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Google Analytics Health Check: Is Your Configuration Broken?

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The fact is that a lot of the people relying on Google Analytics are relying on bad data. No, not because Google Analytics is awful. What’s a Google Analytics Health Check? In the past, we’ve covered setting up and using Google Analytics fairly extensively. Is PPC data showing in Google Analytics?

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Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic

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You see if you don't implement your links properly the person shows up to your site without any tracking parameters and thus fail to help your web analytics tool to put that visitor in the right source bucket. You have purchased banner ads in various Android applications using AdMob to target high value analytics decision makers.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

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Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Competing businesses. If you can—great!

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The 7 Unholy Lies Your Analytics Are Telling You (and How to Discover the Gospel Truth)

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Google might be the holy grail of analytics, and there’s little question that you need it plugged in if you want to track your website’s success. But that doesn’t mean Google Analytics is telling you the full story. In fact, your analytics could be telling you outright lies. And maybe how to fill in the gaps?

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

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Behavioral: Dig into your analytics to find who’s engaging with your website and social media accounts. Tools for IP-targeted ads: MRP ; Terminus. Predictive: Use predictive marketing software to unearth relevant target accounts based on different aspects of your current customer base, such as firmographics and demographics.

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Top 4 Content Marketing Metrics

Duct Tape Marketing

Knowing how to use Google Analytics is the #1 tool any content marketer needs to have in their arsenal. The best part about Google Analytics is that it shows us everything we need to know about our websites and then some. You can find Average Session Duration on your Google Analytics “All Website Data” dashboard on the “Overview” tab.

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The Definitive Guide To (8) Competitive Intelligence Data Sources!

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Competitive intelligence, the "what else", is one of the core tenets of Web Analytics 2.0. and Baidu, are logged by those search engines, along with basic connectivity information such as IP address and browser version. 5: Benchmarks from Web Analytics Vendors. 4: Search Engine Data.

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