Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. In Google Analytics specifically it is GA's annoying UI / user experience.

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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. Not only will I tell you about them, I'll give you downloadable links so you can get going right away! You can use them as is, or, better still, you can download and adapt them to your unique business needs.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Data on interactions can be found in social analytics dashboards and Google Analytics. . Show (don’t tell) your prospective sponsors just how far your reach extends by sending them screenshots of your social analytics for related content. This gives sponsors a clear idea if what they offer directly appeals to your consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2020

Employ Analytics. Analytics are the numbers that tell you how well your business’s online presence is performing. How does my PPC advertising campaign perform? Metrics will help you understand your customer’s behavior and the success of each page of your website. How many customers browse but do not buy?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

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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

AUGUST 27, 2015

In fact, it’s easy to project the predicted ROI of optimization ( click here to download conversion optimization ROI calculator ). Time Period Comparison in Analytics (and Why It’s Wrong). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics. Word-of-Mouth.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Every post is about unleashing the power of digital analytics (the potent combination of data, systems, software and people). But we've never stopped to consider this question: What is the return on investment (ROI) of digital analytics? Let's calculate the ROI of digital analytics. Let's fix that in this post.

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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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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool. If your web analytics tool requires you to call the vendor to set up advanced segments, or re-tag your site to get segments, then switch.

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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). Key Metrics: Map Overlay Visualization. Seven more!

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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. Download a spreadsheet with this sample data: ( Google Docs | XLSX ). site analytics data. Download a spreadsheet with this sample data: ( Google Docs | XLSX ). Get really picky.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? " ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI?

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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! Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building.

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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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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Web analytics gems lie deep in the data and we spend our lives looking at the top ten rows of data. Too much data from our web analytics tools. In the past we all used the standard reports that our web analytics tools churned out. It does not matter which report you look at. Affiliates. Products sold. Referring URL's.

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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.

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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). So, if you download the mobile app created as a result of these efforts, how big of a problem is it solving for Walmart? Remember the two questions above.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For these queries, you have to choose your data source and date range as well as what metrics and dimensions you want to include. In addition to trial users, you can leverage the remarketing strategy for webinar participants , ebook downloaders, and podcast subscribers, for example. Image source: Supermetrics for Google Sheets.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

It’s only going to get more complicated and it’s important to have the right analytics software that can handle it. Heap Analytics and Mixpanel are a couple that can track these new 3 dimensional funnels.”. With the right analytics tool, you can simplify those factors and track your new, 3D funnel.

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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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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

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. It artificially inflates the importance of a change in the metric might not be all that important. But because this is the default view in Google Analytics everyone uses is. Download it.

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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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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No touching Google Analytics. No going to web analytics conferences. The result will be an astonishingly high level of focus for your digital analytics work (even on day one) and hyper-relevant insights to the business. " "Download the trial version." No tweeting for help. Why should you come to work?

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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. Download the report” is easy to understand. total revenue / total spend).

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

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 (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. Of course Yahoo!

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 14, 2019

If you suddenly needed to study a longer timeframe, you had to download the data again and start over. What can it offer your analytics team ? In this instance, you’d combine data from your ecommerce platform with Google Analytics data. Select dimensions and metrics you want to compare. Here’s what you need to know.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

What is the first thing you want when you think about web analytics? recommending tools for the complete web analytics 2.0 Disclosure:] I am the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. Web Analytics 2.0. This blog post is about web analytics 2.0. Of course tools. Don't be.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

Here’s a look at pirate metrics (AARRR) as designed by Dave McClure of 500 Startups … Image Source. For optimizers, those descriptions are a bit different… Acquisition: Optimizing emails, PPC ads, etc. event tracking isn’t set up properly in Google Analytics). Activation: Optimizing for that first conversion.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Competitive intelligence, the "what else", is one of the core tenets of Web Analytics 2.0. Sampling bias : People are enticed to install monitoring software in exchange for sweep-stakes entries, downloadable screensavers and games, or a very small sum of money (such as $3 per month). 5: Benchmarks from Web Analytics Vendors.

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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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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Every indicator we have is that companies are investing more in every facet of analytics. There is an analytics ladder of awesomeness each company needs to climb, and it just takes time. 7: 25% of all analytical effort is dedicated to data visualization/enhancing data's communicative power. #6: Consulting.

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