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Helping government find user needs with analytics

Posted by: Lana Gibson, Posted on: 12 August 2014 - Categories: Data, User research
Helping government find user needs with analytics

Over the last couple of months we’ve run search engine optimisation and analytics workshop sessions for content designers in government departments and agencies.

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Insights into site search

Posted by: Tara Stockford, Posted on: 24 June 2013 - Categories: Data, User research

Last week, Roo Reynolds wrote about how we’ve been improving site search on GOV.UK. Throughout the past couple of months we’ve been analysing our search data to find out more about how people are searching the site. Here are some …

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How we've been improving site search on GOV.UK

Posted by: Roo Reynolds, Posted on: 11 June 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

In the past few weeks, a small team in the Government Digital Service has been working to make significant improvements to site search on GOV.UK. When GOV.UK came out of beta in October 2012, replacing the Directgov and Business Link …

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Search rankings with Google Spreadsheets

Posted by: Tara Stockford, Posted on: 12 April 2013 - Categories: Data

As one of the product analysts for GOV.UK, search is my main focus. Recently I built a handy tool to get an overview of Google search results, to help us review and optimise our content. I thought it was worth …

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