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 Google Analytics Free SEO Tool     Google offers a free tool to track and analyze information about your website called Google Analytics.  The information that can be generated from this tool is very helpful for search engine marketing efforts.  If you have some very basic web skills, you can sign up for Google Analytics and begin monitoring and tracking information about your website.  Access Google Analytics here, enter your Google account email and password, or sign up for a free Google account here.  Then you will be given a piece of html code that you’ll need to add to the html code for each page of your website.  This may sound difficult, but it’s actually pretty easy, even for those who may be technologically impaired. 

      Don’t worry, you won’t see any website design changes to your website pages once you add this little bit of html code.  But this code will allow Google to track visitors and their patterns while visiting your website.  Once Google Analytics has a little time to track and process statistics (a few months or more should give you some pretty reliable trends), you will get a wealth of information about visitors to your website, all which will be helpful for future search engine marketing.  Here are some of the statistics that Google Analytics will generate for you, and all will be generated over any period of time you wish to analyze, from a single day to a month, quarter or year.

  •  Site Visitors:  total visitors, unique visitors, pageviews, average pageviews per visitor, average amount of time spent by each visitor, browsers your visitors are using, internet connection speed your visitors are using, geographic location of your visitors
  • Traffic sources (where visitors are coming from):  direct traffic (typing in your URL), referrals from other website links (websites noted), or from search engines (search engines and keywords noted)
  • Content:  which pages are being viewed and how many times, top landing pages, top exit pages, where are visitors navigating to and from between pages

     You can use the information generated from Google Analytics any way you want: just as general information on how your website is used, to help optimize your website for higher organic search engine rankings, or to launch your own search engine advertising campaign.  Good luck!

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Yahoo Direct Mail 1Yahoo Direct Mail 2Omni received a direct mail piece from Yahoo! Search Marketing recently.  It’s a pretty slick piece encouraging advertising agencies to sign up and use Yahoo! and their team of experts for online marketing strategies.  The fun part is the push-button included in the piece that delivers the Yahoo! jingle, you know the yodel “YAHOOOOOOOO”.  Yahoo Direct Mail 3My co-workers love it when I continue to push the Yahoo button and that annoying, LOUD yodel reverberates through the entire workspace for all to hear (I can’t help myself, it’s too fun!).  I found it interesting to see new media (Yahoo!) utilizing traditional media (direct mail) to promote their services from business to business.  Even Yahoo! knows that traditional media is not dead, as many internet marketers would like to claim, but is still a viable option to reach the target audience. 

 

I also know that both traditional and newer media can be effective in communicating our clients’ messages, and we work to develop strategies using all different kinds and combinations of media that will be effective based on the marketing goals, target audience and client budget.   The only fault I find with this Yahoo! direct mailing is that we already utilize Yahoo! Search Marketing.  This direct mail piece probably cost quite a bit to produce and mail, and Omni already knows the potential and benefits of search engine marketing as part of an overall campaign strategy.  So maybe a little bit of Yahoo’s direct mail budget was wasted?

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blogosphereBlogs are a form of social media gaining speed and popularity; more and more people are using blogs to research and find information from peers rather than directly from businesses.  The reputation of a business, service or product can be made or broken based upon blog chatter.  Are you monitoring the blogosphere to see what is being said about your business or product?  If a business is on top of what is being said, then that business can respond professionally and quickly to stop any negative publicity that might be building before any serious or permanent damage is done.  Staying on top of your blog reputation and responding quickly and professionally to problems or negative comments will always help to make a business look smart and attuned to their current and potential customers.

 

There are many tools available to help monitor blog topics and stay ahead of the public relations curveball.  Technorati is an excellent blog search engine.  Once registered for an account at Technorati, you can sign up to receive information on any blog subject or topic of your choice through the extras section of your account with watchlists. You can even subscribe to an RSS feed for your watchlists to have information downloaded to your computer as it becomes available.  Google Alerts is another great way to stay up-to-date on any information that pops up on the internet.  Through Google Alerts, you can sign up to receive emails about any subject matter you want to monitor.  Just be careful with both of these services to specify exactly what kind of information you want to receive.  If you choose to receive information for the general topic carpet cleaning, you may receive more information than you can possible process.  But if you subscribe to receive information about “Domingo Carpet Cleaning” and include quotations around your subject matter, you should receive only information that contains those exact words in that particular order, which should weed out a lot of unnecessary information.

 

Check it out, it’s a wise investment of your time and energy for the benefit of your business.

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