Data-Driven Web Design and 7 Key Metrics You Should Track
You’ve spent months redesigning your website and it’s finally live. While it may be tempting to just launch it and leave it on autopilot and return to your regular marketing routine, the real ROI comes from your ability to make your website work for you over the long term. If your website is the valuable, 24-hour-a-day employee in your marketing organization, you can’t just let it perform on autopilot.You may be asking yourself things like:
- So what does it take to keep a website fresh and high-performing?
- And just how often do I need to be creating new content?
- Oh, and what type of web metrics, leads, and dare I say business growth can I expect from this continual investment in my website?
Data-Driven Design to the rescue! Once your website is live, implement this monthly approach:
- Weekly:
- Blog posts
- Social media promotions
- Monthly:
- Web landing pages
- Automated workflows to nurture leads
- Quarterly:
- Case studies
- White papers/webinars
- Enewsletter
- Annually:
- Keyword strategy and content optimization for keywords
- 2-3 videos
- 1-2 infographics
2. Develop a wish list of on-going monthly enhancements to continually improve the user experience and meet goals. These could include things like adding new images, creating call-to-action buttons on top performing pages to ensure they convert to a next activity, and/or redesigning low-performing pages.
3. Analyze monthly analytics report including user heatmaps to analyze behavior and conversion paths and ensure your site is performing as expected or not. We recommend tracking 7 key web metrics and tracking results to achieve the B2B technology benchmarks noted in the graphic below:
4. Implement the knowledge you have learned through evaluating key metrics and apply it by implementing new content, interactive user experiences, automated workflows, and email campaigns to your target personas to enhance your web results
And now to the good stuff: results.
Data-Driven Design is a proven, methodical process to achieving the results in the graphic below.
Achieving these results does takes continual time and effort through the creation and promotion of content at a continual cadence. It's really a marathon vs. a sprint, but in the end well worth it and scaleable as your web visits, lead, and business grow.
