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

JUNE 24, 2020

Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Ad Age estimates that $1 out of every $3 spent on PPC is subject to click fraud. We spent around £5,000/day and generated around £50,000/day in sales on average.

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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. Another worthwhile exercise is sitting down with the marketing team or sales team to discuss the descriptive language used to attract & close customers. webmaster tools query data.

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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

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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OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. Customers that converted in the last year that had a sales cycle of less than x weeks. Optimizing the sales process is a tricky topic, as there are many ways to do it.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). Many custom reports are wrong because we mess up the fundamental data model in analytics. This report demonstrates the power of getting something out of Google Analytics that you might know exists there.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

From those fundamental differences flow all tactical differences—the ones that require tweaks to titles or affect how you promote your ecommerce products on other sites. This may also be an opportunity to port Amazon learnings back to your ecommerce site. Internal PPC traffic is less influential than it once was. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Some 74% of optimizers with a structured approach to conversion also claim improved sales. 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.

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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? How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Just because you can take a look at your Google Analytics stats to see how much traffic you get and what it’s converting at, doesn’t mean you’re seeing the full picture. Traffic analysis with Google Analytics. Thankfully you can plug custom reports right into your analytics profile by just clicking on them.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

On paper what could possibly go wrong with creating or curating content with a eye to driving sales or influencing current or future customers? Companies have an Email team and a SEO team and a PPC team and a Social Media team and a Display team and. The average conversion rate for a typical top ecommerce site is around 2%.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Web Analytics: An Hour A Day: Web Analytics: An Hour A Day for the first time provides a Practitioner's in the trenches perspective on web analytics. There I said it.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. But the rest probably got what they were there for and your website was helping them by doing all those "jobs" as well, along with pure ecommerce. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Not impossible.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

PPC, SEO, IT, brand, etc.) PPC campaign management for excluding/adding keywords or ad placement.) But if you run an eCommerce site, you also need to implement revenue tracking for the testing tool. Basic combination: sales backend, Google Analytics e-commerce, and Optimizely. Revenue Tracking. What gives?

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Both Harvard Business Review and Practical Ecommerce have reported the death of the linear funnel. 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.”.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. Here’s what I’ll cover: Why conversion attribution starts with traffic attribution How Google Analytics understands traffic sources What are UTM parameters? How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe our visitors don’t appreciate Pre-Christmas sales starting in November. If they’ve set up their analytics improperly, or are calling wins too soon, they’re reporting “wins” that may not entirely be valid. Maybe it was, but the offer still wasn’t entirely clear. Conclusion.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2017

It’s all about asking the right digital analytics questions. But in digital analytics, it’s crucial. According to Tim Wilson from Analytics Demystified , “Most analyses don’t turn up wildly surprising and dramatic insights. For instance, is your Google Analytics data sampled? In any field, it’s important to be critical.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

If we work in sales, all we care about are sales touch points. And that comes before you think about marketing/sales/advertising/billboards/tv. Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. You want sales, yes. It is also rude. Remember the two questions above.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

WordStream – Service that manages PPC campaigns, but great info too. Sales Playbooks– This includes the creation of specific actions aimed at mining, generating, nurturing and converting leads. Pipedrive – Visualize your sales pipeline and keep the line moving. Further Reading: How to Create Killer Sales Playbooks.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to your Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics practice, I've advocated slow and steady evolution. Because the above picture actually looks like this… Suddenly most of your standard Adobe and Analytics reports are more than lying to you about the effectiveness of your marketing investments. Let's go.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In a survey done by Econsultancy and RedEye , 74% of the survey respondents who reported having a structured approach to conversion also stated they had improved their sales. Web Analytics Analysis. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised how many analytics setups are broken. Technical Analysis. User Testing.

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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. Instead, Talu Tales is delivering a valuable experience that can be nurtured towards a sale. Discuss campaign results with sales and support teams to discover the why behind the what.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 14, 2019

What can it offer your analytics team ? In this instance, you’d combine data from your ecommerce platform with Google Analytics data. Combining Google Analytics data with imported data. They invest a lot in inbound marketing and wanted to know why their traffic was so much lower on peak sales days. Well, you can.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

What you can discover from Google Analytics. If you have correctly set up goals and/or e-commerce tracking in Google Analytics, you can get some insightful data. Google Analytics custom reports are highly useful. Here are some reports you can plug right into your own analytics profile just by clicking on the links.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 14, 2013

You can use this technique for a variety of websites but one area that it really excels is with ecommerce websites. It can be the top 5 results, a mixture of PPC results and organic or the competitors that you know do really well online. Using This Technique: A Walkthrough. In this case I’ve picked a company called Waltons.co.uk

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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

MARCH 20, 2015

Zalando has seen huge growth in Europe, overtaking many established, big ecommerce companies. Is the page part of the sales funnel? ecommerce site) – the order in which the search results are presented is typically far more important than the search itself. Sales and customer support people > LISTEN to them.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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. Predictive analytics help you understand what your customers are going to buy before they do. *. *. Finding your target market for PPC and display ads.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 31, 2006

For non-ecommerce websites it can be number of people who completed a task, so for a support site the number of people who got to a faq or a answer or a knowledge base article (this is a really crude measure of success for a support site but it is something). Are you spending excessively on PPC (Pay Per Click)?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

After the iPhone launched in 2007 to mass adoption, analytics were never the same. Even on one device, a cross-browser experience completely ruins web and marketing analytics as we know it now. Once you have a whole year of data, you can also adapt to seasonality, sale periods, and other contextual events (e.g.,

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

For optimizers, those descriptions are a bit different… Acquisition: Optimizing emails, PPC ads, etc. That is, getting an email or a sale or whatever it might be. event tracking isn’t set up properly in Google Analytics). The holidays for eCommerce, things like that. Activation: Optimizing for that first conversion.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

This could cover a range of methods, but for the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on PPC, Social Media & Search. How To Identify Your Target Market & Make More Sales. Optimizing PPC & Display Ads – Researching Your Target Market. Just don’t approach PPC with a “set it and forget it” attitude.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2014

If you do 1 to 2 sales per month, and run a test where B converts 15% better than A – how would you know? 5: Test data is not sent to Google Analytics. While Optimizely has some built-in segmentation of results, it’s still no match to what you can do within Google Analytics. When in doubt, run a follow-up test. #3:

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