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Industry Chatter
SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting
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@ruthburr
“Segment your pages into page
types & categories. Segment kws by
brand/non-brand and by category.
Then track everything. @seoclarity
#SMX”
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@ruthburr
“Track as granularly as possible,
because if something happens you
want to know right away. No gaps in
your knowledge. @seoclarity #SMX”
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@beebow
“monitor key metrics: traffic,
conversions, CTRs, and wtd. average
rankings @seoClarity #SMX #13B”
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@kgriwert
“Don't be greedy &try to claim all
results are #SEO or ignore what you
can't claim! Use multi-channel
attribution, find #SEO impact #smx
#11b”
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@beebow
“metrics only matter if you do
something with them @Rhea #SMX”
This is a GREAT point. What
are you doing with metrics?
Are you using metrics that
actually translate to an
action? If not, get help to
guide you.
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@beebow
“Tip: also, connect your Google
Webmaster tools with your GA
account - it will allow data to sync
between both @RavenJon #SMX
#11B”
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@beebow
“you can't show improvement unless
you're doing comparative date
ranges - so keep that in mind!
@RavenJon #SMX #11B”
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@kgriwert
“Look at simple #SEO metrics: Did I
improve traffic? @RavenJon #smx
#11b”
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@KoMarketing
“Use multi-channel attribution in
Google Analytics to see where leads
are really coming from. @w2scott
#smx #11B”
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@ruthburr
“Different parts of the company will
benefit from your metrics in different
ways - share accordingly
@davelloyd1 #SMX”
Also consider different
dashboards by role
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@ruthburr
“Regular technical metrics report?
Keep it really simple: 1-page exec
summary. Report on trends, provide
context @davelloyd1 #SMX”
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@beebow
“Rhea's two cents: regardless of the
situation, if you're seeing a drop, if
you do nothing, you will get nothing
in return. @rhea #SMX #13B”
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@GregGifford
“build your reports like you are
building a product - people are
going to use it @rickgalan #smx
#13d”
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@ruthburr
“When tracking rankings, look at
what other sites rank when they drop
for a day. That's a clue to an algo
test/tweak. @seoclarity #SMX”
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@akvileharlow
“Engagement needs to be tied to a
goal: brand awareness, a certain
promo, etc. So you can effectively
measure. #smx #24a”
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@RickGalan
“My slides from yesterday's
presentation on Reporting, Search
Query Analysis & Landing Page
Audits http://slidesha.re/YjyEUn
#smx”
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@beebow
“http://bit.ly/YnDaOx --> check out
this tool for comprehensive event /
goal tracking to show your client
@RavenJon #SMX #11B”
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@w2scott
“My presentation from #SMX
Essential SEO Analytics led by
@Rhea. I would love your feedback
please! http://ow.ly/iLOoj”
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“My deck from #11B on Essential SEO
Analytics: Performance Metrics that
Count: http://www.slideshare.net/
rdrysdale/essential-seo-analytics-the-
performance-metrics-that-truly-
count … #SMX”
@Rhea
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@BruceClayInc
“Live from #SMX: Essential SEO
Analytics: The Performance Metrics
That Truly Count #Liveblog #SMX
#11B http://bit.ly/14O9n5r”
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@KeriMorgret
“Looking to easily calculate metrics?
Try http://
www.percentagecalculator.net/
#smx #11b”
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@GregGifford
“rank trackers are providing a single
data point - a computer trying to be
a person. Webmaster Tools is
averaging real results #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“so...what do clients really WANT?
what do they need? clue: it's not
where they rank. it's more targeted
traffic. (& $$) @RavenJon #SMX”
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@GregGifford
“http://gaconfig.com - a site that
Raven put together to help you get
things set up in Google Analytics
that really matter #SMX #11B”
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@KeriMorgret
“Check out http://
customreportsharing.com for great
GA report sharing. #11b #smx”
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@beebow
“so yes, back to call tracking. track
back to referral source (FB, Google)
- important, esp if you want to get
paid! @w2scott #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“aaaand Google Analytics just
made it a lot easier to get the credit!
multi-channel attribution, mwwwah
<3 @w2scott #SMX #11B”
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@AkvileHarlow
“If you can't look at decisions from
multiple perspectives, you're not
measure enough data - @statrob
#smx #11b”
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@beebow
“SEOmoz survey concluded: top 3
most important metrics: traffic data,
conversion data, ranking data.
