Comments on: Don’t Make ANY Changes Based on Web Analytics Until You READ THIS FIRST

By: Andy @ Top ten web analytics

Andy @ Top ten web analytics — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:48:22 +0000

“When you start driving traffic from Social Networking sites you may see greatly increased traffic, much higher bounce rates, and a decline in overall conversion rates.”

You are right, traffic from social networking sites is of very less value, most of the times its the bots that visit. You will see hardly any conversions with that sort of traffic.

By: steve@electric dog fence

steve@electric dog fence — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:40:11 +0000

“What it APPEARS to show and what is REALLY true are rarely the same” is not the case with analytic because there are many manipulation done in the analytic.Cheers

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By: Bounce Rate, What Is It?

Bounce Rate, What Is It? — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:04:58 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with this post. One addition I’d like to make is the Website I mention in this post. This is an interesting angle on bounce rate that talks about very similar things that you are talking about in this blog.

Ps: Thanks for posting great content-I subscribed.
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By: monika@Web design sunshine coast

monika@Web design sunshine coast — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:34:58 +0000

great post full of meaningful information.i came to know certain things.thanks.

By: John@imported german shepherds

John@imported german shepherds — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:46:57 +0000

Bounce may be a factor, but it is unlikely that it is a major factor for SEO becasue many sites, such as advertising portal such as the classified sections of newspapers naturally have high bounce rates. It is not an indication that the user did not find the content they were looking for. It actually could be an indication of the exact opposite, and the user clicked further, but the link was simple to another site (advertisers site).

By: Kate@buy to let mortgage

Kate@buy to let mortgage — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:09:27 +0000

Your post has certainly made me think that I should not rely solely on Google Analytics. Many people are right, Google Analytics is a very attractive tool as it is free and gives you quite a bit of info. However I have started to doubt Google statistics recently. Thank you for all the links. I have now subscribed to Mastering Web Analytics e-course and have five blog posts to read on the subject. Thank again.

By: Noah@maltese breeders

Noah@maltese breeders — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:32:02 +0000

I have seen some evidence (just some) that suggests bounce rate is even becoming a factor for SEO. Like all things with SEO, it’s not categorical. In other words, a high BR does not leads to low rankings by itself and vice versa. Other factors are involved.

By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:10:05 +0000

Hello again. I left both comments because they were different. I agree that Google Analytics (GA) is not accurate and what concerns me is that you can not trust them. Right now we are buying some highly targeted exact match long tail keywords on AdWords and driving them to our NoBogies site.

GA is not showing those clicks as paid traffic. Maybe they’re in organic traffic; maybe they’re not. You do have to wonder how Google Analytics can manage to misreport clicks from Google AdWords.

I do a lot of posts about building links. I wonder how many appreciate that now we can get our own incoming links from dofollow blogs. That is much easier and faster than the way we originally did it.

I wish more bloggers would take the time to share quality links in their posts and write about the writers from whom they learn the most. Don’t those people deserve an incoming link from us? I believe they do.

Thanks for the tip about statcounter and getclicky. I could really use something to track immediate trends so one that has graphs and live stats would be what I’m seeking.
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By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:04:47 +0000

Hi Whitey,

Sometimes Akismet grabs comments so if yours don’t appear right away I will rescue and post them. The main point of this post is that you can’t just look at one metric and make changes based on it because there are many variables involved.

As you note, social networking clicks are going to bounce at a much greater rate; however since they’re free and some of them will become leads/subscribers/customers we don’t want to eliminate them. Thanks for the tip about GetClicky. I’ll check it out.
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