Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. It runs between $95 – $795.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2016

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. Just like Mazda improved their retargeting ads with proximity, Watchfinder did so with audience granularity from Google Analytics. Key Takeaways. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? SEO and PPC teams that don’t communicate effectively (or at all) achieve less. SEO has a role.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. For example, if your customer acquisition costs are high for PPC ads , you can move budget to a marketing strategy with a lower CAC. This is due to factors such as maturity, sales cycle, product value, purchase frequency, and customer lifespan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Once we settled on a defined conversion, it was much easier to make decisions and look at comparative metrics. Tip: One of the most important tools for any effective SEO strategy is website analytics. There are many paid options for website analytics. We like and use Google Analytics. image credit: hetemeel.

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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

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. that we are worth it!

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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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ConversionXL

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 have positively reviewed us on at least one third-party site. You segment users by the month they signed up and their zip code.

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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

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

JULY 29, 2020

Even after a purchase, Amazon knows whether a return was necessary or how buyers felt about the experience (through reviews ). Google once allowed webmasters to dump a laundry list of (supposedly) relevant phrases into the source code, hidden from users. Internal PPC traffic is less influential than it once was. Image source ).

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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. It’s up to them to decide how they promote your products, whether it’s through social media , word of mouth, pay per click (PPC), blog posts, email, newsletters, or any other way they see fit.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

She might turn to social media, look at more car insurance providers, go into the office, read online reviews, sign up for a newsletter first, etc. Both Harvard Business Review and Practical Ecommerce have reported the death of the linear funnel. Heap Analytics and Mixpanel are a couple that can track these new 3 dimensional funnels.”.

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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). Perhaps you wake up in the morning and walk into a store and buy new clothes (or expensive software from Oracle). Remember the two questions above.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Not impossible. Well just assume. :).

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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!) We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a " gosh darn it where is my return on investment from all this?

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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. Become a master of analytics.

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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. As many as 97% of people read product reviews before making a purchase and 89% consider them an essential resource. . The reviews prove it. Image source. It’s a clever tactic.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

billion daily active users , Google AdWords and Facebook ads are obvious choices for PPC campaigns. Well, the truth is that there are a lot of “it depends” situations in PPC, as Shuki Mann of LIXFIX explains… Shuki Mann , LIXFIX : “Is $1 a click cheap or expensive? Why You Should Link AdWords and Google Analytics.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

To maximize impact and ensure correct prioritization, the team reviewed the top 10 accounts quarterly. Programmatic ABM: One-to-many accounts marketing that leverages ABM software to tailor and personalize marketing programs for specific named accounts at scale. Use this to land new deals and upsell existing relationships.

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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. Don't open Google Analytics or Yahoo Web Analytics yet! No tweeting for help.

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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. You may be happy that a percentage of reviewers think your copy is weird.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Define your target metrics. Web Analytics Analysis. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised how many analytics setups are broken. Google Analytics 102: How To Set Up Goals, Segments & Events in Google Analytics. Make sure you’re informing your larger goals with the analytics in this step.

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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

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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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2017

Test your subject lines and measure the right metric. Amelia Showalter of Pantheon Analytics , who led digital analytics for Obama’s 2012 campaign, agrees… Amelia Showalter , Pantheon Analytics: “Eventually the novelty wore off, and we had to go back and retest.” (via via Bloomberg). Only indirectly.

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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. Image Credit.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2012

The basics of PPC are this: Use lots of punchy, dramatic ad copy, but test, revise and test. I can assure you this however, your customers are reading content, searching for things to buy and using reviews to make decisions on mobile devices. Analytics and Conversion.

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