http://www.petsit.com During PSI's Dec. 2012 free member webinar, PSI Marketing Manager Beth Stultz explained why Google Analytics is important for pet-sitting business owners, how to sign up for Google Analytics and the most important information pet sitters just beginning with Google Analytics should track and why.

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Google Analytics
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Beth Stultz, PSI Marketing Manager
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Google Analytics
101
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Beth Stultz, PSI Marketing Manager
December 12, 2012
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4. 1. Understand why Google Analytics is
important for you as a pet-sitting business
owner.
2. Learn how to sign up for Google Analytics.
3. Learn the most important information
Google Analytics “beginners” should track
and why.
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5. Poll Questions:
• Do you have a Web site for your
pet-sitting business?
• Are you already using Google
Analytics?
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6. What is
Google Analytics?
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7. Step 1: Sign up for a Google Account if you do
not already have one.
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9. Enter your
information and hit
“Submit.”
You’ll have a Google
account and Gmail e-
mail address.
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10. Step 2: Sign up for a Google Analytics account.
http://www.google.com/analytics
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11. Sign in with your Google account information
(Gmail address and password)
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12. Select “Web Site” and
enter your Web site
information
Your Account Name can
be your business name.
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13. Step 3: Install Google Analytics tracking code on
your Web site.
Google Analytics Help
feature can provide
instructions for adding
the tracking code to
your Web site.
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14. Sign-in to view your Google Analytics
dashboard.
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16. Welcome to the Google Analytics
dashboard!
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17. SECRET WORD
#1
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18. »#1 Overall Web site traffic
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19. Some questions to ask:
• How many visits are there to your Web site in a given time period?
• Have the number of visits increased or decreased from the previous
month or year?
• Do any spikes in Web traffic correlate with a specific marketing
initiative?
• What are your average number of visits (and unique visitors) per
month?
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20. Applying this data to your business:
• Determine your Web site’s average monthly visits to establish a
benchmark and set Web site traffic goals. Check your site traffic
periodically to see if you are meeting, exceeding or not meeting
your goals. Adjust your promotional efforts accordingly.
• Analyze your Web site traffic in relation to specific marketing
efforts—an ad in a local paper, event participation, etc. If the effort
does not produce an increase in site traffic, reconsider future use of
the specific initiative.
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21. »#2 Visits to specific pages on
your site.
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22. Some questions to ask:
• What pages are your site visitors visiting?
• Do visitors come to your homepage and leave or dig deeper?
• Are there some pages getting no views while others are
viewed often?
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23. Applying this data to your business:
• Identify the most-visited pages. Make sure these pages have
clear calls-to-action and include your important information:
how to reach you, the services you offer, etc.
• Identify pages you would like to get more traffic. Link to these
pages from other pages on your site that are already getting
more traffic.
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24. SECRET WORD
#2
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25. »#3 Referral Sources.
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26. Some questions to ask:
• How are visitors finding your Web site?
• Who/what is sending traffic to your Web site?
• Are visitors coming to your Web site through social media sites like
Facebook or Twitter?
• Are visitors finding your Web site on search engines like Google?
• Are visitors being referred to your Web site from other Web sites?
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27. Applying this data to your business:
• Identify social media channels that drive traffic to your Web
site. Consider increasing promotions on effective social media
channels to drive even more traffic to your Web site.
• Identify other Web sites that are referring traffic to your
company’s Web site and when suitable, reach out to the
company to suggest co-promotion opportunities.
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28. Applying this data to your
business, cont.:
EXAMPLE: Takeyourdog.com traffic (2011)
Race car driver
Robby Gordon’s Fan
Club site
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29. Applying this data to your
business, cont.:
• Analyze the site visits you are (or are not) receiving from
search engines, such as Google. If search engines are not
driving traffic to your Web site, you will want to take a closer
look at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your Web site.
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30. 1. Understand why Google Analytics is important for
you as a pet-sitting business owner.
2. Learn how to sign up for Google Analytics.
3. Learn the most important information Google
Analytics “beginners” should track and why.
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