Advanced SEO Analysis – Part 1: SEO Research & Wisdom Of The Crowd
A couple of years ago, I was invited to speak at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle on the topic of SEO and competitive intelligence. It is an area of SEO I’m passionate about, not only because it is one of the most difficult things in SEO to scale and do right, but also because […]
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How to Analyse, Optimise & Automate Multi-Channel ROI Calculations
Polly Pospelova from Delete shows how to analyse, optimise and automate ROI calculations by creating a universal dashboard to monitor multi-channel CPC.
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How to Analyse, Optimise & Automate Multi-Channel ROI Calculations
At The Digital Crossroads: Shifting To Audience-Centric Marketing
In the first half of 2013, search advertising represented 43% of all digital ad revenue. The primary reason paid search remains so successful is that it creates a direct link between users and their intent. For marketers, the ability to deliver an ad p…
Should we move to an all HTTPS web?
There was a bit of tweeting in the SEO community today because Bing introduced an HTTPS version of their site and people thought that would mean they’d lose their keyword data. That’s not true, if you take the right precautions. I thought I’d write a bit of an intro in how all this works so…
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The December 2013 Google Analytics Recap
Happy New Year, and we wish you a fun, successful year of happy analyzing! Here’s your summary of what happened over at Google Analytics in December, and why it should matter to you. Google Analytics Dashboards for Quick Insights Tuesday, December 3, 2013 The gist: Guest poster and GACP Benjamin Mangold (from Loves Data) shared […]
The Redesign Timeline: When and How to Engage Analytics, PPC, and SEO in Redesign Plans
What better way to start the new year than with plans for a new site? We all go through redesigns. Whatever the reason, a decision is made to go through an overhaul on the existing site. Too often, companies reach out to their digital marketing team as a last minute thought, mentioning “oh guess what, […]
Best of 2013: No 6 – Remarketing with Google Analytics and AdWords
This post gives readers 15 tips for improving the performance and management of remarketing campaigns using Google AdWords and Google Analytics.
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Best of 2013: No 6 – Remarketing with Google Analytics and AdWords
Valuing Conversions: Quick Tips for Assigning Values to Google Analytics Goals
Ecommerce has it easy. Key Performance Indicator (KPI) documents for Ecommerce clients are usually pretty easy: KPI = transactions Value = transaction value Sure there are micro conversions and other KPIs to track, but the big KPI is right there in front of you. It’s very easy to tie that ecommerce value to your data […]
Performance Tracking with Google Analytics
Using Google Analytics can give great insights as to whether you’re reaching your objectives or not. Read about some of the possibilities available.
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Performance Tracking with Google Analytics
Visitors, Visits, Pageviews, and Clicks – The Breakdown
It’s amazing to take a step back and look at the plethora of different people that are using analytics solutions such as Google Analytics. They cover all kinds of roles and backgrounds: IT, marketing, creative. Many organizations are only just realizing the importance of online (and now offline) measurement, which often means that they don’t […]
How to remove a Website from Google Analytics
Too many old websites in your Google Analytics? Want to clean up and remove the websites you don’t need from Google Analytics? Here’s how.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
How to remove a Website from Google Analytics
Analysing statistics just isn’t that easy
Having a solid statistical and scientific background, I often find myself frustrated by research and data-analysis in User Experience Metrics, Conversion Optimization and Google Analytics. In my opinion, doing research and analysing statistics requires proper training and understanding of what you are doing. Am I the only one? You need a brain to do statistics!…
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How to Improve Your Paid Content Promotion Efforts, Measurement, and Reporting
If given a $10,000 budget to better promote successful content, how would SEER go about doing it and what would the desired results be? This was the question originally posed by Wil along with a challenge to determine the best ways to pay for promotion on client content and assets. Overall, we wanted to test […]
Analytics Platforms: A Quick Comparison
6 analytics tools laying out why, and why not, they could be the best choice for your site.
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Analytics Platforms: A Quick Comparison
How to Avoid Google Analytics Data Sampling Using Excel
The Yellow Box of Death. Ok. Death is a little extreme. Really, this is just Google Analytics alert that this report is based on sampled data. But anytime I decide I’m going to do some deep analysis in Google Analytics (add a second dimension, add an advanced segment, etc.) and this little box appears, I […]
Uncloaking Keyword-Specific Organic Traffic To Your Site In The Not Provided Era
Google recently released news that it is now moving to encrypt all organic search activity. This means that analytics programs will no longer be able to report on keyword terms that drive organic traffic from Google, instead noting the data as being “not provided.” This could be…
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Better Funnel Analysis with Virtual Pageviews
It is fairly safe to say that better measurement leads to better marketing, regardless of channel. Armed with tools like Google Analytics, marketers and analysts alike can determine how much traffic these initiatives drive to their site as well as their effectiveness in terms of driving sales and other conversions. Google Analytics offers a plethora […]
Using Analytics Data to Improve your Traffic Generation
Measurability is what sets digital marketing apart from other traditional marketing channels.
The accuracy of data collection through web analytics has played a vital role in online marketing for years now, not just because it makes reporting look c…
Mastering PPC: Three Ways To Get Started With LinkedIn Analytics
LinkedIn ads are a great way to drive demographically targeted PPC traffic. My colleague Chris LaRoche wrote a great post on how to run LinkedIn advertising. Many people are used to sending LinkedIn ads to www.theirdomain.com. However, you may want to send traffic to your LinkedIn page to promote the content you’ve creating on this […]
The Bright Side Of Not Provided
It’s been a few weeks since Google rocked our worlds and stripped keyword-level data from the referrer, so it’s time to examine the fallout and see what’s changed in the world of search marketing. Surprisingly, not much. Keywords were beacons of insight – fantastic beacons – but keywords were a…
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