Measure everything!

When it comes to your content marketing strategy, you’ve got your goals written out (my first part of six posts) so it’s watching those results but a bit more too. 

Some examples include giving away a white paper/driving traffic towards web based results, executing email marketing campaigns, receiving direct contact in a sales capacity and social posts (in the capacity of earned media). Google Analytics is clearly a favourite tool for analysing unique hits, popular content pages, referral traffic etc.

The best article I’ve found on what to do to get started in analytics is here: https://lnkd.in/gt3DQW-g

My personal and probably fairly basic go-tos:
1 – Always love a content drill down – what are you most popular case studies or blog posts? That is huge for informing if you PR was successful, which projects are most interesting to prospective clients and hires and what content is the most interesting on your blog.
2- Acquisition / Sources – who is linking to your website and make sure it isn’t unwanted – check who is linking to you and why and what they’re saying for your own reputation management and those sources that are working – maybe think about investing in that platform for your marketing spend for next year
3- Look in All Pages and ‘Average time on page’ are people really reading your content?
4- Same report but then Bounce Rate – if its a high bounce rate then maybe something on that page isn’t working

What do you measure? What do you wish you were measuring but you’re currently not?! Confession time!!