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30/05/2007 | Analytics for better Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
The objective of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is to increase web visitor counts by ranking very high in the results of searches, using the most appropriate keywords, describing the content of your site and other methods.
But if you can’t measure the benefits or progress of your work with any analytics package, how can you know if your efforts are paying off or if something is going wrong?
With analytical tools, the goal is not to capture numbers. What is important is to have those numbers work to form a clear picture of how your customers interact with your site, and your business.
Web Analytics is an invaluable tool that all webmasters should use if they don't already have some form of visitor tracking solution in place. With most of the analytics packages, you can understand how visitors use your site, identify where they leave, where they come from and from which part of the world, find out the most popular keywords… all this in order to make the necessary modifications to prevent losing leads and gain more customers. On top of that, such a tool allows you to track the results of your Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns and compare the traffic coming from Natural Search with the traffic coming from Paid Search.
Today's analytics and site tracking services are striving to be more useful and available than in the past. Web analytics have become recognised as a critical business component. As there is more and more competition in the area of Web Analytics, companies offering those packages try to update their products as often as possible to stay competitive, which provide even better products for the final user.
In an instant, Website Analytics tells us if our website visitors came from paid listings, organic listings, email marketing campaigns, affiliate programs or other direct referrals. To sum up, Website Analytics tracks visitors and marketing campaign efficiencies so that the return on your advertising investment can be optimised.
back to main newsThe number of web requests we have has increased since the launch of the newly developed and formatted web site. Our traffic has improved dramatically and the statistics we are now getting are helping us to hone and re-word the web site to improve this even further.
