Posts Tagged ‘website conversions’

Using Google Analytics For Online Forms Quality Control

April 12th, 2010 by Andy Groller

Form Error Rate Used To Calculate Form Effectiveness

I’m a huge fan of Google Docs. I’ve fully adopted it as my work processing tool, to make spreadsheets and, more recently, to create forms that I can easily embed on a website.

That made Tomasz Lewandowski and the Bluerank team’s recent post on the Google Analytics blog all that more interesting for me. Using Analytics, you can measure the quality of an online form on your site. At first glance, I thought that was pretty cool – forms are an important channel through which businesses and non-profits gather information or measure levels of interest among site visitors. Then, I started thinking of the implications of knowing whether your online form was actually working.

Use Google Analytics to measure the effectiveness of your forms.

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Conversion Tracking – From Application to Zip File

March 5th, 2010 by Andy Groller

PPC Buzz of the Week for Friday 3/5/10

Due to the 2 feet of snow we received up here in the Hudson Valley last week, plus about 2 and a half days without power, the Buzz took a little detour last week right up to Lowe’s to find a generator. In any case, I wanted to focus solely on conversions and the sheer importance behind identifying and tracking them when it comes to PPC.

Conversion, as defined by Google AdWords help center is “when a user completes an action on your site, such as buying something or requesting more information.” This is all fine and good from Google’s perspective, but let me take a step back for a moment and let you in on a little secret as to what a conversion is from the perspective of both an advertiser and PPC manager. (more…)



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