Wednesday, October 5, 2016

What is behind the sales drop? Loss of rankings, weather?

The sales slump is turning into a real problem. In August and September I was able to justify the drop is due to weather. But now as I review rankings I am sure that that is a big contributor. The problem is how much of the 30% drop is whether and how much is loss of rankings???
There is data to support it being the weather when I look at Google trends, but it is not enough for 30%. 
When I look at ad words data it shows significant drop in impressions. My gut feeling is that is an indication of weather. I need to go back and see on a month by month basis when this occurred, the problem is I shut off ad words during the summer so I will need to go back and compare November December 2015 data to see if the impressions were down then.

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It looks like last year during the same 14 day period that the impression count was way up, possibly indicating higher search volume

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Conversions were up significantly too. So people were shopping and buying.
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Notice the low click thru rates - reinforces the opportunity for improvement.

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