Posts Tagged ‘Conversions’

How To Improve Your Visitors’ On-Site Experience

There are numerous ways that you can enhance the on-site experience of your websites visitors. Most of these have already been discussed at length by SEO experts. However, site owners keep forgetting the most crucial aspect of a website, and that is visitor engagement. Engaging your potential customers is imperative to your on-site strategy. Site owners are focusing more on gaining a sale, contact address, a download or just a visit. But site visitors have different expectations when they decide to visit your site. To meet their expectations and improve their overall on-site experience, it is important to consider many factors, including:

Customer-oriented content:

After implementation of Google’s Panda update, many websites have changed or updated their content strategies. But the websites that were already giving priority to their content didn’t have to worry about the implications of the Panda update. These websites clearly have an edge over their competitors as they are not only making their website user friendly but also segmenting the content into different relevant pages. For instance, Dell has segmented their content and products according to prospective customer groups based on their target market.

Blueclaw Wins Best Retail / Ecommerce Website & Best Paid Search Campaign at the DADI Awards

Today, I proudly announce that Blueclaw wins 2 awards at the prestigious DADIs - The Drum Awards for the Digital Industries 2010, ceremony held last night - we safely defended our Best Use of Paid Search title as well as scooped another important award for Best Retail / Ecommerce Website.

5 Google Analytics Tips

1) You might be getting less visitors than you think. After 30 minutes, your visit counts as a new one. E.g. You browse on a site, walk away from the PC then come back two hours later.When you click on a new page or reload the current page, your visit counts as a new one.

2) You might be getting more visitors than you think. A proportion of visitors will block third party cookies (this is what GA uses to ‘tag’ you as a unique visitor) or disable Javascript to load on any site. These visitors will not be counted on GA.

What’s making money? What’s wasting money?

Organize your account for maximum effectiveness with Google Analytics Motion Charts

Each keyword you use in your adwords campaigns contributes more or less to the overall return on investment. You will notice that some keywords are performing better than the others. Now the question is – how can I differentiate winners from losers?

The answer is very simple – use Motion Charts within Google Analytics! Forget about spending long hours calculating your ROI and checking the effectiveness of all your keywords – Motion Charts will do it all for you!

Motion Charts is a GA feature that allows you to measure the effectiveness and potential of your keywords over time. A Motion Chart takes your Analytics graphs one step further by offering multi-dimensional analysis of all your metrics for a given report. By using motion charts you can not only filter out keywords that are attracting the most revenue but also spot terms with the highest conversion rates. It is definitely a useful way to identify terms that have got a negative influence on your ROI over a certain period of time.

Let’s start with explaining how you can find ‘Motion Charts’ within your analytics account.

When a High Bounce Rate Isn’t Such A Bad Thing

First, we’ll start with the basics. What is bounce rate? Contrary to what many (myself included) believed, it is not only the amount of time someone spends on a website (e.g. you click on a website and immediately click off after 2 seconds) it is also the number of pages you click after the viewing the landing page (e.g. you click to another page after viewing the landing page).

So the two are quite closely related - for example if you spend 3 minutes reading the landing page you just clicked on, then decide to pick up the phone and ring the company, your visit will count as a bounce. But it is not such a bad bounce because you have unwittingly converted a visitor through a well optimised landing page.