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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

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Time Period Comparison in Analytics (and Why It’s Wrong). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics. However, you have to have a predictable traffic stream (ie PPC) and even then it is rough. How, indeed, did they demonstrate ROI? Word-of-Mouth.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips.

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How Machine Learning Can Finally Solve “(direct)/(none)”

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After the iPhone launched in 2007 to mass adoption, analytics were never the same. Even on one device, a cross-browser experience completely ruins web and marketing analytics as we know it now. Cross-device, cross-browser, and private browsing tracking is hard impossible. Hybrid predictive approach.