Document: Progress Report December 2013

Project: Cognation

07 January 2014

Prepared by Mogi Marketing Ltd © Mogi Marketing 2014

Cognation Digital and Social Media Marketing Report – December 2013

Introduction and overview:

Cognation has continued to increase its reach, brand awareness and the ‘virality’ of its content on

social media and the web in general.

The website gets a steady amount of visitors but has had some fantastic ‘spikes’ in visitors too.

Data is for April 15th 2013 to 31st December 2013 (April was the date of the last report).

In that period the significant data was:

Website visitors : 48,056 (up to 18th Dec 2013 as no data after that point)

Facebook fans up from: 2900 to 8,500

Twitter followers up from: 668 to 1407

YouTube Views: 229,173 views and 1547 subscribers (up from 74152 views and 238

subscribers)

Google analytics:

Highlights include 1512 visitors on one day coinciding with the following blog post about Bike Park

Wales: http://www.cognation.co.uk/6weeks-to-go-until-bike-park-wales-opens

The other regular peaks in traffic are for other blog posts and the site is seeing a consistent increase

in visitors.

Sources of Visitors:

The largest single source of visitors (38.49%) is now coming from organic search results which

reflects the improvement in our SEO The referral sites have also improved thanks in part to Bikepark

Wales. Mobile visitors too are up a lot from Facebook and having a mobile friendly version of the site

now will hopefully help reduce bounce rate.

The screenshot below shows the top sources of visitors:

Keywords – Bikepark Wales and Bike Park Wales and words relating to Gethin Woods are some of

the most important keywords. It is recommended that to strengthen and maintain this position you

add more content relating to these over time:

Video:

Video content (mostly via YouTube) continues to be some of the best content for interaction on the

website and also social media and it is a good referral site too. It has also been instrumental in

increasing advert interaction.

Notable key content viewed in the period all relate to Bikepark Wales:

Also significant is the way people discovered the videos which was mostly via embeds in other

websites (such as the blogs for Cognation):

Facebook

In the previous reports we were only able to see data from the last 3 months but Facebook now

provides complete data for the period discussed. However, the change in how Facebook Insights

now works some data is not available such as the Likes.

Likes - The most significant spikes in the number of likes have come from advertising.

Visitors from Facebook Apps continue to be a big source of visitors to the page:

In terms of reach and virality the ‘History of Mountain Biking’ post was the most popular:

Twitter:

Twitter continues to be a reliable source of traffic with lots of retweets and ‘favouriting’ of Tweets.

There are also many mentions showing that #Cognation is recognised brand amongst Mountain

Bikers on Twitter.

Facebook Adverts:

As a general overview the adverts seem to have performed really well in 2013 in driving likes and

other interaction for a reasonable cost. Highlights are 1299 likes coming from one advert alone at a

cost of £0.03 per engagement.

Promoted posts have also provided excellent returns on investment to ensure the maximum number

of people see the best content.

Google Plus

Google plus continues to grow as an alternative Social Media site to Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest

etc. Currently there are 115 people or other brands that have added Cognation on Google Plus.

Although this number is relatively small it is widely acknowledged that having a Google Plus account

helps Search Engine Optimisation.