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!

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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

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.

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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.

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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

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Not impossible. Well just assume. :).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. It runs between $95 – $795.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No touching Google Analytics. No going to web analytics conferences. The result will be an astonishingly high level of focus for your digital analytics work (even on day one) and hyper-relevant insights to the business. Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with nor do I know anyone at Credit Karma.]. No tweeting for help.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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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

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.

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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

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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 ].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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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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!

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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