Summary In today's episode, I tackle Travis's question about whether publishing blog posts on LinkedIn that already live on your site carries negative SEO implications. Here's what this means for you. You'll discover that duplicate content penalties no longer exist and learn the real signals that determine which version Google treats as authoritative. You'll also…
Tyler asks, “How do you prefer to track your channel metrics or content performance metrics? Native analytics? Social Media tools? Combination? Interested in hearing your thoughts!” I prefer to look more at outcomes first, to determine what’s working best. For this, I use custom-coded software that takes Google Analytics data and processes it in a…
Summary In today's episode, I share how I track channel and content performance metrics by extracting Google Analytics data and processing it with machine learning tools. Here's what this means for you. You get a prescriptive view of what to do next instead of a descriptive view of what already happened, so your marketing decisions…
Phil asks, “My site’s functionality is being limited by ad blockers. How do I make my site more trustworthy?” Like email marketing, we will increasingly have to ask users who are using sophisticated ad blocking tools to whitelist our sites. We’ll also need to take at least one other step in the near future as…
Shannon asks, “Do you have any tips on how to demonstrate your value to your coworkers?” Value is defined by what you do that helps others. Depending on who the others are dictates what you report on. If your others are customers, then it’s metrics like increasing the lifetime value of the customer. If it’s…
Efecan asks, “I saw your video about PDF tracking on GA. I wonder if we can see the source and medium of the traffic that clicks on PDF. Like they came from social media or search etc.” Segmentation is one of the most powerful techniques in Google Analytics. Watch this video to see how to…
Amanda asks, “How effective is share of voice as a measure? Is there a better way to measure PR?” Share of voice is one of my least favorite measures of media and attention for a few reasons: – It’s often denominator-blind, meaning that it rarely takes into account the whole of a space. – It’s…
Pick a term that is bandied about the most but understood the least in business (especially marketing) and chances are it will be ROI, return on investment. Many marketers are asked by senior stakeholders what their ROI is, how to calculate marketing ROI, or whether their ROI is trending in the right direction. Before we…
Igor asks, “What if I want to track specific file downloads as goals in Google Analytics? How do you do that?” Igor’s question is a followup from the April 25, 2019 episode. It’s quite simple to track any individual file download as a goal in Google Analytics by using the same methods, but there are…
Madalyn asks, “Are there any must-have tools in your marketing toolbox?” So, so many! I couldn’t do what I do without the tools I use. Let’s look at the gallery by functional role. Content Distribution: WordPress, Mautic, the various social networks, YouTube, Libsyn SEO: AHREFs, Google Trends, Google Search Console Analytics Data: Google Analytics, Talkwalker,…
