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How to Measure Small Business Website Performance

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To get this type of information, you need to use an analytics tool. Google Analytics is a free and popular tool that any business can connect to. It can be complicated to use which is why someone without much technical expertise would do well to use an analytics plugin that automatically creates reports that you can use.

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Google Analytics Health Check: Is Your Configuration Broken?

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The fact is that a lot of the people relying on Google Analytics are relying on bad data. No, not because Google Analytics is awful. What’s a Google Analytics Health Check? In the past, we’ve covered setting up and using Google Analytics fairly extensively. Is PPC data showing in Google Analytics?

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Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic

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You see if you don't implement your links properly the person shows up to your site without any tracking parameters and thus fail to help your web analytics tool to put that visitor in the right source bucket. You have purchased banner ads in various Android applications using AdMob to target high value analytics decision makers.

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Web Analytics 2.0 Book: In Stores Now!!

Occam's Razor

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book. It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. It runs between $95 – $795.

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13 Essential Digital Marketing Metrics & KPIs to Measure Performance

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Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

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Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . However, we also see affiliate click fraud, competitor click fraud, click farms, and bots. Ad Age estimates that $1 out of every $3 spent on PPC is subject to click fraud.

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