Google Analytic Essay

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Now days, companies are searching for new ways of gathering data so that they can get useful data in order to make well informed decisions regarding the market they are operating in. Google analytics is considered one of the best tools offers extensive amount of data to business owners for free. However, the success of business is highly depended on how well they can arrange data and customize their collected data corresponded to their business priorities. Google analytics provides beneficial information for companies regardless of their extent of operation.

Google Analytics (Location data)
Google analytics can be applied in big as well as small businesses to support decision-making processes. In sense, each kind of business has its own …show more content…

Using this option, users have an access to organized data (number of visits from each country) for the past 30 days. Small businesses mostly do not operate internationally, however, it can help mangers of small businesses as it can be considered an opportunity for future activities in potential location where they get a large number of visitors. For instance, if a small business provides services or products mainly in Korea and less Japan but they see high traffic of their page is coming from japan, they can conclude that their advertising method or product they are selling is working well in japan. As a result, they can start or improvise their business through higher investment and target based advertisements regarding needs of customers in that location. Going deeper in geographical based report, managers can get detailed data of which area (cities) they are getting higher number of visitors. This information allows managers of small businesses to increase their understanding of potential areas so that they can manage their investments …show more content…

Apart from number of visits, “Map Overlay” in Google analytics presents number of pages per visits, average time spent on site, number of new visitors, bounce rate and conversion data based on defined goal. This can provide even more useful information for small businesses. One location might bring high number of visitors to the website, but it cannot summarize how efficiently business is operating in that specific area unless bounce rate and average time spent regarding that location is available. For instance, small business is operating in Philadelphia, New york and Florida. They get most traffic of their website from New York, however, lower bounce rate and higher average time that visitors spent on the website comes from Florida and not New York. Knowing that, the manager understands that their website content better affects visitors in Florida than New York. This information helps managers to increase their understanding of customers needs and interests in different areas so that they can get new techniques of advertising into work to gain higher revenues through intellectual marketing

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