Google Analytics and PPC: a match made in heaven. While your pay-per-click accounts provide a great deal of reporting visibility, they aren’t much of a help for measuring website use statistics. This is where Google Analytics steps into the picture. These posts explain the best Analytics reports for improving your PPC performance.
Google Analytics is instrumental in the way we track the success of our PPC campaigns (especially since it’s free), but as robust as it is, there are certain visitors that just can’t be tracked. There are at least 6 types of those visitors, but today I’m going to focus solely on those that have their JavaScript turned off, and what it can mean for your PPC campaigns.
What is JavaScript?
JavaScript in the simplest sense is a scripting language that uses …
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Brad Geddes is one of my favorite bloggers, and he has a really interesting link to a YouTube video that talks about how you can get information at the keyword level in Google Analytics that shows what conversion rates you get at what position in the SERPS. You can view the video here:
I have wondered at times for …
The reasons a user will abandon your conversion/sales funnel are endless, unfortunately. Today, I’ll explore one case where not only did our online leads decrease but offline leads (phone calls) decreased too. And I had to find out what was going on and some possible solutions.
I am working with a client who sells high-end, custom office furniture. Over the past few weeks our conversion rate has been down so I started analyzing our ad texts, keywords, bids, ad positions, search …
Early on in my search marketing career, one of the discrepencies that annoyed me most was that Google Analytics and Google AdWords were almost entirely separate entities. With the exception of AdWords data populating in Analytics, there wasn’t any cross-functionality – especially for conversion tracking. This killed me. Until now. It is now possible for you to have data from your Analytics goals and transactions imported into your AdWords conversion reports!
How is this possible? Well, the same system that …
Google Analytics is unquestionably a great resource for your PPC efforts. That being said, it is also chock full of data and statistics. If you aren’t careful, you can end up spending long periods of time within Analytics, plugging away to get the relevant information that you so desire.
However, Google recently released a beta of Custom Reporting, which allows you to quickly and easily plug the metrics (typically …
Some of you may have noticed a new ‘custom reporting’ feature while analyzing your Google analytics data. The new custom reporting feature allows advertisers to create a custom report with the metrics you want to see. The report is virtually unlimited to what you can do. If you don’t have the new custom reporting feature already you can contact your Google representative and ask to become a part of the beta. As you know Google Analytics reporting features …
The most beautiful thing about PPC is that everything can be tracked. I mean everything. With convenient reports from the PPC search engines and programs like Google Analytics, advertisers have no excuse to be clueless about their pay-per-click performance. Analytics makes tracking your PPC super easy, but what if you don’t use Analytics? How can you track all of your PPC data in a 3rd party analytics package? If you use Google AdWords, …
Too many times I’ve learned new things about a program when I wasn’t necessarily looking to learn new things. When using Google Analytics it’s really easy to get lost in all the data, but sometimes it’s necessary to take the time and see what information they have to offer about your account. In this blog post I’ll discuss 4 very cool and useful Google Analytics reports that I use …
If you own an e-commerce site you know how important it is to get accurate reporting in order to manage your marketing programs. That’s why I use Google analytics. Google analytics is a free tool used for reporting on your site as a whole, not just on Google stats. It reports on all traffic sources, revenue sources, top landing pages, etc. But what I’d like to discuss today is the e-commerce …
This entire week is dedicated to helping you maximize your PPC results by utilizing analytics data. Today I thought I’d take another look at one of my favorite subjects – tracking 3rd party PPC traffic with Google Analytics. Previously I’ve written instructional posts on how to set up the proper URL tagging for Yahoo! and MSN adCenter. Several readers commented with questions, and I …
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