No matter how simple or complex a site is, understanding and tracking the effectiveness of the website is an important part of marketing your products or services well. Whether you have a small lead generation site or a large ecommerce store, the information that can be gathered through website analytics is invaluable to growing your business.
To paraphrase, and expand upon, Sir Francis Bacon, understanding and utilizing information properly can be a very powerful tool. There are numerous website analytics services, which provide a wealth of information about the activity present on your website. This information includes (but is not limited to) the keywords used to find your website in the search engine result pages (SERPs), the web pages which referred visitors to your website, and the amount of time each visitor spent browsing the information contained within your pages. But all this information is for naught if it is not utilized properly.
An increasing number of people are calling themselves search engine optimization (SEO) experts every day. Most of these so-called experts start a website dedicated to SEO, publish an e-book to boost their authority and get into hour-long discussions about what SEO tactics are actually effective. Do they really know what they’re doing? Part of the ... read more