand, search keyword data is terrifically interesting and valuable. It can tell you what your visitors and customers want and how they think about you and your products.

Juice Analytics keywords

Unfortunately, search query data is also big, messy, and hard to get your hands around. In a typical month, the Juice site gets over 10,000 visits from over 7,000 unique keywords.

Even if I could somehow wrap my head around our top 100 keywords, I’d only understand 25% of the visits. For people spending money on search engine optimization or paid search campaigns, that’s a big blind-spot to accept.

We want you to understand and act on all your search data. Concentrate ingests data from sources that most sites already have available (e.g Google Analytics, Omniture, Coremetrics, Hitwise, Compete, etc.), enhances this data by finding common patterns and query types, and visualizes search phrases for exploration and analysis.

Over the next couple of weeks, we will share examples of some of the interesting things you can do with Concentrate, including:

Pattern identification to condense the long tail into keyword phrases with similar structures. For example, here are some common search patterns from a cooking web site (the “[x]” represents a wildcard).

Patterns

Keyword visualization to show the connections between keywords and the relative performance of phrases. This wordtree shows the frequency of words within phrases (size) and average time spent on site (color).

Wordtree

Congratulations to Chris, Pete, and Sal for all their hard work, diligence, and creative problem solving to launch this solution.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. All source code is released under a BSD License unless otherwise specified.

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January 10, 2009
Daniel Waisberg said:

Looks amazing, I will implement it and start working for my own website. I think that for search marketing / SEO companies this will be a killer tool. It can add a huge value!


January 12, 2009
Bjoern Sjut said:

Hi,

has there already been testing with foreign languages? I could volunteer to integrate it with a German content heavy site to test the behaviour on umlauts, etc.


January 12, 2009
Bjoern Sjut said:

Oh, I can shed a light on this already: My most important keywords for our German sites are "error#" and "unicode error#" :-(


January 12, 2009
Pete Skomoroch said:

Bjoern,

Thanks for the feedback. I just fixed that unicode error for you and reloaded your list. Concentrate should run without errors on foreign languages, but some of the text processing components (stopwords, stemming, etc) are only fully supported in English at the moment. Let me know how the new results look and we will work on incorporating more international features.


February 27, 2009
Pauli Price said:

On the final validation stage, where I entered the bounce rate for my first keyword, the application met with an un handled exception because it couldn't find the google analytics keyword file. Perhaps because there were spaces in my site name? Unfortunately it also spit out all kinds of diagnostic information you probably don't want the casual observer to see. You really want to trap that unless the login is a privileged account.

Anyway, help doesn't go to a help screen or anything - it appears that clicking on 'help' brings one to the account page, so I figured I'd post my tale of woe here.

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