Changes are coming to conversion tracking in AdWords. Throughout this month, AdWords will begin rolling out updates to the conversion naming convention, as well as the way they are counted. If you are managing a Google account, you may have...
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A new year means a new start, if you haven’t been utilizing the dimensions tab to date you have been missing out! The dimensions tab provides you with the opportunity to do a lot of top level analysis, moving away...
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In my last post 5 metrics I use to measure account success I touched on using Google’s segmentation metrics. Today we’re going to take a deeper look into segments and discuss what they are, and how to best use them....
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Reporting. It’s the Yin and Yang of the PPC world. On the one hand, we love it. Running AdWords and other analytics reports can tell us how we’re doing, whether we’re succeeding or staying flat, and what we should focus...
Continue Reading The Art of Transparency: Better Reporting for Better Results [New Webinar]
For this month’s series, we’re providing a little bit of perspective on the hectic events of 2013. As we’ve left Enhanced Campaigns pretty well covered this year, this week we’ll be dedicating our time to some of the other (non-Enhanced...
Continue Reading Why You Have To Get Used To Universal Analytics
We’ve all heard the buzz about Universal Analytics and it’s time to face your fears! This introductory walk-through shows that there’s nothing to be afraid of, especially now that Google Analytics and Universal Analytics are operating hand-in-hand. Whether you’re peering...
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Whenever I talk to people about PPC and what I do, I’m always quick to mention the paradoxical nature of the job. It requires you to be “patiently urgent” – always balancing your immediate deadlines for implementing new ads/keywords or...
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Some of my favorite topics on this blog deal with case studies analyzing account performance in painstaking detail. It makes sense – this is an intensely data-driven line of work, often requiring hours of analysis. But it’s important that we...
So how can Event Tracking help you increase your understanding of your PPC traffic? Event tracking allows you to place code in various elements of your page. Examples of this are videos, chat boxes, banner ads on your landing page,...
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To kick off this month’s series on Google Analytics, I thought it might be a solid start to review a handful of the standard reports available in GA that you can (read: had better be) using to optimize your paid...
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If you are anything like this guy and myself, your mind has been totally blown with AdWords latest update to the reporting suite that now allows you to apply advanced filters on KPI metrics to compare performance % change trends...
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As we wrap up the first week of the official Enhanced Campaign migration and start to gather all the data we can to optimize our accounts in the brave new world of enhanced campaigns, Google Analytics comes in to save...
Continue Reading Dominate Your Enhanced Campaign Bid Adjustments with New Google Analytics Report
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