Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. What consideration state might someone be in?

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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. Still not convinced?

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PPC Analytics Conversion SEO 123

Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

To answer this question, you need to have a set of metrics that give you a clear picture of what’s going on in your business. Likewise, your website , the digital representation of your business, and the means through which people find you and connect with you, also needs to have metrics in place to know how it’s doing. Site speed.

Small Business 148

Small Business Caching Metrics Analytics 148

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 156

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? And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Campaign is defined as anything but Direct traffic.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2021

PPC reports are a critical part of your PPC campaign. They give you insightful information about your campaign, thus helping you make strategic decisions about your overall business marketing strategy. .

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PPC Metrics Campaign Marketing 211

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible. that took ten seconds.

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. But if you would like a quick collection of tips: Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns The enabler of tying offline activity to online is ensuring you have a weak or strong primary key. Alexander Velinov.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 132

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. This is the power of SEM marketing. Old School But Effective.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. The marketing team should create its own momentum through feature launches, content campaigns, product launches, and announcements. What are the priority customer problems and opportunities? How will you act?

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

To guide the discussion, we’re going to be using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a framework to see where different conversion optimization opportunities lie. This could cover a range of methods, but for the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on PPC, Social Media & Search. So Where Exactly Does “Conversion” Happen?

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Software Review PPC Analytics Search 116

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For these queries, you have to choose your data source and date range as well as what metrics and dimensions you want to include. 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. A/B testing.

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Acquisition Cost Affiliate Customer 127

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Strategies span a range of methods, but we’re going to focus on PPC, social media, and search. Finding your target market for PPC and display ads. Image source ). Let’s walk through them.

Acquisition 111

Acquisition Software Review PPC Analytics 111

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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PPC Matching Software Review Campaign 100

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. No more silos!

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Analytics Web Customer SEM 126

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

Amazon can skip right past the superficial metrics in a way that Google can’t, and sellers benefit from it. Internal PPC traffic is less influential than it once was. There are reasons beyond Amazon SEO to run paid campaigns. PPC, in other words, is a paid tryout for the organic listings.

SEO 113

SEO PPC Algorithm Software Review 113

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Pre-testing: great for singular brand campaigns—and little else. It came from “pre-testing,” and it made more sense when companies ran singular brand campaigns. That’s no problem for months-in-development campaigns and seven-figure ad budgets. Or your drip campaign touts unrelated benefits? Copy testing isn’t new.

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Campaign B2B Software Review Differentiation 116

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

and specialized PPC tools and email or other software. Let's say the analytics team does analysis of current email marketing metrics and identifies improvements to how your company structures the emails that go out. The recommendations are implemented and that drives an additional 100k clicks from the email campaigns.

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Analytics DC Web Revenue 143

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 !

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur 113

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages. Not your api driven integrated massively multi channel attribution analyzed campaign lifetime databases. That's sucking.) Affiliate?

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Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

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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PPC SEO Campaign Analytics 146

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Competition (who comes up first consistently, ppc and organic). Will I analyze Search first or Campaigns? While at Compete I can also dig into a whole bunch of metrics like Visits, PageViews, udience segmentation, and so much more. Here I particularly like to look at a metric I call "share of search."

Web 139

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 139

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

If you’re an AdSense and/or AdWords user, connecting these accounts will add powerful dimensions, metrics, and reports to determine how AdSense is making you money, and what traffic your PPC spend is bringing you. Gain More Power Over Your PPC Spend with AdWords Data. Everyone should sign up for and connect Webmaster Tools.

Analytics 132

Analytics Software Review eCommerce Search 132

ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

What if grouping all audiences into the same retargeting campaign is actually doing more harm than good? The truth is that a lot of people never give the attention or resources that’s needed to improve their retargeting campaigns. Achieved CPAs that were 34% cheaper than non-brand search campaigns. It’s an afterthought.

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Campaign PPC Audience eCommerce 48

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1. Bounce rate.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We’ll also break down the main elements of high-performing emails to show you how to drive action from your campaigns. 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. Email software is what’s going to drive your marketing campaigns.

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Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and short-term campaigns; Automation for scale; Targeting; Blending optimization with attribution. Define your target metrics. We’ll measure this using (data metric). We expect to see (data metric[s] change) over a period of (X business cycles). Define your website goals.

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A lot of the keywords I used to add to my campaigns came from the long, long tail I saw in my organic search data (I would take the best performers there and use PPC to get more traffic) and from competitive intelligence research. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

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Search SEO Analytics Engineer 156

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring impact of Marketing campaigns is: "Oh, that's just a branding campaign." Before we go any further I must clarify that I love branding campaigns just as much as the next guy. I love campaigns that Visa runs. Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ].

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Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 130

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. For example, if your customer acquisition costs are high for PPC ads , you can move budget to a marketing strategy with a lower CAC. The success of every marketing campaign hinges on the effectiveness of your website. customer retention ).

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Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

To track the success of your campaign, it is essential to use data-driven insights. However, depending on the campaign dashboard that you use, the number of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you can track can seem overwhelming. M easurable: the goal needs to be something that can be measured and tracked using metrics.

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Campaign Advertising Media Metrics 179

ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

A well-thought-out strategy lays the foundations for your sponsorship efforts in the same way a marketing strategy guides your marketing campaigns. For advertising opportunities, research PPC, print, and traditional media fees based on similar audiences and value the asset accordingly. Therefore it’s important to follow up.

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Audience Social Media Email Ruby 139

ConversionXL

JANUARY 2, 2014

We can’t focus purely on the conversion rate, it’s just one of the metrics to keep an eye on. You’re doing paid advertising, PPC or display campaigns? Well, you probably won’t have money to buy any since you lost it all selling laptops for $5. Most companies are in the business of making money.

Conversion 116

Conversion Customer Software Review Reputation 116

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. The second half shows exactly how to pick the best metrics for your org and, my absolute favorite (Page 64), how to diagnose the root cause of a metrics performance. No metrics, data pukes, guidance on creating every more reports. A good thing.

Analytics 71

Analytics Web Technical Review Metrics 71

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

Source attributes : where do people come from (websites, campaigns, search engines etc etc). A final example of using redirects is as a part of campaigns (banner ads, search marketing, affiliates etc). ovchn=OVR&ovcpn=ron& ovcrn=ysmronpremium&ovtac=PPC. Category=238. &AppID=859&rDirURL=[link]. 9-4f8TLjxABMw.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Analytics Web Software Review 93

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. One of the biggest mistakes perpetuated by siloed execution of SEO and PPC strategies is that the groups that own each piece rarely learn from the other party's work. So what can we learn from those landing pages?

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Analytics Campaign Search Customer 128

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

Once you’re sure your analytics are healthy, you can begin trying to understand the five key elements of custom reports: users, sessions, hits, metrics and dimensions. Dimensions: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics. Metrics: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics.

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Analytics Customer PPC Metrics 48