Hi Folks!
New Filter
We’ve added a NEW filter to the Popular Pages stat.
What does this New Filter do?
This new filter helps you to identify your converting keywords.
Your “converting keywords” are the keywords that result in visitors to your site:
- making a purchase
- signing up for a service
- downloading a brochure
- or completing any other desired action on your site
How does this help me?
Information about your converting keywords is incredibly valuable.
If you can identify the exact search terms that actually result in sales (or sign-ups, or downloads, etc) on your site, then you can focus your advertising and SEO efforts on these terms. This should allow you to maximize your revenues and minimise your spend on marketing.
Can I see an example?
Sure! Let’s use this fictional site “Bites Bakery” to explain how this works…
Bites Bakery has a website which allows its customers to order cakes and other baked goods online. For Bites Bakery, a conversion (or success) is the placement of an order online.
With StatCounter your “Keyword Analysis” gives you a list of the ACTUAL search terms used to find your site. For Bites Bakery, you can see that people searched for :
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bites bakery
chocolate cake
cherry pie recipe etc
From the above, we know the search terms that are bringing visitors to Bites Bakery… but which of these search terms result in actual orders being placed? To find this out, we need to look at the Popular Pages stat…
If we look at the Popular Pages for Bites Bakery, we can see that:
- 257 people visited the homepage
- 31 people added a product to their baskets
- 6 people tried to checkout
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But only 4 people successfully completed the order process and visited the order-confirmation.php page – it’s these “converting keywords” that we are really interested in.
(Don’t forget! It’s the “converting keywords” that result in a sale/sign-up/download on your site!)
We want to find out which keywords result in people confirming an order. To do this, we drilldown on the page www.bitesbakery.com/order-confirmation.php and apply the Keyword Analysis filter.
First step is to click the “drilldown” arrow beside the webpage you are interested in. For Bites Bakery, we are interested in people who made an order online – that is, the people who reached the Order Confirmation page.
Next step is to apply the “Keyword Analysis” filter – click the link.
Now, we see a list of the keywords used by the visitors who reached the Order Confirmation page. With this information we can see that:
Although 40 people found the Bites Bakery Site by searching for “chocolate cake” (see Keyword Analysis), only 1 of these people “converted” and placed an order online (see Popular Pages filtered by Keyword Analysis). That means for the search term “chocolate cake” we had 1 order from 40 searches => 2.5% conversion rate
On the other hand, while only 9 people found the site by searching for “dark chocolate cake” (see Keyword Analysis), 1 of these people “converted (see Popular Pages filtered by Keyword Analysis). That’s 1 order from 9 searches => 11% conversion rate
From the above it’s clear that we are getting a far better return on the search term “dark chocolate cake” than for “chocolate cake” – this information is useful in deciding where to direct our SEO efforts and marketing spend.
Summary
Use the “Keyword Analysis” filter on “Popular Pages” to identify the search terms that send visitors to a particular page on your site.
Note re New StatCounter SC4 System
As a result of the delays we have experienced converting all members to the new StatCounter platform, we have made this new filter available on BOTH the old StatCounter SC3 system as well as on the new SC4 system. Our tech team continue to work on the conversion project – we are terribly anxious to get the conversion done as this will allow us to release many new features and improvements. Thanks so much for your patience and enjoy the new filter!
I think you add another great tool again.
This is an amazing tool that you have. I believe statcounter is not to be missed by anyone serious about tracking and web analysis. The keyword analyser is also great.
HELLO
I have been looking at my stats,total site information this is a great tools.
this is great toolll.
THX
Not only do you have a great statistic counter tool – you also have fantastic information in your blog.
What can I say? Awesome !
Regards
Gerry
Thanks, Statcounter is Great.I like it.
I can’t wait to get Exit Links statistics in SC4 as well, my new SC projects have it of course, but regretfully old ones still don’t.
Thanks, Statcounter is Great.
hey thanks for that awesome feature….
great work statcounter,s team
Thanks again
Great feature indeed…
SanjeevSaikiaArt
Hii
I have been looking at my stats,total site information this is a great tools. It sure pin point which key phrases are converting.
i using statcounter for my blog…this is very nice website…..
I like it….
Many thanks
Googleexpert
this is awesome addition
This is an awesome addition.
The “came from” filter is also of great help when tracking conversions on our website – especially when trying to find out which of the sites that we advertise on, actually result in a sale/conversion.
A helpful update might be adding the date next to the data so that we can see how recent this information is – or possibly even a drill-down option to see what pages inside the site led to the conversion. Knowing the “funnel-path” of customers is extremely helpful in finding out which of your pages actually lead to a purchase.
Either way, this is an extremely helpful additon – Thanks!
Nice work. It helps to know where on your website your orders actually come from.
I am new in statcounter and happy to find the blog, otherwise it is difficult to know all the functions.
Wow, I love this new feature! Very handy and useful. I might be able to help with the French translation. Keep on with the good work.
This will definetly help me to increase my conversion rate.
Thanks for providing this filter.
Una herramienta muy util. Gracias por seguir creciendo y ayudando a quienes hacemos de la web nuestro trabajo.
bluedreams.com.ar
Statcounter is simply the best.
I might be able to help with the French translation. Keep on with the good work.
Best greetings and many thanks.
Viviane.. Thanks.. ßlog.Satatcounter 🙂
Quite a useful feature you’ve added. Cheers again to the statcounter team.
I canât wait to get Exit Links statistics in SC4 as well, my new SC projects have it of course, but regretfully old ones still donât.