Setting Up Conversion Goals in Google Analytics

Out of the box, Google Analytics is basically just a hit counter with graphs — at least that’s the way it was described to me in the Google Analytics seminar that I attended earlier this year. The best information that you can gather will come from the customizations that you employ for your site’s goals and needs.

The easiest way to start is to determine the conversion process for your website. You’re spending money on marketing to get people to come to your site, but what is it that you want them to do there? From a business standpoint, you should be aiming to get users to “convert” by either calling the dealership or filling out a vehicle inquiry form. But how do you track that? [Read more...]

The secret to conversion is connecting the dots

Converting web visitors into leads on your car dealership website

Conversion isn’t near as mystical as it is made out to be.  Just like SEO there are some basic principles that when applied just work. For the same reason wheels are always round and have no need to be reinvented so to is the techniques that work for conversion.  This video will show you how [Read more...]

Google Analytics Campaign Tracking

This post and videos describes how you can use Google Analytics to track your marketing campaigns with precision.  There is a lot of information already available in your Google Analytics that can help you in monitoring you website successes as well as failures, but tracking offline market will require that you use the steps outlined in this post. [Read more...]

Google Analytics to get the most out of your marketing

Keep track of your successes and failures with Analytics. What’s working, what’s not and how can you make it better?

Monitor your traditional marketing with web analytics. While advertising on TV, radio, newspaper, or even direct mail and email. You owe it to yourself and your dealership to measure the results.

There are many analytics tools available to track your website. They all have positives and negatives. No matter which tool you implement it is only as good as the business decision that you can derive from it.

Google Analytics on your car dealership website

I like using GA for a few reasons; [Read more...]