Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. In Google Analytics specifically it is GA's annoying UI / user experience.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

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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. No keyword data in analytics tools. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

They may also target ads to specific audiences and track real-time metrics like views, clicks and demographics. However, there has been a noticeable shift to Facebook ads and Google Pay Per Click (PPC). 24- Big analytics, blockchain and 5G . It's safe to say that this method will be widely used in 2022.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

To craft a PPC ad that’s so compelling people are happy to click it. If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? The Current State of PPC. Not only 78% of marketers feeling “really good” about their PPC success in 2015, but 60% believe the PPC market has improved over 2014.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? SEO and PPC teams that don’t communicate effectively (or at all) achieve less. SEO has a role.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

Time Period Comparison in Analytics (and Why It’s Wrong). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics. He continues: “You can be costing your company millions and think that everything is better by relying on pre/post. How can we possibly do that?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Why This Is Important: If you don’t establish specific goals, you will not be able to evaluate the opportunity costs of your SEO efforts or you might give up too quickly. If your revenue model is the sale of a service or product, your goal could be to get your cost per conversion below a certain amount after 90 days.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Just like Mazda improved their retargeting ads with proximity, Watchfinder did so with audience granularity from Google Analytics. Key Takeaways.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But being able to monetize customers and acquire those customers at a low enough cost is quite another. Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers. This kind of retargeting is highly cost-effective. Email campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Every post is about unleashing the power of digital analytics (the potent combination of data, systems, software and people). But we've never stopped to consider this question: What is the return on investment (ROI) of digital analytics? Let's calculate the ROI of digital analytics. Let's fix that in this post.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 31, 2021

From social media campaigns to PPC advertisements, there are many strategies companies use to promote brand awareness. If you want to use social media to measure brand awareness spread, reach is a great metric to look at. Building brand awareness is critical, whether you are reviving an older brand or promoting a new product. .

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. site analytics data. Themes Improve Quality Score and Ad Rank Metrics. None of those metrics are magic bullets to real ROI, but they can be used to improve performance. webmaster tools query data.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. Come back here.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. Customers that converted in the last year where the cost of a click was less than $x. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”. Acquisition Efficiency.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

How many metrics can you call adorable? Site abandonment rate is an adorable metric, to me : ), for these reasons: Money, money, money baby. IMHO there isn't a metric out there that can tell you a lot so quickly and any improvement you make to it will directly and immediately impact the bottom-line. My hypothesis is that.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Skip to content Tina MVC for WordPress « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth Debate: Stay Stealth? Fortunately these days there are very low cost ways to organize your communication.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. But with rising CPCs and unmitigated click fraud, PPC can also get really expensive quickly. Why PPC is an effective short term strategy, but SEO is the long game. 1) Take an iterative approach.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. What consideration state might someone be in?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. Or there are people who will get their tech support question answered and as a result not call you on the phone (saving you $50 it costs you to answer the phone). That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Not impossible.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. I mean really use the tools.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. What about PPC? If you’re doing some you already know: the costs have gone through the roof! Web analytics - Google Analytics (or whatever you use) is a goldmine. Become a master of analytics.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) 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). It is sweet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2016

As a brand, counting followers is a ‘vanity metric’ that is not always reflective of success. Social media is a marketing channel that requires as much time, effort and often as much spend as the likes of SEO, PPC and email marketing. Set Goals Around Metrics That Matter. What Is Social Media Success? Focus On ROI.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Just because you can take a look at your Google Analytics stats to see how much traffic you get and what it’s converting at, doesn’t mean you’re seeing the full picture. Traffic analysis with Google Analytics. Thankfully you can plug custom reports right into your analytics profile by just clicking on them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid. Cost: Free. Google Adwords. We have your back. Google Keyword Planner.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid. Cost: Free. Google Adwords. We have your back. Google Keyword Planner.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2017

It’s all about asking the right digital analytics questions. But in digital analytics, it’s crucial. According to Tim Wilson from Analytics Demystified , “Most analyses don’t turn up wildly surprising and dramatic insights. In addition, you’ll consistently come up short on bringing true business value to your company.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

billion daily active users , Google AdWords and Facebook ads are obvious choices for PPC campaigns. Well, the truth is that there are a lot of “it depends” situations in PPC, as Shuki Mann of LIXFIX explains… Shuki Mann , LIXFIX : “Is $1 a click cheap or expensive? Why You Should Link AdWords and Google Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" That data is not in Google Analytics.

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