Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

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? You may be getting a lot of conversions, but the CPA can kill you. Notice above I only have two CPA values. It is not possible to force people down that path!

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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. Aggregate costs and results in a tool like Google Data Studio or BigQuery.

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Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

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. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. Take a break.

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60