How to Track Your Users’ Behavior
Friday’s SEO tip is by Alexander Villamizar of LatamSEO.com
Not long ago I read the post called “Website Usability Equals Better SEO” and here’s a quick tip to improve your site usability!
By using click recording software, you can learn a lot about your site usability and user behavior: which elements of the site attract more clicks and if the users do what you want them to do.
ClickTale is web analytics software providing click maps for any page you install it on. To get it working on your website, you just need to register, generate the tracking code and then place it in the pages you want to track - pretty much the same as Google Analytics.
It has a number of packages, one of them is free, so you can check how the tool works.
Ann’s note: Another similar software is Crazy Egg (see the screenshot above) which also offers basic / free package.
Do you use click recording software? Please share your thoughts!
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Another list of similar tools:
ClickHeat
CrazyEgg
The choice very big, everyone can choose for itself what tool looks nice for him.
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seobag Reply:
April 4th, 2009 at 8:13 am
and
clickMap
ClickDensity
ps: sorry for reply, but I can’t submit a comment with 4 links at one.
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Google Analytics can do a reasonable job of showing you how visitors are moving around your website and you should make sure you are using this effectively. The advantage of the tools mentioned is that the outputs are often easier to understand. However GA can do a good part of this work.
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Sounds like a pretty cool tool to have. I’ll give it and try and let you know how I like it. Thanks
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Can it be used together with google analytics or those 2 don’t go together?
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Ann Smarty Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Sure, you can install both
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I am currently using Google Analytics, and must say I am still very pleased with the info it gives me.
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I currently use google analytics and it provides me with plenty of information about visitors but I will will have to have a look at this and see how it compares to google.
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I use only Google analytics tool for my site. I’ll try crazy Egg analytic tool. Thanks.
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great stuff thanks for sharing.
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I use G analytics and statcounter. I get more from the Statcounter.
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thanks for the tip. will give it a try.
without the ability to track your users’ behavior, you are essentially operating in the dark. at least in mortar and brick stores, you can get feedback from your interaction with your customers/clients.
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