SEO Age Metric Guides Content and Marketing
The age of website visitors is a revealing insight about how to market that site and develop greater targeting in search engine optimization. It also may impact content.
For example, the largest age range by far for this site is 25 to 34 years old. Even though the lone publisher and writer is much older than 34 years, the results aren’t surprising. The site is about online publishing, which is a popular career for the younger generation. (more…)
Beware Spambots That Ruin Analytic Numbers
One of the most exciting experiences in online publishing is a spike in site traffic. One of the most discouraging experiences is the discovery that the traffic is spam.
Spambots are becoming a more common problem for sites because they can distort website analytics and mislead and deceive site publishers. (more…)
Annual Analytics Offer Most Important Insights
Annual website analytics are the most important and most insightful analytics for all site publishers.
Website analytic fanatics such as myself easily get caught up in how a day, week or month did compared to the previous day, week or month. (more…)
Landing Page Best Practices Convert More Visitors
The best practices for landing pages come in two forms. The first is understanding why a particular landing page does so well. The other is getting better performance.
What is a landing page? It is the destination page of a click from another website, an ad, a search engine result or a social media account, among other possibilities. (more…)
How to Understand Unique Visitors in Google Analytics
Users in Google Analytics, also known as unique visitors, is an invaluable tool for measuring, tracking and understanding a site’s audience.
The official Google Analytics definition of this Web metric is: “Unique Visitors is the number of unduplicated (counted only once) visitors to your website over the course of a specified time period.”
Online Audience Measurement: An Introduction
Online audience measurement is fundamental to managing and growing a Web business.
Knowing your audience will improve your revenue and readership in short order. (more…)
Direct Traffic Results in Brand and Site Loyalty
Direct traffic may be the second most important source for Website audience after search engines and SEO. However, it doesn’t get that kind of respect.
How often do site publishers brag about their direct traffic numbers on the various blogs and forums dedicated to online publishing? The answer is, not very often. (more…)
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