@STATrob #SMX #11B”
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@kgriwert
“Webmaster tools shows you errors,
server logs show you all response
codes #SEO @vanessafox #smx #12”
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@joseph_s_thomas
“Bing to integrate click to call with
Skype, call tracking forthcoming.
#smx”
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@GregGifford
“don't assume your keyword/ad
copy is bad, look at bounce rates/
conversions & figure out if your
landing page is at fault @bgtheory
#smx #13d”
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@AkvileHarlow
“Set up alerts in Google Analytics
and look are data in many different
ways. You might pick up on
something really great/useful! #smx
#11b”
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@kgriwert
“Traffic dips aren't always because
of some furry animal @Google ... it
could be a technical #SEO issue
#smx #12b”
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@lookadoo
“The search engines are
experiencing with results, constantly.
Stop focusing on ranking & watch
your data. @DuaneForrester. #SMX”
Rankings are a performance indicator,
but do NOT think of them as a “Key”
performance indicator. Devalue their
influence in your reporting
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@AmyVernon
“#SMX #23b Data you might want to
collect - search keyword/engine;
geo/IP address, visitation count, OS/
device, lots more.”
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@Brafton
“.@Rhea has seen 68% 'not provided'
#seo keyword data ... How do you
measure? Business metrics > SEO
metrics #smx #11b”
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@kgriwert
“How can you slice keyword
buckets? 1. SERP share: who are your
top competitors? how visible are you
in different buckets? #smx #11b”
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@beebow
“2) ranking distributions. where are
we clustering? understand where
rankings fall on the SERP for any
segment or bucket. @STATrob #SMX
#11B”
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@beebow
“look at the first 100 ranking on an
SERP, count how many times your
domain appears at each ranking
position. @STATrob #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“3) URL frequency. what content is
ranking the highest? @STATrob #SMX
#11B”
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@beebow
“count the # of times specific URLs
appear in SERPs, & rank. this tells us
what appears most often for this
bucket. @STATrob #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“(BTW - everything you're doing
here, you should do for your
competitors as well! :) clever)
@STATrob #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“Client X's biz metric is a 20%
increase in conversions from organic
search, 1k annual conversions with
1,200 goal @Rhea #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“Rhea's 4 fav metrics: 1) organic
traffic. view by search engine,
category, season, persona @Rhea
#SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“Rhea's Fav Metrics: 2) conversions.
why? locate problems / opps with
usability, product stock, & technical
issues @Rhea #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“Rhea's fav metrics: 3) backlinks.
how? quantity, quality, relevance,
location, anchor text distribution,
domain authority @Rhea #SMX
#11B”
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@beebow
“why? locate probs & opps with
negative SEO, agency
accountability, enterprise-level
accountability @Rhea #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“Rhea's fav metrics: 4) indexed
pages. view by site-wide,
subdomain, main templates /
categories. @Rhea #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“why? locate probs & opps with
manual penalties, algorithm
updates, technical issues, duplicate
content @Rhea #SMX #11B”
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@AriNahmani
“.@RavenJon says WMT ranking data
more accurate due to Avg of where
'real world' sees ur result despite
what ur rank tracker says #smx
#11b”
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@beebow
“with the advanced segment in
place, you can view all of the events
and goals that happened strictly
from organic traffic @RavenJon
#SMX #1”
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@dylanbprice
“@Casieg: URL flapping means the
search engine doesn't understand
which URL is authoritative for a
specific search. @statrob #smx
#11B”
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@susby
“Are the right pages being crawled?
