Website speed not only affects SEO rankings, it can dramatically impede online sales conversions. There is a correlation between how fast a site loads and visitor interaction with a company’s website. Not convinced? According to Gomez (the web performance division of Compuware), 32% of consumers will abandon sites between 1 and 5 seconds. We’ll share how you can test …
Web Analytics
GA Enhanced Link Attribution
Enhanced link attribution was announced last week for Google Analytics. Since links can dramatically affect SEO ratings, I thought it was important to hit the highlights. But first, let me explain the issues this update solves. Before In-Page Analytics only showed clickthrough info by URL, meaning it didn’t show the actual link on the page. This was …
How First-Party Data Will Affect Online Marketing
A first-party cookie is a code generated and stored on a website visitor’s computer by default when a person visits their site. The cookie is often used to enhance the user experience, recording passwords, basic data about the visitor, and other user preferences.
Visitor Recordings for On-Page Optimization
In Your Users’ Eyes You’ve picked the perfect keyword. You’ve written the perfect page. Yet your Web Analytics isn’t painting a rosy picture. High bounce. Low time on page. Zero conversions. What’s a digital marketer gonna do? First, examine a heat map to get a view of what users actually see (and scroll to) on their …
Using Web Analytics for Data-Driven Marketing Decisions
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Statistics, or data to keep the term more general, are taking over many aspects of modern life from your fitness tracking app, to NFL analysis and now your marketing department.
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Clever Website Thank You Pages
It’s Thanksgiving week and I thought about how we say thank you to our website visitors. Many of us were taught to say please and thank you, and those good manners translate well to the online experience. Your website thank you page says a lot about you and your brand. In this post I’ll share lessons we’ve learned while helping our clients say thanks, track those conversion in Analytics and and gain more business.
Heat Maps for Website Insights
In order to effectively optimize a page or website, you need data. While Search Console and Web Analytics are fabulous sources of intel, I’ve found that granular information is often necessary. For example, what page elements draw a visitor’s attention? Is there a difference in how content is consumed via mobile versus tablet? Using heat maps to analyze actual usage behaviors can help drive optimization decisions. Otherwise, you’re guessing what works.
Google Analytics Demographics & Generational Insights
Knowing your audience is Marketing 101. Thankfully Google Analy. In this post, you’ll learn about each demographic age range (mapped to generationeral info), nuggets of info for your online marketing strategy, and how to tackle digging into your data.
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Advanced Segmentation & Insights
Data — especially intelligence garnered from Google Analytics — is a beautiful thing. One of my favorite features is Advanced Segmentation. It allows you to isolate subsets of your website traffic. In this post I’ll share the predefined segments I routinely use when pulling Google Anlaytics reports each month. Predefined Advanced Segmentation in GA Advanced …
Webmaster Tools Makeover
New Navigation to Reflect How Search Works Webmaster Tools just got a new look. Don’t get too excited. The interface is still pretty stark. Even so, this analytic tool is powerful. It provides info to manage a healthy website. If you weren’t familiar with the old version, no worries. I’ll highlight functionality and important changes …