Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Or a subsequent post about how to build a successful career: Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You spend money on SEO and PPC. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail. Aggregated search engine level analysis.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. They have still not embraced the strategy for optimizing for marketing portfolios and still obsess about optimizing silos (they learned this from their TV, Print etc. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. Joseph Boisseaux. strategies). Martin Penner.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

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

ConversionXL

AUGUST 14, 2019

For example, we wanted to demonstrate to a client that the keywords we tracked in Advanced Web Ranking (AWR) correlated with an increase in organic traffic: Our blended data combined organic sessions from Google Analytics with AWR’s Visibility Score. As their PPC agency, we had to justify this dip. Date was our join key.

Analytics 123

Analytics Metrics eCommerce Search 123

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140