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Measurement, attribution, and the data practice behind smarter marketing decisions. 1,465 articles
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How to Improve Your AdWords Performance With Analytics

Where you were previously looking at cost per keyword, comparing against traffic volumes and conversion rates, you now need to add some new metrics into your AdWords data…

By Alistair Dent · 26 Jul 2012

Analytics

5 Ways to Boost B2B Conversions

Put yourself in your prospects' shoes and ask: what are they going to be worried about? Is it implementation? Price? A missing…

By Alex Cohen · 18 Jul 2012

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Using Custom Alerts in Google Analytics

Google custom alerts act as a kind of 24-hour watchdog for anomalies in your data, to let you know when deviations from…

By Thom Craver · 11 Jul 2012

Analytics

Success Through Testing: Don’t Forget the Scientific Method

The Scientific Method is alive and well within the digital marketing and is a powerful tool in driving performance. Hypotheses and predictions…

By Ted Rooke · 05 Jul 2012

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Google Analytics Finally Gets Mobile App

At long last, the Google Analytics team announced an official Google Analytics mobile app. There are nearly a dozen apps in the…

By Thom Craver · 29 Jun 2012

Analytics

Top 20 Conversion Optimization Tips

Conversion rate optimization is one of the most effective ways to grow profits for a web business, whether it’s an SMB or…

By Garry Przyklenk · 27 Jun 2012

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Supercharge Your Conversion Rate Optimization: How to Structure CRO & Win

User intent, trust, and a clear understanding of how close your visitors are to the ‘cash register moment’ are key to creating…

By Simon Penson · 25 Jun 2012

Analytics

How Internal Data Can Cause External Damage

Using just one source of statistics to make business decisions is like driving a car with only one eye open. A company…

By Suren Ter Saakov · 25 Jun 2012

Analytics

How to Identify a Link Profile Susceptible to Google Penguin

Google’s Penguin update targeted sites with an unnatural link profile – those with a majority of their links coming from low quality…

By Jeff Slipko · 22 Jun 2012

Analytics

5 Small Business SEO Campaign ROI Secrets

With an intense focus on the mechanics of SEO, small businesses often lack discipline when evaluating the success of an SEO program.…

By Adam Stetzer · 21 Jun 2012

Analytics

Using Google Analytics Dashboards for Better Insights

Analytics dashboards allow you to grab bits and pieces of data from various reports and collect them all into one simple and…

By Guillaume Bouchard · 20 Jun 2012

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Analytics Means Action: A Love-Hate Story of Data Dumped

Even though everyone measures, not everyone recommends and takes action. Your job as an analyst is to use the digital analytics to…

By Thom Craver · 13 Jun 2012

Analytics

Beyond Google: Tap Into the Alternative Search Engine Data Opportunity

33 million searches take place daily on alternative search sites, outside of the core search engines. Is your company using this wealth…

By Miranda Miller · 11 Jun 2012

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Which Metric Would You Measure if You Could Choose Only One?

In this era of marketing metrics and measurement abundance, it’s easy to get lost in the data. Most marketing teams track and…

By Erez Barak · 11 Jun 2012

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What to do When Your Split Test Fails

A/B/n experiments are the most common type of landing page testing done by small- to mid- size webmasters. But what happens when…

By Bonnie Stefanick · 10 Jun 2012

Analytics

BAM! Optimize Your Campaigns Across Multiple Goals to Further Success

How do you optimize a keyword toward multiple goals? What do you do when a keyword converts well for one action (such…

By Ted Rooke · 08 Jun 2012

Analytics

Don’t Neglect Landing Page Analysis

We often look at effective search engine marketing as keywords, creatives, and landing pages. Too often, marketers neglect landing pages, which is…

By Dave Ragals · 07 Jun 2012

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Salesforce Buys Buddy Media

The biggest winner so far in the Facebook marketing vendor ecosystem was declared yesterday when Salesforce.com bought Buddy Media for $689 million.…

By Christopher Heine · 05 Jun 2012

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How to Decipher Your Competitors Digital Marketing Strategy

Any industry landscape can become competitive with the addition of a new advertiser or two. In order to take your competition down,…

By Justin Freid · 01 Jun 2012

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10 Commandments of Digital Analytics

Lo, digital analysts! Click on the story and read: and I will give thee (viewable via iPad 2 tablets) a law, and…

By Garry Przyklenk · 30 May 2012

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Piwik Open Source Analytics: A Primer

With a focus on privacy and keeping data safe, Piwik is a web analytics package that aims to be a free software…

By Thom Craver · 16 May 2012

Analytics

Yahoo Genome Brings Big Data to Advertisers

The big data-driven audience targeting system will combine Yahoo's registration, search, and behavioral data with information from 25 data sources, along with…

By Kate Kaye · 15 May 2012

Analytics

5 Advanced (But Simple) SEO Analyses You Should Perform With Visitor Intelligence

Collecting the right data and attributing it to the right sources will help you understand how SEO impacts your business. Learn how…

By Erez Barak · 14 May 2012

Analytics

Optimizing to Lifetime Value of Customers to Maximize SEM Performance

Credit card companies and savvy direct marketers know the importance of optimizing campaigns toward acquiring the right type of customer: those who…

By Ted Rooke · 11 May 2012

Analytics

Take Attribution for a Test Drive Using a Secondary Profile

Not leveraging attribution? Still stuck on a last-click model? You owe it to yourself to improve your media optimization. Experiment with some…

By Dave Ragals · 10 May 2012

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