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Drawing new visitors to your site is only half of the battle. Having a plan for them to follow once they get there is the key to encouraging repeat visits and building a meaningful relationship with your readers. To engage user-focused design for your site, it’s important to consider the following: 1. Keep It Simple Gating desirable content can be a great way to learn more about visitors by prompting them to fill out a form or sign up for your newsletter to access it. However, roughly 67% of users will abandon an effort to obtain information or purchase something online if there are too many steps to take. Make sure your users get what they need in as few steps as possible. Matched content is another way to keep visitors from checking out too soon by increasing your odds of presenting them with content they are directly interested in. 2. Identify User Moments People often look for inspiration and ideas while they complete a task online. Anticipating your visitors’ needs can help you...

Exposing your audience to a rock solid brand leaves a lasting impression on your site’s visitors, and helps separate you from your competitors. To establish brand consistency across multiple touch points, it’s important to create and stick to guidelines unique to your brand. Building a strong brand experience comes down to four things: 1. Find your voice A brand’s voice means more than just the tone you use in your content and communications. It also applies to style, colors, and graphics. Is your brand bubbly, bright, and fun? Or is it straight to the point with clean lines and a matter-of-fact tone? Often times, the type of product or services you're selling as well as your company philosophy can help you determine an appropriate tone. There’s no secret for determining what an audience will respond best to, as all styles can be effective in their own way. So choose what works for you and your creative vision. 2. Be consistent Once you’ve laid the groundwork for what defines your ...

With the summer kicking off, it’s a great time to freshen up your content and try new things to #drawthecrowds. Google Analytics can help you measure what kind of content is a hit or miss with the fans. Here are a few simple and effective places to get started. 1. Find out where to focus Content Groups let you bundle your offerings to analyze them more clearly. Instead of analyzing all sneakers at once, for instance, a shoe company might divide content into soccer boots, golf shoes, tennis shoes and so on. You can view and compare aggregated metrics by group, or drill down to any individual URL or page title. Know what topics have the best AdSense CTRs (Click-through-rate) Group content by topic (such as food, politics and sport).  Use the AdSense Pages report to view metrics. Once you discover which topics have the best click-through rates, you could then focus on creating more content for those topics. Know which content groups have slow-loading pages Use Site Speed reports to l...

Want to freshen up the AdSense performance on your site? Google Analytics can help. Here are some simple and effective places to start. 1. Find out where to focus Content Groups let you bundle your offerings to analyze them more clearly. Instead of analyzing all shoes at once, for instance, a shoe company might divide content into shoes for adults and kids, for men and women, or by tennis shoes and high heels. You can view and compare aggregated metrics by group, or drill down to any individual URL or page title. Suppose you want to know: What topics have the best AdSense CTRs? Group content by topic (such as food, politics and sport) Use the AdSense Pages report to view metrics Once you learn which topics have the best clickthrough rates, you could then focus on creating more content for those topics. Suppose you want to know: Which product groups have slow-loading pages? Group products by type (such as shirts and shoes) Use Page Speed reports to look at page load performance Are s...

The holiday season is the busiest time of the year, with shoppers out in full force to gather their holiday gifts, round up their decorations, and treat themselves to something special. 2014 was a record-breaker in terms of ad spend, which goes to show just how important it is that your advertising is as targeted as possible, and that you’re fully prepared for the final, and most lively, quarter of the year. Check out these stats and tips below which can help you be in tip-top form for the season: (viewing from mobile? Download it here .) Not yet an AdSense user? Sign up now! Posted by Yigit Yucel Marketing Communications Specialist