Web analytics : an hour a day

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"Synopsis: Develop a Successful Web Analytics Strategy. A Step-by-Step Guide. Learn web analytics the right way with this unique, thoroughly modern guide to today's web analytics challenges and opportunities. Written by an in-the-trenches practitioner, this book goes beyond concepts and definitions to challenge prevalent thinking about the field and provide a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful web analytics strategy. Web analytics expert Avinash Kaushik, in his thought-provoking style, debunks leading myths and leads you on a path to gaining actionable insights from your analytics efforts. Discover how to move beyond clickstream analysis, why qualitative data should be your focus, and more insights and techniques that will help you develop a customer-centric mindset without sacrificing your company's bottom line. Learn the pros and cons of data collection methodologies; Find out how you can stop counting page views and still get a rich understanding of your customers; Discover how to identify valuable metrics with the "three layers of so what" test; Optimize your organizational structure and choose the right analytics tool; Understand and apply advanced analytics concepts, including SEM/PPC analysis, the power of segmentation, conversion-rate best practices, and others; Leverage quick-start solutions for blogs and e-commerce, support, and small business websites; Learn the key ingredients of a great experimentation and testing platform; Use competitive-intelligence analysis to glean insights and drive actions. You'll also find: Ten steps to turbocharge your web analytics; Seven steps for creating a data-driven culture in your organization; Six ways to measure the success of a blog; Three secrets behind making web analytics actionable; Ten signs of a great web analyst. Valuable CD included. The innovative CD includes more than three hours of insightful audio podcasts, a 45-minute video, PowerPoint presentations that mirror key topics in the book, and other useful analytics resources."

"8: Month 3: Search Analytics-Internal Search, SEO, And PPC -- Week 1: Performing internal site search analytics -- Monday: Understand the value of the internal search -- Tuesday: Spot internal search trends -- Wednesday: Analyze click density by using the site overlay report -- Thursday: Measure effectiveness of actual search results -- Friday: Measure outcome metrics for internal searches -- Week 2: Beginning search engine optimization -- Monday: Understand the impact of, and optimize, links -- Tuesday: Link to press releases and social sites -- Wednesday and Thursday: Optimize Web page tags and content -- Friday: Provide guidance for search robots -- Week 3: Measuring SEO efforts -- Monday: Check how well your site is indexed -- Tuesday: Track inbound links and top keywords -- Wednesday: Split organic referrals from PPC -- Thursday: Measure the value of organic referrals -- Friday: Measure optimization for top pages -- Week 4: Analyzing pay per click effectiveness -- Monday: Understand PPC basics -- Tuesday: Measure search engine bib-related metrics -- Wednesday: Define critical bottom-line-impacting metrics -- Thursday: Measure unique visitors -- Friday: Learn PPC reporting best practices -- 9: Month 4: Measuring Email And Multichannel Marketing -- Week 1: Email marketing fundamentals and a bit more -- Monday: Understand email marketing fundamentals -- Tuesday and Wednesday: Measure basic response metrics -- Thursday and Friday: Measure outcome metrics -- Week 2: Email marketing-advanced tracking -- Monday and Tuesday: Measure Website effectiveness -- Wednesday: Avoid email analytics pitfalls -- Thursday and Friday: Integrate your email campaign with your Web analytics tools -- Weeks 3 and 4: Multichannel marketing, tracking, and analysis -- Week 3: Understanding multichannel marketing, and tracking offline-to-online campaigns -- Week 4: Tracking and analyzing multichannel marketing -- 10: Month 5: Website Experimentation And Testing-Shifting The Power To Customers And Achieving Significant Outcomes -- Weeks 1 and 2: Why test and what are your options? -- Week 1: Preparations and A/B testing -- Week 2: Moving beyond A/B testing -- Week 3: What to test-specific options and ideas -- Monday: Test important pages and calls to action -- Tuesday: Focus on search traffic -- Wednesday: Test content and creatives -- Thursday: Test price and promotions -- Friday: Test direct marketing campaigns -- Week 4: Build a great experimentation and testing program -- Monday: Hypothesize and set goals -- Tuesday: Test and validate for multiple goals -- Wednesday: Start simple and then scale and have fun -- Thursday: Focus on Evangelism and expertise -- Friday: Implement the two key ingredients for every testing program -- 11: Month 6: Three Secrets Behind Making Web Analytics Actionable -- Week 1: Leveraging benchmarks and goals in driving action -- Monday and Tuesday: Understand the importance of benchmarks and setting goals -- Wednesday: Leverage external benchmarking -- Thursday: Leverage internal benchmarking -- Friday: Encourage and create goals -- Week 2: Creating high impact executive dashboards -- Monday: Provide context-benchmark, segment, and trend -- Tuesday: Isolate your critical few metrics -- Wednesday: Don't stop at metrics-include insights -- Thursday: Limit your dashboard to a single page -- Friday: Know that appearance matters -- Week 3: Using best practices for creating effective dashboard programs -- Monday: Create trinity metrics that have a clear line of sight -- Tuesday: Create relevant dashboards -- Wednesday: One metric, one owner -- Thursday: Walk the talk -- Friday: Measure the effectiveness of your dashboards -- Week 4: Applying Six Sigma or process excellence to Web analytics -- Monday: Everything's a process -- Tuesday through Thursday: Apply the DMAIC process -- Friday: Reflect on what you've learned -- 12: Month 7: Competitive Intelligence And Web 2-0 Analytics -- Competitive intelligence analytics -- Week 1: Competitive traffic reports -- Week 2: Search engine reports -- Web 2-0 analytics -- Week 3: Measuring the success of Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) -- Week 4: Measuring the success of RSS -- 13: Month 8 And Beyond: Shattering The Myths Of Web Analytics -- Path analysis: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing -- Challenges with path analysis -- Alternative: funnel report -- Conversion rate: Unworthy obsession -- Problems with conversion rate -- Alternative: task completion rate by primary purpose -- Perfection: Perfection is dead, long live perfection -- Perfect data -- Web at the speed of Web -- Fractured multisource data -- Real-time data: it's not really relevant, and it's expensive to boot -- Results of getting real-time data -- Checklist for real-time data readiness -- Standard KPIs: Less relevant than you think."

