Familiar with dwell time? It’s a lesser-known metric that MIGHT (probably does – think RankBrain) have a big effect on your SEO. In this article, I’ll cover what it is, why it’s important, and how you can improve yours. What We’ll Cover: What is it? How it differes from bounce rate and time on page…
Google Optimize Can Drastically Improve Your AdWords (Here Is How)
If you’re serious about running A/B tests on your Google AdWords campaigns, then you need to take a look at Google Optimize. Why? Because it integrates with both AdWords and Google Analytics. When you put those three tools together, you get a split-testing powerhouse. In this article, I’ll explain how to use Google Optimize to…
6 Important New Google Programs That Will Improve Your Conversions And Analytics
Google’s offering free versions of the programs designed to power Analytics 360. Below, I’ll go into detail about six new Google programs you should be using. Google’s had a big year. With the recent rollout of Google Analytics 360 and its subsequent programs, marketers have access to more analytics and detailed reports than ever. But…
Google Attribution 360 – An Undeniable Solution To Marketing Tracking Issues
Want to know where all your sales and leads are REALLY coming from? Google Attribution 360 is your answer. In this post, we tell you how and why. In the past, it was difficult for marketers to know the extent to which each channel contributed to an individual sale. Fortunately, the Information Age is here. Enter…
How To Do A Conversion Rate Audit Using Google Analytics
Want to increase your conversions? You are in the right place. This is my quick method for reviewing and making conversion rate optimization recommendations for a website, using Google Analytics. Sometimes the best tools are the ones that we already use. Even better, those tools are often free. That’s the case with Google Analytics. It’s…
How to Triple the Average Pages Per Visit on Your Blog
Every website, and section of an individual website, has different goals. The goals for an ecommerce site are very different than a news site for example. Generally, they segment websites into the categories of brand, eCommerce, news, lead generation and information based sites. Each of these website types have different KPIs. Well, what people often…
Why Multichannel Funnels and Attribution Modeling are Important to Marketing
Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful tool for marketers. That is why I love teaching about Google Analytics, along with all the other top web analytics tools, at UCSD Extension. However, one thing that often surprises me is the lack of use of the multichannel funnel and attribution modeling reports in marketing. Marketers have been…
Stop What You’re Doing Right Now and Check Your Google Analytics Setup for These 6 Crucial Components
Multiple Views Each Google Analytics property should have, at the very least, 3 different views: All traffic, Filtered Traffic, and Testing. All traffic should be untouched – and should retrieve all data that comes into the site with no filtration process. Filtered Traffic should exclude the IPs of your home, office, company, support team, website…
Marketing Experts List Top Analytics Programs for 2015
Analytics are at the center of everything in online marketing. Without a good analytics program to back your initiatives, you have no idea how well there are doing! I am a very strong believer in an analytics first mentality, meaning we use metrics for the basis of making all decisions. In this post, we hear…
Google Analytics For an App, Install Analytics for your Application
Here we learn how to set up Google Analytics for an application. We also learn best practices for application analytics installation. As we all know, applications are here to stay! If you are going to make an app, you need to know how to track it. So let’s learn how to track applications with Google…