Business Goal Conversions Overview
As a continuation to our recent blog post, How to Use Web Analytics & Why, we have forgotten to mention one of the most beloved and essential Internet marketing tool that free web analysis programs like Google Analytics has to offer for free, setting goal conversions. At first you may think that goal conversions are all about setting goals and priorities, but however, that isn’t the entire case.
The Definition of Goal Conversions
Goal conversions are like measuring tapes to track down how many people went this far, did they make it to the sales page, or make a purchase, etc. You can already see that this is an essential Internet marketing tool already. People may also use the term, “Reached” for the number of goal conversions you have accumulated. Goal conversions are basically pages you set as goals and once visitors has matched your criteria, it is recorded in the web analysis. This unleashes many unlimited capabilities for your site in recording how many sales you made, how many visitors made it to a certain page, and etc.
Why Is it Essential
Setting goal conversions is essential in analyzing what works and what doesn’t. Why do you think they call it web analytics? Goal conversions gives webmasters the ability to trace what portion of success they have accumulated and predict how many sales they have made and see if they are making a profit. This sets a very advantageous ability to the table for business owners especially because it gives them the ability to comprehend how much they are able to spend on advertising and also give them an idea what success their business made over the past days. I can’t say enough as to how much this service saves time and energy on funneling out who made purchases and who didn’t. It is a must have service for all business owners as well as being a very useful tool for blog owners as well for determining many things as well.
Some Examples of Possible “Goals”
- “Thank you for registering” pages
- “Download complete” pages
- “Donate Now” pages
- “Made a purchase” pages
- Commenting form pages & etc
Basically any page can be traced and used to your advantage on what works and what doesn’t. It can range from many things like “thank you pages,” that I have listed above or to even tracing the number of sales you have made. There are unlimited possibilities and capabilities with this power of web analysis and knowing that much more about your audience and how many sales you have made, makes you that much more knowledgeable in Internet Marketing and maintaining a healthy business.
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Hi albert,
Happy to read your post about goal conversion of google analytics. you gave awesome insights of what is goal and how to set up goals..
Google analytics provides 4 goals to track your sell and conversions..
You can set up goal with the help of “Regular march”, “head match” and “Exact Match”..
Regualar match uses regular expression to match your url..
Head match is useful for dynamically generated content.
Exact match is using url which are in goal and funnel urls exatley..