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		<title>SEO Not making you money Invest in Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Sencio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO provides the core strength for any webpage. Any websites Search engine optimization requires keyphrase research to acquire its full potential. Initially you are required to work hard to check the best key terms that complement your company objectives and will earn optimum exposure with limited contention.my clickbank business Whilst SEO is very much trial [...]]]></description>
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<p>SEO provides the core strength for any webpage. Any websites Search engine optimization requires keyphrase research to acquire its full potential. Initially you are required to work hard to check the best key terms that complement your company objectives and will earn optimum exposure with limited contention.<a target="_blank" href="http://www.my-clickbank-business.org/my-clickbank-business/my-clickbank-business-review">my clickbank business</a></p>
<p> Whilst SEO is very much trial and error technique, there are methods in which you may limit the likelihood of damage and hand out a far stronger promise for achievement. By doing the preperation in selecting your keywords.</p>
<p> But dominating the search positions initially is only half the battle, once your there you should relax. In such a crowded place there are always sites looking to get your position, making continuous improvement is an absolute necessity. So how do you learn exactly where it is that your website is succeeding and where it could do with improvement? Is it guesswork? Assumption? No, for the top sites, the only way to keep ahead of the competition is through  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.my-clickbank-business.org/my-clickbank-business/my-clickbank-business-bonus">my clickbank business bonus</a> analytics.</p>
<p> Analytics may aid you to identify areas of your website that are in need of improvement. It may well be that a page is receiving large volumes of visitors but has a high bounce rate, over 60% for example. This is where you may go in and do some site user testing and find out precisely what it is that is turning people away.</p>
<p> Basically you should use your analytics as your SEO trouble-shooter. Your initial SEO may well have been top notch.</p>
<p> Just as with your Search engine optimization updates, analytics should be analysed and acted upon continuously. Missing out on a few days worth of potential customers can cause major problems, even for smaller {web sites}. Don&#8217;t leave your website&#8217;s fortunes down to chance,take advantage of analytics and assist it remain fully optimized throughout.</p>
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		<title>Pay-Per-Click as a Data Generating Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Sencio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Internet businesses eventually use pay-per-click (PPC) advertising as part of their overall marketing strategy.  Sometimes they use it so effectively that they make enough in immediate sales to cover the cost of the advertising.  Other times they look to recoup those expenses over a longer period by using the PPC campaign as a means [...]]]></description>
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<p>Many Internet businesses eventually use <a target="_blank" href="http://www.99sites.us/PPC-Advertising.html">pay-per-click (PPC) advertising</a> as part of their overall marketing strategy.  Sometimes they use it so effectively that they make enough in immediate sales to cover the cost of the advertising.  Other times they look to recoup those expenses over a longer period by using the PPC campaign as a means of obtaining leads that they use to develop a lasting relationship with new prospects.  Other marketers focus their PPC campaigns upon gathering research and planning data that will reap benefits for years to come.  Of course, none of these objectives need exclude the other possibilities.  </p>
<p> I am writing this article to draw your attention to using pay-per-click as a research tool, although you should feel free to make a profit at the same time  (Of course this assumes that you already know how to conduct <a target="_blank" href="http://www.99sites.us/Keyword-and-Niche-Research.html">thorough keyword research</a> prior to launching your advertising campaigns.</p>
<p> *  Tracking software, such as the free Google Analytics and may commercial packages, will provide you with the exact key phrase used by all of your visitors to get to your PPC landing pages.  Obviously, if you set up your campaign properly, you know which of the phrases that you bid on are bringing the visitors, however, unless you are using only exact match phrases, that does not alert you to the precise search terms entered by your traffic.  As a simple, if lengthy, example, let’s say that you bid on a broad match phrase such as, “lamp green buy.”  (Of course, you would have the quotation marks around those words, if it is a broad match.)  You could have individual visitors who searched for “buy expensive tiffany lamp,” “buy a used green lamp in Atlanta or Marietta,” buy a green or yellow ceramic lamp” and other phrases.  Clearly those visitors are looking for very different sorts of green lamps to buy.  Based upon the search phrases that your discover and the number of people you identify using them, you may want to create new permanent pages for your site stressing those phrases.  You can work on your SEO for those pages in order to get organic search engine traffic to those new pages.  This effectively allows you to spread the cost of your pay-per-click campaign across many years.</p>
<p> *  Test your headings (headlines) on your PPC landing pages.  Set up two pages for the same ad group.  The pages should be identical in every other way except for the heading.  You might have a content management system or software that can alternate those.  It’s also very easy to simply change the landing page to the different version within your ad after you have received a sufficient number of clicks to provide your with useful data—at least 100 clicks.  Compare the conversion results from the two versions.  If there is a clear winner, keep it in the rotation and set up another test with a different alteration in the heading.</p>
<p> *  Conduct the same format test as with headlines, but test a different variable.  You may want to test listing benefits followed by features versus having the features list come before the benefits.  Or you could test one page with an image and another that has a short video display.  </p>
<p> As you perform the tests on the content of your landing pages, be certain that you do not change more than one variable at a time.  Do not change both the headline and the image at the same time, or it will be difficult for you to determine which variable it is that makes the difference in your conversion results or the relative impact of each.  (Actually, if you have some statistical sophistication, you can set up a test in which you change multiple variables at once across multiple versions of the landing page.)</p>
<p> The major point to go away from this is that you should be using your PPC campaigns to do more than bring visitors to your site and hope that they will buy something.  PPC can be expensive, so maximize your benefits from those dollars to accomplish as much as possible.  Gather data, analyze it, and act decisively based upon the results!</p>
