Blog for Web 2.0 Optimization

Bringing Web Analytics to SEO, SEM, Usability Professionals and eMarketers!

The role of web analytics specialists has started with creating the reports, management dashboards and providing insights on the website performance, campaign performance, landing page performance etc., and closely monitor the trends. Most of the web analytics specialists also work in tagging/implementing the tracking mechanism and managing vendor relationships.
I am attempting thru this blog […]

Campaign Landing Page Loading Time Can Increase Your Campaign Cost…

Google announced that landing page loading time is soon to be incorporated into the quality factor that decides how much you pay to google for each click in the campaigns you are running on Google Adwords.  http://adwords.blogspot.com/2008/03/landing-page-load-time-will-soon-be.html 
I think this is going to be another factor that SEM landing pages have to compete with those […]

Understanding the Search Engine Results from SEO Perspective

When we all go to Search Engines like Google and do a search - we obviously expect the relevant results.
What should Google deliver as the results in order to satisfy the searcher’s needs. How would Search Engines know exactly what the searcher is looking for with a mere keyword that you have provided in the […]

It’s not about “what” but “why” - Understanding Web Analytics Graphs

A graph can go in either direction up or down which one can know by reporting using a chart but it is important that one should know why there is a positive or negative change to the graph. And, it is not all the time the graph should have a raise towards its right.  There are some metrics […]

Advanced Web Metrics - Committed Visits, Time2Click, Time2Reach, Time2Convert, Visits2Convert

Committed Visits -  Every visit to the website has an exit, but every visit to a web page may not have an exit.  A visit to a web page is calculated a count of “1″ everytime a visitor visited the website and stayed on the site for a defined amount of time and never visited […]

Web Analytics - An Industry Evolution!

For the last 10 years, the business owners and marketers were quite busy in moving or starting a web channel for their existing off-line businesses. And, even the new business models have come up on web. It was the case that they were paying a huge amount of effort in building web applications with innovative […]

Measuring the success of a Web Page in Clickstream Analytics

Today, I was talking with someone who is a webmaster managing various kinds of web sites. He has one specific question for me which I thought I should talk about it in my blog post.
“How do I Measure the success of a web page?”
I was a bit paused when I hear this question. And, […]

Your Lost Visitor - Campaign Landing Page Abandonment

Have you ever wondered how much marketing $ are going to drain?
Have you ever thought if there is a way to pay publishers on Cost-per-Action in place of regular Cost-per-Click?
Whatever would be your online campaign goals, have you ever considered in reducing the click volume based on the results for?
JupiterResearch says “The U.S. Online Advertising […]

Know Your “Website Reach” over internet - It’s Easy & Simple!

There are ways to check where your website ranks compared to your competition or in a panel of websites thru alexa or compete.com… But, do you know if there is a way to check what’s your website reach over total internet traffic.
Right, there is a simple way to calculate website reach on our own. For […]

FREE Clickstream Analytics Tool from MicroSoft - Gatineau

What is Clickstream Analytics? 

Clickstream Analytics  deals with understanding the behaviour of web site visitors.  More formal definition of Clickstream Analytics..is a process of collecting, reporting, analysing the visitor behavior on the web for the purpose of optimzing the web user experience and online marketing initiatives for maximizing the ROI.  Clickstream Analytics is also referred to as Web Analytics. […]