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Google Search Console Monthly Performance Emails in SQL Tutorial

At the beginning of every month, Google Search Console sends out its Monthly Search Performance email to site owners. Each month I receive this email, I’m reminded of two things: 1) My site’s performance doesn’t really change much, and 2) These statistics are a great way to demonstrate how to write SQL for the Google …

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Longtail Query Analysis in BigQuery using Levenshtein Distance

A few days ago, Cyrus Shepard posted an example about using Levenshtein distance to compute the similarity or dissimilarity (aka the edit distance) between two strings. His example showed how to apply Levenshtein distance in Google Sheets in the context of written content, but it inspired me to demonstrate another common application: query similarity.  Since …

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The two steps in Dataform execution: Javascript, then SQL statements

Understanding SQLX and Javascript in Dataform

When you think of “programming languages for data,” Javascript probably doesn’t even make the list. Yet, if you’re using Dataform, it’s almost impossible to avoid. As you’ll learn in this article, Dataform is Javascript all the way down. Even SQLX files that you write are pretty much just Javascript files under the covers. So shed …

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Google Search Console to BigQuery: The Complete Guide to GSC Bulk Export

You may have heard the hype about integrating Google Search Console and Google BigQuery using the new Bulk Export feature. If you’re like me, you recognize the power of analyzing SEO data with SQL or the BI tool of your choice (you’ve probably heard of Looker and Looker Studio.) Or you might be thinking to …

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