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

Occam's Razor

The reason Direct traffic is a beloved of mine is that it represents (checkout the sweet contextual – red and green – numbers above): 1. If they are like every other company that obsesses with PPC and Yahoo! Visit 2: Came from Affiliate Campaign click. Affiliate Campaign: Visits: 2 See how that works?

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See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework

Occam's Razor

If you are in the See or Think consideration stages, there are plenty of engagement points for you (marked in green and orange respectively). Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. Why is it that your Affiliate program is targeted only to the bottom of the Do stage?

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You'll see in an instant the very cool things you can track and analyze… With a little bit of smart tagging you can track your internal promotions ( buy one Make America Great Again hat and get one Stronger Together hat free! ), transactions with coupon codes, affiliate sales and more.

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

ConversionXL

For example, if UTMs only identified the properties of each click to a website, we could freely use any of the below values to identify traffic generated from a Facebook ad: Possible values for utm_source: Facebook, facebook, facebook.com, FB, fb, FB-Ad, facebook Ad; Possible values for utm_medium: Ad, PPC, CPC, PAID, Paid, cpc, paid-ad, ppc, ad.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? All I have to do is look at the very last column and look at the green and red arrows and get guidance about how I should shift my budgets? But show the actual report.

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Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns

Occam's Razor

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Very often when you run branding campaigns your goal is simply to introduce your business (like we are trying to do with Market Motive , our start up that provides certification courses in Web Analytics, SEO, PPC, PR etc etc).

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Getty is the fourth green line. This is what it looks like, for our website and our images category leader… You can notice big differences in acquisition strategy right away – from the size of the boxes, and from, for example, seeing that Web Portals and Search is darker green (more growth) for Shutterstock than for us.

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