Analytics

Nov 20 2009

The IT guys are mumbling things you don't understand, the marketing folks are pushing hard for more sales, advertising budgets are falling under the knife, and your company's web site is under the gun to carry a bigger load

So the fingers start pointing and the ideas start flying: online promotions, graphic redesign, a "fresh look", new content, SEM, SEO, organic search, PPC, and other buzz words you've never even heard of.

What should you do to improve leads, sales, and your web site's performance?

Analytics
Nov 16 2008

...look out Google Analytics?

Not likely.

Sorry Yahoo!, but the track record hasn't been so hot lately. The cultural differences between Yahoo! and Google are painfully obvious and apparently unchangeable for poor Yahoo!. The big Panama PPC admin system relaunch hasn't panned out and made for a better management experience. Their copy of the Adsense program still isn't as good as the original. Ergo - I have to believe the product life cycle for Yahoo! Analytics will be similarly reactionary and half hearted.

Analytics, Yahoo!
May 10 2007

Google has provided website owners its Google Analytics website traffic tracking and analysis tool for free for quite some time now. When we heard that they were about to put a new face on what was already an excellent analytics tool I must admit that some of our clients and I were quite skeptical about how such a great offering could be improved upon and remain free. Oh how our skepticism was unfounded!

Analytics, Google