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Sabtu, 24 Desember 2011

Google Analytics: What Is It?

Are you finding it difficult to keep track of your site's performance in the search engines? Aside from having to download software that offer to keep track of your website's SEO performance, Google now has a newly integrated service especially for SEO people out there concerned with their web site's performance.

This Google tracking service is known as the Google Analytics. It is a powerful service that keeps track of your web site's success on organic and paid search res...
Are you finding it difficult to keep track of your site's performance in the search engines? Aside from having to download software that offer to keep track of your website's SEO performance, Google now has a newly integrated service especially for SEO people out there concerned with their web site's performance.

This Google tracking service is known as the Google Analytics. It is a powerful service that keeps track of your web site's success on organic and paid search results. Google Analytics gives you better understanding on how your web site's web visitors react on your site. It gives you no-holds barred and detailed experience of your web site visitors.

You will also be aware and know what key words users in relation to your web site frequently use. You will be educated on the best link text that brings in the most prospects.

True to its name, the Google Analytics shares with you analytical data that will help you greatly on being aware about your web site visitors and target visitors' preferences.

Google Analytics provides free information about the way visitors to your site interact with it. By taking a good evaluation of Google Analytics, webmasters will realize how it is an invaluable tool they can and should use especially if they do not have some form of visitor tracking solution.

Google Analytics shares with you which of your SEO campaigns deliver the best ROI or return on investment. If you are not confident on the software you use in finding out your internet marketing results, Google Analytics is good in tracking down results of your internet marketing campaigns. Now alongside the Google AdWords, you can be certain of obtaining significant information about your web site.

Google Adwords is an equally powerful service for placing your web site in search results based on certain key words related to your site. Google Adwords take note of your major web site's key words and efficiently guarantees that your web site appears in search engine results.

Google Analytics was once named as Urchin visitor tracking by Google. It was last November 16, 2005 when Google renamed this service into Google Analytics. It is free for everyone's use and those who have signed up during its early stages are offered with a completely new set of significant and consequential information regarding your web site visitors.

Still, those who are late in signing up for this service can wait until Google offer new sign-ups to the Google Analytics system.

Google Analytics works with tracking codes that will guarantee to track down important user information for you. It uses codes in the destination URL’s that facilitates the web site visitor tracking mission by Google Analytics.

Here are some of the most important reasons why you need Google Analytics as part of your website visitor tracking and have it on your site:

1. Its functionality equals most expensive visitor tracking services, even if it is free.

2. The service is your solution to identify where visitors leave your check-out or sign-up process. Identifying this will help you make amends and modify your sign-up process that is user-friendly. You will then be prevented from losing leads

3. Utilizing Google Analytics will help you identify the pages and links your web site visitor’s click on most. You will also know which page your visitors spend most their time on. You can therefore improve these pages properly and position them and their link texts appropriately.

4. Wondering the previous site your web site visitor logged on to before coming to your site? Google Analytics will tell you all about it.

5. You will also be provided with the most popular keyword users type in the search bar of the search engine in finding web sites associated/related to your website. Knowing these popular keywords is a great boost for your SEO efforts and performance, even on other search engines.

6. Google analytics conduct visitor segmentation. It classifies new and returning web site users, their geographical information and the referral source they use. This provides you with invaluable insight if you are planning on a setting up a new online business.

7. For search advertising results, Google Analytics and Google Adwords guarantees you with end-to-end visibility

8. You can even track other non-search-engine marketing media

9. Overall, Google Analytics provides you a very cheap service on gaining more customers, if you utilize its results.

Like most search engine services, Google Analytics has its own advantages and disadvantages.

• Its setup is very straightforward. You do not have to waste time waiting for results

• It is quite flexible, provides great solution and a wide range of significant and valuable reports

• You can login once and track multiple sites. You have more than one web site to track.

• Google tracking makes it possible to track campaigns even on other media

• You need not be confused of the A/B ad testing

• Its integration with all marketing media so as you can use only single portal to track multiple campaigns is ingenious

• You will get In-depth reports on site navigation of users you never dreamed you could have

• It also has Ecommerce tracking features

However, Google Analytics package falls behind two very important features most search engine marketers need. This is the ability to track down individual user activities and trace activity back to an individual user level. Another is the ability to track fraudulent online activities so as your site will be safe from it. Even if there are the eCommerce tracking features, it cannot completely provide this important tracking capability.

The free web site analytics solution, is Google's statement regarding their supremacy among other search engines.

Article discusses Google Analytics and how powerful it can be to marketer's keeping track of their site's performance in the search engines.

Google And Your Domain Name

Many people overlook the importance of their domain name when trying to optimize their website for Google. With the amount of competition out there this may give you the edge.
Google, being the largest and most used search engine and is extremely important to optimize your website for. As a matter of fact, if you optimize your website just for Google you’d find your rankings in Yahoo! and MSN will jump up higher than your ranking in Google. I’ve optimized many websites that show up in at least the top 20 listings in Google and found that in each case they ranked higher in Yahoo! and MSN usually in the top 3 positions with most in the number one spots.

Most everyone agrees that with Google content is king. So writing good copy with just the right amount of keyword phrases, for keyword density is important. And natural anchor text links is second to the throne, which takes lots of work and proper timing to do properly.

Third in line are keyword phrases (notice I said phrase because single keywords are almost impossible to optimize for), which need to be researched to find the right phrase for you and not used to often in the content/text to get the right density. Used to often and you’ll hurt your ranking.

