Quick Start Guide Eng
Quick Start Guide Eng
Quick Start Guide Eng
Learn how to find your niche, promote and maintain your website, and analyze your visitors with Web CEO in less than an hour.
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Where should you begin?
.. 12 steps to a great website using Web CEO.....
How Web CEO works the integrated approach everything you need in one place
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Part I: How do you find your niche and optimize your site?
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Find popular and relevant keywords and phrases that people searching will use to find information, products, and services that you offer
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Step 3. Edit your pages for high search engine rankings ...
Edit your pages in the visual editor to incorporate Web CEOs optimization advice
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PART I. Web CEO helps you find your niche keywords and optimize your pages Decide which keywords and search terms are optimal for your site, and use these wisely on your Web pages. Step 1. Research Your Keyword Niche Spot popular and relevant keywords that people will use to find products and services like yours. Step 2. Get Optimization Advice Find out what changes are needed in your pages for high rankings with the keywords you selected during keyword research. Step 3. Edit Web Pages Easily Apply optimization advice you got at the previous step, without having to edit the HTML code.
PART III. Finally, you analyze your performance: rankings, links and visitor traffic Measure your progress by getting reports on your rankings, inbound links, visitors, sales and conversion. Step 7. Monitor Search Engine Rankings Find out your rankings in search engines used by your targeted visitors to find information, products and services. Step 8. Analyze Link Popularity Find out how many sites and which exactly are linking to your site and competitors. Step 9. Monitor Traffic With HitLens View reports on your visitors, eCommerce revenues, and ad campaigns.
PART II. With Web CEO, you promote your site on the Web Let the people out there know about your site by submitting your optimized pages to the search engines and getting links from other websites. Step 4. Submit Pages To Search Engines And Directories Make sure your pages are automatically submitted to major search engines and directories across the world. Step 5. Find Link Exchange Partners Find sites on the Web that could link back to you, manage your communication with them and monitor your inbound and outbound inks. Step 6. Manage Paid Search Campaigns Easily create and manage advertising acconts on search engines that support paid listing, such as Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing (former Overture)
PART IV (additional). You can use Web CEO to keep your site in a good working condition Use the supplementary tools available in Web CEO to ensure your site is troublefree and stays up around the clock Step 10. Control The Quality Of Your Site Find and fix broken links and other errors on your pages. Step 11. Upload Your Site Using FTP Upload pages, images, and other pages to your hosting server. Step 12. Monitor Your Site Uptime Monitor availability and uptime of your site 24 hours a day, non-stop.
Step 0. Add your site to Web CEO projects using Project Manager
Please explain!
Project Manager is a single control center from which you manage all your websites. Here you add new websites, delete those you no longer run, change project settings, etc. It is extremely convenient because once you add your site, you dont need to type it in every time you perform a task you will simply select it from the drop-down list.
Step 0. Add your site to Web CEO projects using Project Manager
Part I
How do you find your niche and optimize your site?
Please explain!
Before optimizing your Web pages for high rankings, you will need to define keywords and phrases. They will, on one hand, get you the maximum of visitors, but, on the other, they must be moderately competitive. For example, www.weatherscreen.com, which is featured as a DEMO project, distributes and sells a small software program that delivers daily and long-range weather forecasts to your PC desktop. Using Web CEOs keyword suggestion tool (Features > Keywords) their webmaster did some keyword research and found out that the most popular keyword "weather" was requested 83,100,000 times per month, but that there were 435,000,000 pages whose webmasters would also want them at the top. Certainly a smaller website has a slim chance to outplay big players like The Weather Channel, CNN Weather or National Weather Service. This explains why at this stage the site owner only picked a few keywords out of the 1,000 that Web CEO suggested. All those keywords and phrases combine enough popularity, relevance and acceptable competition: for example "weather forecast" (monthly world searches 6,110; competition according to Google 37,000,000). Leaping ahead to Step 2 (optimization stage), she learned how to get her pages ranked highly with selected keywords. At Step 3, she applied the advice using Web CEOs Editor, which is designed specifically for search engine optimization purposes.
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Now you can go to the View competitors tab to further analyze keywords and phrases you have added to the Basket. Note: If you believe there is no further use in deeper analysis of the keyword selection, you may immediately go to Step 2: Getting optimization advice.