Google Webmaster Tools, Bing
Webmaster Tools and Server logs
#smx 12B”
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@beebow
“take all of that juicy data, and
cross-reference it to GA with the
advanced segments and
comparative date ranges
@RavenJon #SMX #11B”
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@beebow
“another thing to check out: landing
pages. you've been making
improvements, have they been
impactful overtime? @RavenJon
#SMX #11”
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@KoMarketing
“Make sure at every stage of your
campaign (link bait, social, etc), you
have diff metrics & you go back to
see if it's working. #smx #11B”
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@ruthburr
“Challenges of being data-driven:
you can't manage what you can't
measure but not everything
measurable should be managed
@davelloyd1 #SMX”
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@Mike_Arnesen
“There's no wrong answer regarding
SEO metrics, unless your answer is 'do
nothing'. No nonsense from @Rhea
at #SMX”
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@beebow
“metrics guidelines to follow: 1) get
leaders involved. 2) visually
represent your metrics. 3) metrics
must respond quickly. @Rhea”
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@beebow
“4) metrics must be kept simple. 5)
metrics should drive only the most
important activities @Rhea #SMX
#11B”
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@beebow
“6) limit the number of metrics. 7)
take corrective action @Rhea #SMX
#11B”
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@AkvileHarlow
“What's the point of having metrics if
you don't do anything with them?
Metrics must be simple & drive only
important activities #smx #11b”
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@kgriwert
“Take advantage of all the FREE
tools in GA --> Set up automated
email reports to get data delivered
to you (so you don't forget) #smx
#11b”
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@akvileharlow
“A lot of people who don't work in
SEO think it's all about rankings. The
goal really shouldn't be ranking.
Think about sales/leads #smx #33a”
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@ruthburr
“Common data analysis mistakes:
Correlation vs. causation, data bias
(too much/little data, seasonality,
etc) @davelloyd1 #SMX”
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@ruthburr
“Drill into causation: If you can
PROVE that X caused Y you have
more power to fix it internally
@davelloyd1 #SMX”
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@beebow
“avg share of social visits, FB owns. G
+ is in last place in terms of traffic. it's
not a traffic source. so, what is it?
@audette #SMX #22A”
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@AmyVernon
“#SMX #23b Relevance signals: IR
signals, bounce rate, time on site, #
of page views, add-to-cart rate,
conversion rate @ashutoshg”
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@Casieg
“Automate data gathering if it's
possible for you. Focus on key KPIs
#smx #12B”
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@beebow
“Webmaster Tools provides
impressions for particular KWs ppl are
searching on & click @RavenJon
#SMX #11B”
Industry Chatter
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Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle?
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Hmm..
@beebow
“SERP analytics isn't just about
focusing on your KWs and brand
rank - it's about analyzing everyone
on the SERP @STATrob #SMX #11B”
Industry Chatter
SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting
Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle?
Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge.
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Hmm..
@beebow
“in analytics, no more KW data :
( keyword [not provided] - ouch.
was sposed to be 2%. Rhea sees 68%
@Rhea #SMX #11B”
Industry Chatter
SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting
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Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge.
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Hmm..
@KeriMorgret
“Business objective != Business metric
#smx #11b”
Industry Chatter
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Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge.
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Hmm..
@beebow
“other dangers: 1) lose sight of biz
objectives 2) focus on wrong metrics
3) motivate team with risky metrics
@Rhea #SMX #11B”
We LOVE #3 – motivate the
team with risky metrics.
It works!
Industry Chatter
SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting
Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle?
Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge.
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Hmm..
@Casieg
“The landscape of SEO tools by the
end of this year will be interesting as
they can leverage other products
besides adwords (analytics) #smx”
Industry Chatter
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Hmm..
