Google Webmaster & Analytics Tools
Find out information about your customers
These 2 tools that are offered by Google tell you a lot of very important information
about your website to allow you to make the most of the site and to benefit from
search engines. At Gt Web Desgin all websites that we create for you will include
setting up the necessary codes for Google Analytics and Google Webmater Tool as
well as an overview on how to use the information.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free service that Google offer for all websites. This
is a tool where by adding some code onto your websites Google is able to track customers
arriving on your website and moving throughout the site. The tool offers a fantastic
amount of information that allows you to learn about your customer such as where
they are, on each page what do they click on to navigate. Also you can see what
pages/products are the most popular and as a result you may make an offer or make
that page/product more prominent on the site to help increase sales.
We are able to either send you a weekly report or access to the full system depending
on your requirements. As soon as the site is live we will include this code to allow
you information as soon as possible and give you the ability to track the trends
of the customers.
This tool although provided by Google also shows you where the customer has come
from including other search engines and the search terms that the customers have
used in order to arrive on your site. This allows you to create your own stratergy
to be target certain keyword terms to generate more traffic onto your website and
therefore sales that are generated.
Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools is another powerful tool for all owners of websites. This
website is targeted mostly at Google and offers you information about your site
and how google looks at the site. This allows you the ability to manage a number
of details with google. Google are keen to work with website owners to ensure that
the information that Google take about your website is correct and accurate and
so offer tools to help make sure old pages are removed from the Search Engines Index
amongst many other things.
Websites are read by 'bots' which are like digital robots that are always going
around the internetreading web pages and indexing the information for the Search
Engine, within webmaster tools you are able to see an example of what the bot sees
to try and help you see any problems there could be with your website. You are also
able to see how often google looks at your website to keep its data up to date to
ensure information is current, the more often you update your content the more often
google will come back and the better you will rank. GOOGLE LOVES accurate, new, updated and
useful information for people!