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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Third-party cookies are the new Flash. They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., Many users’ updates are aggregated (B) to form a consensus change (C) to the shared model, after which the procedure is repeated. Now, reluctantly, Google is, too.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. See Page Value there?

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Produce Actionable Insights: Mate Custom Reports With Adv Segments!

Occam's Razor

and partly because all they do is present data in the aggregate (a punishable criminal offence if there ever was one!). In a flash and a bang I can see that my first head segment (one or two words typed) accounts for 13% of the site traffic (yowza!) Sub optimal. It is rare that we care about behavior. You need all three.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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Web Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions And Direct Answers

Occam's Razor

This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? IMPORTANT: This type of behavior is rare so you should not see 0 visits often. My advice would be this: 1.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. Cost Per Acquisition. But because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA. But not to worry.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been.

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