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

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A smaller problem for normal sites with just text and some images, but a huge problem for fat ugly flash heavy websites (especially the, still annoying, ones with flash intros). If they are like every other company that obsesses with PPC and Yahoo! Visit 2: Came from Affiliate Campaign click.

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

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When I went to their website it was a 100% flash website with a constrained small size where it took too much looking to click on anything and then too much scrolling to read anything and unclear calls to actions (if any). They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

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9: Don’t forget Flash, Flex, RIA, RSS, Videos etc. I am not affiliated in any way this this company and do not benefit in any way from recommending them. A final example of using redirects is as a part of campaigns (banner ads, search marketing, affiliates etc). 9: Don’t forget Flash, Flex, RIA, RSS, Videos etc.

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Dear Avinash: Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

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On your site make sure you really think through heavy use of flash (not that you should not, just think it through) and javascript encoded links (robots don't execute javascript) and other such things. "When should I have started SEO and PPC campaigns for Italy Tours 2010?" Use it to time your campaigns. "When