If your reaction to the headline was, “what on earth does Web analytics have to do with my job?” you probably weren’t alone. Web analytics might be thought of as the realm of SEO pros and online marketing teams, but it can be an incredibly valuable tool for PR teams too. In fact, Web analytics can give you insight into the value of PR and the types of business outcomes it helps drive in a way that hasn’t been possible ...

Context Analytics was recently asked to explore the relationship between a client’s media coverage and the traffic to their consumer facing web site, to see how effective their PR efforts were in driving revenue-producing traffic. We also looked at their closest competitors to benchmark the results. We used web analytics data (such as # of monthly visitors) and combined that with data on product-related coverage we already analyze for the client on a quarterly basis. We repeated this process for each ...