{"id":1700,"date":"2014-08-13T04:53:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T04:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2020-02-15T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T22:11:09","slug":"analytics-help-chart-marketing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/blog\/analytics-help-chart-marketing-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytics Help Chart Your Marketing Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know the navigator on an ocean racing yacht that races from Victoria, British Columbia to Maui, Hawaii every few years. The navigator\u2019s job is to obtain&nbsp;data and use analytics to determine the course&nbsp;that allows the yacht&nbsp;to use the best winds possible to get the fastest boat speed. The optimal&nbsp;race route is never a straight line between Victoria to Maui, the course is continually adjusted to get the best boat speed and to minimize risk of running out of wind or sailing into tropical storms. While the rest of the crew is responsible for getting the best boat speed possible on the navigator\u2019s compass heading, the navigator is focused on positioning the boat to take advantage of the weather that lies ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The navigator has a lot of data at his disposal: navigation charts, weather maps delivered via satellite communications, GPS positions, and polar plots that show boat speed based on wind direction. These tools, combined with experience and intuition, allow the modern ocean navigator to make the best decisions possible for his yacht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the navigator, today\u2019s marketer has a variety of tools available to analyze the performance of marketing campaigns and make adjustments to optimize future conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern marketing analytics technology allows you to accurately measure&nbsp;the effectiveness of campaigns and ongoing marketing programs. The ability to show a return on your marketing investment provides a clear path to increased revenues, which generates a lot of excitement in both the sales and marketing departments as well as the C-Suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Data is useless, however, if it isn&#8217;t used to make better decisions. Data collection and reporting should be kept as simple as possible and drive real decisions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Don&#8217;t measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you&#8217;re not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don&#8217;t get on the scale. &#8211; Seth Godin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The two most important reasons to collect marketing analytical information are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 10px 30px 20px;\">\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Continuous Improvement: <\/strong>Learn what is working well an d what isn&#8217;t so you can continually improve your marketing programs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prove the Value of Marketing:&nbsp;<\/strong>Being able to measure the effectiveness of marketing programs allows you to justify marketing expenditures to your clients or the C-Suite. [\/symbol_text]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Analytics can play a big role in showing what is working and what is not in your marketing programs. <b>This article illustrates some of the data that is available to the marketer just by implementing Google Analytics on the company web site.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: This article assumes you have Google Analytics installed on your web site. If you don\u2019t, or you\u2019re not sure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/contact\/\">contact me<\/a> and I can take a quick look at your website and provide some advice on how to proceed. Google also provides a good starting guide at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/1008015?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Getting Started with Analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audience Overview Analytics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Audience Overview report provides a snapshot of your web traffic. This sample report&nbsp;shows the daily traffic on a B2B company website. The traffic shows a consistent weekly pattern of low traffic on weekends and higher weekday traffic. This type of cycle is fairly common for B2B businesses, but every company has a unique audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide is-style-default\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Audience_Overview_Analytics1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1408\" height=\"657\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Audience_Overview_Analytics1.png\" alt=\"Audience_Overview_Analytics\" class=\"wp-image-1731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Audience_Overview_Analytics1.png 1408w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Audience_Overview_Analytics1-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Audience_Overview_Analytics1-720x336.png 720w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Audience_Overview_Analytics1-1150x537.png 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You will also get a feel of what is normal for your website, in particular:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>pages\/session<\/li><li>average session duration<\/li><li>bounce rate<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong>session<\/strong> is group of interactions during a given time frame by a particular visitor. It is basically a unique visit to your web site. If a persons visits your web site for a few minutes each day for three days in a row, this is one unique visitor, or user, and three sessions. Google Analytics sets the session to end after 30 minutes of inactivity by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong>bounce<\/strong> is when somebody visits your web site and only views one page. A high <strong>bounce rate<\/strong> indicates that the page the visitor lands on is not relevant to them. You&#8217;ll read more about bounce rates further on under <a title=\"Landing pages Report helps to understand visitor's first impression\" href=\"#LandingPages\">Landing Pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you get used to your normal patterns, deviances will jump out at you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Audience Overview analytics report provides an overall feel for how things are going, it does not directly provide actionable data. You need to dig into a few more reports to get information you can use to improve things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acquisition Overview Analytics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Acquisition Overview report gives you a great snapshot of what is leading traffic to your website. This should, to some degree, reflect your marketing efforts, particular channels such as Social Media, Email, and Referral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide is-style-default\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Acquisition_Overview_Analytics1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1546\" height=\"725\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Acquisition_Overview_Analytics1.png\" alt=\"Acquisition_Overview_Analytics\" class=\"wp-image-1730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Acquisition_Overview_Analytics1.png 1546w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Acquisition_Overview_Analytics1-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Acquisition_Overview_Analytics1-720x338.png 720w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Acquisition_Overview_Analytics1-1150x539.png 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1546px) 100vw, 1546px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Referrals are links on other web sites to your web site. Google search algorithms tend to reward web pages that have a lot of external references, so a lot of referral traffic will likely drive more Organic Search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Direct Traffic analytics data is difficult to fully understand. Direct traffic includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>clicking a link in a personal email<\/li><li>typing in the website URL directly or with autocompletion<\/li><li>using a &nbsp;bookmarked links<\/li><li>Traffic from offline marketing efforts such as direct mail, brochures, outdoor banners, and other advertising channels.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In some situations traffic from search engines may also be incorrectly reported as direct traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offline advertising efforts may also cause the prospect to type in your company name in a web search, further complicating efforts to determine the real source of the traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that there is no Conversion information in the above Acquisition Overview sample report. Measuring Conversions requires setting up a Goal such as signing up for a newsletter, filling out a form to download a white paper, or completing a sale in an ecommerce site. Measuring conversions is extremely important and not that difficult to implement. This article is discussing only the information you obtain by merely installing Google Analytics on your web site. Goals and Conversions will be discussed in a future blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action Item:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Compare the channels where you&#8217;re spending your marketing time and budget with the channels that are driving traffic to your web site.<\/strong> Using the Acquisition Overview report, identify channels that you may be able to cut back on and channels where you should be spending more resources.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Behavior &gt; Site Content &gt; All Pages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The All Pages report report shows the traffic on each page on your web site. I generally look at the top 25 pages, you can change the number of pages displayed using the \u201cShow rows\u201d drop down at the bottom of the report. It is pretty common for the home page, represented as \u201c\/\u201d on the report, as being the most common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1408\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Behavior_Site-Content_All-Pages_Analytics1b.png\" alt=\"Behavior Site Content Google Analytics\" class=\"wp-image-3834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Behavior_Site-Content_All-Pages_Analytics1b.png 1408w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Behavior_Site-Content_All-Pages_Analytics1b-150x78.png 150w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Behavior_Site-Content_All-Pages_Analytics1b-720x374.png 720w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Behavior_Site-Content_All-Pages_Analytics1b-768x399.png 768w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Behavior_Site-Content_All-Pages_Analytics1b-1150x598.png 1150w, https:\/\/www.modernostrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Behavior_Site-Content_All-Pages_Analytics1b-570x296.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things I look at when reviewing this report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Traffic on recent blog posts<\/li><li>The most popular pages for the last week as well as the last couple of months<\/li><li>Average Time on Page<\/li><li>% Exit<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the heading \u201cAvg. Time on Page\u201d to sort the items from the longest time to shortest. Ignore any pages that have just a few visits because they are probably anomalies. Look at the types of pages and blog posts that seem to have long view durations. People are finding them very useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"anchor wp-block-heading\" id=\"LandingPages\">Behavior &gt; Site Content &gt; Landing Pages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A Landing Page is the first page a person \u201clands\u201d on when going to your website. This Google Analytics report is basically the same as the All Pages report. Typical landing pages are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Your home page<\/li><li>A popular blog post that shows up in a Google search<\/li><li>A landing page created for a specific campaign<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When reviewing Landing Pages the first things I pay attention to is <b>Bounce Rate<\/b>. and <b>Pages \/ Session<\/b>. Landing pages with lower bounce rates and higher pages per session are working for you. Pay close attention to pages with high bounce rates and a high number of visitors. While it is possible you may identify problems with the page, it could be that visitors that are not in your target audience are viewing your page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The landing page is the first impression a prospect has of your company, and it frequently is not your home page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Action Items<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Make a list of things that the most engaging pages and blog posts have in common.