Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. In Google Analytics specifically it is GA's annoying UI / user experience.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

This might include things like: Website Social media banners and content Newsletters Digital and traditional media advertising Naming rights of a building Event sponsorship Speaking opportunities Exhibitor opportunities Access to influencers. Data on interactions can be found in social analytics dashboards and Google Analytics. .

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

To craft a PPC ad that’s so compelling people are happy to click it. If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? Why haven’t advertisers perfected the process? The Current State of PPC. Gone are the days of advertising to everyone in San Francisco, California.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2020

Employ Analytics. Analytics are the numbers that tell you how well your business’s online presence is performing. How does my PPC advertising campaign perform? Metrics will help you understand your customer’s behavior and the success of each page of your website. How many shopping carts are abandoned?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

8- More home buyers, low mortgage rates, data management, virtual reality and automated advertising. They may also target ads to specific audiences and track real-time metrics like views, clicks and demographics. However, there has been a noticeable shift to Facebook ads and Google Pay Per Click (PPC). Photo Credit: Corey Tyner.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

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. Whether because of seasonality, day of week, external factors, press, advertising, etc, data just fluctuates. How can we possibly do that?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Adword is a PPC method to promote your website. Thanks for the insight!

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Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

A lot of digital analytics focuses on direct response (conversions, leads, etc.). But there is an additional valuable, and sexy, focus of our marketing we don't give enough analytical love: Branding! Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. Sometimes it all works together.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 31, 2021

From social media campaigns to PPC advertisements, there are many strategies companies use to promote brand awareness. Aside from generating a stable stream of possible leads, brand awareness can assist in creating advocates of your brand that will use word of mouth to advertise your company. How do you measure brand awareness?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool. If your web analytics tool requires you to call the vendor to set up advanced segments, or re-tag your site to get segments, then switch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

For example, if your revenue model is driven by advertising on your site, one interim goal could be to drive a certain amount of additional traffic to your site. Once we settled on a defined conversion, it was much easier to make decisions and look at comparative metrics. There are many paid options for website analytics.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly. Let's go!

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. In our world, the size (and growth rate) of the market on both sides (advertisers and optimizers) is in the end the competitive advantage.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. site analytics data. Themes Improve Quality Score and Ad Rank Metrics. None of those metrics are magic bullets to real ROI, but they can be used to improve performance. webmaster tools query data.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

After reading some of our subscriber feedback , we noticed that many ConversionXL readers didn’t have a solid foundation with a proper Google Analytics setup. That’s a problem, because if your analytics isn’t properly configured from the beginning, how could you ever expect to gather any insight? image source.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. This calculation goes beyond marketing costs and advertising dollars to include product costs, labor costs, shipping costs, and any other expenses that contribute to attracting and securing customers. Gather insights from Google Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Patel is all about conversion and metrics and it shows not only in his own work in the companies he created. When should you consider mobile PPC advertising? When and why to use more powerful analytics services than Google Analytics. When should you consider mobile PPC advertising?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. But with rising CPCs and unmitigated click fraud, PPC can also get really expensive quickly. Why PPC is an effective short term strategy, but SEO is the long game. 1) Take an iterative approach.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Truly reflect on whether our marketing and advertising initiatives are broad enough and optimized enough for each customer consideration stage, and finally.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Just because you can take a look at your Google Analytics stats to see how much traffic you get and what it’s converting at, doesn’t mean you’re seeing the full picture. Traffic analysis with Google Analytics. Thankfully you can plug custom reports right into your analytics profile by just clicking on them.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2015

A thing three that shares optimally aligned See-Think-Do-Care metrics! Not just your largest addressable audience , that leads to the omni-present spray-and-pray advertising on TV and in magazines. Phase one, steps one through five, here: The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big.]. Just open Google Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. I mean really use the tools.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2016

As a brand, counting followers is a ‘vanity metric’ that is not always reflective of success. Social media is a marketing channel that requires as much time, effort and often as much spend as the likes of SEO, PPC and email marketing. Set Goals Around Metrics That Matter. What Is Social Media Success? Focus On ROI.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. than multi-channel attribution modeling. From a Venn -diagram.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. What about PPC? So no wonder 59% of businesses have figured out that they should fix their conversion machine before pumping any more dollars into their PPC or SEO campaigns. Become a master of analytics.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Neither is an example of just site analytics.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Business of Social Networks: We have seen a coalescing of business models form around social networks and not surprisingly the vast majority of them are evolutions of advertising models. Brand Marketing Meets PPC: In most companies marketing exists in two forms, brand management and promotional marketing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

billion daily active users , Google AdWords and Facebook ads are obvious choices for PPC campaigns. These are the questions optimizers need answers to before they can really reap the benefits of two very powerful advertising platforms. Why You Should Link AdWords and Google Analytics. But is one better than the other?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC) Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising ensures that your message reaches the right people. The ROI from your pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns will increase with consistent monitoring and tweaking. You should hire the best SEO Company for better search engine optimisation.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" That data is not in Google Analytics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search). They also are given the opportunity to display advertising to users searching Google with those keywords. Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. We have your back.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. When it comes to your Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics practice, I've advocated slow and steady evolution. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you.

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