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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? All I have to do is look at the very last column and look at the green and red arrows and get guidance about how I should shift my budgets? But show the actual report.

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

ConversionXL

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. What if you could group all campaigns into yellow, green, or general?

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You spend money on SEO and PPC. If this were your data, start with questioning your PPC landing page strategy and then move to looking at your top SEO landing pages, and then look at bounce rates and next page analysis for those that stay. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! Affiliates!