Exam #1 Flashcards
What is a cookie?
A unique identifier placed on a web browser by a website in order to retain/collect information used to tailor the website experience to each user.
What are the 7 primary objectives of a website?
- Earn money through online sales.
- Earn money through advertising
- Earn money through commissions
- Earn money through subscriptions
- Provide information to generate/support offline sales
- Support a cause
- Provide customer support
How do you measure the success of a website?
- Generate traffic
- Driving conversions
- Generating Revenue
What is Direct Traffic?
Visits that results from typing the URL directly into the browser.
What is Paid Referral Traffic
It comes from ads that a website has paid to display on other websites.
Banner ads, Text ads, Video ads, and Affiliates
What is Unpaid Referral Traffic?
It comes from links on other websites that are not paid for.
For Example: Email is generally most cost-effective online marketing
channel (i.e. highest ROI).
Social media activity targets established customers/fans.
Backlinks: requires interesting content
What is Paid Search Traffic?
Paid: comes from ads on the search engine results page
(SERP)
Paid search allows a company to target driven customers.
Expense of paid search varies by keyword.
What is Unpaid Search Traffic?
Comes from organic search results on the SERP.
Unpaid search traffic comes by being well-ranked on commonly
searched term.
Alternatively, unpaid search traffic comes with good rankings on
a lot of less popular search terms.
What are the primary conversions for the main 7 different types of websites?
1.Retail: purchase
- Lead Generation: lead (Phone call or form submission)
- Search engine: booking. (e.g. hotel reservation)
- Media (example Netflix): Engagement
- Social Media: Create an Account.
- Affiliate marketing: click affiliate link.
- Marketplace: Posting item for sale.
What are the 5 Web Design Frameworks?
- Design for Usability
- Conversion-Centered Design
- Three Questions
- Segments
- Mobile first
Design Frameworks: Design for Usability?
- Follow website conventions.
- Create effective visual hierarchies.
- Break pages up into clearly defined areas.
- Make it obvious what’s clickable.
- Eliminate distractions.
- Format content to support scanning.
Design Frameworks: Conversion-Centered Design?
Typically used for landing page design, but is also useful for website design.
- Call to action (CTA): attention to a single CTA.
- Context: does the content match expectations?
Note: context is more important for a landing page (vs. homepage). - Clarity: is the content clear from a quick scan?
- Congruence: do all words encourage conversion?
- Credibility
- Closing: encourages conversion by using positive words.
- Continuance: does the customer know they have
successfully completed the conversion?
Design Frameworks: Three Questions?
According to this framework, a website can maximize conversions by having clear answers to the following questions above the fold:
- What are you offering?
- Why should I pick you?
- What do you want me to do next?
Design Frameworks: Segments?
Conversion, or the next step in the conversion process, should appeal to a variety of customers.
- Segmentation can have many dimensions
– Search versus category navigation
– Browse versus directed shopping
– Product category shopping
– New versus returning customer
– Preference for online versus in-store shopping
Design Frameworks: Mobile First?
Design for smaller screens first.
Add features and content for larger screens (“Progressive enhancement”).
Responsive web design (RWD) is a method of coding that detects the visitor’s screen size and automatically resizes and rearranges the website elements accordingly.
What is Conversion rate optimization?
Achieving the highest rate of conversions require conversion rate optimization through continual A/B testing (aka split testing).
What is A/B Testing (Split Testing)?
Two or more variants of a page are shown to users at random & statistical analysis is used to determine which variation performs better for a given conversion tool
What are trust symbols?
Visual signals to visitors that URL site is trust worthy.
Examples:
Accessible return policy and guarantees.
Brand Recognition, Positive Publicity
Video Demonstrations and Testimonials
Social Media Presence
On what 3 dimensions should a landing page match an ad?
Although general web design principles apply to landing pages, a landing page should match the ad on 3 dimensions:
- The product (or service)
- The message
- The visual components
What is a Landing page?
The first webpage that a visitor to a site sees.
Example: home page, a page created for a campaign.
What are the 5 Landing Page Types?
- Single-Product Landing Page
- Multiple Product/Category Landing pages
- Lead Generation Landing Pages
- Subscription Landing Pages
- Long Copy Landing Pages
Single-Product Landing Page?