<\/strong> The engaging posts are the ones with&nbsp;many page visits, longer than average time spent on page, and a lower exit percentage.<\/li><li><strong>Make a list of the common characteristics of high traffic pages with a high exit percentage or bounce rate.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Make a plan of action to address the low performing pages.<\/strong> You might edit them, make an effort not to drive traffic to them, or even remove them completely.<\/li><li><strong>Create a prioritized list of new content, both new pages and blog posts<\/strong>, that will implement the lessons learned from the best performing pages.<\/li><li><strong>Check that the home page is getting less than 50% of your web site entrances.<\/strong> If it is at 75% or higher, you should create a long term plan to develop more useful content on your site.<\/li><li><strong>Review all your top landing pages<\/strong> and ensure that:\n<ul>\n<li>The overall <em>appearance is pleasing<\/em>, that<\/li>\n<li>There is <em>useful content<\/em><\/li>\n<li>It is <em>easy to navigate to other useful pages<\/em> (except in the case of a campaign landing page with a singular Call to Action), and<\/li>\n<li>There is<em> one or more Call to Actions<\/em> that you\u2019d like the new visitor to do.<\/li>\n<li><em>Contact information is obvious<\/em> so the visitor can reach you if they\u2019re ready to engage further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Reports to Explore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside some time to explore to wealth of marketing information that Google Analytics provides. Here\u2019s a few extra items to get your started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Intelligence Events<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Intelligence Events quickly show you traffic on your web site that is outside the norm. It could show your a particularly useful blog post that generated a lot of additional traffic, a popular promotion, or a significant drop in website traffic for some unknown reason. It can be very useful to check Intelligence Events on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audience &gt; Geo &gt; Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This Analytics report is useful to check to see whether the people visiting your website are potential prospects. For example, if you have a retail store that does not cater to travellers, you\u2019ll want to check that you are getting visitors from your local area. If this isn\u2019t the case, you may want to reconsider your current marketing strategy. You may need to create more geographic specific content, target your prospects differently, or create an online store that is complementary to your physical store to reach a larger audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When using the Location report, Google Analytics makes it easy to drill into specific geographical areas by clicking on the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audience &gt; Mobile &gt; Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>People are using mobile devices to access emails and visit websites with increasing frequency. This report gives you great information to see how important mobile friendliness is to your web site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>If the bounce rate is significantly higher on mobile devices than desktop computers you have a significant problem that will only be getting worse over time if you don\u2019t resolve it.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How big the problem is right now can be determined by using the percentage of sessions using a desktop (which includes laptop computers) or a mobile device. ( I typically consider a tablet computer as a mobile device but Google Analytics breaks them out separately.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Web sites being redesigned or implemented today should use responsive design techniques that allow the web site to work equally well on a mobile device as it does on a desktop computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Pages \/ Session<\/b> and <b>Average Session Duration<\/b> are also important measures to determine how mobile friendly your web site is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Steps to Improve Your Analytics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the ocean navigator that uses a variety of data to plan future actions, Google Analytics provides a variety of data that will allow you to make better marketing decisions. This article has only scratched the surface of leveraging marketing analytics to drive better decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are other topics you might want to explore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Track the performance of marketing campaigns<\/li><li>Setting up Goals<\/li><li>Attach to Google Webmaster Tools account<\/li><li>Customer Segments:<\/li><li>AdWords<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-background-background-color\"> Leveraging the power of Google Analytics requires you to be consistent when naming your campaigns and marketing channels. Get the free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.getdrip.com\/forms\/719845812\/submissions\/new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moderno Campaign URL Builder<\/a>, available for both Google Drive and Microsoft Excel, to easily measure your online and offline campaign effectiveness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the navigator on an ocean racing yacht that races from Victoria, British Columbia to Maui, Hawaii every few years. 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