Every visitor to your website took work to earn, whether that work was writing, SEO or paid ads. So it stings when a visitor reads a line or two and leaves without clicking anything. Each of those quick exits is a visitor who might have subscribed, bought something or come back next week. Engaged visitors […]
How to Use Google Search Console for SEO: 13 Tips to Grow Your Traffic
Google decides what happens to every page you publish — which searches it appears for, where it ranks, and whether it gets indexed at all. None of that is visible from inside your own site. Google Search Console (GSC) is the record of those decisions. It’s free, and it reports what Google actually did with […]
8 Best Google Analytics Alternatives
Compare eight Google Analytics alternatives, including Plausible, Matomo and Mixpanel, matched to the reason you want to switch, with current prices, free plans and cookieless options.
9 Metrics to Measure User Engagement in Google Analytics
People arrive on your website looking for something, whether they came from a Google search, an email or a link on another site. A traffic report can tell you they arrived. It can’t tell you whether they found what they came for. That gap matters because a busy page and a working page aren’t the […]
7 Best eCommerce Analytics Tools to Grow Your Online Store
Your store dashboard can tell you that revenue dropped last week. It can’t always tell you why. Maybe a traffic source dried up, a product page stopped converting, or shoppers started leaving at the shipping step. Each cause needs a different fix, so the danger is guessing and fixing the wrong thing. eCommerce analytics tools […]
How to Find Your Average Order Value in Google Analytics (2 Ways)
Conversion rate tells you how often visitors buy. It doesn’t tell you what they spend when they do. Two stores can convert at the same rate and still bring in very different amounts of money. What separates them is how much lands in each order. Average order value is that number — what a single […]
How To Use the Google Analytics Behavior Flow Report
Understanding user behavior on your website isn’t just about knowing how many people visit. It’s about discovering the actual journeys they take, where they get stuck, and what drives them to convert or leave. Traffic counts stop short of that. You can watch 2,000 people land on a product page in a month and still […]
Bounce Rate in Google Analytics: Complete Guide to Your Data
Open the Pages and screens report in Google Analytics and there is no bounce rate column in it. Check the other standard reports and it isn’t there either, which makes bounce rate look like something Google Analytics doesn’t measure. It does measure it. Bounce rate simply isn’t one of the columns those reports load by […]
How to Add SEO Keywords to WordPress (The Best Way)
You can work a target phrase into a post a dozen times and still watch the page turn up for something you never aimed at. That isn’t a volume problem. A page that repeats a phrase twenty times can sit on page four, while a page that names its subject cleanly in a few specific […]
How to Change the Author in WordPress (Easily)
A published post can carry the wrong byline for all sorts of ordinary reasons. A guest post gets filed under the admin account, a writer leaves the team, or one person starts a draft and someone else finishes it. The danger is a wrong byline sitting on a post that’s already ranking and pulling in […]