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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. Technical SEO implementation for paywalled content. Avoiding cloaking.

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10 Reasons Your Business Website Is Struggling To Convert Sales

YoungUpstarts

Besides, you’d never reach an audience of that size through other direct marketing. . The SEO Features Are Lacking. Users won’t find yours unless you actively direct them to it. . Users won’t find yours unless you actively direct them to it. . And subsequent conversions. . There are over 1.5bn websites online.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Worry about the sales results. What did we learn?

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. No one feature is to blame.

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Standard Metrics Revisited: #3: Bounce Rate

Occam's Razor

So what is this mysterious metric? In Adobe's Site Catalyst bounce rate is not a standard metric, but you are able to create a special custom metric. If you don't fall into those two categories you need to pay very careful attention to this metric. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool.

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

Occam's Razor

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things.

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

Occam's Razor

Conversion rate is a very important metric, used properly. More importantly being a practitioner I feel metric definitions should incorporate on the ground reality and using Unique Visitors accommodates that reality. Is your company heavily into Direct Marketing (email, snail mail etc)? So hopefully it was helpful to you.

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