Analytics

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.


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The Power of Universal Analytics In the Palm of Your Hand

How many times have you been sifting through mounds of Google Analytics data and thought to yourself “I wish I could just pre-filter this data to include the stuff I really want?” If the answer is even once, you’ll like …

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2 Useful Ways To Improve Your Campaigns With New Analytics Change History

When big changes, like Google’s Enhanced Campaigns, hit the news stream, people can’t stop talking about it. But what about all of those changes that occurred amidst the confusion and excitement that no one ever noticed? In 2012, Pope Benedict …

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Customize Your Analytics Dashboard for Instant Insights

Wrestling with Google Analytics can be a difficult proposition for any seasoned account manager, let alone you poor souls out there that are new to the platform.  The data on display is so incredibly robust and the reporting options so …

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Judging your PPC Ads by Analytics Metrics

I thought I’d write a quick blog post as I’ve been working on some ad test results this morning and wanted to share a quick set of techniques for judging winners without conversion data. Most of the time we talk …

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How To Use Attribution Modeling In Google Analytics

Today, we’ll walk you through using attribution modeling in Google Analytics. The attribution modeling tool is in beta, currently. If you were on top of your beta game enough to get in or you’re just excited about when the feature …

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Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Landing Pages?

For this Month’s Series, we’re going to be talking about new and exciting things that you can test within the wonderful world of PPC.  Take your accounts to the next level with some of these new techniques or tools. Businesses …

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Maximize Your PPC’s Efficiency With e-Commerce Tracking

In the world of ecommerce one idea is king: profit. As the old saying goes ‘revenue is vanity, profit is sanity’ and it is for this reason that properly optimized PPC can help keep all e-commerce website owners very sane …

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The Importance of Site Speed for PPC

There’s been a lot of talk about site speed in the past year or so and I thought it would be a good time to look into the impact it’s had on some of my accounts. Over the past few …

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Benchmarking PPC in your Industry for the Holiday Season

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… or is it? We sat down in the Hanapin Marketing offices last week to discuss our account projections this holiday season. “Don’t forget to spend heavy going into thanksgiving,” was the cry …