Agency POV Google recently rolled out their highly anticipated Google Analytics 4 that leverages machine learning models to provide marketers with some unique tools that can help improve performance and drive results across Google Ads. Perhaps the most intriguing of these is the ability to create Predictive Audiences. Before diving too deeply into this article it must be noted that … Read More
The Digital Marketing Analytics Checklist
A Digital Marketing Checklist to Make Your Data Work for You Digital marketing analytics can provide a wealth of information regarding consumers’ preferences, behaviors, and desires. It can also help marketers measure the effectiveness of their marketing practices and strategies. There are hundreds of ways for brands to use data to grow their business. Unfortunately, many businesses don’t know … Read More
Google Analytics 4
Google’s most significant change to its analytics platform launches in response to a cookie-less future. What you need to know to keep your competitive edge. Introduction to GA4 Google recently released its newest analytics offering, Google Analytics 4, and that’s a big deal. GA4 is an entirely new analytics platform from Google that is meant to address and combat the … Read More
Analyzing the Health Insurance Customer Journey
You know the saying about taking a walk in another person’s shoes? If you’re in the business of providing health insurance plans, your marketing efforts need to start by donning more than just a new pair of shoes. To really understand how people find their way to your company, and also understand their experience once they’re there, you need a … Read More
Enabling Enhanced Ecommerce With and Without Shopify
Enhanced Ecommerce is an extension of the reporting available via Google Analytics Ecommerce reporting. As the name suggests, enabling this reporting expands upon what e-commerce information is available within Google Analytics. Enhanced Ecommerce provides additional information around shopping behaviors and checkout behaviors. Examples of Enhanced Ecommerce Reports Enabling Enhanced Ecommerce (EE) looks to populate the information highlighted in the screenshots … Read More
How to Track Dark Social in Google Analytics
What is Dark Social? The channel Dark Social contains users who arrive to a website via a messaging app, and it’s currently incorrectly tracked in Google Analytics. Read The Atlantic’s post on Dark Social as a primer, otherwise you’ll quickly get lost. Dark social is really just another channel so we’ll be changing how analytics groups users into channels. … Read More
What Happened to My Precious Keywords?
(Not Provided) Increases to 51% of Referring Keywords In October of 2011, Google began encrypting search data in an effort to offer greater security to the personalized data of its users. As a result, the referring keywords used by people to find your content online were hidden in Google Analytics and replaced with (Not Provided). This was not a penalty … Read More
How Statistics Drive Smarter Marketing
Online marketing is a complex, ever evolving combination of elements including timing, segmentation, and brand recognition. Paid search marketing teams work diligently to find the perfect mix of these components in order to allocate resources properly, and generate pertinent client recommendations. While the correct use of the aforementioned elements are ‘tried-and-true,’ what about statistics? Most of us have horror … Read More
SEO Experiments – Evolving the Parallel Path Organic Search Offering
Parallel Path’s Chief Data Office-fur A Google search for “search engine optimization” will return upwards of 64 million results – the majority of which are tips, tutorials, and beginner guides. Every SEO has their own opinion on what factors and elements affect SEO and to what degree, but not everyone can back these opinions with relevant data. That’s why the … Read More
Case Study: Defining Value in SEO
Our role as SEO consultants is to partner with organizations and to create value through search marketing. However, creating value can be a challenge for many reasons. Goals may not have been clearly defined, the execution of strategies may not be not be possible, or access to analytics data may be lacking or corrupted. Despite all of this, it is … Read More
SEM is Getting Harder (SEM is Not For the Amateur)
Tracy Earles VP of Marketing Inbound marketing is much more difficult than five years ago. Why? And why should it matter to you? Can’t a company run its own search marketing campaigns? The main reason that search marketing is more difficult is that it is more competitive. Advertising dollars are fleeing traditional media, like TV or print, and moving into … Read More
The Importance of Call Reporting & PPC
Bryan Connally Internet Marketing Specialist While many of clients I work with already have established and highly successful PPC campaigns, they are still looking for more ways of driving additional traffic and revenue. Since most of the time these clients already run highly targeted campaigns with proven ad copy and robust conversion rates, finding additional sources of traffic and revenue … Read More