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To check and see how your search engine optimization you will take a look at your websites site statistics. This can give you insight into how many people are visiting your website, what keywords they are using to access your website, what pages they are visiting the most and more!
You will check your site statistics through <a href=”https://seo.intuit.com” target=”_blank”>https://seo.intuit.com</a>, this is an outside link not directly connected to your Homestead website account.
Your username is your email address.
If you don’t have a password to log into this yet just click on forgot password and your password will be sent to your email address. (Make sure to check your SPAM folder – depending on the settings the email may end up in that folder in your email).
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This is a very valuable program because it gives us information on what’s working and what things we can improve upon. Here is a snapshot of what your account will look like. I highlighted 5 different topics you will want to check from time to time.
Here is a screenshot of what it looks like once you log in:
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1. You will see how many people are coming to your site, how many pages they are accessing, and the average pages per visit. You can go deeper into these results to see what pages they are accessing and figure out who your target audience may be by selecting any of the blue links at the bottom of the page.
2. Pay attention to the bounce rate for your site. Bounce rate is best explained as how many people are going to your site and leaving right away. You want to try and get this down to under 50%. Having a high bounce rate means there could be several things contributing to that:
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– You are coming up in search engines under something non-relevant to your site
– People are searching for a very specific product or service and it just so happens you don’t offer that product or service
– Your site isn’t aesthetically pleasing to the person who came to it
– Etc…
The search engines encourage those visiting a website page that may not be exactly what someone is looking for to go back to the search engines and click on the next link in the list that appears to be relevant for the site. We all do this and it’s normal so expect to have a bounce rate.
You can’t expect everyone that comes to your site to buy something or view all your pages or stay for a long time. However, if you bounce rate is close to 100% after 4 months of optimization it can be cause for concern. However, it is normal to have a bounce rate as the search engines encourage people to go back to the search engines to see another result even if the one they landed on may be what they were looking for.
To navigate further into the website statistics use the navigation buttons on the left hand side. These drop down to reveal more information.
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You can see how the keyword phrases we optimized your site are doing by selecting “SEO Keyword Rankings”.
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<b>Reading Optimized Keyword Statistics:</b>
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1. dragon figurines: Started out ranking on the first page the 10th one down on the page
2. dragon figurines: Highest rank was page 1 the 1st one on the page
3. dragon figurines: Current ranking page 1 – 5th one down on the page
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How to tell what page and how far down on the page the website is currently ranking.
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Current rank in portal = 5
We know that the site has to at least rank on page 1 of the search engines so we are going to do some very simple math.
The number in front of 5 is 0 because there isn’t a number there and the site has to rank at least on one page. So because of this we will always add 1 to whatever number is in front to get the page the site is ranking on for the keyword phrase.
0 – 5
<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>+1</span>
1 – 5
So <a href=”http://www.giftsandblessings.com” target=”_blank”>www.giftsandblessings.com</a> is ranking on the 1st page the 5th one down on that page at the moment in time when we took this screen shot for the keyword phrase “dragon figurines” on the search engine Google.
By selecting any of the keyword phrases we optimized your site for you can see how it has been ranking day by day. If you see 100+ it means that particular keyword phrase was or is not ranking in the first 10 pages of results in that particular search engine. If you remove your keyword phrases or adversely affect the optimization we have completed on your website it will affect how you rank for these keyword phrases listed in your portal.
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<b>Organic Keyword Detail</b>
You can also check to see what the top keywords people are using in the search engines to enter into your website. Even though we only optimized around 3 keywords, search engines can potentially pick up 100’s of keyword ideas from the sentences on your website. The nice thing about this is that you can potentially get keyword ideas you haven’t thought of. If a certain keyword is pulling a lot of traffic for you, then it would be a good idea to add more content to your site relevant to that specific keyword or phrase.
The only way you can add words to this is by having the text naturally in sentences on your website that the search engines can index and send people to your site for.
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In the last month this site has been entered through the search engines from 419 different keyword phrases.
<b>Traffic Sources</b>
It’s important to know how you are getting traffic to your website.
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Are people finding your website through a search engines? Examples of search engines are Google, Bing, or Yahoo. This kind of traffic is called organic traffic.
Are people coming to your website through direct navigation? This is when someone types your domain name – because they already know it directly into their web browser.
Or are people landing on your website through referral traffic? Referral traffic is when your websites domain is listed out on another site and someone clicks on the link and lands directly into your website.
With your search engine optimization we are focusing in on getting organic traffic to your website. However in order to do so we create referral links in various places to help the search engines come in and index and crawl the content on your website. The referral links help the search engines continue to find and index your website. In the recommendations section we recommend that you add links back to your site on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. and from videos posted to YouTube. Anytime someone clicks on a link from one of these sources you are going to be able to see in your portal that they came from that link you created.
There is a lot of other important information in the portal for you to explore you can see how long people are staying on your site, where geographically they are coming from, and various other interesting statistics as you navigate further into the portal.
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