Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

I Got No Ecommerce. Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs). Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI. Tip #14: Measuring Value of Ecommerce Sales Tools. Rethink Web Analytics: Introducing Web Analytics 2.0.

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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). Ditto for Social Media. It is likely that the Social Media conversions are already included in Referrals and, of course, in Mobile. Never Compare Apples to Watermelons.

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Salary Analytics Green eCommerce 130

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

For our Market Motive Analytics training course , we provide students with access to one ecommerce and one non-ecommerce site because they simply can't learn well enough from my magnificent videos. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags. In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? But overall it does seem to make sense that the further back a media touch point is (Organic Search and Social in our example) the less credit it should get. Or we could not.)

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Which social media post was this link a part of? Imagine if each person, team, or media buyer responsible for running Facebook Ads could decide which combination of values they prefer. It tells Google Analytics how someone arrived on your site website—through email, a paid ad, social media, etc.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

For good measure, just to be extra sure you'll segment out the visitors who come by clicking on your campaigns (display/banner, YouTube, rich media, whatever), and see how many of them were truly new. You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic.

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