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.

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Search Analytics PPC Green 135

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I love that the analyst is segmenting the data rather than showing the aggregate trend ("all data in aggregate is essentially crap" – me). Making that green graph useless. Problem one is that "red" denotes "good" in this case and "green" represents "bad."

Salary 130

Salary Analytics Green eCommerce 130

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

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. Look at the green, white and red cell colors to focus on certain zones and get a sense for your performance. (In

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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.

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

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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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. 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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Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128