Hero

An approach to web-based marketing that emphasizes attracting people to your site, and its products and services, through informational content that is searched and shared.

This is in juxtaposition to paid marketing, which pays money to present ads and similar placements in order to draw people to your site. In an inbound marketing model, organic search traffic is the primary driver of traffic to many key pages.

Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) are those prospective customers that, through some action related to marketing efforts, are more likely than others to become a customer. 

This can be tracked a number of ways, and is often related to users who take a specific action on a website that isn’t a full purchase, but indicates a strong interest in purchasing.

The number of web pages a user visits when they come to your website. Tracking average pages per session can be a valuable way of seeing how good your site is at retaining and engaging traffic to it.