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Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions

Occam's Razor

In this blog post I want to share four analytics tools that I have been playing with for a while… tools that solve an interesting problem… tools that point to what might be in terms of our near term analytical future… and in almost all cases they don't even know! First Some Context. Two reasons: 1.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools.

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Raw Data & Google Analytics: A Game Changer

ConversionXL

For a long time, I considered standard Google Analytics reports to be the best way to get useful insights. From time to time, I struggled with sampling, limitations, and weird results, but I didn’t see a way around it—until I discovered Google Analytics 360 and raw data exports into Google BigQuery. Where do my users come from?

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. For technology vendors and models, see Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments. . For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. AskAnything.VC

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many adds came through organic SEO? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on?

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The “Curse of Knowledge”: How Expertise Can Hurt Marketing

ConversionXL

Analytics data is one piece of the puzzle to be paired with qualitative research. The default New Users segment lets you to view Google Analytics data through the lens of first-time visitors. (A Live chat : You can aggregate data that you collect on audience interactions with live chat representatives or chatbots.

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Important Changes to the Google My Business Tool

Duct Tape Marketing

Increasingly, people are finding that these posts are helpful in SEO. Over the years, reviews have become a huge ranking factor, so they’re important for SEO. You’re actually better off with an aggregate rating of between 4.2 Posts are like blog posts, except they appear within your Google My Business profile.