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.

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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? Insight rules.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2021

PPC reports are a critical part of your PPC campaign. The post The PPC Metrics You Should Be Tracking And Sharing With Your Team (And How To Automate The Reporting Process) appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. Its effectiveness is measured by engagement and leading indicators, which are the usual metrics in this case (traffic, clicks, impressions, time on page, or branded search volume growth). How will you act? Gaetano DiNardi.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Adword is a PPC method to promote your website. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. November 8, 2008 8:44 AM OneDish said. Another way to promote the website is doing organize search.

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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. Once it happens, however, the importance of traffic generated via Amazon’s PPC campaigns falls off in terms of search visibility.

SEO 113

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

An obsession with SEO and PPC is pretty much warranted in most companies, across platforms (desktop, mobile – it is particularly heartbreaking how poor most companies do on mobile platforms). Yet your magnificent search strategy (SEO + PPC) resulted in you capturing such a small percentage of the demand! SiteCatalyst.

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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 ).

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Acquisition Software Review PPC Analytics 111

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So if Direct traffic is so important and often the metrics show very positive results then why don't we all obsess about it a lot more? If they are like every other company that obsesses with PPC and Yahoo! Excellent Analytics Tip: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric. The Problem: Unfortunately.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2018

Get Familiar With Keyword Metrics: There are three metrics that should always be considered. Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool can give this metric, but only for premium accounts, with paid for search results ads. Tools such as SEMrush, KeyCompete, or SpyFu can be incredibly helpful in finding out this data.

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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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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. Analytics is critical for growth.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Competition (who comes up first consistently, ppc and organic). 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." Check the Google Analytics metrics. Good context.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

3 Key PPC Metrics Are Lying To You. The Single Biggest Reason Most Entrepreneurs Fail in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1jzW3Oy. Product lessons we can learn from Google+ | Inside Intercom – crowdspring.co/1o6ZpYG. Find Out How – crowdspring.co/1j0S8nO. 1lD0q6Y.

Social Media 93

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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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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. See Page Value there?

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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 ! #19-

Technical Review 113

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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

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages. No longer can tools or "analysts" just puke 15 metrics on a report and hope to survive. Here is a post with seven different strategies: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. Do you have any metrics to measure the effectiveness of offline campaigns (Print/TV/Radio)??

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The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

In the last few months we’ve been seeing great growth in 3 key metrics: The number of websites signing up and using the system. But, and this is a capital but, because we have not started PPC, retargeting and so on it is hard to measure everything. We’ve spent $0 on outbound marketing. The number of reviews Yotpo is generating.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

If you want examples of good PPC ad copy (with explanations), check out this article. And despite their potential, PPC automation isn’t guaranteed to outperform manual bids. For example, say you sell PPC software and you want to reach decision-makers. Your display URL will show as “domain.com/teeth/whitening.” Mobile URL.

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PPC Matching Software Review Campaign 100

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. Why PPC is an effective short term strategy, but SEO is the long game. 1) Take an iterative approach.

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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. You have an external agency helping you with implementation and online support. You can start with something simple.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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). Here are a few reasons that data might fluctuate: Season; Day of the week; Holidays; Positive or negative press mentions; Other marketing campaigns; PPC/SEM; SEO; Word-of-mouth.

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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. It’s up to them to decide how they promote your products, whether it’s through social media , word of mouth, pay per click (PPC), blog posts, email, newsletters, or any other way they see fit.

Acquisition 127

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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.

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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? There are too many paths, and you can't actually control the path that a potential customer can take. It is not possible to force people down that path! But show the actual report.

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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. Conversion rate.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

You’re likely familiar with Facebook’s 7 friends in 10 days metric, right? Eventually you get a row like: success metric, biz metric 1, biz metric 2, biz metric 3, etc… Once you have a bunch of rows, you can run a couple correlations and just see which things tend to correlate with the success metric.

Analytics 78

Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The ad that performed the best on average , especially for quantitative metrics, delivers your typically inoffensive McDonald’s spot—the safety scissors of the ad world. What copy testing will (and won’t) achieve. If you ask a focus group to choose a color for your brand, you won’t end up with fuschia. Sacrifice reward; avoid risk.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Awesome, right? Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

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

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

So what is this mysterious metric? In Adobe's Site Catalyst bounce rate is not a standard metric, but you are able to create a special custom metric. If you don't fall into those two categories you need to pay very careful attention to this metric. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool.

Metrics 121

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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. But remember, CAC isn’t solely a marketing metric. What is the average customer acquisition cost?

Acquisition 22

Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

A quick "hidden page", a small chq to Mongoose Metrics , add campaigns tags, and now every time someone calls that number it pings your site, the phone call data shows up in your web analytics tool. Nice ain't it? Check out: Offline Phone Call Tracking With Web Analytics Integration.

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