@kgriwert
“Big data isn't about have more
data for #SEO -it's about knowing
which data matters, identifying
patterns and anomalies #smx #12b
@davelloyd”
Industry Chatter
SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting
Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle?
Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge.
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Hmm..
@kentjlewis
“Off-site Local SEO Ranking Factors:
consistency & authority of citations &
links via @GregGifford #smx #22d”

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  • 1. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm..
  • 2. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “Segment your pages into page types & categories. Segment kws by brand/non-brand and by category. Then track everything. @seoclarity #SMX”
  • 3. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “Track as granularly as possible, because if something happens you want to know right away. No gaps in your knowledge. @seoclarity #SMX”
  • 4. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “monitor key metrics: traffic, conversions, CTRs, and wtd. average rankings @seoClarity #SMX #13B”
  • 5. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kgriwert “Don't be greedy &try to claim all results are #SEO or ignore what you can't claim! Use multi-channel attribution, find #SEO impact #smx #11b”
  • 6. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “metrics only matter if you do something with them @Rhea #SMX” This is a GREAT point. What are you doing with metrics? Are you using metrics that actually translate to an action? If not, get help to guide you.
  • 7. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Tip: also, connect your Google Webmaster tools with your GA account - it will allow data to sync between both @RavenJon #SMX #11B”
  • 8. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “you can't show improvement unless you're doing comparative date ranges - so keep that in mind! @RavenJon #SMX #11B”
  • 9. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kgriwert “Look at simple #SEO metrics: Did I improve traffic? @RavenJon #smx #11b”
  • 10. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @KoMarketing “Use multi-channel attribution in Google Analytics to see where leads are really coming from. @w2scott #smx #11B”
  • 11. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “Different parts of the company will benefit from your metrics in different ways - share accordingly @davelloyd1 #SMX” Also consider different dashboards by role
  • 12. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “Regular technical metrics report? Keep it really simple: 1-page exec summary. Report on trends, provide context @davelloyd1 #SMX”
  • 13. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Rhea's two cents: regardless of the situation, if you're seeing a drop, if you do nothing, you will get nothing in return. @rhea #SMX #13B”
  • 14. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @GregGifford “build your reports like you are building a product - people are going to use it @rickgalan #smx #13d”
  • 15. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “When tracking rankings, look at what other sites rank when they drop for a day. That's a clue to an algo test/tweak. @seoclarity #SMX”
  • 16. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @akvileharlow “Engagement needs to be tied to a goal: brand awareness, a certain promo, etc. So you can effectively measure. #smx #24a”
  • 17. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @RickGalan “My slides from yesterday's presentation on Reporting, Search Query Analysis & Landing Page Audits http://slidesha.re/YjyEUn #smx”
  • 18. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “http://bit.ly/YnDaOx --> check out this tool for comprehensive event / goal tracking to show your client @RavenJon #SMX #11B”
  • 19. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @w2scott “My presentation from #SMX Essential SEO Analytics led by @Rhea. I would love your feedback please! http://ow.ly/iLOoj”
  • 20. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. “My deck from #11B on Essential SEO Analytics: Performance Metrics that Count: http://www.slideshare.net/ rdrysdale/essential-seo-analytics-the- performance-metrics-that-truly- count … #SMX” @Rhea
  • 21. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @BruceClayInc “Live from #SMX: Essential SEO Analytics: The Performance Metrics That Truly Count #Liveblog #SMX #11B http://bit.ly/14O9n5r”
  • 22. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @KeriMorgret “Looking to easily calculate metrics? Try http:// www.percentagecalculator.net/ #smx #11b”
  • 23. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @GregGifford “rank trackers are providing a single data point - a computer trying to be a person. Webmaster Tools is averaging real results #SMX #11B”
  • 24. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “so...what do clients really WANT? what do they need? clue: it's not where they rank. it's more targeted traffic. (& $$) @RavenJon #SMX”
  • 25. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @GregGifford “http://gaconfig.com - a site that Raven put together to help you get things set up in Google Analytics that really matter #SMX #11B”
