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Measuring Marketing: Internet Measures image

With marketing increasingly moving toward Internet programs, it’s no surprise that the Internet will offer many of the tools for results measurement. Below we will identify Internet measures including website statistics, Urchin Tracking Modules or UTMs, and other measures. Make sure to check out the other blogs in our measuring marketing series including traditional measures and social media measures. Website Statistics All website hosting providers offer website statistics for a website domain. Other advanced statistics are available, however, we recommend Google Analytics, which provides: Site and page level traffic information Visits and Pageviews Pages/Visit Bounce Rate Average Time on Site (stickiness) Traffic Source Geographic information Below is a typical Google Analytics dashboard Urchin Tracking Modules Urchin Tracking Modules or UTMs offer powerful measurement opportunities. UTMs are used to add extra information to ...

Bad SEO: Blackhat Techniques Are a NO NO! image

Search engine optimization or SEO that employs so-called Blackhat SEO techniques is a NO-NO! These aggresive and unethical techniques are used in an effort to improve rankings of a particular website. On blackhat SEO techniques Google says, “In the pursuit of higher rankings or traffic, a few sites use techniques that don’t benefit users, where the intent is to look for shortcuts or loopholes that would rank pages higher than they deserve to be ranked.” How does Google deliver search results? Google crawls, indexes, and serves your website in search results. Google describes crawling as “the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index”. Then, “Googlebot processes each of the pages it ...

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