Five killer new features in the Google Analytics update
Google announced a significant update to the capabilities of Google Analytics this week. If it were software rather than service, I would call it a dot release, maybe 3.2?
In an earlier Econsultancy post the emphasis about the release was on the enhanced mobile tracking. But for me, and I guess most marketers where mobile isn't significant, these are the features which will be most important...
Pattern Recognition with Google Analytics
These are some of the techniques I use for Advanced Segmentation in Google Analytics to spot weaknesses and opportunities to get better results from sites I analyse. Which techniques do you use?
Improving results from SEO - what makes the biggest difference?
Where should companies focus their SEO efforts? This question is front-of-mind for me at the moment since from March, I'm the tutor of the new advanced SEO training course from
Econsultancy.
It's also a good time to review this since I attended and spoke at Search Engine Strategies (SES) in London last week, so it was interesting to see which topics got the most attention, and SEO was certainly more popular than paid search.
Audit checklist - best practice in managing digital channels
What is the best approach for reviewing an organisation's digital marketing strategy to identify ways to improve results from online channels?
This is one of the questions we will answer in the upcoming E-consultancy "Managing Digital Channels" Best Practice Guide.
This post presents ten essential steps to complete a digital channel performance audit and improvement plan audit based on initial interviews with senior e-commerce managers from a range of companies including Bupa, Dell, EDF Energy, FT.com, Mercedes Benz, Oxfam, Ted Baker, Thomas Cook, uSwitch and Virgin Atlantic.
Simplifying SEO - Five laws of effective search engine optimisation
Alan Eustace, a Google VP of search engineering, announced last year that there are now over 200 signals that Google uses to determine document relevance for a searcher. Unfortunately, he didn’t go on to explain them all… :)
With this number of factors and constantly updating algorithms, it’s tricky when I want to explain to a site owner when training or consulting which really matter. So here are five laws of effective SEO I have defined to assess strategic focus on SEO - hopefully it's easier to remember five laws than 200!
E-mail Marketing Best Practice Trends
A good, free summary of E-mail trends has just been published by E-consultancy from one of their round tables. This features much of the guidance in the new edition of my Email marketing book and in my Email marketing workshops.
Here is a summary of my take on the top e-mail trends, based on my experience in 2006, but with my thoughts on the first few prompted by the E-consultancy briefing.
Social media: the best and worst of 2009
Email marketing: six steps to improving customer engagement in 2010
Web 2.0
Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
