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Google Analytics Health Check: Is Your Configuration Broken?

ConversionXL

Is PPC data showing in Google Analytics? Is eCommerce tracking turned on? Are the IP addresses of your affiliates filtered out (agencies, freelancers, etc.)? PPC Keyword ID’s Visible on Landing Pages. Offline marketing, newsletters, social media, affiliate links, etc. Duplicate eCommerce Data Not Filtered.

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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) can be split into two search strategies: Pay-Per-Click (PPC) refers to how your company bids on keywords that represent the intent of what the customer is looking for, leveraging marketing spend to gain visibility by securing placement at the highest ranks within the search engines. Social Marketing.

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A Primer to Setting Up Your Own Affiliate Marketing Program

ConversionXL

What I’m talking about of course is affiliate marketing. We’ll be looking at affiliate marketing from an merchant view point. How to be successful at running your own affiliate program. But first, let’s get something straight… What Exactly Is Affiliate Marketing? How Affiliate Sales Have Grown In Recent Years.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic

Occam's Razor

That little bit of extra intent, when compared to other visitor segments, is the reason that conversion numbers (on ecommerce or non-ecommerce sites) for clean direct traffic usually look like these. If they are like every other company that obsesses with PPC and Yahoo! Visit 2: Came from Affiliate Campaign click.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . However, we also see affiliate click fraud, competitor click fraud, click farms, and bots. Ad Age estimates that $1 out of every $3 spent on PPC is subject to click fraud.

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. I, I think there is this convert urgents where affiliate marketing was a model that used technology to, to work with partners at scale. You say you'll pay me 10 bucks. I'll promote.

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13 Essential Digital Marketing Metrics & KPIs to Measure Performance

ConversionXL

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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