Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

After reading some of our subscriber feedback , we noticed that many ConversionXL readers didn’t have a solid foundation with a proper Google Analytics setup. That’s a problem, because if your analytics isn’t properly configured from the beginning, how could you ever expect to gather any insight? image source.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? SEO and PPC teams that don’t communicate effectively (or at all) achieve less. SEO has a role.

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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. This is sub optimal.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

However, it continues to poison marketing campaigns—and find its way into more and more courtrooms. This article explains what click fraud is, shows how it can impact your campaigns, and shares ways to reduce its impact on your marketing. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Click farms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Enable Google Analytics tracking. Start an AdWords campaign. Thanks for the insight!

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2010

While I am using Google Analytics here, you can do custom reporting in pretty much any tool you have access to, be it Yahoo! Web Analytics or Site Catalyst or WebTrends.]. #1: Here's how you can get this report: Log into Google Analytics. It will open in Google Analytics. 1: Page Efficiency Analysis Report.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Digital marketing also offers you the chance to have trackable, measurable results and web analytics can help you to establish how well you are doing as a business. Email marketing, online advertising campaigns and social media cost a fraction of the traditional methods. Pay Per Click (PPC). Easy To Measure.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

You might need to add an extra parameter to your tracking code or pull raw data from Google Analytics. You may want to create a simple prediction—or automate a few repetitive tasks in your PPC campaigns. Everyone who works with PPC tools has probably experienced the same problem at least once.) Difficulty : 3/10.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. What about PPC? So no wonder 59% of businesses have figured out that they should fix their conversion machine before pumping any more dollars into their PPC or SEO campaigns. Become a master of analytics.

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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 Especially at the really simple and basic things.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. Digital marketing metrics are values that are used to track and measure campaign performance. Analytics platforms track a wide range of metrics by default. Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage.

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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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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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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Strategies span a range of methods, but we’re going to focus on PPC, social media, and search. 7 Ways that Predictive Analytics Is Transforming Ecommerce. Predictive analytics help you understand what your customers are going to buy before they do. *. *. Finding your target market for PPC and display ads. By Gagan Mehra.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

This could cover a range of methods, but for the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on PPC, Social Media & Search. Optimizing PPC & Display Ads – Researching Your Target Market. In general these are great rules of thumb when starting your ad campaigns. Change One Variable at a Time. image source.

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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. Don't open Google Analytics or Yahoo Web Analytics yet! No tweeting for help.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2021

is the AI-powered, all-in-one lead generation solution that leverages the 3% top-performing strategies, from over 12,000 campaigns. They offer a series of options including email and social outreach, PPC, retargeting, and sales chatbots.

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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?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is another essential digital marketing tool. Digital marketers run a PPC ad (like a social media banner) and then only pay when prospective customers click the ad. With PPC, impressions cost nothing. Analytics is critical for growth. This is the power of SEM marketing.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2021

is the AI-powered, all-in-one lead generation solution that leverages the 3% top-performing strategies, from over 12,000 campaigns. They offer a series of options including email and social outreach, PPC, retargeting, and sales chatbots.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. The results?

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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. But it is horrible marketing to do a BUY FROM ME NOW campaign to See stage customers. 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

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2021

is the AI-powered, all-in-one lead generation solution that leverages the 3% top-performing strategies, from over 12,000 campaigns. They offer a series of options including email and social outreach, PPC, retargeting, and sales chatbots.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Finally, we can create ad campaigns that target those trial users who didn’t convert but whose purchase prediction score makes them promising candidates for purchasing the product later on. In remarketing, on the other hand, the goal is to collect emails from visitors and users and create email campaigns targeted to them. A/B testing.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and short-term campaigns; Automation for scale; Targeting; Blending optimization with attribution. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised by how many analytics setups are broken.). This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2014

I had invested a lot into this campaign. Not only had I spent four months putting the campaign together, but I had also put a significant amount of my personal savings into ensuring that this campaign was everywhere during those 100 hours. I wanted to know was which traffic sources I need to prioritise during the real campaign.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

I’ll walk through the step-by-step process to set up Microsoft Ads as well as best practices for running campaigns. . When first creating your Microsoft Advertising account, you have the option of importing campaigns from Google. You can create an ad campaign during the account creation process, but I recommend skipping for now.

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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!

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If it’s in your budget, online outbound marketing tactics like promoted posts and PPC are actually great supplements to those more effective inbound marketing efforts. Marketers generate dozens of leads through campaigns and lead nurturing, but not everyone is a good fit for the business. Will that change in the coming future?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. But with rising CPCs and unmitigated click fraud, PPC can also get really expensive quickly. Even the most skilled digital marketers can struggle to run profitable Google Ads campaigns.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

The same is true of your data in Google Analytics. Many Google Analytics custom reports are configured incorrectly. More often, Google Analytics configurations are broken, rendering custom reports even less effective. Before you begin experimenting with custom reports, conduct a Google Analytics Health Check. Tweet It!].

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

19- Analyzing data faster Photo Credit: Cody Jensen In the SEO and PPC industries, technology is a huge part of how our industry changes. The way we run SEO and PPC marketing campaigns is already changing because of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Thanks to David Cohen, Flower Station !

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