"Foreword -- Introduction -- 1: Web Analytics-Present And Future -- Brief history of Web analytics -- Current landscape and challenges -- Traditional web analytics is dead -- What web analytics should be -- Measuring both the what and the why -- Trinity: a mindset and a strategic approach -- 2: Data Collection-Importance And Options -- Understanding the data landscape -- Clickstream data -- Web logs -- Web beacons -- JavaScript tags -- Packet sniffing -- Outcomes data -- E-commerce -- Lead generation -- Brand/advocacy and support -- Research data -- Mindset -- Organizational structure -- Timing -- Competitive data -- Panel-based measurement -- ISP-based measurement -- Search engine data -- 3: Overview Of Qualitative Analysis -- Essence of customer centricity -- Lab usability testing -- Conducting a test -- Benefits of lab usability tests -- Things to watch for -- Heuristic evaluations -- Conducting a heuristic evaluation -- Benefits of heuristic evaluations -- Things to watch for -- Site visits (follow-me-home studies) -- Conducting a site visit -- Benefits of site visits -- Things to watch for -- Surveys (questionnaires) -- Website surveys -- Post-visit surveys -- Creating and running a survey -- Benefits of surveys -- Things to watch for -- Summary -- 4: Critical Components Of A Successful Web Analytics Strategy? -- Focus on customer centricity -- Solve for business questions -- Follow the 10/90 rule -- Hire great Web analysts -- Identify optimal organizational structure and responsibilities -- Centralization -- Decentralization -- Centralized decentralization -- 5: Web Analytics Fundamentals -- Capturing data: Web logs or JavaScript tags? -- Separating data serving and data capture -- Type and size of data -- Innovation -- Integration -- Selecting your optimal Web analytics tool -- Old way -- New way -- Understanding clickstream data quality -- Implementing best practices -- Tag all your pages -- Make sure tags go last (customers come first!) -- Tags should be inline -- Identify your unique page definition -- Use cookies intelligently -- Consider link-coding issues -- Be aware of redirects -- Validate that data is being captured correctly -- Correctly encode your your Website rich media -- Apply the "three layers of so what" test -- Key Performance Indicator: Percent of repeat visitors -- Key Performance Indicator: Top exit pages on the Website -- Key Performance Indicator: Conversion rate for top search keywords -- 6: Month 1: Diving Deep Into Core Web Analytics Concepts -- Week 1: Preparing to understand the basics -- Monday and Tuesday: URLs -- Wednesday: URL parameters -- Thursday and Friday: Cookies -- Week 2: Revisiting foundational metrics -- Monday: Visits and visitors -- Tuesday and Wednesday: Time on site -- Thursday and Friday: Page views -- Week 3: Understanding standard reports -- Monday and Tuesday: Bounce rate -- Wednesday through Friday: Referrers-sources and search key phrases -- Week 4: Using Website content quality and navigation reports -- Monday and Tuesday: Top pages-most viewed, top entry, top exit -- Wednesday: Top destinations (exit links) -- Thursday and Friday: Site overlay (click density analysis) -- 7: Month 2: Jump-Start Your Web Data Analysis -- Prerequisites and framing -- Week 1: Creating foundational reports -- Monday: Top referring URLs and top key phrases -- Tuesday: Site content popularity and home page visits -- Wednesday and Thursday: Click density, or site overlay -- Friday: Site bounce rate -- E-commerce Website jump-start guide -- Week 2: Measuring business outcomes -- Week 3: Indexing performance and measuring merchandizing -- Effectiveness and customer satisfaction -- Support Website jump-start guide -- Week 2: Walking in the customer's shoes and measuring offline impact -- Week 3: Measuring success by using VOC or customer ratings (at a site and page level) -- Blog measurement jump-start guide -- Week 2: Overcoming complexity to measure the fundamentals (by using new metrics) -- Week 3: Competitive benchmarking and measuring cost and ROI -- Week 4: Reflections and wrap-up."