Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I love that the analyst is segmenting the data rather than showing the aggregate trend ("all data in aggregate is essentially crap" – me). If you use Omniture's Site Catalyst or Google Analytics or whatever, they do a good job of collecting clean data into those two segments. But Mobile is a platform.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The search queries by these users would hence be encrypted and not available to website owners via web analytics tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, Open Stats, Google Analytics etc. Most analytics vendors, including Google Analytics, reacted immediately to the change in order help us quantify the impact of this change in multiple ways.

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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! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): This has never been true – not even for people who use the same analytics tool. See Page 269. :).

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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. Ravage all the features.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Of course Yahoo! All visits. Total revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But then we think marketing ends at the repeat and refer stages. And the first real result, meaning an actual business that wasn’t either an ad or an aggregator like Angie’s List or Home Advisor, showed up on page two. In fact, never abandoned your website, SEO, or content. So, pay to play is definitely here.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

It is also known as Mambai, Kakamuchee and Galajunkja for future reference/taxi directions. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! You have free tools like Google Analytics Content Experiments (now with the power of multi-armed bandits !),

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

If you are doing SEO then you are likely paying for someone. For Search it is in your Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst reports. But for most other programs (Affiliate, Email, Social, Display) your Cost is likely sitting outside your web analytics tool. Standard metric in every web analytics tool worth anything.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool. It is important to note that the first definition is the standard definition in tools like Google Analytics, WebTrends, Yahoo! Web Analytics, CoreMetrics etc etc etc. Action : When you create SEO and SEM campaigns ensure that your team has this data.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. It looks and feels very different from content optimized for search since it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006!

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