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Everything that you place in your website should serve a purpose. That is how you should think when you start conceptualizing what you want to place in your site. A site is comparable to a human body. Aside from completing the aesthetic whole of what a human body should look like, the body parts also have their own responsibilities to fulfill such as walking, hearing, seeing, among others. Similarly, your website parts should also be the same.
That is why when you are designing the site search reports for your website, you should also make sure that it would help your ecommerce marketing.
Google Analytics is a very useful tool to include in one’s online store. By using Google Analytics you would be able to track your internal site search. To incorporate Google Analytics in your site, you need to change the above line of code for your array into Dim mySearchArray as array = split(Request.QueryString(“SearchTerms”),” “).
Why is it important to track down your internal site search? Well, for one it gives you the to most important information that you need to improve your online marketing. Among others, here is the information that Google Analytics could provide to you.
- Search terms and phrases that are commonly used – by having an idea what terms and phrases are used by your customers, you would have an idea what key phrases and terms you should concentrate on. It is like knowing what would be the most sought out bait that costumes are most likely to be caught and using these keywords to help you get more customers to come to your website.
- Products or set of products in your site that are commonly frequented thus creating their own set of search term or phrase – by knowing which of your products are commonly searched, you would be bale to develop new set of catchy terms and phrases to increase your visibility in the web. These key terms and phrases are very target specific since they are directly sought after by customers, you are assured that your site will be visited.
- Search terms that were used and made sales – this is quite similar with the previous one. Aside from commonly searched terms from your site, what else could have higher chances of luring customers in than those products that are commonly purchased? Since they are commonly bought, they are commonly searched, thus making them ideal terms and phrases to use in getting customers.
- Searches that did not have any accompanying clicks – by having this kind of information, you will know what you should not be focusing on. This would help you identify which terms and phrases are not that ideal to use as lure for customers.


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