Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-ADC covers the challenge of attributing credit to all digital marketing channels (Social, Display, YouTube, Referral, Email, Search, others) that contributed to a particular conversion (or multiple conversions). So, the campaign could be Social, Organic Search, Email, Display, Affiliate, Referring Site … anything really.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. organic post on Facebook, tweet, video on a brand’s YouTube channel, affiliate link).

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. Now scroll just a bit back up, stare at that column, what would your strategy be for Organic Search if it is at 0.46? Another tip. Very nicely summarized above.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). Kill things that don't have an optimum CPA. For Search it is in your Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst reports. But because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA.

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151