Search Engines Optimization (SEO) is the art of bringing your website on top of the Google search results, where it can be found by potential customers. Once your website is up and running, you might want to consider using the following Google Website Optimization Tools to get the most of your investment. By Alain Houle, Alco Web Design LLC, Appleton Wisconsin Google Business Profile (AKA Google My Business)
Google maintains a directory of all businesses around the world and relies heavily on it when returning search results. If you have a website, Google probably already knows about your business. But for maximal ranking on the search results, you need to formally claim your Google business listing and make sure all related details are accurate and thorough. Creating and managing your Google Business profile is relatively easy, totally free, and does not require any changes to your website. Here are a few useful links:
Google Search Console (AKA Google Webmaster Tools) Google Search Console provides detailed information about the health of your website, highlighting technical issues and security concerns. Correcting those issues will ensure that all your web pages are properly scanned and indexed by Google. Google Search Console is a free service, but it requires minor changes to your website. Here are more details: Google Analytics Google Analytics provides powerful tools to understand your visitors’ origin, behaviors, trends, and patterns while visiting your website. This information can be used to optimize the performance of your website. Google Analytics is a free service, but it requires a Google account, an initial setup, and minor changes to your website. Here are a few useful links:
About Alco Web Design Alco Web Design provides small business website design and SEO services for a professional and cost-effective presence on the web. We are a small business and understand the needs of small business owners. We provide personalized and dedicated services, and you ALWAYS deal directly with the owner. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss how the Google Website Optimization Tools could benefit your business.
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As an online retailer it’s very important for you to know where the visitors to your site are coming from, what pages they are navigating to and the actions they are taking, once they are on the site. Having a view of this information and being able to analyze that information will help you shape your business website in a much better way to your customer’s needs. There are a number of instances in which even very expensive-looking websites will fail miserably while some very simple and basic ones will succeed. So why exactly does this occur? By Alain Houle, Alco Web Design LLC The Relevance of Analysis
The main reason is because the sites that are successful help their visitors meet the main reason for their visit without any kind of fuss. A large percentage of sites either underperform or fail because they do not focus on the business objectives of their sites and do not measure the performance of their online platform against their target audience. This is where website analysis comes into the picture. A good web design and development company will also always provide website analysis services. In-Sync with Your Audience The software shows you how successful you have been in meeting the objective of your site. It will also reveal exactly which of the marketing channels are functioning & which ones aren’t; the pages or sections of your site that are popular and which ones your visitors are avoiding. When you have all this information, the company that is helping you with online marketing will then draw out a detailed marketing strategy and alter certain elements of your website so that it actually works for your business. Local Marketing Strategy If certain marketing channels do not seem to be working for you, it’s best to abandon them and focus on the ones that are giving you more visitors and business. In addition to these functions, website analysis tools are also able to capture the geographical location of your customers and if you are using Local SEO and targeting local customers, you will also get a view about how well the strategy is working. As an online marketer, you have to learn to be flexible and adaptable and it’s also very important to have a very good online marketing partner to help you with Web Analytics. For more information, contact us or visit our website, www.alcowebdesign.com. Google Analytics is an analysis and statistics tracking service that gives website administrators the functionality to analyze the flow of website traffic. There are numerous hosting solutions that have similar software but Google Analytics tops them on all fronts. By Alain Houle, Alco Web Design LLC One of the most notable features of this service is its ability to actually flag some pages as “goals”. This function is very useful in Internet marketing. Irrespective of what the purpose of your website is, Google Analytics will help in making it better.
The Benefits One of the simplest methods of finding out if a site is doing well, is to track the number of visitors. Though this information is valuable, it does not really tell us anything about what your visitors are navigating when they visit your site. But Google Analytics helps in numerous ways and has some distinct advantages:
Google Analytics is online analyzing made easy. It’s a great way to keep track of how your business is doing and in developing new website marketing, SEO and search engine marketing strategies. For additional details about Google Analytics, feel free to contact me or visit my website at www.alcowebdesign.com. |
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