We recommend that you organize selected keywords into related groups and store them in different keyword baskets. You can print, save or e-mail the results of your work. It is useful when you need to share your work with your colleagues and customers or simply to change it into the form you prefer. For example, you can export data to Excel and analyze it there.
Please explain!
Humans and search engines treat Web pages in different ways. Where people see design and copy, a search engine would detect the lack of quality information it needs to make your site relevant. The outcome of this could be that your website is ranked at a position where no one will find it. The optimization tool (Features > Optimization) lets you see your Web pages through the eyes of the major search engines (which produce 95% of the world search engine traffic) and to check how relevant they are. At the same time, Web CEO balances your site so it is neither under-optimized nor over-optimized. The former may get your site lost among hundreds of thousands of others while the latter would get your site penalized or worse banned from the search engine. Note that Web CEO does this before you submit your Web pages to search engines. Therefore, search engines will consider pages optimized for their requirements, which multiplies your chances of being highly ranked the first time.
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Analysis will take between 30 seconds to 45 minutes, depending on the selected choices. After the analysis stage is complete, you will see a report with optimization advice and deep analysis.
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Please explain!
Probably you have a favorite HTML editor Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or even Notepad. Whatever tool you use, it is undeniably great for creating Web pages from scratch, BUT it was not designed for the intricate work of optimizing your pages for search engines. Web CEO's Editor is not intended to replace your favorite web design program, but it is good for the light editing that search engine optimization usually needs. Please note that you dont have to edit the HTML code directly because all the search engine critical areas of the page can be edited in visual mode. See below for a more detailed description of the editing process.
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What are the Meta tags tab and other tabs for?
Using the tabs mentioned above, you can edit the most important areas of your page that search engines are concerned with. Meta tags tab. This tab contains the following tags: Title, Description, Keywords, and 12 other less important Meta tags. To search engines, the Title tag is the most important tag on the entire page. Some regional search engines attach importance to the tags Description and Keywords. Headings tab. It contains all headings tags found on your page <h1>, <h2>, <h3>. These tags are also important to search engines. With Editor, you can easily change their content, i.e. add or remove keywords. ALT tags tab. Every significant image must be backed up by a text description known as the ALT tag. Because these tags are important, by using Web CEO, you can view images on a page and add or change their alternative text descriptions. Links tab. Any page will normally have a certain number of links pointing to other pages. Search engines analyze them to check if they contain your keyword. This tab shows a list of all text and image links on the selected page. You can edit the text that goes with them. Content tab. This tab gives you access to the page content in two ways visual and code so you can edit it in the way you prefer. Optional Meta tags tab. This tab will help you handle the optional Meta tags such as Meta Author, Meta Copyright, Meta Language, etc. Find & Replace tab. This tab is a real time-saver when you have to find and replace a word or phrase on multiple pages. For example, you can replace Copyright 2006 with Copyright 2007 on the pages index.html, product.html, payment.html and privacy.html all in one go instead of having to do it manually.
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Part II
How do you promote your website?
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Please explain!
There are two contradicting myths. Myth #1 says that submitting your URLs to every search engine known to the human race will bring in free, highly targeted traffic to your site. Myth #2 is the opposite and says that submission doesnt work at all. Surprisingly, both statements, to some extent, are true. The major search engines do find and index your site by themselves. However, if you submit your pages following their rules, you will get your site crawled more deeply. It means more of your Web pages will be visible to the public. Also, some minor, some regional search engines and all directories prefer that you submit your site and its pages instead of waiting for them to come to you.
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Go to Features > Submission and select your website in the Project Selector. Then: 1. Go to the Setup tab and enter all needed information search engines need for an acceptable submission. A. Enter there a webmaster or owners details, choose the category and subcategory for your website. B. Enter your sites title, description, keywords, and specify the pages to be submitted (if you want to submit not only home page).
2. Go to the top-level Auto submission tab. There are three subtabs shown as A, B and C. Go through each of them. Dont worry it is much easier than you think! A. Select SEs you want to submit your pages to. B. On the Submission tab, press Submit and watch the submission processed in real-time. When it has finished, you can save or e-mail the report with submission results. C. To see what search engines return in response to your submission request, go to the SE responses sub-tab where you will find reports explaining why a certain submission failed and what you need to do. 3. Go to the Manual submission tab to get detailed recommendations on how to get registered with search engines that dont accept automated submissions. Here, you will also find guidelines needed to qualify for inclusion within the major directories such as Yahoo! and DMOZ. See more information about manual submission on the next page.
