Why the middle matters - How to analyze your online marketing

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A webinar I put on about analyzing your search marketing (and other online) campaigns to find real performance drivers.

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the middle

why

matters

Using web analytics to improve your marketing

Today:

the middle

hi

Introduce

Three things that make the middle important

How to use analytics to make more money

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what is the middle?

what is the middle?

Where did they enter?

What did they see?

What happened next?

What went into the cart?

What did they buy?

What did they expect / intend?

why?

Your reports are lying to you.#1

Paid Search reporting:

SEO Reporting:

Impressions Clicks CPCPosition Conversion

Rankings Visits Conversion

Paid Search reporting:

Impressions Clicks CPCPosition Revenue

A

B

1,000 55 $1.001.8 $1,000

1,000 55 $0.751.8 $100

Paid Search reporting:

Impressions Clicks CPCPosition Revenue

A

B

1,000 55 $1.001.8 $1,000

1,000 55 $0.751.8 $100

6/25/09 Dell.com

$19MM in 8 hours!

Paid Search reporting:

SEO Reporting:

Impressions Clicks CPCPosition Conversion

Rankings Visits Conversion

?

?

Tool trust issues

data is not knowledge

know this:

Regardless of performance,

search is your

most valuable

traffic source.

#2

10-25% 50-75%20-40%

What’s on your mind?

modifiers: reviews, pictures, video, price, size, weight, books, problems, support, etc.

search isn’t just a source of traffic,

it’s a source of insight.

know this:

More specialization is not better.

#3

And the leaddies go to . . .

SEO

Display Advertising

Usability / Design

IT

What color are my glasses?

specialists argue with each other because they can’t see the forest.

help them!

know this:

Using analytics to improve your marketing

Find outliers and understand WHY!

keywords

engines

landing pages

products

geographies

Use keyword analysis to drive content development

reviews

instructions

videos

images

geographies

Compare content / products against keywords and message

find out why, and you’ll know what to do about it.

know this:

Tools

Google Analytics / Omniture / WT

CrazyEgg Analytics

UserTesting, FeedbackArmy, 5s test

Tealeaf

Adwords Keyword Tool, trends, insights

Start Today!

stop letting your reports make decisions

get more than money out of your traffic

stop giving specialists what they want

figure out why

do something about it

@evanlapointe

evan.lapointe@searchdiscovery.com

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