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How To Actually Track Your Success

How To Actually Track Your Success

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In marketing, numbers are everything. You can't manage what you can't measure. However, tracking your success online can be a daunting task -- especially with all the terms and jargons that you have to learn. Don't worry, this is just in the beginning. Tracking your success online is not a Herculean task, it's just that there's a learning curve.

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How To Actually

Track Your Success

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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t

MeasureIn marketing, numbers are everything!

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Tracking Your Success Online May Be Confusing

There are a lot of jargon, terms and different tracking metrics.

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They’re Not As Daunting As You Might Think

They’re just...new.

The Internet, as a platform for marketing, is fairly new—and with that comes new terms, phrases, and words as well as methods for measuring success.

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Google Analytics: A Tool You Can’t Live Without

If you don’t have it yet on your website, sign up today!

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Key Google Analytics Metrics To Track Your Success

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Bounce Rate

• The percentage of people who visited a page on your site but left (“bounced”) without moving onto another page.

• In the strictest sense, a high bounce rate is not ideal, but this doesn’t necessarily apply in all cases.

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Sessions• Counts how many times a user

interacts with your content for a given period of time.

• A high average is ideal, but it will really depend on the purpose of your website.

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Time on Site

• This can measure how engaging your site is.

• Take note that not all pages are meant to have a high time on site.

• This is a good way to determine whether or not your content is able to capture the attention of your audience.

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New Vs. Returning Users

• Measures how many people who are visiting your

website are new and how many people are returning.

• While drawing new site visitors to your website is essential, measuring how

many people come back to your website is also

important.

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Tracking Unique Users

• Track your site’s unique users month-to-month.

• If you observe an increase in your unique users for the month, check to see what elements are contributing to this.

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Your Seriously Simple Marketing Hack

1. Go to www.alexa.com

2. At the bottom of the landing page, type in the name of a particular website—it can be any website you frequently visit, the biggest brand in your industry, or a competing site.

3. Review the results and study the factors that contributed to their site’s success. Understanding the results you want means gaining a better perspective on the steps that you need to take to achieve them.