Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

An obsession with SEO and PPC is pretty much warranted in most companies, across platforms (desktop, mobile – it is particularly heartbreaking how poor most companies do on mobile platforms). Yet your magnificent search strategy (SEO + PPC) resulted in you capturing such a small percentage of the demand! SiteCatalyst.

Search 135

Search Analytics PPC Green 135

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. And you also have, perhaps more useful, the industry wide acquisition strategy distribution.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? 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? Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. All three challenges are important.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You spend money on SEO and PPC. If this were your data, start with questioning your PPC landing page strategy and then move to looking at your top SEO landing pages, and then look at bounce rates and next page analysis for those that stay. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. Take a break.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You can accomplish these goals: ~ Get an optimal understanding of what kind of people you ended up attracting to your website (look at primary purpose & distribution). You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. In the above case that is clearly not true.

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

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.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60