A Web Analytics Lesson From Your Elementary Math Teacher - "Double-Check Your Work"

What would Mrs. Miller say if she saw most of usthat feature we were able to get users to the used
today? Would she be sorely disappointed that somecars inventory as quickly as possible.
of us abandoned the process of double-checking allHow many clicks does it take to get to inventory on
that hard work? Would she grab us by the ear andyour dealership website?
walk us to the front of the class making an exampleDo you know how many leads your site generates,
out of us?do you know how much traffic your site gets and
I don't know about you, but nightmares of thatwhere they are coming from, do you know how
embarrassment keeps me on the straight and narrowmany people get to your site and bounce right out,
in regards to doing my best and double checking itdo you know where you rank in a search engine, do
when I am done. In business the best way to beginyou know if your site is optimized for Google
checking your work is through Google Analytics andkeyword searches, do you know if people are finding
Webmasters Tools.what they came to your website for?
Just one scenario of analytics saving a website; weIf the answer is no, we recommend you call your
redesigned an entire dealership's homepage 10 daysweb provider and have a discussion about your
after we launched it, for a seemingly insignificantGoogle Analytics and Web Masters Tools. You will
design choice. By watching where people clicked weneed to watch both regularly, and look for areas of
found that from their perspective it was not clearimprovement. Happy Analyzing!
that the Used Car link was indeed a link. By adjusting