Fourth in line are the Meta Description Tag which when used properly can actually bring visitors to your website who wouldn’t normally come there. Of course there are several other factors involved with getting that elusive number one spot.

But what most everyone often overlooks is what I call the fifth element which Google uses to determine their ranking of a website and that's the domain name.

People, even SEO companies, don’t either know the importance of the domain name to Google or take the time to chose the proper name for the website. Most just use their company name or what they conceder a "Cool" name for their websites. Now, unless your company is well known or at least well known in its field, using a basically unknown company name is pointless. Even more pointless is the "Cool" name.

The entire reason you optimize your website is to get visitors from search engines, so why not use all the tools available to get the best ranking possible for your website.

Use your domain name as one of those tools. Instead of your company name or the "Cool" one, use a keyword phrase, one that describes your product or service. Take your time in choosing the proper name. Make sure that it will work best for your website. If you not sure ask your friends and relatives what keywords they would use to find your product or services on the Internet. You might be surprised at what they would use.

You have the keyword phrase that you know will work. But before you jump online and get that domain name there are a couple of things you may still need to do.

Let's say you're the owner of Mike's Bikes and you specialize in Colorado Mountain Bikes so you figure to kill two birds with one stone and use the domain name mikescoloradomountainbikes.com to keep your name in it along with using the keyword phrase. Now this might make sense to you but you’re not Google. You're not going to like it but you need to drop the mikes out of the name because it's dead weight.

So now you've got coloradomountainbikes.com but wait before you burn up the keyboard use Colorado-mountain-bikes.com instead. Why? Because Google sees this as three different words and would see coloradomountainbikes.com as a single word. When people are doing a search they will not be using coloradomountainbikes, they are going to use Colorado mountain bikes. The bonus is that your domain name now becomes a keyword phrase used by Google when it performs a search.

Senin, 19 Desember 2011

4 Quick and Easy Insider Tips To Turbo-Charge Your Google Adwords’ Sales

Uncover little-known Google Adwords strategies you can implement moments from now to boost your response. While most advertisers continue to waste their money, you're implementing techniques savvy advertisers are using to rake-in more sales and leads!

4 Quick and Easy Insider Tips To Turbo-Charge Your Google Adwords' Sales!

By Rod Beckwith and Jeff Alderson

If you want to boost your clickthrough rates and slash your advertising costs moments from now, then pay close attention.

Because you're about to uncover 4 surefire techniques to dominate your Adwords' listings… practically wiping-out your competition at the same time.

Best of all, they're quick and easy to apply. 

Let's get started:

1.    Experiment with dynamic headlines - Dynamic headlines replace your normal ad headline with what the searcher types in. 

So, if the searcher types, “Furniture”, this appears in the headline. 

And if the searcher types in a search phrase that can't fit, such as “Affordable quality furniture,” then it reverts back to your default headline.

Use it by inputting, “{KeyWord:Quality Furniture}” in the headline portion of your ad.  “Quality Furniture” is your default headline.

Also, note that the “K” and “W” are capitalized in “KeyWord”.  This means that the first letter in each search phrased is capitalized.  For instance, “Fun Furniture,” instead of “Fun furniture” (if you had “Keyword”).

Dynamic headlines almost always significantly boost clickthrough rates.  But, they also sometimes reduce the quality traffic you get.

You should experiment with dynamic headlines.  If you find that an Ad Group is producing low-quality traffic, then you would toss the dynamic headline… and add a qualifier instead.

Some examples of a qualifier are to add a price to your ad, using the words “For serious customers only”, “buy now”, or to use words that call-out targeted customers to click on your ad.

Also, try adding words around the dynamic headline, such as, “Unique {Keyword:Furniture}”.  This works best in Ad Groups with only a few keywords.

2.    Test ad positions - because the highest one isn't always the best.

Keep in mind, the number 1 position usually produces the MOST traffic.  However, it does not always produce the BEST quality traffic.

Instead, you can continually adjust your bids (based on several days data) to target lower positions instead.  Depending on your market, you may target position three or four.

Remember, many bidders daily budgets cut off their campaigns near the end of the day.  This means you get their top positions for a fraction of the cost!

3.    How to use site selection correctly - The site selection option allows advertisers to place their ads on specific content sites.

It is a completely different animal than search traffic.  And varies from normal content ads.

Because instead of paying per click, you're paying for impressions (or how many times your ad is seen).  This can be a lifesaver for some businesses and a waste of money for others.

It depends on the market.  Some markets produce terrible results with search traffic.  But, are great for selected sites. Why?

Well, usually it's because a market is in its infancy.  And your target market is NOT searching for what your have to offer. 

Instead, the only way they can be reached is in their communities.  You must go to them.  These communities might be blogs, discussion forums, or news sites.

An example, might be a tool that creates video blogs.

Very few people are looking to do this.  But, LOT'S of normal blog publishers may easily be convinced that this is something they need to be doing.

The bottom line is… if you get good results with search traffic, then you probably want to pay per click for your content advertising.  The only exception is if you have a killer ad (that generates lots of clicks).  Because it will be cheaper to pay for impressions.

4.    Put your best performing text ad on your banner. 

Most advertisers either stick only with text ads.  Or they use ineffective banner ads.  These are costly mistakes.  The smart way to do it is to find a very effective text ad. 

Then, put it on your banner ad.  You will find that these normally out-perform your text ads.  And will be your most profitable.  Images may say a thousands words, but it's the right words that close more sales!