Archive for the ‘Analytics Tool’ Category

Top 3 Tips for Improving Your Display Ad CTR

Posted by Josh on February 29, 2012 - 4:12 pm
CTR Analytics

Make sure your graphs are going in the right direction.

We’ve stated in past posts that the difference between success and failure often times comes down to being able to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your campaigns. This means knowing how to read your analytics and then adjusting accordingly. One analytic that we are all familiar with is the Click Through Rate (CTR). Your CTR is the first indication of whether you have a winner or a dud of a campaign on your hands. Here are a couple of tips to getting all you can out of you Display Ads.

Picking the Right Placement

To start, there is a chance you could improve your CTR by 50% by just moving your ad above the fold. Heat Map Analytics studies have shown that as much as half of the visitors of a website don’t scroll past the fold. So, if you aren’t experiencing the CTR you would like, first look at where it’s found on the page.

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Valentine’s Day Search Stats from Google

Posted by Josh on February 24, 2012 - 6:07 pm

 

Google Stats for Valentine's Day

Making Valentine's Day Reservations Easier Since 1998

Google decided to release some data regarding searches related to Valentine’s Day this year. If anything the data just backs up that most of us are procrastinators and do everything last minute. It also confirms what we wrote in a previous article regarding the percentage of searches done from mobile devices.

According to Google’s Analytics, 62% of the national searches for restaurant chains were done so on a mobile device. Google only counted restaurant chains since it could disambiguate them, as opposed to smaller mom and pop shops. For example, if there is a search for “papaya”, Google doesn’t know if you are looking for nutrition facts or a nearby restaurant. But one can assume the 62% extends to all searches.

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Know Where Your Customers Are Coming From

Posted by Josh on January 05, 2012 - 10:46 am
The Basics of Traffic Sources
Traffic Sources in Google Analytics

Knowing how people get to your website is a fundamental factor in fine-tuning your online presence.  It can do wonders when it comes to squeezing more out of your advertising budget or becoming more educated about the tendencies of your users. Fortunately for you, any web analytics tool worth its salt will have a breakdown of all the sources of traffic that lands on your site. So now that you that you know, let’s cover the basics:

Under “Traffic Sources” in your analytics you’ll find the following:

Direct Traffic – These are people who didn’t search to find you. They either typed in your URL directly or have your site bookmarked. Either way, they already knew who you were, either through an offline marketing campaign or through word of mouth.

Referring Sites – When an individual arrives at your site from clicking a link located on another site, they fall under this category. This could include banner ads or directory listings as well as blogs or partner sites. These are important to know since it can tell you a lot about what else your visitors are interested in or what they are searching for online.

Search Engines – This tells you which search engine an individual saw your search result in. This includes paid listings along with organic ones.

There are some subtleties to analytics that are worth knowing, but that is the meat and potatoes. One important thing to look for is the percentage of visitors coming from direct traffic as opposed to search engine traffic. Since 80% of web traffic comes from search engines, you know that you need to focus on your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) if you see the majority coming from direct traffic. That will tell you people aren’t finding you by your keywords and you’re missing out on a lot of very valuable (and cheap) organic traffic.

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What Do Web Analytics and Horse Racing Have in Common?

Posted by Chris on December 29, 2011 - 10:04 am

Who will finish first in conversion rates?

Horse Racing and Web Analytics

 

We have all heard the term winning by a nose used when calling a horse race.  The winning horse would win by mere milliseconds, which is why jockeys are legendary for their rigorous training methods. They know that the difference between having your name remembered and being left in the dust is attention to detail and putting in just a little more effort than the next guy. The same could be said for your own website.

If you want be in the winner’s circle, you are going to have to use every tool and trick in the book to stay competitive. This includes every type of website analytical strategy you can get your hands on. It’s not enough these days to throw a website up and hope for the best. As of December 2010 there were 266,848,493 websites online according to news of dehli.

It will never cease to amaze us when companies spend so much time and effort (not to mention MONEY) on advertisements that are designed to drive traffic to a site when they have spent little or no time making sure that traffic actually sticks once it gets there. As an example, we had a client that needed a drastic increase in conversion rates so we took a look at their scroll maps and found that by moving their call-to-action up on their homepage that we could increase their conversion rates by 25 percent.

Unless the client had gone the extra mile and made sure they were getting all they could out of their traffic, they would have never known they could have dramatically increased conversion with something as simple as placing their buy button higher on the page.

The worst thing you can do is assume your website is performing to the best of it’s ability; there is always room for improvement. Use the tools available to you and make sure you are the one coming out ahead at the finish line.

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Eye Opening Analytics Research From Adobe

Posted by Chris on December 01, 2011 - 11:03 am

Adobe Analytics Research Report

So here is the thing, every now and then research comes out from an awesome company that helps your business tremendously. In this case, we stumbled onto Adobe’s 2010 Analytics Overview report.

Even though the report is from 2010 I feel like someone from Adobe has been reading my blog posts and compiling empirical data that supports what I have griped about for the past several months: measuring analytics takes too long.

Adobe Analytics Report Figure One

How survey responders rated the importance of their ability to measure the above metrics

The respondents to the survey reported primary focuses that included online lead generation (42%), selling products via e-commerce (41%), and generating ad revenue (9%).

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SeeVolution is the Only Analytics Tool you Need

Posted by Analytics Reporter on March 23, 2011 - 6:49 am

Online Analitics ToolsIf you have a website and want to get the most out of it, then SeeVolution has the only analytics tool you will need.  With SeeVolution you can track your users in real time.  This means you can see how far down the screen they scroll, what they move their mouse over and what links are clicked most often.  As a result of this amazing real-time feedback you can modify your site to meet the specific needs of your unique users.  There is no other analytics tool with such usability.  Our analytics tool will increase website effectiveness.  SeeVolution’s analytics tool will help your website be the cornerstone of your business.

If you want to survive this tough economic climate you have to give yourself every advantage possible.  SeeVolution can help your website operate within chosen parameters, and give you concrete tools to make sure this is always the case.  Use online analytic tools from SeeVolution and get ahead today.

The Most Powerful Analytics Tool

Posted by Seevolution Web Analitics on February 21, 2011 - 11:57 am

web analytics toolSeeVolution has the most powerful analytics tool you will ever need.  They offer the best web analytic software on the market, and it will bring your web presence into the next level of success.  Their software is very complex, and many companies are wary of using complex solutions.  However, SeeVolution has answered the call for an accessible analytics tool.  This analytics tool send you emails, and this analytics tool can display itself to you in the most easy to understand ways imaginable.

Rather than giving you access to complex algorithms on your site, and showing you raw numbers about how people use the site, we make sense of it all for you.  We can show you a color-coded heat map of your site so you can see exactly where people look most and where people click most.  Website analytics do not have to be brain surgery for you, let us worry about the complexities, we will just give you the information you need in a way you can understand.  SeeVolution’s analytics tool is the only one you will ever need.