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Tracking natural search to sales

How do I do this effectively?

         

jornada11

2:34 pm on May 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I am interested to know if there are recommended tools for tracking natural search from entry (referer I assume) to sales? Essentially I want to track the impact of my SEO from an increase in sales. I am dealing with a large, dynamic site. I like webtrends, but I have seen there search marketing tracking. Any other suggestions?

jornada11

2:36 pm on May 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I meant I have NOT seen Webtrends SE marketing tracking.

Tor

8:01 pm on May 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Try this [google.com]. ;)

jornada11

4:35 pm on May 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

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what is this google? is it a tracking software?;)

Seriously, anyone had any luck with a off-the-shelf, or are most people using multiple tools?

snag

4:38 am on Jun 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You're talking about tracking conversion rates, something I had a hard time finding as well. I wound up just writing some code to write a cookie when a user first visits that records their referrer, then spits it to a database when they reach my order success page.

It only catches about 70% or so, but I haven't seen anything that isn't ugly, hosted, slow or more accurate...

helohelo

3:00 pm on Jun 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I found [roi-tracking-pro.com...]
and [softngine.com...] (they promised me to include a ROI feature)
[hypertracker.com...]
[deepmetrix.com...]
[actualscripts.com...]

Iam looking my self for a nice php webstat counter without monthly fees, with a one time purchase that runs entirerly on my server. Softngine sofare is the thing that comes a good way, but it lacks the ROI feature sofar and its Perl, but thats not bad anyway.
I dont want a loganalyzer but a cookie/javascript one called tag analyzer.
Livestats is interesing but cost a lot $ 895,-
Softngine is better and cost $300 for 3 domains.

Anyone have another suggestion

cgrantski

3:26 am on Jun 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If you like WebTrends, then along with all of these you should go to their site and look at their natural SE tracking. To get ROI you'll want to look at the reporting that's based on tags. Look at Coremetrics also - if you have the budget.

edit_g

3:39 am on Jun 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Most top tier stats packages will track natural search to sales if you go for one of the higher end packages. How effective they are (esp. if you have PPC campaigns running) is another matter entirely.

Rusty

3:42 pm on Jun 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The best one I've found is [saletrack.co.uk...]

Differs from the others in that it tracks all traffic to your site and sales, not just those from specific adverts and campaigns (though it does have a campaigns feature). Also, www.roi-tracking-pro.com is in Ukraine, makes tech support a bit difficult.

helohelo

9:59 pm on Jun 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Anyone else no a good track/webstats software?
Not an asp model with monthly subscribtions like salestrack but software wich you by one time and runs on your own server?