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Page 1: How to perform Analytics testing on your website and tools

Using Metrics to Investigate, Evaluate and Decide

2010 Nonprofit Technology and Communications Conference

Remix*Refresh*Reload: Balancing New Media and Traditional Strategy

March 24, 2010

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Who We Are: About Tunheim Partners

Well-regarded thinking and crisp execution –

these are the building blocks of Tunheim Partners.

Our clients turn to us to help them capitalize

on important communications opportunities.

We respond with insightful counsel and service

to help them achieve their objectives.

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Presenters

David Erickson, director e-Strategy, Tunheim Partners

Gen X

Uncle to Millennials

14 years Internet marketing experience

Twitter: @derickson

e-Strategy Internet Marketing Blog – e-StrategyBlog.com

Kristin Gast, account representative, Tunheim Partners

Millennial

e-Strategy team member

Experience in online marketing and communications

Twitter: @kristingast

Musings of a Twenty-Something – KristinGast.com

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Measurement Goals

Set a goal – In order to properly use analytic tools you need to first set a goal of what

you want people to do on your site. Do you want them to fill out a form, make a

purchase, etc. You will then base your strategies around this goal.

Who is it you want to reach?

Demographic

Geographic

Roles

Donor

Volunteer

Media

Legislature

Why do you want to reach them?

Create awareness

Get donations

Volunteers

After you determined your goals you’ll be able to identify the proper channels

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Web Analytics

Google Analytics – google.com/analytics

Webtrends – webtrends.com

Clicky – getclicky

Your Web site: Online hub

Word of Mouth

Broadcast media

Print

Email

Search

Social Media

Google Webmaster Central - google.com/webmasters/

Google URL Builder

Appears in Traffic Sources > Campaigns

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Web Analytics

Clicktale – Web analytics service that give you videos, charts and heatmaps

showing how visitors are interacting with your Web site.

Features include:

Movies of your visitors' browsing sessions to analyze their behavior (i.e.

mouse movements, mouse clicks, scrolling actions and interactions with

online forms)

Heatmaps show where visitors click, where they look and how far down they

scroll (i.e. where visitors stop and pay attention, what parts they skip, how

far they scroll)

Link Analytics shows interactions, hover and hesitation time

Form Analytics reveals problem fields in online forms that cause visitors to

leave

Pricing – there is a free option, but it is limiting, especially if you have an

active site.

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Web Analytics

Click to view videos showing the

exact experience a user had on

your site

Check out what country your

visitors comes from

Amount of time people spent on

your site

How are your visitors finding

your site?

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Web Analytics

Red = scrolled slowest,

most engaged with site

Blue = scrolled quickest,

least engaged with site

Clicktale’s Scrolling Heatmap

Business application

• Put the most important

information where people

are already focusing their

attention.

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Web Analytics

CrazyEgg – visuals and heatmaps of how your visitors are interacting with

your page.

Hover to reveal link click

rates

Business application

• Which of your links are

visitors clicking on?

• What kind of

information are they

looking for when they

visit your site?

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Web Analytics

CrazyEgg Heatmap

Shows which parts of your page

visitors are clicking on. Hot colors

equal more clicks.

Business application

• Put your organization’s most

important information where

people’s eyes are naturally drawn.

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Web Analytics

CrazyEgg Confetti

Another way to see where

your visitors are clicking.

Each dot represents a

click.

Can sort by:

• Referrer

• Search engine

• Search term

• Time of day

• Day of week

• Browser

Other Web analytic tools: Get Clicky, Statcounter

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Search Analytics

Google Trends & Insight for search

• Shows increases in search traffic for specific

terms

• Can sort by region or timeframe

• Can compare multiple terms by adding a

comma in your search inquiry

Other search analytic tools: Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker

Business application

• Are you optimizing your page for the correct

search terms at the correct time of year?

• Are you reaching out to your key audience

when they are most likely to be searching for

you?

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Competitive Analytics

Google AdPlanner

Gives statistics on various Web sites including:

• Daily unique visitors

• Gender

• Age

• Education

• Household Income

• Other sites visited

Business application

• Are your visitors the demographic that you

expect them to be?

• Are you reaching out to this demographic in

your other marketing tactics?

• What other sites are your visitors going to?

• What demographic of people are visiting your

competitors’ sites?

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Competitive Analytics

Quantcast

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Competitive Analytics

Compete Compare statistics on up to five different Web sites such as:

• Daily unique visitors

• Referral sources

• Search terms

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Blog Analytics

FeedBurner

• FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an

approximation of how many times your RSS feed has been

requested in a 24-hour period.

• Subscribers is inferred from an analysis of the many

different feed readers and aggregators that retrieve this feed

daily.

• Subscribers count is calculated by matching IP address

and feed reader combinations, then using a detailed

understanding of the multitude of readers, aggregators, and

bots on the market to make additional inferences.

• It can reflect the number of subscribers on a given day or

the average number of subscribers over the course of time.

Business application

• People generally subscribe to only their favorite blogs.

• Is the content on your blog appealing enough to people to

make them want to get your posts directly to their reader?

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Local Listing Analytics

Google Local Business Center

Business Application:

• Insert brand-specific messages

• Add photos of products, business, customers, etc.

