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Analytics Blog Posts
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- 19th Dec 2011
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Optimising Your Site for iPads and Tablets
One of my favourite gadgets is my iPad, I love working on it or generally just surfing the web. Unfortunately one of the gripes I have about using it is the seemingly endless number of sites out there that are poorly optimised for tablets. -
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- 28th Jun 2011
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How to Use Advanced Segments To Analyse Your Website Traffic
Google Analytics have a nifty little feature called Advanced Segments that, simply put, allows you to group your data based on a wide variety of factors. By grouping the data you can analyse different segments more closely.This post is going to take us through the kinds of segments you can use and how to get the most out of the advanced segments. There is so much scope with advanced segments that if you haven’t used them before you will hopefully be brimming with ideas by the time you’ve read this post.
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- 16th Apr 2012
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15 Ways to Sell or Promote your Products Online
If you run a large ecommerce website or just sell products online in your spare time at home, there have never been a greater number of places to promote or even sell your products online. -
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- 4th Oct 2011
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Google Analytics Developments - September 2011
Google are working very hard on new developments at the moment and as a result we have seen a number of updates in Google Analytics, including a whole new service and some exciting extra reports. I’m going to give you an overview of the updates that have happened most recently: real time reporting, SEO reporting from Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics Premium Service. -
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- 20th Jun 2011
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Website Testing Opportunity #2: Call to Action Button
Last time I looked at surrounding you point-of-action or call-to-action with assurances to help convince visitors to act on it. This month I want to look at examples of the actual call-to-action button. -
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- 7th Jun 2011
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Can Your Visitors View Your Website?
Have you ever thought about whether or not the visitors to your website can view your content in the best way? Most businesses ensure that their website is tested on different browsers to ensure it is accessible and the usability is not compromised if a user does not have the latest software, but following initial testing, have you ever analysed the actual capabilities of your users browsers? Finding out the percentage of your users that are on Internet Explorer compared to Firefox, or how many of your users have Java enabled functionality can be very handy when making decisions about the coding of your website.
Luckily, Google Analytics can give you all sorts of statistics to really help you understand what your users are browsing with and how they may see your website. So here’s how:
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- Analytics
- 10th May 2011
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How to Track Clicks on a Link in Google Analytics
Do you have external links on your site? Links to PDFs? Advertisements for other websites? Ever wondered how many people click on these? Well, as they don’t lead to a page on your site you might assume that you cannot track them, however – you can! And it’s not too tricky to implement either.
There are two different ways that you could do this; you can either use Event Tracking or Virtual Pageviews. There are pros and cons to both methods and it will depend on the content as to which method you will want to use. This post will take you through how to set up tracking for both methods, if you’re looking to track other links, look out for another post later on!
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- Analytics
- 22nd Aug 2011
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Google Analytics and Reporting on Real Data
Google Analytics is a powerful tool that everyone in search should be using. Being a powerful tool it comes with a lot options which if you are new to Analytics can be overwhelming. The temptation is to focus on top level statistics like total traffic or search engine traffic but this does not necessarily reflect the trends of your website’s visitors or the success of the site.
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- Analytics
- 31st Mar 2011
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What's Good and Bad About The New Google Analytics (With Images!)
Google are introducing an updated version of Analytics to modernise it and improve functionality. I’ve had a good play with it and am pleased with the changes so far, although I’ve also spotted several things that I would like it to do but that I haven’t yet found functionality for.
The Good Bits:
Much easier to navigate between accounts and profiles – you even get to stay in the same date range and area of the report when you switch (which previously could only be done using a clever add in for Firefox).
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- Analytics
- 20th Jan 2012
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15 Conversion Rate Optimisation Tips for Contact Pages
For small business websites that are not necessarily selling products or providing any sort of online service, then the most important aspect of the website will be the contact page. Finding your contact details or filling in a contact form should be an easy and straightforward process for the user.Many websites adopt the tactic of placing a telephone number and email address at the top or side bar of every page on their website. This is a great way to provide quick access for visitors to get in touch and to reassure them that if they have any questions, you are available to chat.
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- 18th Nov 2011
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The Importance of Conversion Rate Optimisation
What is Conversion Rate Optimisation?Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is the process of improving the ratio of conversions to traffic on a website. For example if your website is receiving 1,000 visitors per month and 10 of them buy your product, you have a conversion rate of 1%. Using CRO, one would look to steadily improve the conversion rate, without specifically looking to develop inbound traffic.
