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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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You spend money on SEO and PPC. If this were your data, start with questioning your PPC landing page strategy and then move to looking at your top SEO landing pages, and then look at bounce rates and next page analysis for those that stay. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. Take a break.

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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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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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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

MAY 20, 2013

At ZQI U, a vast number of students enroll into online-only courses (just like our analytics, PPC, mobile, and SEO Master Certification students at my awesome Market Motive ). As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The answer is simple: Aggregators. Let's call them ZQI University.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

But, here's an extremely detailed posts that looks at five different data sources to help you make the best of keyword data that is available in other places to optimize your SEO (or even PPC) strategies: Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up.

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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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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. Update: If you would like to download the above mentioned dashboard into your Google Analytics account please click on this link: VP Social Media Performance Dashboard.]. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics!

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. You can imagine then how absolutely heartbreaking it is for me to note that nearly all reporting that I see is data in aggregate. Tons of data "puking", all just aggregates. "Social media campaigns" ( context ). All visits.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. Before connecting with them, promote one of their recent posts on your social media accounts. Add a two-liner that lets the Editor/reviewer know who you are—a short bio or social media links to help them assess your authority quickly.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. That is worth fighting for.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My reply to them is: If search traffic is profitable for you, and PPC delivers profitable traffic, why would you let your competitor win? The delta in the above paid search graph, around 300k, is just a part of their winning strategy (which clearly is SEO + PPC, as it should be). million Unique Visitor. million Unique Visitor.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

If it take ten days to make a decision to change bids on our PPC campaigns, let's go with that data cycle. " They will measure the four sexy magnificent best social media metrics and use them to drive a magnificent conversation marketing strategy on Facebook (and YouTube and Google+ and Twitter and Pintrest and…).

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