Tag: google analytics

Everyone measures success in their lives differently, but if you have a website, knowing what you should measure and monitor can mean the difference between success and failure. There are some fundamental metrics that you should monitor and know what they mean – ignore these at your peril. The web moves at light speed so the quicker you identify problems…

The majority of business owners use Google Analytics to help them understand their target audience. Few business owners however, know about the attribution models that are also available, which can be a gold mine for improving ROI on marketing. To help you understand why these models are so useful for understanding your conversions, consider the…

The subject of this blog might be a little left field, but is something that people in the SEO world have noticed for some time now. This is that queries and clicks can influence your rankings in the search engine results pages (serps). Google doesn’t let us in on their ranking algorithms, however over time…

Link building has had a bad rap lately and that is mainly due to websites having bad links, for example websites that have a high percentage of unnatural links or participate in paid link spam. The reason these links are bad is that they are generally created specifically to increase search engine ranking in the…

Since October 2011, Google has been encrypting search activity, except those from Google Ads. This means that all keyword referrer data, for close to 100% of searches, is now presented in Google Analytics as “(not provided)”. In other words you cannot access organic keyword data anymore. Encrypting search activity has meant that webmasters can no…

Your website is up and running – but the the leads and conversions are not what you expected. Unfortunately, one of the pitfalls in having a brand new website is the lack of ongoing momentum after the launch. Any good marketer will tell you that just having a great website does not guarantee success. So…