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Facebook Insights metrics relating to Reach and Talking About can be misleading unless you know what the data represents. Here's what to do if these metrics are important to you and your reporting period doesn't align with those Facebook provides.
Benchmarking means analyzing the performance of your competitors’ and industry’s paid search efforts to monitor, adjust, and improve the relative performance of your own campaigns. Here’s how to get your competitive benchmarking up to snuff.
Verified websites can now find out what people are pinning with Pinterest Web Analytics. The new tool will give brands a better idea of what's popular with metrics including the numbers of pins, how many people have seen the pins, and visits.
Tag management systems have matured and offer a wealth of new tracking capabilities beyond basic functionality of simply centralizing your tags. If you’re contemplating the switch, consider these reasons for implementing a tag management solution.
You can apply a smorgasbord of social data – from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Pinterest, and tools – in your strategic work to inform decision-making. But one of the most useful, and relevant currently, is in helping steer content ideas and strategy.
These five changes to Google Analytics that you might have missed can lead to a more efffective and accurate use of the toolset and your metrics. They can save you time and headaches and make your data more meaningful. Here's what's new.
There are three types of creative involved in a typical campaign – the ad unit, the landing page, and the retargeted display unit. Here's why it’s important to think about all three types as parts of one larger customer experience.
There's much more to tracking SEO success than rankings and traffic. In Google Analytics, there are three basic types of goal tracking to help justify the investment in SEO: ecommerce tracking, event tracking, and standard goal tracking.
The benefits of conversion rate optimization (CRO) are obvious, but testing is expensive, costing you not just media dollars but with an opportunity cost as well.. Here's how to set yourself up for maximum success before you begin testing.
Learn how to use Advanced Segments to your advantage, Multi-Channel Funnels for improved attribution figures, campaign tagging for easier analysis, and how to easily use the API for exporting and combining data. Plus: a free custom report.
Change History records changes made to pretty much everything that happens in the admin area of your account: user changes and access, account settings, profiles, site properties, goals, filters and every Google Analytics admin function available.
The days when upper management was impressed by subtle changes in PageRank have been replaced by questions about lifetime value, return on investment, and cost per acquisition. But are these the right metrics to measure SEO results?
If you create a significant amount of content on your websites and/or are a publishing or media site, then you should think about augmenting your arsenal with another data source: Chartbeat Publishing. Here's why you might find CB valuable.
Redesigned your site in the past few years? Making sure your Google Analytics code is modern will ensure your page load speed isn’t impacted and you can use some cool newer features. Here’s how to check if your code needs an update.
Since search quality indicators have become an increasingly important factor for search engines, evaluating SEO content performance in search engines using Google Analytics is becoming more important. Use this simple method to gain content insights.
Tying conversions to any effort that may bear fruit down the road, and selling such a service to an ROI-focused business owner, is tough. Here are three ways to measure ROI in terms of why they matter and how to use them, plus some helpful tools.
Just getting started with analytics and not sure where to start or specifically what the data means? This guide explains analytics for the beginner – with explanations of five core areas, how to get to them, and what to look at while you're there.
Creating a data-friendly culture, where people from all areas of your company are excited by numbers and don’t fear them, takes serious work. It means going beyond the numbers and inserting context to build the larger story. Here's how to do that.
Forecasting goals, targets, and budgets for coming months or quarters is neither easy nor quick, but you must get your forecasts as accurate as possible to make sure you and your client can agree on reasonable targets. Here’s how.
Ever heard the saying “you can’t please everyone”? Turns out, you actually can – at least when it comes to your landing pages. Want to appeal to different buying modalities? Here's how to understand what they're looking for and give it to them.
