Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So if Direct traffic is so important and often the metrics show very positive results then why don't we all obsess about it a lot more? You have purchased banner ads in various Android applications using AdMob to target high value analytics decision makers. You are using Google Analytics to track all you display campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. 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.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book. It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics.

Analytics 71

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics. Change is hard, even if we know that we should be executing a multiplicity strategy to win in the web analytics 2.0 That's sucking. That's sucking.)

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

SEO has a role. 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.

PPC 69

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. In 2022, savvy digital marketers will keep an eye on both voice and visual search, and optimize their SEO for both. 24- Big analytics, blockchain and 5G .

Artificial Inteligence 126

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 126

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. How do you measure SEO performance on a page level? I'd like to know how well my seo efforts for a particular pages have performed. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool.

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Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

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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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. This is sub optimal.

Technical Review 93

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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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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

If you’re porting over your SEO “best practices” from on-site product pages to Amazon product pages, you’ll struggle. Anyone who’s been in SEO for a while will tell you that understanding the core goal of a search engine is critical to a sustainable SEO strategy. Internal PPC traffic is less influential than it once was.

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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. However, you have to have a predictable traffic stream (ie PPC) and even then it is rough. How, indeed, did they demonstrate ROI? Word-of-Mouth.

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PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency.

Campaign 130

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run. Adword is a PPC method to promote your website. Start an AdWords campaign.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly. Let's go!

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

A lot of digital analytics focuses on direct response (conversions, leads, etc.). But there is an additional valuable, and sexy, focus of our marketing we don't give enough analytical love: Branding! Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. The first ad was for Amazon.

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Analytics Search Advertising Metrics 129

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.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

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. .

Small Business 122

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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. In this article, I’ll break down how to use your Google Ads campaigns as prospecting tools for SEO.

PPC 146

PPC SEO Campaign Analytics 146

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.

PPC 114

PPC Matching Technical Review Search 114

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.

Analytics 132

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 132

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.

Analytics 126

Analytics Web Customer SEM 126

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. Here’s the executive summary of the process we use at CXL: Heuristic analysis ; Technical analysis; Web analytics analysis ; Mouse-tracking analysis ; Qualitative surveys ; User testing and copy testing. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised by how many analytics setups are broken.).

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? " ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI?

Analytics 125

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 125

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. For example, if your customer acquisition costs are high for PPC ads , you can move budget to a marketing strategy with a lower CAC. Gather insights from Google Analytics. Refer again to your customer research and analytics.

Acquisition 22

Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

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 (!):

Analytics 135

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 135

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

After reading some of our subscriber feedback , we noticed that many ConversionXL readers didn’t have a solid foundation with a proper Google Analytics setup. That’s a problem, because if your analytics isn’t properly configured from the beginning, how could you ever expect to gather any insight? image source.

Analytics 132

Analytics Software Review eCommerce Search 132

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? One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. Every new thing you take on requires time and effort.

Stealth 40

Stealth PPC Advertising Conversion 40

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.

Analytics 156

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 156

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.

Business Plan 94

Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Web analytics gems lie deep in the data and we spend our lives looking at the top ten rows of data. Too much data from our web analytics tools. In the past we all used the standard reports that our web analytics tools churned out. It does not matter which report you look at. Affiliates. Products sold. Referring URL's.

Analytics 94

Analytics Metrics Web Cloud 94

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

No shock in this statement – I’m a big fan of blogs and blogging as a core marketing, content and SEO practice. Reel SEO – [link]. PPC Hero – [link]. Kiss Metrics – https://blog.kissmetrics.com/. Blogging Facebook Podcasting Social Media WordPress Content Marketing SEO video'

PPC 28

PPC Social Media SEO Video 28

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Web Analytics: An Hour A Day: Web Analytics: An Hour A Day for the first time provides a Practitioner's in the trenches perspective on web analytics. There I said it.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

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). If I'm doing SEO for keyword cluster xyz, what am I really solving for? Oh, and what is that small SEO effort at the very top?

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 164

Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2015

A thing three that shares optimally aligned See-Think-Do-Care metrics! Phase one, steps one through five, here: The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big.]. If you really believe this is not happening inside your company, pause and read the contract given to the SEO agency/internal person. Think of what SEO does.

Marketing 60

Marketing Framework Metrics Audience 60

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. The thing is that SEO is going to get increasingly harder. If you’re still doing SEO by optimizing for keywords, you should know: it’s not 2008 anymore. What about PPC? Rinse, repeat. #4.

PPC 123

PPC Analytics Conversion SEO 123