analytics Tag

22 Jul

Posted at 21:50h in Get know Invicta

Event Tracking is one of the coolest features of Google Analytics in my opinion. For those who are unfamiliar, Event Tracking allows you to measure any event that occurs while your visitors browse your site. All you have to do is add the following code to whatever you want to track. For instance if you wanted to track a how often a link is clicked, you would make your a tag look like this:   <a href="page.php" onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Category', 'Action', 'Label']);">click here</a>   For example, you could track the number of times a particular button is clicked. If a website has several call to action buttons on its landing page, it is useful to know which of the buttons are being clicked. By applying Event Tracking to each of the buttons, this metric can be easily ascertained. The data begins to appear in the Events tab in Google Analytics. The 3 values 'Category', 'Action', and 'Label' can be whatever keywords you want. Google Analtyics sorts and aggregates your data based on these keywords. Real power users can take it a step further create Goals based on these Events. More on that later. ...

06 Apr

Posted at 22:07h in Get know Invicta

I love it when things work. Especially when it's over 100 lines of javascript and php that I found on Google and pasted into my project. And thats exactly what happened when I found this little ditty put together by Jay Are. If you are using OsCommerce, you really ought to be tracking your Ecommerce Analytics, and you can do so using the code found here:   http://blog.jayare.eu/e-commerce-tracking-in-oscommerce-with-new-google-analytics-tracking-code.html...

01 Sep

Posted at 19:28h in Get know Invicta

Looking at Google Analytics recently, I saw that the site I was studying was experiencing bounce rates of 30% to 50%. A bounce is when a visitor arrives at a web page and then leaves within 10 seconds. A visitor to a website is a valuable thing. SEO or PPC efforts, traditional media, word of mouth, networking, etc, go into attracting these visitors to the website, so it makes sense to focus on how to get these visitors to actually engage in the website. If one could reduce a web page's bounce rate in half, you could argue that that effectively doubles the traffic (in terms of engaged viewers who might convert to a lead or a sale.) Here are a couple of ways to reduce bounce rate:   1) Learn what the visitors are looking for, and then create a message that speaks to their specific desires. Let's hypothetically say that a page is getting most of its traffic through organic search engine queries. By studying the keyword phrases that these visitors are searching for when they arrive, you can understand what they want to find. Constructing a welcome message that speaks specifically to that desire means that the visitor will probably stick around for a bit, and maybe even check out some of the other pages.   2) Use call to action buttons. The internet is an endless sea of information, yet often it can be difficult to find exactly what you are looking for, or maybe you are looking at what you were seeking, and just don't know it. What you want is a big shiny button to call out to you, saying "click me". Using a call to action can draw visitors into a site, and once that have invested in browsing to a second page, they will be much more...