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Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition
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Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

by Bruce Clay, Kristopher B. Jones
February 2022
Beginner
768 pages
21h 8m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Tracking Behavior with Web Analytics

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Measuring website usability

Bullet Getting a handle on conversion tracking

Bullet Tracking the success of your SEO project

Bullet Analyzing rankings

To properly do web analytics, you need to gather your data. But web analytics is not just about collecting data. It’s about collecting your data in such a way that you can read it, understand it, and use it to make the necessary changes to your website. In this chapter, you discover several ways to gather analytics data.

You have to measure your website’s usability in order to figure out whether your web design works for your users and brings you those conversions. Next we talk about conversion tracking. Is your site getting the number of conversions you want? Conversion tracking helps you measure not just the final number of conversions but where people drop off before they make the final conversion.

To track the success of your SEO project, you need to monitor your keywords and your search engine rankings, whether they’re at the place they need to be, and whether your traffic is increasing ...

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