4 Easy Ways to Track Traffic from Pinterest

Pinterest is a fast growing social media site that brings people together across the country, using things they have in common.

1. Referral reports- Easiest way to track how many visits are coming to your site from Pinterest. Go to Traffic Sources > Sources > Referrals report.


2. Custom Reports-  Custom reports let you mash up just the specific information you want to see.

3. Dashboards- For tracking Pinterest, there are several key areas to monitor – daily visits from Pinterest, how many of those visits are from mobile devices, how long they stay and how many pages they look at, what’s your most popular content.

4. Multi-Channel Funnels- To get a more complete picture of how many conversions can be fully  attributed to Pinterest, we can look at the Multi-Channel Funnels reports in Google Analtyics. First, take a look at the Assisted Conversions report. SelectSource/Medium as the primary dimension, and filter for pinterest ). This will tell you how many times Pinterest assisted with a conversion (it wasn’t the last source before a conversion) and how many times it was the last source before a conversion.

Stay Analytical Murray State

Lindsey & Cory

Take advantage of Facebook Insights

Facebook is constantly changing, and hopefully, improving, especially when it comes to the effedctiveness of business pages. The latest updates to Facebook Insights provides an easier way to understand exactly what draws fans to interactions with brands on Timelines. Consider this breakdown of three new twists:

1.   REACH: Businesses can now track how specific posts affect "reach" and increase conversations about  brands.

2.   VIRALITY: You can now monitor the level of "virality," the total extension of each status update and all specific content (video, photos, links).

3.   SHARING: Learn how many fans are ‘sharing’ your page and exactly where those shares are going.

Facebook Insights allows page administrators to view how many fans interact with their pages in real time now. This helps businesses and brands to recognize social media success - or Return on Investment (ROI).

Another new feature of the Timeline format - 'Talking about This' -  helps businesses see what Facebook users are responding to. In some cases this shows page owners what they need to change in order to trend higher. Here's how Facebook has described the purpose of this new Insight feature:

“Insights provides Facebook Page admins and app developers with metrics on the performance of their Page or app. By understanding and analyzing trends within user growth and demographics, consumption of content, and creation of content, admins and developers are better equipped to improve their business with Facebook.”

Facebook Insights Snapshot

Thanks for visiting our post! Perhaps we've all gained a better "insight" into how Facebook tools for measuring interaction can work for us.

Until next week...
Cory and Lindsey

5 Ways to Become a Better Marketer Through Web Analytics

Web analytics is the collection and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding web usage. It is also used for business and market research. It also shows the effectiveness of a website. Analytics can also track company’s results from traditional print advertising campaigns. It tracks the number of visitors to a website and can categorize them into groups such as gender, race, and geographical location. Google Analytics is used by 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites. Twitter is one of very many different sites that use Google analytics.

5 Ways to become a better marketer with web analytics

1. Measure offline data- All data should be measure online and offline.

2. Measure traffic sources- Find out how people are finding you. Find out which sources are driving the most traffic to the website. This will help you get a feel on if the social media is working or not.

3. Measure conversion rates- The first step is getting people to the website, once you’ve done that, then try to convert them into a lead or business is the next step. Offer convincing content and clear and straight to the point call-to-actions. This will help direct more traffic to the website, and help businesses develop more leads.

4. Ensure the data is clear- Don’t focus on just one metric. For example if you find you had high traffic in one area, look to see what drove people to that, and what type of information it was, and continue to develop material that is related to that subject.

5. Close the loop- Marketers are unsure where to put the most of their time, they should focus more on the things that are driving people/businesses to a website. 

Below is a short video on Google analytics, Enjoy!

Go Racers!!

Lindsey & Cory