
Creating A Measurement Plan For Content Marketing: 3 Key Considerations
As more budget flows toward content marketing (12% of budgets on average according to a 2012 study by Ad Age), inevitable questions have...

Stark Differences: Social Vs. Search Referrals & Ad Clicking Behavior
The search marketplace is still a relatively young industry, yet the technology and investment communities view it as a mature market. A...

Treating Your Conversion Symptoms, But Not The Disease
Many organizations get fixated on metrics data, without thinking of where it comes from. But, what if your metrics indicate a problem...

Google Analytics Gets a Facelift – Navigation, Dashboards & More
New Top Navigation And Sidebar – Less Tabs, More Coherent The most prominent change is the top navigation (orange bar) and sidebar....

How Marketers Can Optimize For Clicks Based On Time Of Day
As we enter 2013, the growth of online advertising continues at a healthy pace. In October 2012, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)...

SocialCrawlytics: Providing Insight On How Your Content Is Being Shared
SocialFlow, Chartbeat, Google Analytics, Tweetdeck, Facebook Insights, Exact Target. On occasion, that toolset grows: Google Webmaster...

So Long, 2012: Analyzing The Evolving Mobile Landscape
As we prepare for a new year in the online marketing world, it’s interesting to reflect on where 2012 has brought us. The Web experienced...

Twitter, Nielsen Will Create A New Social TV Rating Metric
partnering with Nielsen to become the first arbiter of the most socially successful U.S. TV programs. The companies have a new multi-year...

For Real-Time-Bidding To Continue To Thrive, Transparency Is Key
However, this uptick isn’t accompanied by equal education and support of the players involved. Publishers are struggling with the fear of...

Selling Social Media To Senior Execs: Tips For Making The Case With Data
For many senior executives, the jury is still out on social media. They want proof in the form of hard numbers that show business...

Polls And Testing: When Is Close No Cigar?
I want to try to explain the latter, especially for marketers. Why? Because political elections are in many ways like optimization...

What Does The Age Of An OS Tell Us About Its User Base? Quite A Lot, Actually!
Windows 8 has been fresh on the market for just under a month, and earlier this year, Apple released its latest desktop OS, Mac OS X...

Google Analytics In-Page Analytics Gets Link Attribution Reporting
The In-Page Analytics reports provide, in a page basis, the percentage of clicks from page to page in a website. The reports are a great...

‘PageLever Now’ Launches Real-time Facebook Post Analytics & Management Tool
One of the toughest items that most Page admins ask is “what should I post my content?” While there have been various studies and...

8 Ways We Deceive Ourselves With Metrics, Part II
Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave” which discusses eight common ways we practice self-deception, particularly in the context of metrics,...

Google’s ‘Universal Analytics’ Offers Integration Tools For Enterprise Users
calling Universal Analytics. It’s a service that lets larger users tailor Google Analytics by integrating their own data into Google...

Size Matters: Can Optimizing For Screen Size & Resolution Increase User Engagement And CTR?
Over the last decade, digital marketing and advertising have transformed significantly due to the rapid advancement of technology and...

Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went “Not Provided”
A year ago, Google began going dark. Dark in terms of no longer sharing with publishers, in some cases, how people searched for and found...

8 Ways We Deceive Ourselves With Metrics (And How To Avoid Them), Part I
“Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice To (Self) Deceive” Along the way, I run the risk of insulting you, but I see...
























