How To Evaluate Your Website’s Performance

The first step in your Internet marketing domination should be getting a website together. That means finding the right host service, the right domain name and building it up. Once you’re up and running, you’ll then be able to track and evaluate your website’s performance

The success or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals. If you don’t know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and monitoring your website, all your site will be is an online announcement that you are in business.

One of the first indicators of how well your website is working for you is finding out the quantity of visitors in a given period of time. A good baseline measurement is a month in which you have not been doing any strange offline promotional activities. However, just because hoards of folk have passed through your gates does not mean your website is successful. Typically , you would like those visitors to essentially do something there. It is similarly crucial to monitor the amount of visitors to your website who made a purchase or did something of value for you.

To find the site conversion rate, take the amount of visitors every month and work out the % of them that actually performed the action your website is set up for. As an example, if you had 1,000 hits to your website, but only 20 of them purchased your product, your website conversion rate equals 0.02 or 2%.

If your conversion rate is less than 1%, you need to look at your sales letter and consider what may be costing you sales. It could be a design issue, a layout problem, dry copywriting, bad pricing and much more.

You may either research the steps you must take to boost your search engine rankings, or employ a search engine optimization company (like us) to do the work for you. In both cases, after your have improved your search engine positions, ensure you keep on top of them by regular monitoring and adjusting of your attempts to maintain high positions.

As an example, if your goal is for the visitor to fill out a form, is this form simply accessible, or will the visitor have to go through four levels to get to it? If it is not easy to get to, you may lose the conversion.

Confirm your buttons are highly visible, and the trail to your form or ordering page quickly accessible. The goal is, naturally, to get your visitor to make a purchase or fill out your form. Website copy must be particularly geared to your website and not simply a cut ‘n’ paste  job from your company leaflet. The right copy/sales letter can make the difference between profit and loss in your business.

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Stay Ahead Of The Curve

I would like to announce that I have created a new website called http://www.fairadsnetwork.com, you can give it a peek if you’d like.

That will be the official prelaunch page. As mentioned in my forum, I have many attempts to contact Google and make sure that I can even have their name in my domain name.

I posted a thread in Mike Filsaime’s BFM forum, he was also concerned about the trade mark, but he was definitely with me on starting this site. I’ve tried calling – no live support. I’ve emailed, still waiting for response. I faxed a permission request and told them what’s going on, so I’ll be waiting for a response from that as well. I’ve searched the web and looked through their trade mark guidelines and didn’t see anywhere saying I can’t use “google” in a domain name.

In fact, I found a lot of websites having “google” in their domain, so I know it shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll still continue trying to contact them. I know some of you may not support me on this and say AdSense is growing strong and alive, that’s fine, I am not telling you to convert, just think of it as an alternative and secondary source. Think of the publicity it will get when you later see “Ads NOT by Google” instead of “Ads by Goooogle.” This will give people a good laugh and want to join in.You’re THE first to know and in the front lines of a turning curve. If you’ve missed out all the other curves or you were never in front, this is your chance.

Ben Mack has graciously accepted my offer to be my partner. Thanks, Ben.

Also, Joel Comm sent out a report on how AdSense Is Alive to argue with Scott Boulch. Read more about it here:
http://www.networkersdebut.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617

On to other things. I saw my official Alexa ranking back down to 105k from the 95k yesterday. However, my daily ranking is at 13k. This just comes to show, I’ve been away WAY too long and need to continue my promotions to bring up the Alexa ranking and bringing in more quality traffic. Seems like what I’m doing is a good start though.