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4. After you have passed the submission process you can view the summary table for all submissions: auto, manual, successful or failed. Here two modes are available: Summary and Detailed.
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Blogs. Have a blog? Submit it to the most popular blog directories and blog search engines to bring more visitors and increase online visibility of your blog. Another option is to join blog communities to connect with other bloggers and attract more readers. Sitemaps. Do you have pages with high priority status? Inform search engines about them. Use sitemaps to tell SE spiders which pages are newly updated and which pages are identified as the most important to help them better crawl your site.
Besides, Web CEO allows you creating a custom list of your favorite resources. To add a new directory or a search engine, go to the Manual Submission tab, press Add Directory/SE, and follow the prompted steps of the wizard.
You are done. You can repeat this sequence with slight variations for other types of non-automatic submissions Manual, Paid or Pay-Per-Click.
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Please explain!
Increasing your link popularity contributes to higher rankings, so having many links pointing to your site is good. However, not all links are considered equal. A back link from a high-ranked resource that is related to your website theme is much more beneficial to you than a link from a non-related resource that does not rank well or, worse still, a resource that is penalized by the search engines. That's why it is very important to build your link popularity wisely. You might wait for months to have someone link to you just because he/she has found your site interesting. However, there is a more effective way to increase your link popularity searching for link partners with the help of Web CEO Partner Finder. This step will help you simplify the challenging and timeconsuming tasks: Searching for link partners and evaluating each site on a dozen of parameters such as Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, DMOZ Listing, Meta Description, link popularity, etc. Managing correspondence with each site owner and tracking the results of your correspondence. Creating partnership agreements and checking the inbound links status.
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1. On the first tab select search modes you want Web CEO to use when looking for potential partners, i.e. you can search for partners using your targeted keywords, looking for sites that link to your competitors or with the help of the two above mentioned modes. 2. Go to the Select search engines tab and select the search engines your targeted visitors search with. 3. Go to the Add keywords tab and import keywords from your site Meta keywords, text file, clipboard or another project or tool (Advanced import). Alternatively you can press Add keywords manually, and enter keywords related to the topic of your website. 4. Go to the Add competition tab to add the URLs of your competition. 5. Optionally, you can go to the Set scan rules tab. This controls the technical parameters for the scanning search engines results page and filtering the websites that might be your potential partners. By default, they are set to provide best performance; however, you may want to change them, for example, to increase the depth of scanning.
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Now that you have set up the partner finder profile, press Find link partners and wait until Web CEO scans the search engines and builds a list of potential link partners. As soon as the report is ready, you can review the list of your potential link partners, evaluate each website and sort them by relevance: 1. Evaluate each website taking into account its weight on the search engines (SE score parameter) and its relevance to your topic (Title, Meta Description, and Meta keywords). 2. To get more details on each website (such as Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, link popularity, etc. ), highlight the site and click Site Info at the bottom right of the screen: 3. To sort websites by relevance, check the site (or a group of sites) in the list, right-click the mouse and select one of the actions (Move checked sites to 'Personal correspondence', Move checked sites to 'Automatic correspondence', or Move checked to 'Partners'). You can also delete the unwanted sites from the list if you think they are not worth partnering with.
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B. Manage your correspondence with the site owners After you have reviewed and sorted the websites, you can now go to the Manage correspondence tab to contact the relevant resources. Before you start sending emails, Web CEO will prompt you to enter the contact info necessary to email the site owners, create email templates, and configure settings for the automatic correspondence cycle.
1. On the Email Settings tab, choose the mail account(s) to be used contacting your potential partners via automatic and personal correspondence. 2. Create email templates on the Templates tab. By default, Web CEO offers three pre-made standard templates that can be customized using the Variables. Besides, you can use the Variables when creating your own templates as well. 3. On the next tab, you assign email templates for each step of the automatic correspondence cycle and configure optional parameters. 4. The Email Search Rules tab represents settings to be used when looking for email addresses of your potential partners.
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On pressing OK, you will find yourself on the Personal Correspondence sub-tab. Sending emails to your partners is easy thanks to the user-friendly interface of the Partner Finder tool: 1. Double-click a website in the list. The Send email manually dialog will pop up. 2. Enter the email subject and the message itself into the corresponding fields. You can feel free to use templates when creating an email. Just click Insert template at the bottom left, and select the template you need. 3. Press Find emails to have Web CEO search for the email addresses of the potential partner. This process might take a couple of minutes. After you are done, press Send.
