This heatmap to the left was generated from 2,228 visits and 1,263 clicks from my site at adesdesign.net. I have used CrazyEgg’s free service.
With the free plan you can track up to 5,000 visitors and have 4 different URLs or sessions. The basic plan costs you $9/month, you can track 10,000 visitors and have 10 different URLs or sessions. If you have only one site, free plan should be enough to get the idea about your visitors and where they are clicking on your site.
Heatmaps are a great way to visualize the clicks, you can track them on your own by other scripts or counters but you won’t get this kind of information. With heatmaps you know exactly (you can see it) which part of your website is working and which ones are not. In my case here, I was glad to know that my promotional banner is working great.
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Once you get your heatmap, you can see where the users are clicking the most. And this information is vital for publishers who are serving ads from GoogleAdsense, because you want to place your publisher ads near to this (hot) region. This region gets the most attention, therefore placing your ads near to it will get better visibility for them, and hopefully that will generate into more clicks. (Please make sure that you do not violate the Google program policy when placing your ads, otherwise that check might stop coming).
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An useful tools for webmaster or blogger, I need it, thanks :)
Good article. I also recently wrote about using heatmaps, and included a review of the crazyegg service.
Are you going to keep it running full time? I decided against it in the end, although I will probably use it from time to time to measure specific campaigns and objectives.
- Martin Reed
- Kenny you are welcome.
- Martin, I see no reason running it full time, I will probably run it when I change the design of the page, or if I want to test some banners whether they are working or not.
Wow, Ades! People are paying so much attention to your ClrPicker banner! Hahaha just kidding. =]
Maybe I’ll try using this on my site. Thanks for the tip. =]
- Phishie, you are right! ;) Well, I think they are just looking for website templates and not color picker. After all, it’s a new program. (so I sooth myself like this)