2012 is looking great following a strategic acquisition.


In December 2011, Generate UK were delighted to complete on the acquisition of Web on High, an 11 year old digital marketing agency based in Newbury, Berkshire. Following this announcement, Generate UK will be moving to new premises at Read more

Instant Flood Sandbags : The latest technology


Generate UK recently purchased the rights to Instantsandbags and in doing so designed and developed a new website called Instantfloodsandbags. The product itself was not only innovative and new to the market but it's ingenious space saving design and it's Read more

Analytics

Take Advantage of Your Traffic

Posted on by Tom Edwards in Analytics, Digital Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation | Leave a comment

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Excerpt: Through SEO you have to make two impressions on your customers to eventually reach a conversion: • Firstly you need to gain a high ranking with a solid call to action. Although the description does not affect your ranking it does effect conversion. A solid call to action will allow for a much better percentage of receiving the traffic from any given SERP. • Secondly your content, structure and usability of your websites landing page or pages must be easy to interact with and navigate. This not only benefits search engines robots but human visitors too. Where do you want your traffic to go and why? Understanding where you want you visitors to go within your site is fundamental to converting traffic. What messages are you giving them once they land on the site? Helping your traffic move seamlessly from one page to another through the site not only makes for a better customer experience but allows you to convert traffic on the right pages and help point them towards your target page. Try to think where you want them to go next and refine your calls to action if required. Look at your traffics behaviour patterns Utilise Google Analytics to understand your websites traffic patterns. It is one of the most advanced and easiest to work analytical tracking tools for web traffic – and it’s free (well at least for now.) It provides you with a superb insight into how your traffic behaves. Look at your pages and keywords to discover which terms are delivering traffic and which are…


Five Reasons Why Using Google Analytics is Important

Posted on by Ian Fergusson in Analytics | 1 Comment

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Excerpt: Google analytics is a tool that delivers detailed reports on your website or blog. Many people are aware of this tool but don’t understand how detailed these analytic reports can be and how they can then be used to help develop your site. To set up an analytics account all you need is an active email address. Once the account is created you will be able to add the URL of the site you want analytics for. Google then gives you a tiny bit of code that needs to be inputted on to every page of your site, this is normally done by inserting the code into the footer but most blog platforms will have a separate analytics area for you to paste the code into. Once the account is set up you will be able to view your websites analytical reports. Below are my top five reasons on why you need Google analytics and how it can be used to further develop your site. Traffic How can you tell if your site is doing well if you can’t see how many people are visiting it? When people ask us to look at their site for improvements the first question we ask is how much traffic is it getting? I am always surprised when people reply with ‘I don’t know’.  Not knowing how many visitors you get is like organising a BBQ when you don’t know how many guests are coming. How do you prepare for it to make sure guests are…