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Marketing Analytics: Attribution Is Not Incrementality

Occam's Razor

When you open a report in any digital analytics tool, like Google Analytics, almost all the reports you look at attribute full credit for the Conversion to the referrer associated with the last session where the conversion occurred.*. (*For Bing gets all the credit for that conversion in your Analytics reports. It is wrong.

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The Definitive Guide to Google Analytics 4

ConversionXL

Google Analytics 4 is the next generation of Google Analytics. What is Google Analytics 4 (and why should you make the move)? Google Analytics 4 is the rebuilt, rebranded and expanded version of the App + Web property rolled out by Google in 2019. How GA4 differs from Universal Analytics.

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The Future of Ad Tracking: Navigating the Google Analytics Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: During this episode, we discuss the transition from Google Analytics to Google Analytics G4 and its significant differences from the previous version. Questions I ask Julian [00:54] What are the differences between Google Analytics and the new Google’s platform? [04:41] Julian (01:35): Yeah, sure.

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The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics

Up and Running

Thankfully, there are a number of great tools for tracking your web metrics (both free and paid) that can help you get a better understanding of what your users are doing on your site and even how your competitors are faring in their own online efforts. What is web analytics? Google Analytics [free and paid].

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Who’s lying?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Web traffic from Google Analytics but also another analytics system, or your raw web logs. (If If you use five web analytics tools, they’ll all give you different numbers; this could be due to differences in definitions of things like “visit” and “session,” but is that truly all it is?).

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Analytics On The Bleeding Edge: Transforming Data's Influence

Occam's Razor

Analytics teams are named for the silos and limitations within which they trap themselves. Finally, few analytics teams obsess about predictive analytics in a way that allows them to dictate future action. The above-observed realities were on my mind as I took on a new role to lead Global Strategic Analytics. Paid Media.

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Mixpanel vs. Google Analytics: The 2018 Guide

ConversionXL

Instead, we’re comparing Mixpanel and Google Analytics in the terms that drive business growth—identifying the core use cases for each tool and the business problems they solve, while highlighting the features that make it possible. That’s as useful as analytics without analysts: troves of data but no actionable insights. Acquisition.

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