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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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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. In this article, I’ll answer all these questions and provide an overview of the four most popular languages for digital analytics professionals. One of my former colleagues, Rob, is an SEM guru—with zero coding background.

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Can You Build Your Business During theCOVID-19 Lockdown?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Besides, you can increase your knowledge about areas that can be useful for your business activities, such as joining the Google Analytics academics for digital marketing or discovering the art of writing compelling content. However, when everyone shares the same space, aka the web, you can obtain valuable data to position your brand.

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

ConversionXL

Often, the layout is something their web designer came up without doing a thorough analysis or testing. (In Karl Gilis , a web usability consultant, is a big fan of comparative user testing: Karl Gilis: For me, it’s incredibly interesting to see what the users like and dislike about the sites of my client’s competitors.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

Karl Gilis , web usability consultant and international speaker, is a big fan of comparative user testing: Karl Gilis: “For me, it’s incredibly interesting to see what the users like and dislike about the sites of my client’s competitors. Rookies have no analytics or experimentation tools on the site.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run.

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3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports

Occam's Razor

To share with you three custom reports that I find to be super valuable when I am doing web data analysis. If your daily practice of web analysis does not hugely rely on custom reports (and advanced segments ) then I am afraid you might be a lot more in the Reporting Squirrel mold and a lot less in the Analysis Ninja mold.

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