
6 questions to help you evaluate an attribution modeling vendor
Disclosures are tricky. Facebook will be sued over its disclosure of the snafu in its video metrics. Would they be in this legal mess if...

The tools and tests that made 2016 great: Our top 10 analytics & conversion columns of the year
If there’s one thing you can say about digital marketing, it’s that measurement has always been, and will always be, central to the...

Small business owners: 3 steps to creating accurate Google Analytics reports
“Our traffic is going down,” said a client in a recent email. Attached to the email was a chart showing this year’s traffic compared to...

How to get the most value from your marketing metrics
Intuitive — Your marketing decisions aren’t data-based; intuition drives them. Inspired — You value data and consider it in some way,...

Is your analytics data lying to you?
Send out an ad in the mail, and you have little to no idea how many people tossed the ad without looking at it, let alone how many...

New wave of referrer spam wrecking Google Analytics data
The problem can even be so significant for small business sites that it seriously distorts the number of sessions and page views. In the...

The truth about transparency in digital advertising
Look through the websites of technology providers throughout the advertising ecosystem, and you’re bound to see some variation of the...

5 New Year’s resolutions for analytics
holiday season is upon us, and with that comes the usual cycle of overindulging at the dinner table, followed by New Year’s resolutions...

Without data, your marketing strategy won’t cut it in 2017
measure the effectiveness of our efforts. Even as more effective data analytics tools started to become available, many marketers...

As Facebook Audience Network broadens, what does it mean for your campaigns?
Early this year, mobile web inventory was added on top of in-app placements, and then more recently, Facebook announced the expansion of...

7 Google Analytics reports that demystify your B2B audience
In my previous article, I discussed ways to measure and analyze website traffic, engagement and conversions. In this piece, I share seven...

Why marketers must be data-driven
data-driven marketing. This may seem simple, but many B2B marketers face a data dilemma: either they lack the data they need to make...

Brands must close the loop on audience segmentation
Brand managers have to contend with long-established brands (e.g., Pepsi and Coke), hot new trends (e.g., coconut water), and even...

Activate your audience with a ‘measurement framework’
The challenge of actually activating your data for a competitive advantage is often thought of as a technical problem: If only we had...

What’s new and cool at Google from SMX East 2016
At this year’s SMX East conference, which took place this week in New York City, Search Engine Land reporter Ginny Marvin and...

3 tips for tracking response to industrial tradeshow print ads and landing pages
For any company, tradeshows play a key role in meeting marketing and sales objectives, but for owners of small manufacturing firms (e.g.,...

The high price of inflated marketing metrics
As many brands started to switch to a “prove it or lose it” marketing strategy, things didn’t always improve due to channel silos and...

How to use Google Analytics audience data to make media and marketing decisions
Both Adobe (Marketing Cloud) and Google (360 Analytics) have made big strides in improving their offerings to include tag management,...

Chasm between GRP and digital metrics highlights need for cross-screen standards
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki declared that the video site captures more attention from 18- to 49-year-olds on mobile alone than does any...
























