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SEO Reporting: How to Build Meaningful Analytics Reports

The SEO report. It's a calling card for some agencies. These reports can be ornate or no-frills (everyone has their own style). Smart companies use APIs to compile reports without spending manual hours. Some rely on automatic SEO reporting tools. For other companies, it's a time-intensive and considerably low-value exercise.

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Beneficial Metrics Gained from Analytics Audit

How we helped the largest global source of pet health information in the world audit their analytics and create usable metrics.

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Are You Checking “User Location” Reports in Google Ads? If Not, You Better Start

Here’s how one of my clients’ display network campaigns performed last month: Looks decent for a display campaign, right? We weren’t even trying to get conversions, just generate brand awareness in the United States using custom affinity audiences. Now, take…
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How to Avoid Conflict & be a Mindful Tester (SEO & Analytics Tips)

In Analytics, where I spend much of my time, there’s a constant drive to test – layout, content, images, form fields, pretty much everything on a page. We do this to constantly improve on the experience, with common instances being…
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Prep for the Holidays: Tackling the Dreaded Forecast

Forecasting. Some account managers love it, some hate it. Others believe it should be owned by an analytics team. For the record, dear reader, I LOVE forecasting. Judge me as you see fit. Regardless of your position on the matter,…
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How I Made Attribution Modeling Simple Enough to Sell to Your Boss

Stuck in a one-click world? Can’t justify your head terms, display buy, content-based email campaign, or any other top of funnel campaign? Trust me, you’re not the only one. I’ve been through this. A lot. But I have also overcome…
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Standardize Your Analytics: from Initial Requirements to Data Outputs

Analytics is an area of constant refinement and shifting opinions. While numbers themselves are concrete, our interpretations, evaluations, and meanings of them can change. Definitions and context are key to understanding and interpreting data. Why? Well, every site we track…
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Forecasting Search Marketing Success with a Click Curve

Wouldn’t SEO be much easier if there was a way to predict just how much a change in a page’s SERP rankings would impact the amount of traffic that page gets? While the “opportunity score” formula isn’t new, we wanted…
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The Lesser Used Metrics of Ecommerce

We all know the metric rockstars of eCommerce reporting – transactions, revenue, average order value, etc. This post isn’t about those metrics – they already get enough press. This is about the unsung, and too-often ignored, metrics of eCommerce. These are the details that are not as glamorous, but can …

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Unlocking More Data with Google Analytics 360

Google recently announced the launch of Analytics 360 with seemingly little fanfare. (I was hoping for fireworks, or at least a few streamers so my definition of ‘little’ may be a bit off.) The newer products all revolve around the core of analytics, but show some breadth and depth of …

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Google Analytics Autotrack – Redefining What Counts as Standard Tracking

Google Analytics has recently launched their Autotrack options – a series of plugins designed to enhance the standard tracking implementation. Sites currently using just the standard Google Analytics base snippet are likely going to see the most benefit of these plugins, but there are a couple of other issues Google …