Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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., and Organic Search Traffic (can't ever have enough of that!)… Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. You spend money on SEO and PPC. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. The more this value exceeds 1, the more this channel functioned in an assist role.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. Share of Search. One great way to do this is to measure Share of Search. I think we have established that.

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

results) to the correct traffic source to compare the performance of marketing activities across various channels. If we’re not tracking from which websites, which campaigns, or which channels they visit, how could we know how much of that conversion to attribute to each source? For what reason are they coming to our website?

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. The answer is simple: Aggregators.

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Yes, yes, yes, with GA you can dive into Multi-Channel Funnels reports to move beyond last-click.) They still tend to think of digital as a fulfillment channel. If you would like to move beyond the stupidity, sorry, of last-click: Strategic advice: Multi-Channel Attribution: Definitions, Models and a Reality Check. strategies).

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. Create a customized dashboard for your Search team, one for your Display team, one for the folks doing onsite merchandizing, one for the nice lady that owns the ecommerce shopping cart and all the other key clusters of your audience. Pretty cool.

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. You can imagine then how absolutely heartbreaking it is for me to note that nearly all reporting that I see is data in aggregate. Tons of data "puking", all just aggregates. PS: Our business is in trouble because we are over-reliant on Search!

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Search/Keyword Competitive Performance. The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. On that note… If you search through the 300 posts I've written thus far (this one is 301!), Tools used in this post.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

1 Search Results Ranking = SEO Success. If it take ten days to make a decision to change bids on our PPC campaigns, let's go with that data cycle. " 1 Search Results Ranking = SEO Success. When you search for a brand or a category term, most companies, small or big, want to show up number one in the search results.

Metrics 166

Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166