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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Bizarro Analytics With Andrew Goodman

Our next Hero Conf 2012 speaker transcript is from Andrew Goodman, where he talks about Bizarro Analytics. Don’t forget we will be posting our transcripts from last year periodically through out the coming months. Feel free to reminisce or check out what you missed!

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Save a Little Time for the Rest of Time with Shortcuts from Google Analytics

Google Analytics have a new feature in beta that is super helpful and super easy to use.  Shortcuts allow you to save a few seconds for every report you look at within analytics, including sorting, secondary dimensions and any other …

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Why AdWords and Analytics Don’t Match

In PPC, we live and die by our data.  We make recommendations, optimizations, additions, and subtractions all based on the analysis and interpretation of actionable statistics.  Millions upon millions of dollars can hang in the balance based on every change …

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Leveraging Analytics Goals & Reporting Features To Improve Conversion Rates

Making the right moves can be difficult without the data. Perhaps this is why we thrive off intuitive interfaces and data-packed spreadsheets on a daily basis. When it comes to conversion rate optimization, however, this requires specialized tools and reporting …

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How To Set-Up Analytics Funnels & Use Them For Conversion Rate Optimization

If you have more than one page in your check-out process, then you should be tracking user behavior through that process. Having data showing what people are doing in your check-out process can assist you in identifying where to focus …

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Create & Manage Your Remarketing Lists via Google Analytics

Google Analytics has always provided a variety of tools to help you better understand your website visitors and improve their experience. Perhaps one of the most popular features they have to offer is remarketing. Remarketing is a powerful tool that …

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Conversion Rate Optimization For PPC: Mo’ Money, Less Problems

This Whaddya’know Wednesday, Amanda West-Bookwalter takes you on a step by step guide through optimizing your PPC account’s conversion rate. Through website design best practices, usability testing, showing you how to set up Google Analytics conversion funnels, and how to …

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How To Use Analytics Custom Reports To Optimize E-Commerce Accounts & Increase ROAS

As an account manager of a handful of e-commerce clients, return on ad spend (ROAS), is the key metric I look at to optimize my accounts. Of course, return on investment (ROI) is even better, but it’s not often, at …

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7 Analytics Reports To Get You Thinking About Your Mobile PPC Campaigns

Hopefully you’ve been following our blog series this week on all things mobile PPC. If so, you should have a pretty good idea of the basics to getting started with your mobile efforts. If you read Amanda’s article on building …

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Whaddya’know Wednesdays: The Content Tab In Google Analytics; Everything You Need To Know

On our first British Whaddya’know Wednesdays, Sam Owen tells you all about the Content Tab in Google Analytics. He walks you through all the options and gives you helpful tips on how to use the data to optimize your PPC …