Advanced Machine Learning for Business Professionals
DIG South - Google Analytics Opportunities to Improve Ecommerce ROI
1. @amanda_sides | @marketingmojo | marketing-mojo.com
GOOGLE ANALYTICS OPPORTUNITIES
TO IMPROVE ECOMMERCE ROI
Amanda Sides
Account Director
Marketing Mojo
5/1/2015
2. @amanda_sides | @marketingmojo | marketing-mojo.com
ABOUT MARKETING MOJO
• Originally founded as Search Mojo
• Demand generation marketing firm
founded in 2005
› Search engine optimization (SEO)
› Paid media management
» Pay-per-click advertising management (PPC)
» Social media advertising
› Content marketing
› Marketing automation
› Analytics consulting
• Headquartered in Charlottesville, VA
› Office in Charleston, SC
• Featured in the Washington Post, B2B Magazine,
MarketingSherpa, Visibility Magazine and many blogs
• Speakers at SMX Advanced, MarketingProfs, PubCon
and more
17. @amanda_sides | @marketingmojo | marketing-mojo.com
ORIGINAL – A TEST – B
2.8% Conversion Rate 22.58% Conversion Rate
CASE STUDY – HUGE RESULTS
ANALYTICS EXPERIMENTS
How to link to AdWords in Analytics:
Admin Property AdWords Linking New Link Group Select AdWords account
DON’T FORGET TO SELECT AT LEAST ONE VIEW.
Data will not be imported unless you select a view in Analytics
How to link to Analytics in AdWords:
Admin Account Settings Linked Accounts Google Analytics
Then choose the account and view you want to link.
This allows you to see metrics such as bounce rate within your AdWords reports.
Make it a priority even before running ads.
Any other ad sources need to be tagged with utm_ parameters
Imported goals doesn’t work with view-through conversions
What actions do you want your visitors to take?
Make sure you are tracking it!
Visits aren’t enough
Re: AdWords, what are ad clicks resulting in?
Email sign-ups?
Purchases?
Webinar sign-ups?
Once you know what people are or are not doing, you can create customized landing pages to improve/test performance, but most importantly, you can tell if your targeting and copy is resonating or needs to be tweaked. Sometimes you’ll just find out altogether something isn’t working. If everything is linked properly, you’ll be able to tell which ad campaign types are most cost effective, and which need to be paired back a bit to give funds to the campaigns bringing you more ROI
Importing goals into AdWords from Analytics comes in handy if you want to report in AdWords, a conversion that AdWords won’t allow you to track. IE: event goals like a link/button click, video view, etc.
In AdWords:
Tools Conversions Analytics
Note: will not report view-through conversions for imported goals!
Run A/B landing page tests to improve performance
Need to have common call-to-action
Set-up:
Left nav behavior experiments
Continually test to constantly improve your results
Keep mobile usability and page speed in mind
Don’t forget to add Analytics code to landing pages!
Get familiar with default reports
Utilize secondary dimensions & advanced segmentation for data breakdown
Pull the data out of Analytics when it’s hard to find
Its hard to get all the data you want right away or easily sometimes, so be sure to set up custom reports to include exactly what you want to see. It isn’t helpful unless you understand it and
Use Dashboards to put data into digestible chunks
can use it.
Use Custom Reports to manipulate data
IN CONCLUSION: Don’t underestimate the value of accurate source attribution for growth and success
Attribute traffic source accurately
Share data between the interfaces
Bring AdWords data into big picture analyses
– How does ROI compare?
Make it a priority even before running ads.
want to give credit where credit is due.
More data insight
Better decision making
More roi
Now that you have more information, you can figure out what’s working and what isn’t. Make better decisions about where to prioritize and allocate budget and you’ll see better results.
Don’t act blindly. You have the tools, you just need to use them.