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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies.

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

Occam's Razor

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? A smaller problem for normal sites with just text and some images, but a huge problem for fat ugly flash heavy websites (especially the, still annoying, ones with flash intros).

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Dear Avinash: Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

Occam's Razor

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. We should focus more on what was the business impact of our SEO efforts.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Jared Spool: Is Design Metrically Opposed? Useless measures and silly metrics. Metric: A measure we track (usually over time). A metric should tell you what you will do differently. Combine qualitative usability research and quantitative custom metrics (not metrics that come out of the box). Image Credit.

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

Occam's Razor

When I went to their website it was a 100% flash website with a constrained small size where it took too much looking to click on anything and then too much scrolling to read anything and unclear calls to actions (if any). They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Adword is a PPC method to promote your website. This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. November 8, 2008 8:44 AM OneDish said.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs).

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