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Digital marketers are the tech industry’s trailblazers, according to Pathrise

The Startup Magazine

Paid search engine marketing (SEM) increases a company’s ranking in the search engine, getting more clicks. This is the power of SEM marketing. Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is another essential digital marketing tool. With PPC, impressions cost nothing. Analytics is critical for growth.

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Digital marketers are the tech industry’s trailblazers, according to Pathrise

The Startup Magazine

Paid search engine marketing (SEM) increases a company’s ranking in the search engine, getting more clicks. This is the power of SEM marketing. Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is another essential digital marketing tool. With PPC, impressions cost nothing. Analytics is critical for growth.

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The Best Programming Languages for Digital Marketers

ConversionXL

You might need to add an extra parameter to your tracking code or pull raw data from Google Analytics. You may want to create a simple prediction—or automate a few repetitive tasks in your PPC campaigns. One of my former colleagues, Rob, is an SEM guru—with zero coding background. your goal with the given language.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

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. This is sub optimal.

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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process to do just that: Tony DeYoung: I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM. ” Rookies have no analytics or experimentation tools on the site. Add 2 points for UX tools.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

Then I perform my own search, going through at least 2 pages of PPC ads and organic results. Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process: Tony DeYoung: “I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM. Rookies have no analytics or experimentation tools on the site. Give a company 1 point for Analytics package.

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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

ConversionXL

How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? 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. ROI is Difficult to Measure.

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