The things are handled even more simply on the Automatic correspondence sub-tab. Since you have previously configured all settings needed for the automatic correspondence cycle, you now only have to press the Send Bulk button and wait until Web CEO sends all pending emails.
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C. Set partnership agreements and monitor partner links After you have corresponded with potential partners and they linked to your site or you have exchanged links, it is time to monitor your inbound links. And if you have, say, 100 inbound partner links, it is crucial to have an easy and quick way to check their status as it is impossible to check periodically your partners to see if your links have been removed or hidden by a black-hat technique. Before you start tracking your partner links, Web CEO will prompt you to enter necessary info to specify the partner sites and configure partnership agreements.
1. Go to the Manage partner domains tab and select domains you'd like to create partnership agreements for.
2. Go to the Configure partnership terms tab, select a partner domain and press Add agreement. You will be able to configure various settings to check the quality of the partner links, i.e. check if referring link is still on the partner's page, check if partner cloaks links to you from spiders, check if the quality of the referring page is satisfactory.
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Now that you have set up the partners profile, press Review status and wait until Web CEO scans the partners websites and builds a report. As soon as the report is ready, you can review the list of your partnership agreements and their current status:
1. Results are immediately displayed on the screen as each is processed, in real-time. 2. To simplify analysis, use one of the predefined filters. For example, in the screenshot, the default All agreements filter is applied and shows all partner domains and all agreements assigned to them. If you have a large number of partners and agreements, you may want to select, say, the With "Problems" status filter from the drop-down menu to see partner agreements that do not meet the requirements specified in the settings. 3. The Partners report is presented in two forms. Select one of the two views Summary or Detailed report to get your preferred presentation. 4. If you have already run the links check, use the Details button to view 'Sent e-mails history' / 'Site details' for partner domains.
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Please explain!
PPC (pay-per-click) is a short advertisement, which typically appears alongside the search engine results pages and leads visitors to your site. When running a PPC campaign, you pay whenever someone clicks on your ad. In order to get clicks from a PPC search engine, you are supposed to register a PPC account with the chosen SE, set keywords to bid for, and manage your PPC account on a regular basis. To run ad campaigns for several sets of keywords or several websites, you might need to register several PPC accounts. Besides, you might wish to investigate partnering with several PPC providers major ones, which bring more traffic but feature higher bids, and smaller ones, which charge much less for a single click or impression. This might cause a mess when it comes to recalling numerous logins and passwords. However, the things become easier to handle if you use Web CEOs PPC Campaigns Manager.
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After you sign up, an automatic email with your PPC account details will be sent to your registration email. To add the account dataset to the PPC Campaigns Manager, rightclick on the search engine name in the list, select the Add a dataset option and press GO. Fill in the required fields; the newly created dataset will appear in your custom list of the PPC search engines.
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Part III
Analyze your performance
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Please explain!
Obviously, you have spent much time researching keywords, applying optimization advice, submitting your website, and taking other measures the previous steps required, so are your efforts effective? Checking your rankings is the first and fastest way to answer this question. You can either do it by hand or use Web CEO. The latter will save you great amounts of time that would otherwise be wasted on hand querying and position tracking with Excel or other tools. Pretending to be human, Web CEO examines search engine results pages and builds a real-time report giving the exact positions of your website with targeted keywords. It includes several search engine results pages, which show where your site was found. All in all, you will get the same results as if you tracked your rankings manually, but they are far more understandable. Web CEO has many preset views, which allow you to quickly see specific reports, e.g. pages that are in the top-10 or top-20.
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1. Go to the Select search engines tab and check the search engines your targeted visitors search with. For guidance, use the additional information available about each search engine Country, Language and Popularity. 2. Go to the Add keywords tab and import keywords from your site Meta keywords, text file, clipboard or another project or tool (Advanced import). Alternatively you can press Add keywords manually, and enter the keywords you want to use to check your rankings. 3. Also, you can go to the Set scan rules tab. This controls the technical parameters for the scanning search engines results page. By default, they are set to provide best performance; however, you may want to change them, for example, to increase the depth of scanning. Now that you have set up the ranking profile, press OK, and you will be taken to the programs main screen where Web CEO will show your rankings in an extensive report with expanded position analysis.
