April 2009
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
14h 12m
English
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Chapter 26. Analyzing Success
IN THIS CHAPTER
Analyzing SEO success
Analyzing web stats
Competitive analysis
Conversion analysis
Analyzing server logs
If you want to maintain successful SEO efforts, you need to analyze what works and what doesn't, and try to extrapolate why, based on the information that you have. That information can vary, depending on how you gather it.
There are many methods for measuring the success of your SEO efforts. Some people are happy just to see their site traffic and sales rising, but if your SEO strategy is to work toward achieving a more complicated goal, you might need more ways to measure the success or failure of your efforts.
As an example, if you've implemented SEO strategies in an effort to increase the number of visitors to your site as a way of creating or improving brand recognition, you might not be as interested in the sales achieved by your SEO efforts as you are in the creation of returning visitors.
It doesn't matter if your SEO goals are monetarily based. You can create goals, and conversion values, for nonmonetary activities such as newsletter sign-ups, filling out a form, or even requesting additional information. Whatever your goals are, learning which SEO efforts work and which don't is vitally important to ensuring that you're always putting forth your best effort to reach those conversions.
Analyzing SEO Successes
You know that search engine rankings for your web site can change from week to week. Those changes can be caused by competition, ...
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