SEO Reporting Groups

Once you configure search engine accounts, you can organize keywords and rules for SEO analysis and reports by setting up reporting groups.

A SEO Reporting Group is a collection of:

Keywords you wish to target for a specific section of your site

Rules to grade and optimize your pages for SEO

Search engine API accounts

Other properties and security settings

For more information, see Creating SEO Reporting Groups in Search Engines/SEO.

Access this option from the Search Engines/SEO section of the Site Administration Dashboard to manage reporting groups. This dialog displays a listing of registered reporting groups along with links to manage various properties.

In this dialog you can:

Create and maintain as many SEO Reporting Groups as you need. Reporting groups are associated with a section of a site, and each Reporting Group typically has its own set of unique keywords that it targets. For example, for a university site, the Alumni group might have a totally different set of keywords to target and track versus the Admissions group. In this case a Reporting Group would be created for each group of targeted keywords, and associated with that portion of the site.

Separately assign security to each Reporting Group, controlling who can create, manage and view SERP reporting and rule results for the list of targeted keywords.

Manage the properties of each Group to determine how often search results tracking should be performed, the API Accounts to utilize to retrieve Google and Bing results, and page grade warnings and other properties.

View the number of keyword targeted within the Reporting Group.

Manage search engine API accounts used by a Reporting Group.

Edit the properties of a reporting group.

Delete a reporting group.

Navigate to the SEO Administration page for the reporting group.

Add new reporting groups.

Note you need to have Site:Manage SEO permissions, or have been assigned Admin permissions for one or more reporting groups to access this dialog.

Click to sort by column head.

Name displays the name assigned in CommonSpot for the keyword reporting group.

Description displays helpful information about the purpose of this keyword group.

Keywords displays the number of keywords in the group. Click an entry in this column, or click the report icon

to display the SEO Administration Dashboard for viewing each of the terms in this keyword group and ranking details for each.

Rank tracking indicates whether you are currently tracking keywords in this group for the named search engine. Yes indicates that this account is active for the reporting group, No indicates that it is inactive. Click through to view or change rank tracking properties for each search engine.

Search engine visit tracking indicates whether you are tracking visits for the named search engine. Click through to view rank tracking properties for each search engine.

Search Engine Accounts lists the number of search engine API accounts created for this reporting group. Click through to view the list of active accounts and API query status.

Actions gives you the following options:

Click the edit icon

to view or change reporting group settings.

Click the gear icon

to view search engines configured for this reporting group.

The report icon

displays the SEO Administration Dashboard for viewing keyword group members and the results of the last report.

Click the security icon

to view or modify security settings for the keyword group. You can limit or extend rights to administer, assign, or manage SEO keywords and rules, and view reports.

Remove individual records by clicking the associated delete icon

Click Add Reporting Group at the bottom of the dialog to create a new group of keywords and criteria for reporting.

CommonSpot includes the Export to Excel option in multiple reports throughout the system so you can conveniently collect and distribute data for import into spreadsheets or other applications that accept comma-separated values. Click this option to display a table of all fields within the current report, then select the fields whose values you want to export and save in spreadsheet or CSV format. Selected fields automatically display as column heads in the CSV output. You also have the option to change column names on the fly to customize your reports.

Related Links

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