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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Getting Down to Business With Your Website Page Performance Data

By Marc Dillon


If you are serious about making money with your website online, raw server logs for site performance is just not enough. This information is referred to as site metrics. This simply means website data that is being measured. When you look at this information, it should tell you so much more. It is important to know, in regard to your website, who is coming to visit. Tracking is so important. You need to be aware of every move the visitor makes. Capturing this information is the only way you will know the truth, and it is the only intelligent way you can make decisions.

When you begin to do review sites, you'll notice that your job will be much easier when you find reviews on the product that are already done. A great place to check for reviews of physical products as Amazon; there are other places to check as well. Although other reviews are available, let's start with Amazon. You need to get information about similar products from the same company if there are not enough product reviews on what you are focusing on. Never plagiarize! Just use the information as a guideline and write everything in your own words. While reading these reviews, you'll simply use the content there, some of which may not agree with at all. If so, then write about that and explain why you may disagree with it.

Google's keyword research tool has earned an awful reputation for being inaccurate. Google has long been known to present the public with numbers that are over-estimations of their search volumes. There has been talk that they've been working to address the problems but so far no real changes are seen. So, bear in mind that your traffic may be totally normal and you optimized or chose keywords using misleading information. You are not alone--a lot of people have been hurt by this information.

If you have all of your metrics put together it is important to look at every individual page and figure out its bounce rate. If you send the majority of your traffic to a specific page, you need to look at that page first. If you have an unacceptably high bounce rate, then either your traffic is not well-targeted or something is wrong on your page - or both. It's important to make sure that you target your traffic so that it is the most high quality traffic possible. After you've gotten traffic that makes you happy, you need to go over your page to see what the real problem might be. Then you make the necessary changes and continue testing--it's really the only way to go about doing this.

In addition to the review site suggestions discussed here, today, you can still do more. A great idea is to just sit back and think about new ways to be more creative than ever. So, for instance, you can combine all of the above along with the more traditional review site strategies used for years. Just do whatever you want, and test them as you go along. Testing is your best friend, especially as you create new things to try.




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