{"id":186,"date":"2018-01-15T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newtest.subsign.design\/stories\/?p=186"},"modified":"2018-01-15T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T12:53:25","slug":"analytics-guide-for-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/analytics-guide-for-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytics beginners Guide for website & social media."},"content":{"rendered":"

The digital environment has swept the world off its feet, with more and more people dedicating an increasing amount of time to online activities. In fact, on average, people spend\u00a0more time<\/a>\u00a0online than sleeping every day. Out of this time, daily, on average, more than\u00a0two hours<\/a>\u00a0are spent on social networks such as Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. With these numbers growing every year, it\u2019s only natural for the importance of digital channels and social media platforms in business to grow exponentially.<\/p>\n

\"Analytics<\/p>\n

To better communicate with them, your company has to adapt to the digital age and its fast pace of evolution. Certainly, managing to swim towards your audience through the\u00a0ocean of content<\/a>\u00a0that the internet is, may seem like an impossible job with questionable outcomes, but, when it is carried out by a specialized communication agency, digital communication can be seamless and generate surprising results.<\/p>\n

Web Analytics<\/h2>\n

As opposed to the offline world, in the digital world, virtually everything can be tracked and quantified. These metrics can offer you a broader view on how your audience, clients, and potential clients act, as well as provide you with key insights that can help you understand their behavior better. By analyzing and understanding how people act online, on your website, on social media networks and so on, you can adapt and improve your online marketing efforts so that your audience\u2019s experience is pleasing and friendly and useful.<\/p>\n

The metrics that can be monitored in the digital environment are extremely diverse. For a website, you can watch things like, how long have people stayed on a web page, where they\u2019ve clicked, bounce rate, devices from which the website was accessed, conversion rate, and much more. Based on your marketing objectives, business objectives as well as the business specifics, some of these metrics are more important than others and can be considered KPIs – Key Performance Indicators.<\/p>\n

\"Analytics<\/p>\n

One of the most useful tools in monitoring a website\u2019s metrics is Google Analytics. Coming both in free and paid versions, this tool can be integrated with Google Adwords, the company\u2019s online advertising service. By linking these two tools together, you can get a complete view on your website performance as well as on your online marketing activities. This will help you understand where the bottlenecks of your digital strategy are and will provide you with useful online marketing data, such as\u00a0remarketing<\/a>\u00a0lists.<\/p>\n

Social media Analytics<\/h2>\n

While the fundamentals of tracking social media metrics and improving user\u2019s experience and communication isn\u2019t entirely different from the website\u2019s, there are some different aspects. Social Media Networks seek to create communities and attract new active users. For this, they encourage the creation of content and subsequently the distribution of that content. Naturally, the outcome of this is the fact that each platform has its own metrics, but fundamentally all of them revolve around\u00a0content<\/a>\u00a0creation, content distribution and engagement, and the growth of the user pool. For example, when it comes to the most popular social media platform, Facebook, the \u201cReactions\u201d and \u201cShares\u201d are the most obvious metrics, but there are others that can provide useful insights, such as \u201cPeople talking about this\u201d, \u201cEngagement\u201d, \u201cOrganic Reach\u201d \u201cAge and Gender\u201d. All of them are like puzzle pieces that when put together can offer you an accurate glimpse into the people\u2019s behavior and on what you should improve your communication process.<\/p>\n

\"Analytics<\/p>\n

So, as you suspect, all the pieces of the puzzle are at your fingertips. But, as always, there is a catch. To be able to arrange them in a proper way and to interpret all the metrics in a meaningful manner, you need to work with specialists. Ultimately, Social media platforms are all about content engagement, whether it\u2019s viral or not, as most people use it for\u00a0entertainment<\/a>. The key thing is to be able to identify what your audience enjoys and adjust your strategy accordingly.<\/p>\n

Your communication on these platforms should be light and entertaining while subtly delivering the message you desire to send.<\/p>\n

As you can see, communication on social media platforms doesn\u2019t mean just posting random things and boosting them to get the desired reactions and reach, as this approach only leads to\u00a0\u201cvanity numbers\u201d<\/a>. Social media communication is a much more ample, complex process, where you have to pay attention to what the interests of your audience are, pair it with analytics data and adjust your desired message accordingly. This is why it\u2019s important to work with the\u00a0right people<\/a>. Most digital communication agencies are aware of the overall trends in social media and have the knowledge to correctly analyze metrics so that the whole process is coherent and efficient, making them great partners when it comes to digital communication.<\/p>\n

\"Analytics<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

The digital environment with all its elements, can make or break your communication and subsequently your brand and business. Working with the right communication agency can make your brand go through an explosive digital growth that in the end translate into business growth, but as always the opposite can also happen when working with partners who don\u2019t possess knowledge, experience, and expertise in the digital world. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The digital environment has swept the world off its feet, with more and more people dedicating an increasing amount of time to online activities. In fact, on average, people spend\u00a0more time\u00a0online than sleeping every day. Out of this time, daily, on average, more than\u00a0two hours\u00a0are spent on social networks such as Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}