  • 26. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @KeriMorgret “Check out http:// customreportsharing.com for great GA report sharing. #11b #smx”
  • 27. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “so yes, back to call tracking. track back to referral source (FB, Google) - important, esp if you want to get paid! @w2scott #SMX #11B”
  • 28. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “aaaand Google Analytics just made it a lot easier to get the credit! multi-channel attribution, mwwwah <3 @w2scott #SMX #11B”
  • 29. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @AkvileHarlow “If you can't look at decisions from multiple perspectives, you're not measure enough data - @statrob #smx #11b”
  • 30. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “SEOmoz survey concluded: top 3 most important metrics: traffic data, conversion data, ranking data. @STATrob #SMX #11B”
  • 31. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kgriwert “Webmaster tools shows you errors, server logs show you all response codes #SEO @vanessafox #smx #12”
  • 32. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @joseph_s_thomas “Bing to integrate click to call with Skype, call tracking forthcoming. #smx”
  • 33. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @GregGifford “don't assume your keyword/ad copy is bad, look at bounce rates/ conversions & figure out if your landing page is at fault @bgtheory #smx #13d”
  • 34. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @AkvileHarlow “Set up alerts in Google Analytics and look are data in many different ways. You might pick up on something really great/useful! #smx #11b”
  • 35. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kgriwert “Traffic dips aren't always because of some furry animal @Google ... it could be a technical #SEO issue #smx #12b”
  • 36. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @lookadoo “The search engines are experiencing with results, constantly. Stop focusing on ranking & watch your data. @DuaneForrester. #SMX” Rankings are a performance indicator, but do NOT think of them as a “Key” performance indicator. Devalue their influence in your reporting
  • 37. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @AmyVernon “#SMX #23b Data you might want to collect - search keyword/engine; geo/IP address, visitation count, OS/ device, lots more.”
  • 38. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @Brafton “.@Rhea has seen 68% 'not provided' #seo keyword data ... How do you measure? Business metrics > SEO metrics #smx #11b”
  • 39. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kgriwert “How can you slice keyword buckets? 1. SERP share: who are your top competitors? how visible are you in different buckets? #smx #11b”
  • 40. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “2) ranking distributions. where are we clustering? understand where rankings fall on the SERP for any segment or bucket. @STATrob #SMX #11B”
  • 41. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “look at the first 100 ranking on an SERP, count how many times your domain appears at each ranking position. @STATrob #SMX #11B”
  • 42. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “3) URL frequency. what content is ranking the highest? @STATrob #SMX #11B”
  • 43. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “count the # of times specific URLs appear in SERPs, & rank. this tells us what appears most often for this bucket. @STATrob #SMX #11B”
  • 44. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “(BTW - everything you're doing here, you should do for your competitors as well! :) clever) @STATrob #SMX #11B”
  • 45. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Client X's biz metric is a 20% increase in conversions from organic search, 1k annual conversions with 1,200 goal @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 46. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Rhea's 4 fav metrics: 1) organic traffic. view by search engine, category, season, persona @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 47. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Rhea's Fav Metrics: 2) conversions. why? locate problems / opps with usability, product stock, & technical issues @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 48. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Rhea's fav metrics: 3) backlinks. how? quantity, quality, relevance, location, anchor text distribution, domain authority @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 49. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “why? locate probs & opps with negative SEO, agency accountability, enterprise-level accountability @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 50. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Rhea's fav metrics: 4) indexed pages. view by site-wide, subdomain, main templates / categories. @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 51. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “why? locate probs & opps with manual penalties, algorithm updates, technical issues, duplicate content @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 52. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @AriNahmani “.@RavenJon says WMT ranking data more accurate due to Avg of where 'real world' sees ur result despite what ur rank tracker says #smx #11b”
