Web Visitors Relationship

Posted: Nov 16, 2010 |Comments: 0 |

Once you've got your site in order, traffic is flowing in, and you're making the most of all of your visitors, it's time to be sure your relationship with them is long and fruitful.

In the early days of the web, the main measure of engagement with your visitors was loyalty – how often they return to your site. Today users receive messages from a wide range of social networks. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, email subscriptions, and newsgroup, all of which push content out to them without them first asking for it.

As a result, visits don't count as much. The definition of loyalty needs to be amended for this two-way relationship. It's not just about how often your visitors return; it's about how willing they are to let you contact them and how frequently they act on your advances and offers.

Loyalty

The best visitors are those who keep coming back. Thanks to browser cookies, most web analytics applications show the ratio of new blood so you can grow, but encourage existing visitors to return so they become regular buyers or contributors.

For this, you need to look at two additional metrics. One is the average time between visits, which shows you how much a part of your audiences daily life you are. The other is the number of users who no longer engage with the site. Since users don't usually terminate an account, this is measured by the time since their last login.

Enrollment

Reaching people when they visit isn't enough. Visitors you're allowed to contact are the holy grail of online marketing. Their love is more than loyalty – it is permission.

Enrollment is valuable because consumers are increasingly skeptical of web marketing. Browsers run ad-blocking software. Mail clients hide pictures. Some portals let users hide advertising. An enrolled visitor is reachable despite all of these obstacles.

Enrollment also provides better targeting. You can ask subscribers for demographic information such as gender, interests, and income, then tailor your messages- and those of your advertisers – to your audience.

Reach

It's great to have people enroll, but it's even better to actually be able to reach them. Whether through email subscriptions, alerts, or RSS feeds, reach is the measurement of how many enrolled visitors actually see your messages.

In the case of email, this may be the number of people who opened the message. For RSS feeds, it's the number that actually looked at the update you sent them. For video, it could be the number that played the content beyond a certain point.

Reach is a far more meaningful measure of subscription, since it discounts ‘stale' enrollments and shows how well your outbound messages, blogs, and alerts result in action.

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