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What you have to know about conversion optimization

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Marketing Experiments recommends you test your value proposition via PPC ads first, and only then test the winning versions on your landing page: Images from Marketing Experiments. A confused mind always says ‘no’, goes the old direct marketing adage. What about here? CityCliq: 88.9% improvement.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric

Occam's Razor

there is no hype around this metric (hopefully this blog post will fix that! : )). Segmentation examples would include: By “campaigns” (this would include PPC, Pay Per Click, / SEM, Search Engine Marketing, and direct marketing and other campaigns you run). My hypothesis is that.

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Google Analytics Tutorial: 8 Valuable Tips To Hustle With Data!

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Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. Five of my favorite alerts are in the second part of this blog post: Identify The Known Unknowns: Leverage Analytics Custom Alerts Here are more clever examples from the team at Google: Five Custom Alert Examples. At least not a serious one. But only 1.9%

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Standard Metrics Revisited: #3: Bounce Rate

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In your web analytics tool simply go to the Referring URL's / Sites report and take a look, you'll find something like this…… For this site Google Analytics illustrates that both myspace.com and simplyhired.com is not sending great traffic, while their direct marketing campaigns (#2 and #3 above) seem to be doing much better.

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Excellent Analytics Tip#5: Conversion Rate Basics & Best Practices

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Matt Belkin, you have read his interview on this blog, has a great alternative point of view on this, click here for that.). If you have read this blog for any amount of time you know I love two things: trends and segmentation (more on this later). Is your company heavily into Direct Marketing (email, snail mail etc)?

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2016

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Use PPC to promote content cost effectively (choose keywords nobody’s bidding on). Report tangibly and make content marketing comparable to direct marketing channels. Johnathan Dane – The PPC Thermometer – Why You Should Care About Ice Cubes & Lava. Retarget and measure! Need Keywords?

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