Product image
Unique value proposition
Call to action
How to proceed
Familiar color scheme and logo
Multi-Product Landing Pages?
Used when the ad includes a product category, instead of one product (e.g., running shoes…).
Follow the same rules as single-product landing pages, but should include multiple products.
Should include product search.
Should display multiple product above the fold.
Order of products should be prioritized (best sellers, high margin products…)
Lead-Generation Landing Pages?
Phone number in the upper fold
Call to action
Contact form
A/B tests should be regularly performed to test buttons, images, form placement, phone number placement etc.
Subscription Landing Pages?
Often use site overlays (i.e., pop-up windows) encouraging the visitor to subscribe.
Also uses new interesting piece of content (Examples: video, blog post…) with call to action.
Long-Copy Landing Pages?
Used for products that require detailed explanation.
Used for new or complicated products.
Explanations should include bold, interspersed calls to action.
What are Basic Metrics?
- Pageview (hit)
- Session (visit)
- User (unique visitor)
What are Calculated Metrics?
- Average Engagement Time
- Site Bounce Rate.
- Page Bounce Rate.
Average Engagement Time?
Average amount of time users are engaged with website.
Site Bounce Rate?
% of visitors that consist of only one pageview with no other actions.
Page Bounce Rate?
% of sessions that begin on that page that consist of only one pageview with no other actions.
What are Manual Metrics?
The user must set up goals in analytics to tell the analytics package specific user actions to a website wishes to measure.
Manual Metrics Goals Examples?
1) Destination
2) Duration
3) Pages / Screens per session
4) Event
What is Channel Analysis?
Consists of analyzing KPIs by traffic source (rather than in aggregate) to determine ways to attract the most profitable visitors.
Channel Analysis 8 Generations
Visits can be generated from:
1. Organic searches
- Paid search ads
- Display ads
- Emails
- Social media posts
- Social media advertising
- External links
- Affiliate links
What is Segmentation analytics?
Any method of dividing website visitors into groups that differ in a meaningful way.
What are Segments?
Search versus category navigation.
Browse versus directed shopping.
Product category
What is Segmentation?
Any method of dividing website visitors into groups that differ in a meaningful way.
What is Attribution ?
They are a set of rules that determine how credit for sales and conversions is assigned to different touchpoints.
Which ad was responsible for the conversion?
What are Attribution Methods?
They are methods used to determine which ad(s) is most responsible for a conversion.
What are 3 Attribution Methods?
- Last-click attribution
- Linear attribution
- Time-decay attribution
What is Last Click Attribution?
Which touchpoint a customer last clicked on before making a purchase, and gives it 100% of the credit for the sale or conversion.
What is Linear Attribution?
A method that splits conversion/sales credit equally across each touchpoint or interaction along a customers journey.
What is Time Decay Attribution?
A method which assigns credit to touchpoints encountered closer to the time of conversion, compared to those that occurred further back in the customer journey.
What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization
What is On-Site SEO (aka On-page SEO)?
The set of procedures that are implemented to maximize the number of visitors to a particular website, by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine.
Examples:
Making your website search engine friendly.
It deals with the formatting of content and coding on the website to maximize its chances of ranking for all desired searches.
On-Site SEO Principles?
It refers to optimizing both the content and the HTML source code of a page.
It helps search engines understand the content and the value of a page.
It also helps users understand the content of the page which improves their experience with the website.
Search Engine Optimization or (SEO) Goals?
- Choosing target search phrases.
- Maximizing relevance: Keyword Usage.
- Creating high quality webpages.
How to Maximize Relevance?
Search engines evaluate the relevance of a webpage based on the words used on the page URL.
Title Tag
Header Tags
Main Content
Alt Text
Anchor Text
How to Maximize Relevance: Keyword Usage: Title Tag?
The title tag is an HTML code element the specifies the title of a webpage
It shows up at the top of a browser.
Keywords should be part of the title tag, followed by the brand name
Can be viewed in “View Page Source”
Maximizing Relevance: Keyword Usage: Main Content?
In general:
At least 100 words of text/page.
Avoid keyword stuffing.