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Wouldn't it be useful to know if your visitors are male \ female. Their age group. What their e-Mail address is and even their name.
Well it is possible to find out this information but it requires clever marketing techniques and a method of data collection.
Knowing where a visitor to your website come from, in geographical terms, is very important. It allows targeted marketing by offering services or products based on there location. For instance if your a UK business and only sold in the UK. This information could provide you with either a route to a new market or a method of saving money by not sending marketing information.
Do they read specific articles. Are they contiunally drawn back to the same information. Could they be directed \ funneled to a purcahsing zone.
Are they decision makers \ buyers or are they information gatherers seeking information to provide to the decision makers.