A1WebStats Blog

Audi A6 keys stuck in boot

You may wonder what that blog title has to do with website success, and in particular, the A1WebStats system. Bear with me … It was a cold and wet windy night in Maidstone, when we had finished our Entrepreneurs Circle meeting, hosted by the one and only Ian George.   Most people had gone home, except those who were drawn towards the hotel bar. Cutting to the chase, the picture below depicts Ian’s Audi A6 just after the arrival of the RAC man                         Ian had achieved something quite unique – filling the Audi...

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Limit on website visitors data capture

The number of companies offering website analytics solutions is growing all the time.  While most people recognise Google Analytics, relatively low numbers of people are aware of alternatives, of which here are a few (in alphabetical order) … A1WebStats Lead Forensics Leads Explorer WOW Analytics While all systems differ in terms of functionality, there is one factor that’s particularly important to consider: How many visitors can be tracked within the monthly fee charged? The price of data Data related to website visitors, particularly data that’s been refined into something that...

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Complacency in web agencies & SEO companies

These are the words we heard recently from the owner of a web agency … I got lazy He was licking his wounds because he lost a client when it was completely avoidable.  That loss was £500 per month off his income. Going back in time over a year beforehand we’d discussed A1WebStats with that agency, including how they could white label the system and offer it to their clients.  The message from us was words to the effect of: If you give your clients extra value, through the power of A1WebStats, then you will retain loyalty and also gain extra business when the stats show that clients...

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Editing visiting company details in A1WebStats

At A1WebStats we like to give you as much information about website visitors as we can.  One of the elements that people are most interested in, are the names of companies/organisations that have visited the website. However, many companies aren’t set up in a way that makes them easily identifiable to us (particularly, but not exclusively, smaller companies).  So, Joe Bloggs from Widgets Ltd comes to your website from his unit on an industrial estate and he just appears as something like ‘British Telecommunications’. We’d like to be psychic and tell you more than that but...

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Magazine advertising ROI – how webstats can help

There are two key problems with magazine advertising that lead to poor return on investment (ROI) … Stupid advertisers Stupid magazines   ROI from existing advertising How many magazine adverts do you see where it either has no website url, or the website url is the home page? The advert is published and the advertiser waits for the enquiries and sales to roll in.  When the ROI is bad the advertiser thinks that it was a poor investment and probably develops distrust in other magazine advertising sales people (hoping to get their business in the future). It’s not always easy to measure...

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Just One Thing – Traffic from Google Images

What is ‘Just One Thing’? Just One Thing (JOT) are a series of blogs and articles that are designed to focus on just one thing you can do with your website in order to get stronger results. Sometimes the JOT will involve using the A1WebStats software to demonstrate the point, but this isn’t always essential (other analytics software may be able to work in a similar way).   Traffic from Google Images Do you know how much of your website traffic is coming from Google Images searches? And if you do, do you know how useful that is? And what can you do to gain more benefits from Google...

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