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1. Press Start. Instantly, Web CEO starts requesting the search engines you selected (Google, Windows Live and Yahoo! in the screenshot) for the keywords you entered during the profile setup ("long-range weather forecast", "horoscope signs", etc.). 2. Results are immediately displayed on the screen as each is processed, in real-time. For example:
On February 19, 2010 index.html was ranked 3 on Google for the keyword "weather forecast software". It has moved since the previous check. You can disable this option or compare the current result with the best one or previous scan by selecting the options None, Previous or Best.
3. To simplify analysis, use one of the 12 predefined filters or create new ones based on your criteria. For example, in the screenshot, the In top-10 filter is applied; therefore, it only shows keywords that are in the top 10 search results for your keywords. To see the full report, select the All Results filter from the drop-down menu.
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Will you have problems with search engines because of automated queries?
Admittedly, search engines dislike automated queries to their databases. But, in reality, webmasters can't live without it. Otherwise, they would have to manually check rankings and spend far too much time than is practical. Web CEO includes technology to stop your IP from being included in the blacklist, and it offers the best protection in the industry. Because it professionally emulates a browser and, at the same, time pretends to be human, search engines treat your queries as ordinary, non-automated ones! All related settings can be found in File > Settings > SE Requests.
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Please explain!
When someone enters your keyword in a search box and presses the Search button, the search engine starts checking how closely your site relates to the query. Now, link popularity comes into play. Modern search engines (especially Google and Yahoo!) not only analyze the content of your pages, but also look closely at who is linking to your pages and how. The point is that they treat each link to your site as a recommendation. When they have to decide how highly to rank your page in their listings, they use this information as an important part of their algorithms. This explains why so many poorly optimized Web pages are ranked more highly than your well-optimized ones. Their webmasters took care to ensure that other websites link to them using their keywords. For example, Weather.com is certain to be in the top-10 with the keyword weather since tens of thousands of webmasters put a link to it using this keyword. This step will provide the following information: A detailed report on the number of Web pages that link to your site and its pages. The number of sites linked to your competition so you can estimate how difficult it would be to outplay them. Which Web pages link to your competition. What words and phrases are used as anchor text when other sites link to your one. What sites link to most of your competitors and/or to your site.
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1. On the Select search engines tab check the search engines where you want to check link popularity, e.g. Google, Windows Live and HotBot. 2. Go to the Add pages tab and import keywords from your site, text file, clipboard or another project or tool (Advanced import). Alternatively you can press Add pages manually, and enter the Web pages to be analyzed. You are done. Press OK to return to the main screen with the link popularity report. On the next page, you will learn how to use it.
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3. For a more thorough analysis, double-click a Web page or select a report from History.
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All successful websites have at least one thing in common their webmasters and owners use Web analytics to increase the percentage of visitors who do something GOOD for business. Analyzing visitors, revenue sources, and advertising efficiency combined with constant improvement of your site inevitably boosts revenues. HitLens, Web CEO's traffic analysis tool, helps you: Understand your visitors. Its easy! Because you will be armed with over 80 reports organized into 8 categories. Evaluate the commercial efficiency of your site. Reports in the eCommerce* category give you a full and detailed account of your revenues. They tell you how good your site is at converting the accidental browser into an impulse buyer! Find out if you are wasting money. Reports in the Campaigns* category measure the effectiveness of your advertising and uncover sources of traffic that you should explore and perhaps invest in, e.g., AdWords or a 300x250 banner on www.example.com, etc.
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* Ecommerce reports are available in the eCommerce Reporting Plan of HitLens service.
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How it works
Whenever someone comes to your site, a Web server records his activity as he is surfing your site. Later, this information can be extracted from the so-called log files and analyzed. This approach has many flaws such as delays in reporting and low accuracy. HitLens does things differently; it tracks visitors and transactions in real time. It does not distort the statistics. A snippet of its tracking code is embedded in your pages. This records all information available on the visitor. This is immediately passed to our Datacenters where it is finally converted into analytical reports that you can view with Web CEO.
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If you need detailed instructions, please visit http://www.webceo.com/support/hitlens.htm where this procedure is explained in detail.
