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Which Tool Helps You Measure The Success Of Your Website?

Running a successful business in today's digital world requires that your company have a high-quality website. The design and ease-of-use of your website can speak volumes about your business. It gives your business credibility. Prospective clients will perceive it as trustworthy and professional. As you know, when it comes to business, perception is everything. 

However, you can only have a website when you have secured a domain name. And in our experience, good domains are not very easy to come by, so you may have to buy a parked one. At this point, it’s probably a good time to look for answers to questions like what does a parked domain mean? Additionally, once your website is up and running, you’ll need to learn SEO and track site performance. Simply creating a website and hoping for the best won’t cut it. 

So, which tool helps you measure the success of your website? You're likely to come across a bunch of tools online that promise to help you monitor your website’s performance. But the Google Analytics and Search Console tools are hands down the best of the bunch. The tool analyzes the impact of your website content cost-effectively.

Let's unpack its benefits further. 

Improve Your Search Engine Optimization Rankings

The key to tracking your website performance lies in the content you put out. Analyzing the impact of your website content is crucial to determine if you're reaching your marketing goals as a business. Is the content attracting your target audience, resonating with your niche, and encouraging engagement? To ensure this, you'll need to invest in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Here, you're optimizing your website to get higher rankings in search engines. In simple terms, the idea is for your content to pop up when consumers search it on their browsers. 

Analytics tools are effective at monitoring search engine rankings and identifying the best pages on your website. Using this information, you’re now in a better position to ascertain which content to keep, adjust, or scrap. So, whether your goal is to grow your brand visibility online or increase traffic, using an analytics tool will help you nitpick every area of your content marketing strategy.

Track Online Traffic

As mentioned, one of the goals of having a website is to attract your niche or at least reach them. Knowing whether you're indeed attracting traffic to your website is paramount for business continuity. It’s also vital to understand where your visitors are coming from. Traffic on a website can come from various sources, such as search engines, social media platforms, referral websites linked to yours, email marketing, or paid advertising campaigns. The list is endless. Once you know your source of traffic, it will help you track the effectiveness of your marketing strategies or where to concentrate your efforts. You can't gather such information without competent tools. The best analytics tools will help you track such information and give you valuable stats to consider.

Track Conversions

We’ve established that having a business website is necessary to build brand awareness, credibility, and attract visitors, among other factors. But at the end of the day, you’re in it to make a profit. So, we speak for many business owners when we say that after all is said and done, they want to see a shift in their bottom line for the better.

An analytics tool will help you calculate your Return on Investment (ROI). To ascertain this, you'll need to know if your current marketing strategies translate to actual sales. That's why you need to be aware of what users do once they land on your page. 

However, we will mention that conversion tracking in the strictest sense isn’t just about monitoring sales. Depending on which stage you are in your business, you may be looking to track leads, brochure downloads, registrations, or video views on your website. An analytics tool effectively monitors such conversions so you can check if your website is meeting your specific goals. 

Conclusion

Several factors go into measuring the success of your website, depending on your current business goal. It could be anything from encouraging brand awareness if you're a startup to increasing traffic to your site through improved SEO. Or you may be looking to improve conversions, be it sales, leads, or registrations. Whatever the case, there are various analytics tools to help you analyze and measure the success of your website effectively.

Kyle Roof

About the author

Kyle is best known for revealing the “secret” hidden in plain sight: Google’s algorithm is an algorithm. In other words, it all comes down to one thing - Math. Kyle demonstrated this by ranking number one in Google with a page consisting of gibberish text and only a handful of target keywords. Google actually punished him for exposing their algorithm by de-indexing 20 of his test sites and creating a rule in an attempt to de-value his efforts. Kyle has spent the past several years running more than 400 scientific SEO tests to better understand Google's algo. The combined results of those tests became the backbone of the popular SEO tool, PageOptimizer Pro, and they are implemented within his SEO agency on client sites. Kyle also shares his techniques in podcasts, at conferences around the world, and within the platform he co-founded, IMG, a sort of Netflix for SEOs with an active community aspect.