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Analytics Talk » Blog Archive » Twitter and Google Analytics: What to Track - 0 views

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    tracking twitter links in google analytics with link tracking code.
Mike Henderson

Wired News - AP News - 0 views

  • ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine.
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    Awesome. Another Browser to test sites in. I can't see why Firefox can't handle this.
Mike Henderson

Not all information wants to be free. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine - 0 views

  • But for those who hold dear the notion that information on the Web will forever want to be free, it's early yet. Keep your eyes peeled for publications whose Web sites are sprouting nonbrowser apps, refining their content, experimenting with new reading devices, bulking up their databases, and above all, publications that are listening to the man from Google
  • It doesn't understand what users want in order to give them what they need.
  • Is the iPhone App Store software as content or content as software?
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    Another good article on the future of paid web content.
Mike Henderson

Digital Marketing: Why Search May Not Click for Retailers - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views

  • Less than 10% of online retailers' web traffic, on average, comes from search engines, according to an analysis by Nielsen Co.'s Online division.
  • the majority of retailers' web traffic (61%, on average) comes from people going directly to a retail site -- consumers typing, say, Amazon.com into a browser address bar.
  • Other referrals, such as affiliate programs or advertising (basically anything that wasn't direct navigation, comparison referrals or search), accounted for the remainder.
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  • The 9.5% of traffic from search also likely included a good chunk of people conducting navigational searches
  • the top 50 search terms revealed only three that weren't branded -- and those were pornographic.
  • brand and past experiences [with a marketer] matter an awful lot and will be far more significant determinants of success than any customer acquisition strategy that they're going to engage in,
  • "make an important case for the continued relevancy of display advertising. While search gets a lot of credit because it's quantifiable, there's a reason people are typing things like Expedia into the Google search engine."
  • "You have to have the brand presence," Mr. Paradysz said, "because if you don't, you first don't benefit from the paid search, and second, you potentially lose some of that downstream activity."
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    The importance of search, brand awareness, customer aqcuisition and all that crap on getting people to know who you are, remember you, search for you, click on your links and buy your crap.
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