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Finding out how to measure SEO performance is almost like finding a rare diamond in the rocks! Everyone knows that SEO is important, but most website owners either don\u2019t really understand it or they\u2019ve looked into it and find it so confusing they have been ignoring it ever since.<\/p>\n

We meet a lot of website owners like this, so if you are wondering, how do you measure SEO, we thought we\u2019d help with a little demystifying exercise when it comes to the great issue of Search Engine Optimization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is SEO?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

SEO is both very easy and quite hard to explain. In simple terms, it\u2019s a measurement of how well optimized your website is to appear on the Search Engine Results Page (SERP), ideally in positions 1, 2, or 3 \u2014 but at least on the first page \u2014 sometimes winning the snippet too.<\/p>\n

The problem arises when you realize there is no standardized way to \u2018score\u2019 your SEO, and with each search engine measuring slightly differently \u2014 Google is the biggest followed by Bing and Duck Duck Go \u2014 it can be hard to really say for sure if your SEO strategy is working.<\/p>\n

SEO Measurement<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To trust your SEO performance, you do need to decide on how you will measure and learn how to evaluate SEO performance.<\/p>\n

This is an important part of the equation because SEO relates to organic search (not paid ads), and the results can take a while to even appear, let alone rise to the top. In other words, it\u2019s very unlikely that a brand-new website will appear on page 1 of Google straight after publishing.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s estimated that a new website can take around 38 weeks to rank properly on Google if there has been no intervention, such as buying backlinks or sending traffic from other sources, and if the content on the website is actually good.<\/p>\n

\"googleSEO and Analytics <\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are many ways to conduct analytics SEO or measure your SEO data. Most websites will use Google Analytics, as this free platform is a wealth of information and can be connected to both Google Search Console to give you information on keywords and landing pages, and to Google Data Studio for creating better-looking reports and data visualizations.<\/p>\n

When you open up Google Analytics, you\u2019ll see that you have more information than you could possibly ever want! Don\u2019t be put off by this though; the most valuable measurement is how many people landed on your pages from organic search. Here\u2019s how to find that information.<\/p>\n

Once you have Google Analytics set up on your website, go to Acquisition -> Channels and select either All Traffic or Source\/Medium. If you select channels, you\u2019ll be able to see how your users got to your website: was it from Social, Organic Search, Direct, Referral, or Other?<\/p>\n

Selecting Source\/Medium from this screen will give you more details about the referring websites (i.e. was it Facebook, Google, Bing, etc.).<\/p>\n

To check your organic traffic, go to Acquisition -> Channels -> Organic Search. From here you may be able to see search terms used to arrive at your website.<\/p>\n

This screen would be helpful, and it was a number of years ago, but you may by now have noticed a large proportion of your visitors come from \u201cnot provided\u201d or \u201cnot set\u201d. This means the user doesn\u2019t share the data with you and you won\u2019t be able to see their search terms.<\/p>\n

There is a little hack though: if you click on either not set or not provided, wait for the screen to lead and then click the \u2018secondary dimension\u2019 button. Here you\u2019ll be able to set a secondary listing. Search for \u2018landing page\u2019 and hit enter. Now you can see what pages the users who were coded \u2018not provided\u2019 entered on. This is useful because you can see which pages are getting more organic traffic and take a guess at which ones are performing better for SEO.<\/p>\n

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SEO Tracking<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Learning how to measure SEO performance is an important part of running a successful website. There are many tools such as SEO Google Analytics, SEM Rush, Ubersuggest, etc. that can keep track of your SEO performance, and you can even check your own performance by searching your keywords in an incognito window or in a browser you\u2019re not signed into.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a good SEO measurement tool, SEM Rush and Google Analytics provide some of the best free tools with options to really deep dive into position tracking if that\u2019s something you want to get into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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