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		<title>Web Analytics Integrated with Call Tracking to Monitor Offline Purchases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Sencio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incorporating phone tracking into a web analytics tool such as Google Analytics can give your business the boost it needs in gaining a picture of its offline conversion rate. Being able to easily monitor a vast range of incoming data such as a visitor viewing duration, most viewed pages, and a whole array of statistical [...]]]></description>
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<p>Incorporating <a target="_blank" title="phone tracking" href="http://www.adinsight.eu">phone tracking</a> into a web analytics tool such as Google Analytics can give your business the boost it needs in gaining a picture of its offline conversion rate. Being able to easily monitor a vast range of incoming data such as a visitor viewing duration, most viewed pages, and a whole array of statistical data allows you to gain a deep insight into the functionality and efficiency, and to interrogate areas of your advertising campaign that are losing you valuable advertising money. Having the data at hand, web analytics allows you to make an informed and confident decision towards reaching a higher conversion rate.</p>
<p> There is no underestimating the power and clarity that web analytics brings to any business, but what about offline telephone calls? If a large portion of a business&#8217;s revenue is generated from orders that the customer has researched online but telephoned to actually place, this means there is a blind spot in the otherwise far-seeing picture that web analytics has conducted with one&#8217;s online activity. The calls cannot be interpreted through web analytics, therefore it is impossible to make intelligent choices as to changing or maintenance of advertising campaigns. Calls resulting in sales and leads are indistinguishable in themselves from lost leads, as is the data reflecting the distribution of that revenue over the different calls themselves.</p>
<p> Phone tracking is the solution to this problem. With <a target="_blank" title="call tracking" href="http://www.adinsight.eu">call tracking</a>, call data can be processed in an intelligent manner similar to the powerful online data collection provided by web analytics tools such as Google Analytics. Call duration, conversion ratios, and other criteria is arrayed in a dashboard where it can be monitored, and as the tracking is routed instantly and the data logged, its collection poses no disruption to the customer or to your company&#8217;s sales team.</p>
<p> There are many benefits of this to the monitoring of actual purchases made from offline phone calls. The nature of a call, whether it was a lead or a sale, and the sale amount can be logged alongside other data and displayed on the dashboard. Therefore, phone tracking allows that same far-seeing picture of call sales (and the advertising generating them) available to web analytics for online conversions. The blind-spot in the picture of your business&#8217;s offline purchases is eliminated; all you have to do is watch your conversions rise.</p>
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		<title>Fresh Egg Launch Call Tracking for Google Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Sencio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and web analytics specialist Fresh Egg has developed a new conversion tracking application &#8211; CallTrackID™ &#8211; that enables telephone call tracking to be fully integrated with Google Analytics™.  In addition to email enquiries and e-commerce sales, telephone calls can now also be tracked, accurately identifying the referrer source for those telephone [...]]]></description>
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<p>Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and web analytics specialist Fresh Egg has developed a new conversion tracking application &#8211; CallTrackID™ &#8211; that enables telephone call tracking to be fully integrated with Google Analytics™. <br /> In addition to email enquiries and e-commerce sales, telephone calls can now also be tracked, accurately identifying the referrer source for those telephone calls and relating them back to the online marketing activity. This new application will prove huge value to online marketers who, in the current financial climate, are under a lot premssure to effectively track and record return on investment. CallTrackID™ additionally enables <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freshegg.com">SEO</a> agencies to finally prove that those sales calls are due to the Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC) or organic SEO work carried out as part of an integrated marketing campaign.<br /> The Fresh Egg team has spent several months working together with a telecoms provider to make CallTrackID™. The application is the brainchild of Fresh Egg SEO and analytics expert Nikki Rae and Fresh Egg&#8217;s programming team. &#8220;We always found it frustrating when we couldn&#8217;t track the success of a telephone call as part of a traffic conversion report, when telephone enquiries are arguably the most valuable conversions of all.&#8221; Nikki said.</p>
<p> CallTrackID ™ works by allowing the client to allot a unique telephone number for sales/ information enquiries depending on the visitor&#8217;s route to the site. This allows enquiries to be tracked from a variety of traffic mediums, including visitors who have taken a direct route to the site, via organic search or those who have clicked on a paid listing. Every telephone call is routed through a call management system that connects the call number with the pre-defined entry route. CallTrackID™ then integrates the telephone call information in Google Analytics™ along with existing web analytics reporting data, allowing the provision of reports and recommendations that relate precisely to a client&#8217;s total online marketing activity.</p>
<p>Media Contact:<br /> Katie Ollerenshaw<br /> Fresh Egg Public Relations<br /> Tel: 01444 241341<br /> Email: <a target="_blank" href="katie@aneelarosepr.co.uk">katie@aneelarosepr.co.uk</a></p>
<p> <strong><em>About Fresh Egg:<br /></em></strong>Fresh Egg is an award-winning web design and internet marketing business specialising in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). The company which was established in 2000 and based in Worthing, West Sussex, the company has around 25 staff and was founded by Adam Stafford, Philippa Stafford and Lee Colbran. As from March 2009, serial entrepreneur and BBC Dragon James Caan has invested in Fresh Egg through his private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw and taken the role of Chairman of a company he clearly believes has a great future.</p>
<p> The business offers a range of online marketing services including Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay Per Click advertising, email marketing, blogging, campaign microsites, content management and content production. The company&#8217;s web design and development staff are able to produce a variety of beautiful websites, all built to be as &#8216;attractive&#8217; to search engines as possible. The company produced the website for The Sanctuary Spa, awarded &#8216;website of the week&#8217; by New Media Age magazine.</p>
<p>Clients include Norwich Union, Liberty, The Sanctuary Spa, Mankind, Beauty Expert, Nationwide Vehicle Contracts, Tropical Sky, Dial-a-phone, Richard John, Model Zone and the Independent Schools Council. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freshegg.com">http://www.freshegg.com</a>.</p>
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