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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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

Analytics Web Technical Review Metrics 71

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As an in-house Affiliate Marketing Manager, I’m part of the affiliate marketing team that’s running the affiliate partner program at Supermetrics. Launched at the start of 2018, our affiliate program has been an integral part of our marketing strategy ever since. Benefits of having a partner program.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

To get this type of information, you need to use an analytics tool. Google Analytics is a free and popular tool that any business can connect to. It can be complicated to use which is why someone without much technical expertise would do well to use an analytics plugin that automatically creates reports that you can use.

Small Business 148

Small Business Caching Metrics Analytics 148

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

Metrics 105

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. They'll lead you to these discussions… Why is it that PPC is only targeted to people who are looking to buy right now when there are 14.6 PPC works for Think and See stages. Remember the two questions above.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2016

The fact is that a lot of the people relying on Google Analytics are relying on bad data. No, not because Google Analytics is awful. What’s a Google Analytics Health Check? In the past, we’ve covered setting up and using Google Analytics fairly extensively. Is PPC data showing in Google Analytics?

Analytics 48

Analytics Software Review eCommerce PPC 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. Here’s what I’ll cover: Why conversion attribution starts with traffic attribution How Google Analytics understands traffic sources What are UTM parameters? How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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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!

Analytics 60

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). Many custom reports are wrong because we mess up the fundamental data model in analytics. This report demonstrates the power of getting something out of Google Analytics that you might know exists there.

Analytics 60

Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 31, 2006

Are you spending excessively on PPC (Pay Per Click)? Or maybe you are about to plunk down a million dollars on a new affiliate marketing strategy or maybe on SEO. In the click density (site overlay) report some web analytics tools show conversion rate for each link on the page. That is just a start.

Analytics 115

Analytics Conversion PPC Metrics 115

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. Coupon affiliates. "Social

Analytics 124

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 124

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ 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). Web Analytics. 7 Best Practices ].

Campaign 130

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 130

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2013

For example, if your marketing campaign consists of PPC, Tradeshows, and Radio Ads, each marketing channel is assigned a different phone number so you could measure both volume and quality of phone conversation. Integrated with Google Analytics to create a pageview once phone call reached a certain length. image source. image source.

Analytics 116

Analytics Phoenix PPC Campaign 116

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For example, you can partner with social media and PPC teams to create content that encourages subscribers to sign up to receive something of value. On a basic level, email marketing tools should let you do the following: Create and segment email lists Send emails A/B test Read analytics reports Personalize content.

Email 136

Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool. It is important to note that the first definition is the standard definition in tools like Google Analytics, WebTrends, Yahoo! Web Analytics, CoreMetrics etc etc etc. Are your email, affiliate, other marketing campaigns yielding low bounce rates?

Metrics 121

Metrics Analytics PPC Campaign 121

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. It’s scalabale and has a real time analytics platform. VC Cafe: Let me undertsand the economics.How do you set the price of a PPC?

Networking 111

Networking PPC Israel Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. It’s scalabale and has a real time analytics platform. VC Cafe: Let me undertsand the economics.How do you set the price of a PPC?

Networking 111

Networking PPC Israel Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. It’s scalabale and has a real time analytics platform. VC Cafe: Let me undertsand the economics.How do you set the price of a PPC?

Networking 111

Networking PPC Israel Advertising 111

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

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). Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric is a post from: Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik. Like this post?

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

With the goal of increasing the conversion rate I read piles of books on internet marketing , web analytics , and copywriting. No affiliation to either #19 maxwell on 02.27.09 honing PPC, SEO, a new design, a new cart, finding more dropshippers…and I finally hit on the big low price guarantee revelation I wrote about in my blog.

Design 51

Design Software Review Marketing Software Development 51

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool. If your web analytics tool requires you to call the vendor to set up advanced segments, or re-tag your site to get segments, then switch.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

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

JANUARY 7, 2014

Every indicator we have is that companies are investing more in every facet of analytics. There is an analytics ladder of awesomeness each company needs to climb, and it just takes time. 7: 25% of all analytical effort is dedicated to data visualization/enhancing data's communicative power. #6: Consulting.

Analytics 142

Analytics Web Metrics DC 142

ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2013

Check your analytics, and you’ll see all sorts of “first visits.” It’s common knowledge within PPC advertising circles that pointing your ad directly to your homepage is a no-no. Generally speaking, this page is used for publishing various affiliate offers such as software, ebooks and books, information courses, or physical products.

Conversion 126

Conversion Affiliate Social Media Social Network 126

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. Affiliates. Too much data from our web analytics tools. In the past we all used the standard reports that our web analytics tools churned out. Advanced Table Filters can be used in any report in Google Analytics (Yahoo!

Analytics 94

Analytics Metrics Web Cloud 94

unbounce.com

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Do you show certifications or logos of partners/affiliates/security registrations (like Verisign)? Are you creating a separate landing page for each inbound source (email, social, PPC) and see which gets you the most conversions. Landing Pages for PPC. Measuring Social Media ROI & Goal Conversions with Google Analytics 5.

PPC 94

PPC Social Media Conversion Elevator Pitch 94

marketingland.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Analytics |. Affiliate Marketing. Column: Analytics & Marketing Column. Virtually everyone involved in metrics, analytics, and testing-driven improvement online does, in fact, have a wished-for outcome: “get higher conversion,” “increase revenue,” “decrease cart abandonment.”

Metrics 47

Metrics Analytics Search Affiliate 47

marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Analytics |. Affiliate Marketing. New On Google Analytics Pages Reports - Entrance Metric 48 people have tweeted this article. Search Engine News, SEO & PPC Info. Social Media |. Search Marketing |. Display Advertising |. Email Marketing |. All E-Solutions Spotlights |. First Time Here? Wheres Sphinn? See More Topics.

Email 49

Email Mobile SEO Search 49

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2015

GA samples data for custom segments, so you’ll need to be careful when using those reports (if you need to remove sampling and don’t have access to Google Analytics Premium you can use Analytics Canvas ). Yehoshua Coren: Improving Conversion Rate Using Digital Analytics. marketing drivers – email, affiliates, PPC etc.

Analytics 48

Analytics Texas Conversion Mobile 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. You can get inferred demographic data even in Google Analytics.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60