Analytics

  • Down Time at Your Website

    Down Time at Your Website

    If you’re a retail outfit, especially one with a brick and mortar presence, you’re probably too busy or too exhausted to be reading this. Otherwise, you’re probably just about to have some down time at your website. Not time when your website is down — that’s never a good thing — but time when the…

  • Negative SEO

    Negative SEO

    What is negative SEO? It’s a type of attack on your website that makes you look like you’re using black hat SEO techniques to improve your rankings. For example, your arch enemy could buid lots of questionable links to your website, hack your site and delete your authority pages, or introduce duplicate content. It looks…

  • Sorting Paid and Organic Traffic

    Sorting Paid and Organic Traffic

    Traffic is a useful metric for almost all websites. A healthy, well-optimized, managed website will see traffic growth over time, whereas a site that has just been launched and ignored won’t. But what if you’ve been relying on paid search — Google Ads — for your traffic? How can you tell if new SEO and…

  • Google Analytics Data Retention

    Google Analytics Data Retention

    On May 25, 2018, Google Analytics data retention rules will go into effect. may 25 is also the GDPR deadline. This may or may not be a coincidence. But U.S. users of Google Analytics who aren’t even thinking about GDPR will still be affected by this change. You might have received a notice about this…

  • Sessions and Users: Google Analytics

    Sessions and Users: Google Analytics

    Two of the primary metrics in Google Analytics are Sessions and Users. If you still tend to think in terms of Hits, you may find this a bit of an adjustment. What’s a Session? What’s a User? A Session is a visit — someone has come to see our website. This could be a visit…

  • Google Analytics Audience Overview

    Google Analytics Audience Overview

    How many of your patients or clients visit your website? How do they find you? Which pages do they go to? Which ones do they share on social media? Are you seeing more traffic over time? How long do visitors stay at your website, and how many pages do they read? Google Analytics will tell…