ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

After reading some of our subscriber feedback , we noticed that many ConversionXL readers didn’t have a solid foundation with a proper Google Analytics setup. That’s a problem, because if your analytics isn’t properly configured from the beginning, how could you ever expect to gather any insight? image source.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly. Let's go!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. site analytics data. Put simply: Getting clicks from the right audience boosts your conversion rate because you’re driving motivated traffic to what they want. Blog Lead Generation Adwords Ppc'

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. But with rising CPCs and unmitigated click fraud, PPC can also get really expensive quickly. Why PPC is an effective short term strategy, but SEO is the long game. 1) Take an iterative approach.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With the proper strategy, digital marketing can catapult your firm to new heights by drawing in a wider audience, raising brand awareness, and boosting sales. Do extensive keyword research to discover what your target audience wants. Communicate with your audience using content that they will find useful and interesting.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Strategies span a range of methods, but we’re going to focus on PPC, social media, and search. 7 Ways that Predictive Analytics Is Transforming Ecommerce. Image source ). By Gagan Mehra.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. Here’s the executive summary of the process we use at CXL: Heuristic analysis ; Technical analysis; Web analytics analysis ; Mouse-tracking analysis ; Qualitative surveys ; User testing and copy testing. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised by how many analytics setups are broken.).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits.

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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. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Tools used in this post.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. Come back here.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Not only do corporate sponsors offer the capital to help you forge ahead, their backing brings new contacts and exposure to new audiences that can take your project to the next level. All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. Audience data.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. What about PPC? So no wonder 59% of businesses have figured out that they should fix their conversion machine before pumping any more dollars into their PPC or SEO campaigns. Still not convinced? Rinse, repeat. #4.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

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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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). The foundational elements of the framework are the consideration stages and the audience in each stage. There are some audiences who exhibit that behavior.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

19- Analyzing data faster Photo Credit: Cody Jensen In the SEO and PPC industries, technology is a huge part of how our industry changes. The way we run SEO and PPC marketing campaigns is already changing because of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Thanks to David Cohen, Flower Station ! #19-

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics. Change is hard, even if we know that we should be executing a multiplicity strategy to win in the web analytics 2.0 That's sucking. That's sucking.)

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

You also get exposure to new audiences who type in long-tail keywords that contain your keywords. If you want examples of good PPC ad copy (with explanations), check out this article. And despite their potential, PPC automation isn’t guaranteed to outperform manual bids. Who to add to your audience. Exact match.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Neither is an example of just site analytics.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

To guide the discussion, we’re going to be using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a framework to see where different conversion optimization opportunities lie. This could cover a range of methods, but for the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on PPC, Social Media & Search. So Where Exactly Does “Conversion” Happen?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

On day one, we heard from UX and digital analytics experts. Jared Spool: Is Design Metrically Opposed? Useless measures and silly metrics. Metric: A measure we track (usually over time). Analytic: A measure software can track. A metric should tell you what you will do differently. pic.twitter.com/T2OjzFm2U8.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

billion daily active users , Google AdWords and Facebook ads are obvious choices for PPC campaigns. New people constantly enter and leave the target audience. If not, consider experimenting with both for a short period of time and then cutting the one that performs worse until your PPC budget grows. via PPC Hero).

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Experiential marketing campaigns, such as live streaming of events, may attract a big audience to a business. They may also target ads to specific audiences and track real-time metrics like views, clicks and demographics. However, there has been a noticeable shift to Facebook ads and Google Pay Per Click (PPC).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

What if grouping all audiences into the same retargeting campaign is actually doing more harm than good? To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. You already know retargeting works. It’s an afterthought.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. per month; we use it at crowdspring) that can provide detailed analytics on the top keywords used in search engine marketing by your competitors, but also which of your competitors receive the most organic search engine traffic.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. When it comes to your Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics practice, I've advocated slow and steady evolution. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. per month; we use it at crowdspring) that can provide detailed analytics on the top keywords used in search engine marketing by your competitors, but also which of your competitors receive the most organic search engine traffic.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For example, you can partner with social media and PPC teams to create content that encourages subscribers to sign up to receive something of value. But that alone is too general, so it’s important to get specific by setting clear metric objectives. Providing valuable content or assets is a clever way to build trust and familiarity.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

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. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

To craft a PPC ad that’s so compelling people are happy to click it. If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? The Current State of PPC. Not only 78% of marketers feeling “really good” about their PPC success in 2015, but 60% believe the PPC market has improved over 2014.

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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. It now has a specific audience and a purpose.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The ad that performed the best on average , especially for quantitative metrics, delivers your typically inoffensive McDonald’s spot—the safety scissors of the ad world. But web analytics or heat maps can’t tell you anything about the quality of your words. your target audience ) but aren’t customers yet (so they’re unbiased).

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Google’s machine learning–based metrics, for example, give you access to insights and audience segments you can put to work immediately in your campaigns. From Google’s Session Quality and Conversion Probability reports to related smart retargeting platforms, machine-learning segments users like no PPC manager can.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Other metrics to measure online performance did not yet exist. The most well-known, without a doubt, is Google Analytics. Ways To Measure Website Traffic.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2017

However, you can follow these principles, which will guide you closer to writing email subject lines that are perfect for your audience. Test your subject lines and measure the right metric. Generally, you’ll want to start by testing to variations on a small portion of your audience. Research your audience’s voice.

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