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Category: Traffic
Brief Traffic Analysis Traffic Summary Unique Visitors Page Views Repeated Visits Total Downloads Downloads by Period Downloads by File
Category: Visitors
Unique Visitors New Visitors Visitors' Details Frequent Visitors Motivated Visits New Visitors' Second Visits Visit Frequency
Category: Navigation
Navigation Paths Entry Pages Exit Pages Single Pages Site Stickiness
Category: Referrers
All Referrers Referring sites and pages Search engines Search keywords
When you have the full picture, you can adjust your site to match your visitors needs. They will be more interactive with your site.
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eCommerce summary
Revenue Transactions Average Order Size Revenue per Visit
Activity overview
Activity by Search Engines Activity by Search Keywords Activity by Referring Sites Activity by Countries
C. Analyze ad campaigns
If you have a marketing budget to promote your site and you use any type of online media (paid search, banners, text links, etc.), you should track and analyze your ad campaigns. The Campaigns category reports enable you to find out which resources are worth investing in and which are not. You will get a full and detailed account of the campaigns that you are running. They include visits and actions for each campaign generated, e.g. Google AdWords ($2000 budget) produced 5,832 visits, 126 orders totaling $9254 in revenues, plus 537 newsletter subscribers and 417 catalog requests: Activity by campaign Cost of visit by campaign Cost of action by campaign ROI
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Part IV
How do you maintain your website?
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When you actively improve your site, it undergoes many changes: you fix broken links, add new pages, and refresh content. You just want to simply upload your changes with the minimum of hassle. Web CEO has a simple and easy-to-follow tool to deliver files from your PC to the server (and vice versa) over FTP (File Transfer Protocol). It enables you to copy, remove, and rename folders on the server as you do on your own PC.
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If you want to download files from a server to your PC, switch to the right pane, select the files and press the blue arrow button, which will change its direction to the left.
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It is not enough to get visitors to come to your site. You must also make sure they don't leave it straight away because of annoyances such as: Broken links Missing images Untitled pages Slow pages
These faults are bad for your reputation. Studies have shown that nearly a third of people will not return because of usability issues. Naturally, you must find and fix these revenue burning problems, and Web CEO is very adept at it. FACT: Web CEO detects serious errors on 89% of sites and minor errors on 99% of sites.
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Note: If you are a webmaster, you can immediately fix errors found and upload your site to the Web with the FTP Upload Tool (Features > Uploader). See Step 10. Upload your website using FTP.
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Reports for Customer. Here, you will find reports designed for sharing with your customers.
2. Summary. General information on your site: types of files, parameters of scanning, etc. 3. Errors. Critical reports that highlight problem spots on your site. These damage your reputation and decrease visitors' satisfaction. For example, see the Problem pages report, which lists all Web pages having at least one problem (the worst of them are broken internal and external links and anchors). 4. Usability. Many factors have an impact on a sites usability. The top causes being Deep and Slow pages.
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Maintenance. The reports in this category will bring your workload down. You can easily find out which pages are missing Titles and Meta tags as well as which of them were refreshed recently or are out-of-date.
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Tuning up Auditor
You can set Auditor to fully serve your sites needs. To do that, press the Options button in the bottom-right corner and change the settings so they suit your requirements. Note that these settings will be valid for the current project only. To change the global settings for Auditor to be applied to all sites, go to File > Settings > Auditor.
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Can you say with certainty that your site is available to visitors right now? Will it be functioning properly in fifteen minutes or tomorrow at 3:07 AM? Will it be hit by a new virus or a hacker attack? The monitoring service built into Web CEO will make sure that things continue to work as well as they can. A special robot visits your website every 5-120 minutes (depending on the service plan you choose) from different parts of the world and checks if your site is up and its services (E-mail, FTP, HTTPS) are functioning. The moment it detects a problem, you, and the other people in charge of your website, will get warnings by e-mail, pager, or cell phone with the problem description and status. At any time, you can see real-time reports on the performance of your server: Connect time, Host ping, Download time, DNS resolve time, Download speed, Time-outs, Time on error and Uptime.
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1. Select the monitoring plan of your choice: Free, Silver, Gold or Platinum. The main difference between the monitoring plans lies in the monitoring interval (5 min, 15 min, 30 min, or 480 min). Also, premium features such as advanced and intercontinental monitoring are only available in the paid subscription plans. 2. Press OK and confirm changes.
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1. Press New and enter Name and E-mail to be contacted, check the situations to be alerted of, and enter the text of warning. 2. To change an existing contact, select it and press Edit, and make necessary changes, e.g. change text of the message sent when your site is down or the e-mail address of the recipient.
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