Last week, our team attended the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis! We are posting our recaps and resources from the conference over on the Tendenci website. For The SEM Blog, we’ve included some tools from speaker Justin Cutroni of Google. Justin presented on Google for Nonprofits and Smart Data. The Schipul/Tendenci team at NTC 2013! Analytics […]
Schedule Your Reporting in the New Google Analytics
They say change is a good thing, but it isn’t always easy. SEOs everywhere are experiencing the big change taking place with Google phasing out the old version of Google Analytics. It seems like Google is itching for the “old version” of Analytics to go away. The only way to even get to the old […]
Quantitative Effects of the Penguin Police
Penguin sparked fear in many SEOers, with blog posts like Anatomy of a Disaster, Penguins, Pandas and Panic at the Zoo, and innumerable accounts of sites losing over half of their traffic. Penguin is Google’s latest search algorithm update, and is supposed to level the playing field – increasing ranking for websites that have great content but […]
The Familiarity Effect: PPC vs Organic Search
Dave Underwood of Topspot Internet Marketing spoke on “Improving Website Measurement & Analytics” at the HiMA luncheon last week in Houston, Texas. He offered useful insight for successful marketing, some of it surprisingly simple. For example, recording and listening to phone calls: if your sales people give inaccurate information or fail in some other way […]
Google Introduces Google Analytics Premium
Last Friday, Google announced the release of the Google Analytics Premium. Users now have the option to go premium for an annual flat rate fee, which still has not been disclosed. What’s included in this premium account? The premium package includes a number of exciting upgrades and new features including more insights and around the […]
Intermediate Google Analytics & Upcoming Webinars
Last month, our rock star Search Engine Marketing Manager, Caitlin Kaluza, gave a webinar on Intermediate Google Analytics. In case you missed it, we are recapping all the great information in today’s blog post. As an added SEM brain candy bonus, we’ve got all the slides from the webinar below.
Intro to Google Analytics & Making Business Decisions with Analytics
I had this privilege this morning of speaking to a group for the CultureMap Connect Series – a free monthly series that brings in speakers to talk about Social Media and the web.
I tried to keep the theme not only how to use Analytics, but what do with the numbers once you get them. How can you use Google Analytics to make Business decisions. Decisions like…
Google Analytics Application Directory
Google recently announced their application directory from a Google Analytics blog post. It includes links to online applications, mobile applications, and other add-ons to help you extend Google Analytics. Below are some of the applications we use. Analytics App and Analytics HD Available for the iPhone and the iPad, these two apps give you a […]
SEM News Roundup – Speed, Opt-out Tracking, and So What
Over the past few weeks there have been some great articles published in the SEM world that you may have missed. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, we wanted to share them here so you can stay up to date on the latest news and thoughts from the search engine marketing world. Google uses […]
New Google Analytics Features Released
Today, the Google Analytics Blog detailed some of the new features that are out now and coming soon. Here is a rundown of what is included and why you need it. More Goals Previously you could only have 4 goals per profile. Now you can have up to twenty, made up of 4 sets of […]