Why do some websites do well and others just crest for a while and then sink under the surf? It could be the big picture view. Website statistics can teach you a lot about how your online business is doing. Take a minute and look at those stats.
Getting Set Up
When you roll out your website, it is going to be important to monitor your progress. You can't visit the site every day. You may want to but there are other tasks to tend to. Besides, if you automate most everything, your site will be able to run itself with very little interference from you except for site upkeep and adding new content and products.
This will require a well thought out plan on your part. Basic to that plan is a way to measure what goes on during the course of a day on your site. People visit, read articles, click on ads, view products and use the shopping cart. Each of these activities will help you to determine how your business will proceed in the months and years ahead.
You can add files to your web page yourself to capture certain stats. An easier step would be to get involved with a website stats program to do the work for you. Choose something like Google Analytics. If you already use other Google services to help promote your business then you are already familiar with the variety of tools they can offer you.
Google Analytics lets you analyze several things:
- Traffic
- Marketing strategies (ads)
- Keywords
- Conversion rates
This is only a sampling. You sign up and the program will walk you through the rest of what you need to get be ready for business.
Making Changes
Now that you have a way to track changes on your website, it's time to see how they can help you over not using anything at all.
- Improve Keyword Optimization - The keywords that you decided to use may all not perform well. Using stats on page views and visitors, you can tell which of your keywords is bringing in the most traffic. For the ones that are not, consider exchanging keywords on that web page and see how that might improve sales.
What are your site stats telling you? Remember to change one parameter at a time to find the right mix that will help your website succeed.
Getting Set Up
When you roll out your website, it is going to be important to monitor your progress. You can't visit the site every day. You may want to but there are other tasks to tend to. Besides, if you automate most everything, your site will be able to run itself with very little interference from you except for site upkeep and adding new content and products.
This will require a well thought out plan on your part. Basic to that plan is a way to measure what goes on during the course of a day on your site. People visit, read articles, click on ads, view products and use the shopping cart. Each of these activities will help you to determine how your business will proceed in the months and years ahead.
You can add files to your web page yourself to capture certain stats. An easier step would be to get involved with a website stats program to do the work for you. Choose something like Google Analytics. If you already use other Google services to help promote your business then you are already familiar with the variety of tools they can offer you.
Google Analytics lets you analyze several things:
- Traffic
- Marketing strategies (ads)
- Keywords
- Conversion rates
This is only a sampling. You sign up and the program will walk you through the rest of what you need to get be ready for business.
Making Changes
Now that you have a way to track changes on your website, it's time to see how they can help you over not using anything at all.
- Improve Keyword Optimization - The keywords that you decided to use may all not perform well. Using stats on page views and visitors, you can tell which of your keywords is bringing in the most traffic. For the ones that are not, consider exchanging keywords on that web page and see how that might improve sales.
- Improve your Content Offerings - The low number of page views for a specific page could signify that people aren't finding your content on the first page of search engine results. Take another look at your content. Is your keyword density within the right range? Are you using too many? Search engines don't look kindly to keyword stuffing and will not rank your work favorably. With content, provide useful information using only as many words as you need to get your point across.
What are your site stats telling you? Remember to change one parameter at a time to find the right mix that will help your website succeed.
