search engine optimization

Six Steps to Elevating Web Analytics in Your Organization

Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , |

Six things savvy web analysts can to to raise their profile within their organizations.

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What’s Missing from Search Engine Marketing

Posted on August 27, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, high performance site analytics, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , |

First Michael Wexler holds up the mirror and asks “What Web Analytics is Missing”. Now Gerry Bavaro ponders the same thing about search engine marketing. Is there something in the water?

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Continuing the Discussion with Joseph Carrabis

Posted on July 19, 2008. Filed under: mobile web, quality, search engine optimization, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , |

I’ve been participating in a very interesting discussion with Joseph Carrabis on The Future of Web Analytics Demystified blog (thanks Joseph for your kind words :-) )

My comments to his most recent comments are posted there and here.

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Web Optimization Defined

Posted on June 18, 2008. Filed under: high performance site analytics, metrics and measurement, quality, search, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , , |

Web optimization is much bigger than increasing your Google page rank, increasing your page views, having a sexier design, identifying web analytics KPIs or any of the other facets of the prism you can name.

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The art and science of website structures

Posted on May 29, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design | Tags: , , , , , , |

If you could round up every detail there is to know about a thing – in this case a website – the only thing left to do is figure out what question you want to ask.

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Conversion Rates Revisited – The One Percent Solution

Posted on April 30, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, high performance site analytics, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Download the Conversion Rate Calculator In my last post, I noted that Coremetrics has begun releasing benchmark data collected from their ~300 clients. A couple of the stats really caught my attention: The typical conversion rate is 3.29% Conversions Where Site Search Was Used – 14.84% of consumers used site search during their visits – [...]

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Big Week for Web Analytics News

Posted on April 14, 2008. Filed under: search engine optimization, web analytics, web design | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Two big announcements in the past few days: Coremetrics Coremetrics just secured $60MM in new funding, then followed that up with an announcement that they will begin releasing benchmark data collected from their ~300 clients. Their announcement follows Google’s announcement about releasing benchmark data. Some interesting stats from Coremetrics: 22.41% of visitors left retail sites [...]

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Top Four Characteristics of the Optimal Web Team

Posted on February 13, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, content management, high performance site analytics, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , , |

It doesn’t take too much reading and talking to people to recognize just how fragmented the various web management related disciplines are within organizations. This was recently reinforced by the results of the two surveys I did – “Where in the Organization is the Web Analyst” and “What in the Organization does the Web Analyst Do”.

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Web Analytics 2.0 – How to Get over Information Intoxication

Posted on November 18, 2007. Filed under: accessibility, multiplicity, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Information intoxication – it’s that state we find ourselves in today where we have miles and miles of data about our site visitors. We’re swimming in an ocean of data, drinking it in as fast as we can. But the real question is: Is the data any good? Site owners are beginning to realize that [...]

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Judge Allows Accessibility Suit to Proceed

Posted on October 4, 2007. Filed under: accessibility, search, search engine optimization, web analytics | Tags: , , , , |

To update a previous story, a federal judge in California has certified the suit brought by National Federation of the Blind against Target, and rejected Target’s motion for summary judgement. The progress of this case will be closely watched. If NFB prevails, the issue of accessibility will extend past federal and state agencies and become [...]

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