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Jim Raymond, Baigent Digital www.charitycomms.org.uk/events

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Easy, low-cost ways to

improve your websiteJim Raymond

Low cost ways to:

Understand your users

Improve your website

Get more users

User questions

• What did you want to do last time you visited

our website?

• How easy was it to complete what you wanted

to do?

• Was there anything you were unable to do?

• How would you rate our website out of 10?

What do we have to do make it a 10?

• Is there anything we can add to the site to

encourage you to donate to us next time you

visit?

See http://askcharity.org.uk/blog/2010/05/if-in-

doubt-ask-the-audience/

User groups

• Service users

• Donors

• Campaigners

• Volunteers

• Shoppers

• Subscribers

• Followers

Openhallway.com Free for 10 min sessions, $19 per month

500MB

Silverbackapp.com Free 30 day trial, $69.95 to buy

Google.com/analytics Free

Key metrics

• Audience – goal – value – volume

(repeated for each primary audience group)

• Finding your website

• Page impressions/visits/estimate of visitors

• Where do people leave?

• Site search – what are people looking for?

• Conversion rates for funnels

Alexa.com free

SurveyMonkey.com Free 100 tests, £19.95/month 1,000 tests

PollDaddy.com Free 100 tests, £200/year 1,000 tests

4qsurvey.com Free

Google Page Speed Free

Key questions

• Is it clear what you want your users to do on the

homepage?

• Are all key goals signposted on the homepage?

• Is there a relevant call to action on every page?

• Do you check every page once every three

months?

• Do you review the usage of every page once a

year?

Feedburner.google.com Free

Disqus.com Free

Open Source CMS

• Wordpress

• Joomla

• Drupal

• Dotnetnuke

• Umbraco

fivesecondtest.com pricing starts at free, 100 responses

$20/month

Navflow.com pricing starts at free, 100 responses $20/month

Clickdensity.co.uk Free for up to 5000 clicks, then £2.50 per

month

IIS SEO Toolkit Free

Google Webmaster Tools Free

Yahoo Site Explorer Free

Bing Webmaster Tools Free

Powermapper.com £99 standard edition single licence

Adwords.google.co.uk Cost varies depending on usage

AddThis.com Free

Facebook Open Graph Free

Do something!

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