Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per action (CPA).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Marketers can take advantage of various digital channels, including but not limited to search engines, email, social media, and web applications. PPC advertising. Developing a Strong Digital Footprint to Succeed On the Web. It has 7 main categories, as follows: Social media marketing. Email marketing. Lead generation.

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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. 2: Tags go last (customers come first :).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

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. Then I perform my own search, going through at least 2 pages of PPC ads and organic results.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. More Search Engines. Enterprise Web Analytics in the Facebook Era. For anyone with any PPC in their background, I’d expect some discussion around Quality Scores and landing page optimization testing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, we’ll cover small business web design best practices and tips. Many things have changed – we’ll point you to great new resources and examples – but the fundamental best practices of good web design have remained consistent. Tip: Keep the web design and navigation consistent throughout the site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2013

Figuring out how to build authority for your content in the eyes of search engines – Link and networking research. GetListed.org: See how your business is listed on Google, Bing, and other local search engines. MOZ: Try out PRO: The Web''s Most Popular SEO and Social Monitoring Software - Moz. GetListed.org.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Today, we’ll cover web design best practices and tips. We’ll point you to great resources and examples and highlight recent changes in web design. For even more about 2016 design trends, I recommend you read Top web design trends for 2016. Tip: Keep the web design and navigation consistent throughout the site.

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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. Checkout the detailed course description by clicking on the Curriculum tab.].

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips. The 10 / 90 Rule for Magnificent Web Analytics Success. Who Owns Web Analytics?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. Maybe you’re at a startup whose acquisition engine is fueled by SEO. Probably not.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. With “Content Explorer” you can easily explore the most shared content on the web. Search marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. With “Content Explorer” you can easily explore the most shared content on the web. Search marketing.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

It measures the customer interaction in a very small number of web pages, probably one for cart and two to three for checkout. Segmentation examples would include: By “campaigns” (this would include PPC, Pay Per Click, / SEM, Search Engine Marketing, and direct marketing and other campaigns you run).

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Still some web analytics vendors and consultants are fond of saying, "Yes we can track everything, online and offline and underwear sizes, and you won't have to lift a finger!"

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Web Analytics Analysis. Web analytics analysis is next. PPC/SEM campaign. Experiment Engine. To do this, we recommend the ResearchXL Framework. ( to really understand the framework, read this post ). Here’s the executive summary of the process we use at ConversionXL: Heuristic Analysis. Technical Analysis.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is quite likely that your company is spending tons of time, energy, and dollars on web marketing efforts yet conversion rates (or ROI) are stuck in the two to three percent range. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool. Web Analytics, CoreMetrics etc etc etc. Bounce Rate to the rescue! You get the idea.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The second source of data are the logs from googlebot that indexes the world wide web and all the pages (and your site). If you are a Paid Search Marketer (PPC) then use SbKT to identify relevant long tail keywords and their corresponding landing page. Oh and in case you did not realize it, this is Web Analtyics baby!!

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marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Recognizing the industry needed a scalable design strategy that acknowledged the growing stable of web-enabled devices, Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design.”. Marcotte’s recent book, also titled Responsive Web Design , defined the idea as having three key pieces: Flexible, grid-based layouts. Media queries.

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