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Executive-Level Web Analytics

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Website analytics tools ranging from the elegant but pricey Websense to the cumbersome but free Google Analytics provide an exhaustive array of analytical statistics: how many visitors are finding your site, where they are finding it, how they are searching for it, what they do when they get there, how much time they spend, and on and on.

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Executive-Level Web Analytics, Part 2

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3) Visit other pages on your site to get more information. There are three things a visitor could do upon hitting your landing page: 1) Convert into a sales lead (ideal). 2) Leave the site (bad). Item #1 above is obviously what you'd like to maximize, while item #2 you'd prefer to minimize (immediate exits represent wasted PPC spending).

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Getting More Out of Each Click with "Post-Click Marketing"

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While the specifics of each service vary, all of them essentially: automate the process of extracting visitor IP information from your log files; match the IP address to an organization; filter out ISPs; and map the company name to one or more external databases to provide additional information (company size, industry, key contacts etc.).

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Marketing Automation Update: Manticore VII Released

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The company's original focus was on web analytics. Prospects no longer rely on sales people and marketing collateral for information; most of their research is now done before they ever make contact with a sales rep. Privately held and self-funded, Manticore has grown at a 50+% clip since 2005.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 4

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How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard by aimClear Marty Weintraub provides a remarkable and highly detailed guide to setting up a social media reputation monitoring dashboard using free tools such as Google Alerts, iGoogle, Google Analytics, and keyword tools along with Excel. What’s In Your Social Media Toolkit? Social Tagging.

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Best of 2008: SEM Landing Pages

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Lead Generation Form Optimization Tips and Tricks - Google Analytics by VKI Studios Darcy Foster explains how to use Google Analytics and Omniture for conversion rate measurement, then provides tips for testing different approaches to improving conversions. clutter) from good (a clear call to action among other attributes).

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Best of 2009 (So Far): AdWords Tips and Tactics, Part 2

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Which AdWords reports are the most critical, and how you can take full advantage of the information they provide? Learn How to Import Your Google Analytics Goals into AdWords Conversion Tracking by PPC Hero As this post notes, until recently Google AdWords and Analytics were two entirely separate entities.

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