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Presented May 26th to HPCA members and guests. The presentation consisted of an overview of web analytics, seo and sem, and then practical application of their use as applied to two member sites.

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Spinning Web Analytics,Search Optimization and Marketing

So... you have a website...

...and people visit it. Huzzah!!

... or do they?

WEB ANALYTICS

WEB ANALYTICS

WEB ANALYTICSHey! Wassup. You got a website to show me?

I do! You mind signing the guest book while you’re here?

Yeah yeah *scribble scribble scribble* There. Signed.Now can you show me a website?

Fine. Fine. Here’s some HTML code....I have a few JPEGs for you. Some Flash files...Oh, and here’s some Java. Here, take some cookies to go with that.

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Analytics software visualizes the data to make patterns more readily apparent and understandable.

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BUT...

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...it’s still just data. Data without context is just noise.

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• How many visitors• How often they visited• How they’re visiting the site

(computer type and capabilities)• Where they came from (geographically)• Where they came from (referral type)• While here ... what did they do?

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• Using the clues in the data, a clear picture of your site’s visitors may be inferred

Escarpment Views

What is it?Online presence for print

magazine.Goals:• Attention– Drive sales of ads– Drive sales of magazine

What should we look for in our analytics web? ?

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Escarpment Views

• Visitors• Continuous growth• Spikes ID’d and made

note of• Cultivate repeat visits• Ontario

Brief Intermission as we switch to live stats

Escarpment Views

• Content• What are people

looking at?• What brought them there?• Where did they go from

there?

• What do you WANT people to be looking at?• Are they looking at it?

Brief Intermission as we switch to live stats

WEB ANALYTICS

In solving a problem of this sort, the grand

thing is to be able to reason backward.

Get It Write

What is it?Freelance Writing Business

Goals:• Lead generation• Establish position as an

expert

What should we look for in our analytics web? ?

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Get it Write

• Conversion• Track emails/phone calls

to website

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Get it Write

• Referrals• Who is sending traffic?• What keywords bring

people to your site?

Brief Intermission as we switch to live stats

Get it Write

• Content• What pages resulted in

the most referrals?• What pages resulted in

the most conversions?

Brief Intermission as we switch to live stats

WEB ANALYTICS

You know, a conjurer gets no credit when

once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the

conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual

after all.

“You can only manage what you can measure.”

- Peter Drucker

So how do we move the needle?

Make yourself more findable.

WEB ANALYTICS

How are people finding you now?

Who do you want to target?

Who do you want to target?

What are they looking for?

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Own your keywords

Use keywords naturally and consistently

Think lasergun, not shotgun

WEB ANALYTICS

Brought to you by...

Rob Clark• http://disclz.me/RobClark • www.theelusivefish.com

Kyle McKeown• http://twitter.com/kyle_a_m• www.kylemckeown.com

Suggested Reading

• Complete Web Monitoring• l33t Ninja analytics skills revealed

• Web Analytics 2.0• Avinash is the evangelist for

analytics at Google• www.kaushik.net

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