• Impressions/Actions/Driving Directions

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Blog Analytics

Backtype

Other blog analytics tools: Google Reader, Bloglines

• Enter search term

• Bring up comments people are making either

on news articles, blogs or Twitter.

Business application

• Perfect for monitoring online chatter about a

given topic

• Great tool to see what the masses are saying

during a crisis

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Social Analytics

Facebook – Interaction Graphs

• Interactions occur when someone writes on your wall,

comments on your post or likes your content.

• Post quality measures how engaging your posts have

been to Facebook users over a rolling seven-day period.

Business application

• Are your fans engaging with the content you are

posting?

• How are they engaged (i.e., are they reacting to your

content or adding their own wall posts?

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Social Analytics

• Interaction graphs show how fans are interacting with your

posts and consuming your material.

• Can sort by interactions (total, comments, wall posts,

likes), interactions per post, post quality, discussion posts,

reviews and mentions.

• Sort by timeframe to see how interactions change over

time.

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Social Analytics

Facebook – Gender and Age Charts

Active Fans = Fans who have written on your wall or

engaged with your posts in the last week.

Business application

• Is this the gender breakdown you expected?

• Is this the gender breakdown you want?

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Social Analytics

Facebook – Location Lists

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Social Analytics

Facebook – Fan Graphs

• Shows trends in user acquisition and subscription

• Can sort by total fans/unsubscribed fans, new/removed fans, top

countries, demographics, pageviews/unique pageviews,

unsubscribes/resubscribes and media consumption

• Change timeframe to see how interactions change over time.

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Social Analytics

Facebook – Post Insights

• Facebook offers insights for individual posts for high

volume pages

• Impressions = raw number of times this story has

been seen on your wall and in the news feed of your

fans

• Feedback is the number of comments and likes per

impression

Business application

• Is there a certain type of post that is getting the most

reaction out of your fans?

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Social Analytics

• Real-time results of what people are

saying on Twitter about any topic

• Also shows trending topics

• Use advanced search option to limit

results based on location, person, date,

attitude and much more

Twitter Search

Business application

• Are you creating the kind of chatter

you want?

• What are people saying about your

organization and marketing tactics?

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Social Analytics

Ad.ly

• Gives insight into when your content is

likely to be re-tweeted and when your

followers are most engaged with you

• Tells you who your most influential

followers are

Business application

• At what time of day should you be

sending the majority of your tweets?

• Are there specific, influential followers

you should be paying attention to and

making a point of interacting with?

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Social Analytics

TweetReach

• Shows how many people have seen a

phrase, hashtag or link on Twitter, based

on tweets, mentions and re-tweets

• Shows who is passing along your

information.

• Can also, search a Twitter user to see

how influential they are.

Business application

• See how many people are seeing the

information you’re tweeting about

• Find out who the top Twitter users

passing along your content are, these are

your biggest advocates.

• Are there people who are passing along

similar content as yours who you have not

engaged with yet?

• Are your competitors links, hashtags and

information traveling further than yours?

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Social Analytics

Twitter Grader

• Calculates what kind of an impact a Twitter user has

by assigning a grade

• The grade is determined based on number of

followers, power of followers, updates, update

recency, follower/following ratio and engagement

• It is then compared against all other Twitter users

that also have a score.

• So, a Twitter Grade of 80, means that 80% of other

users got a lower score.

• Lists “Twitter Elite” based on location

Business application

• Are you making an impact on Twitter?

• Are you reaching out to the Twitter Elite in your

area?

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Social Analytics

YouTube

• Determine what kind of an impact your

videos are making based on views, ratings

and comments.

• Shows if and where your video has been

shared

• Lists what demographic your video is most

popular with

Business application

• Are people watching your videos?

• Are your videos appealing to your target

audience?

• Where are people sharing the videos?

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Social Analytics

YouTube

• Advanced YouTube analytics give

information on demographics, location

• Hot spots shows what part of the video

people are paying the most attention

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Social Analytics

Flickr

• With a basic account you can look at

number of views, number of people who call

the photo a favorite, amount of comments,

sentiment of comments.

• With a paid pro account you get more stats

including graphs showing what your most

viewed photo is, etc.

Business application

• Are people seeing your photos?

• Are they liking your photos?

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Link Analytics

Yahoo Site Explorer

• Tells you who is linking to a Web page,

article, press release, etc.

• Take out links from your site

Business application

• Find audiences for a particular topic

• What type of interest has there been for a

press release or news story you have been

mentioned in

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Link Analytics

Bit.ly

• Shows how many people have clicked on

your link.

• Top number is number of people who have

clicked on your link

• Bottom number is all the clicks on the

aggregate bit.ly link

• Shows timeframe, location, where the link is

being shared

Business application

• Know how many people are looking at your

content

• Make a unique link for your Facebook post,

Tweet and E-mail newsletter and see which

tactic gets the most clicks

Other link analytics: Delicious

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E-mail Analytics

Constant Contact

MailChimp

E-newsletter service that provides analytics

on

• Opens

• Click through

• Segmentation

• A/B Testing

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Thank you

For a copy of this presentation go to:

http://slideshare.net/tunheimpartners

For more information contact:

David Erickson

952-851-7242

[email protected]

Twitter.com/derickson

Kristin Gast

[email protected]

Twitter.com/kristingast

Tunheim.com

e-Strategy.com