Posts Tagged ‘conversion optimization’

When Push Turns To Pull: Keyword Research

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Keyword Research is an emergent process that stands out as the single most important step in developing content that answers the questions your customers are asking. As a bonus, Keyword Research significantly contributes in the development of intuitive site navigation and Information Architecture.

Conversion Optimization is also an emergent process tasked with increasing specific website goals such as improving lead generation, increasing sales or boosting opt-ins.

Analytics provide a means to track the success of our endeavour’s and check whether any Key Performance Indicators that have been set out are being achieved.

Speak to the Right Target Through Landing Page Research

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
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A great practice to incorporate in to your Google Analytics review is a monthly check of your top landing pages. A landing page is the first page a visitor to your website sees when they are referred to your site from different sources. For instance, someone who lands on your website from a search engine might land on a different page according to what keyword they used to find you. {Did you know that Search engines index pages of a website not an entire website?} The traffic sources section will tell you where visitors are coming from to each landing page.

The Opportunity in Online Trends

Friday, January 28th, 2011
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I’m currently in the middle of reading Chris Anderson’s book “The Long Tail”, which speaks of the endless opportunities the internet is providing online retailers to cater to niche markets, and the resulting increases in sales that are possible. Within the book, there is a particular example that stood out to me.

Anderson speaks of the example of two mountain-climbing books, one released in the 80’s and one just a few years ago. Although it did not originally see large sales, the book from the 80’s suddenly exploded following the successful release of the newer book. How could this have happened?