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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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. Here's why I think you'll love it: Chapter 1 The Bold New World of Web Analytics 2.0. Here we go. A good thing.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 25, 2021

One thing you can try is pay-per-click (PPC) marketing. What Is PPC? PPC is a type of online advertising model utilized by several brands and advertisers. How to Improve Your PPC Campaigns. You might have done the ABCs of PPC , including testing your CTAs, ad copies, images, headlines, placements, and keywords.

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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

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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Marketers can take advantage of various digital channels, including but not limited to search engines, email, social media, and web applications. PPC advertising. Developing a Strong Digital Footprint to Succeed On the Web. Simple and Reliable Metrics for Measuring Success. Email marketing. Lead generation.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. Here’s the executive summary of the process we use at CXL: Heuristic analysis ; Technical analysis; Web analytics analysis ; Mouse-tracking analysis ; Qualitative surveys ; User testing and copy testing. Web analytics analysis is next. We’ll measure this using (data metric). Probably not.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Step Two: Count the unique pageviews in each of those areas, the data will be in your web analytics tool. 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). Google Analytics. SiteCatalyst.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Or a subsequent post about how to build a successful career: Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other.

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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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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.

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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. Web Analytics 2.0 Insight rules.

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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. Bonus reading: Standard Metrics Revisited: #4 : Time on Page & Time on Site.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 8, 2010

Is that your web analytics existence? Don't feel too bad, you share that plight with most citizens of the Web Analytics universe. Like good little Reporting Squirrels we collect and stack metrics as if preparing for an imminent ice age. It was a part of my first book, Web Analytics: An Hour A Day. The problem?

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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). Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. I believe it has to do with choosing the wrong success metrics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 3 Key PPC Metrics Are Lying To You. 30 Inspiringly Beautiful Web Designs | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1iGl0Sr. Find Out How – crowdspring.co/1j0S8nO.

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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. 2: Tags go last (customers come first :).

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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? Direct traffic is a fantastic segment to analyze because it contains desirable Visitors and yet because it is often polluted (due to our own inability to implement web analytics tools correctly).

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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. But web analytics or heat maps can’t tell you anything about the quality of your words. What copy testing will (and won’t) achieve. Sacrifice reward; avoid risk.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Other metrics to measure online performance did not yet exist. Servers keep track of website activity and log every time a page receives a visitor (known as a ‘hit’).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits. Key Metrics: Map Overlay Visualization. Explore here: Dimensions & Metrics Explorer. Business Outcomes Analysis.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2020

How does my PPC advertising campaign perform? Metrics will help you understand your customer’s behavior and the success of each page of your website. Speaking of metrics, did you know that over 50% of all web searches were performed from a mobile device? How many customers browse but do not buy?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

My solution is centered on organizing data/metrics/methodologies into a ladder of awesomeness (which solves for #3). Level 1 (Yellow): At the minimum, focus on these metrics. Level 2 (Green): These metrics/methods get you to learn actually useful things. There is, of course, an entire ocean-full of brand metrics you can include.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I've typed in as many things as I could think about connected to having a web analytics practice (i.e. and specialized PPC tools and email or other software. Web Analytics, the first two rows disappear, the third might not apply, but the rest might. Total Cost of Ownership). So say you have Adobe's SiteCatalyst.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

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). This is the standard attribution model in all web analytics tools. It is not possible to force people down that path!

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

NorthSide Metrics is a digital marketing agency based in the Chicagoland area. That idea extended beyond the colors to the name when I started to think about how to position my agency as not just doing SEO or PPC. The colors + location were combined with my love of data to bring in the metrics. Photo Credit: Patrick Holmes.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Next, you’ll set up a container, which can either be web, iOD or Android. If you want to track dynamic values, like revenue, you can use Custom Metrics. Custom Metrics and Custom Dimensions are similar, so the set up process will seem familiar. Experiment with different metrics and dimensions! Then, save the report.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

These will be living documents that will include some of the best resources from here on ConversionXL and around the web. 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. So Where Exactly Does “Conversion” Happen?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is quite likely that your company is spending tons of time, energy, and dollars on web marketing efforts yet conversion rates (or ROI) are stuck in the two to three percent range. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool. So what is this mysterious metric? Web Analytics, CoreMetrics etc etc etc.

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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. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail. See Page Value there?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

What is the first thing you want when you think about web analytics? recommending tools for the complete web analytics 2.0 Web Analytics 2.0. This blog post is about web analytics 2.0. As defined in my second book Web Analytics 2.0 The quest for a "single source of the truth" on the web is futile.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you. Step 1: Optimal Metrics. Tough metrics. Smart metrics. Wait, Wait, What the Heck is Attribution?

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

If you’ve never created an additional View or changed the settings, your default View will be named All Web Site Data, and this one can function as your main View. Connecting these gives you four additional reports under the Behavior section of GA’s reports, and 8 metrics to use in Segments or Custom Reports.

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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. These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. Rewiring the brain Teaching is hard work. :). Criminal behavior.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Web loading concerns. You know all about vanity metrics , and how you shouldn’t be obsessed with them. PPC – Goal is traffic & conversions (Focus on ROI for conversion)”. PPC usually has isolated landing pages and you can turn it on / off so it’s easy to track and attribute. URL and content duplication.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Adword is a PPC method to promote your website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. What a great post. Expo SF (May.

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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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