  • 53. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “with the advanced segment in place, you can view all of the events and goals that happened strictly from organic traffic @RavenJon #SMX #1”
  • 54. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @dylanbprice “@Casieg: URL flapping means the search engine doesn't understand which URL is authoritative for a specific search. @statrob #smx #11B”
  • 55. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @susby “Are the right pages being crawled? Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools and Server logs #smx 12B”
  • 56. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “take all of that juicy data, and cross-reference it to GA with the advanced segments and comparative date ranges @RavenJon #SMX #11B”
  • 57. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “another thing to check out: landing pages. you've been making improvements, have they been impactful overtime? @RavenJon #SMX #11”
  • 58. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @KoMarketing “Make sure at every stage of your campaign (link bait, social, etc), you have diff metrics & you go back to see if it's working. #smx #11B”
  • 59. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “Challenges of being data-driven: you can't manage what you can't measure but not everything measurable should be managed @davelloyd1 #SMX”
  • 60. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @Mike_Arnesen “There's no wrong answer regarding SEO metrics, unless your answer is 'do nothing'. No nonsense from @Rhea at #SMX”
  • 61. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “metrics guidelines to follow: 1) get leaders involved. 2) visually represent your metrics. 3) metrics must respond quickly. @Rhea”
  • 62. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “4) metrics must be kept simple. 5) metrics should drive only the most important activities @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 63. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “6) limit the number of metrics. 7) take corrective action @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 64. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @AkvileHarlow “What's the point of having metrics if you don't do anything with them? Metrics must be simple & drive only important activities #smx #11b”
  • 65. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kgriwert “Take advantage of all the FREE tools in GA --> Set up automated email reports to get data delivered to you (so you don't forget) #smx #11b”
  • 66. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @akvileharlow “A lot of people who don't work in SEO think it's all about rankings. The goal really shouldn't be ranking. Think about sales/leads #smx #33a”
  • 67. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “Common data analysis mistakes: Correlation vs. causation, data bias (too much/little data, seasonality, etc) @davelloyd1 #SMX”
  • 68. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @ruthburr “Drill into causation: If you can PROVE that X caused Y you have more power to fix it internally @davelloyd1 #SMX”
  • 69. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “avg share of social visits, FB owns. G + is in last place in terms of traffic. it's not a traffic source. so, what is it? @audette #SMX #22A”
  • 70. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @AmyVernon “#SMX #23b Relevance signals: IR signals, bounce rate, time on site, # of page views, add-to-cart rate, conversion rate @ashutoshg”
  • 71. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @Casieg “Automate data gathering if it's possible for you. Focus on key KPIs #smx #12B”
  • 72. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “Webmaster Tools provides impressions for particular KWs ppl are searching on & click @RavenJon #SMX #11B”
  • 73. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “SERP analytics isn't just about focusing on your KWs and brand rank - it's about analyzing everyone on the SERP @STATrob #SMX #11B”
  • 74. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “in analytics, no more KW data : ( keyword [not provided] - ouch. was sposed to be 2%. Rhea sees 68% @Rhea #SMX #11B”
  • 75. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @KeriMorgret “Business objective != Business metric #smx #11b”
  • 76. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @beebow “other dangers: 1) lose sight of biz objectives 2) focus on wrong metrics 3) motivate team with risky metrics @Rhea #SMX #11B” We LOVE #3 – motivate the team with risky metrics. It works!
  • 77. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @Casieg “The landscape of SEO tools by the end of this year will be interesting as they can leverage other products besides adwords (analytics) #smx”
  • 78. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kgriwert “Big data isn't about have more data for #SEO -it's about knowing which data matters, identifying patterns and anomalies #smx #12b @davelloyd”
  • 79. Industry Chatter SMX West 2013: Best Tweets on Metrics and Reporting Do you ever wonder how others succeed where you struggle? Get answers from in-house marketers who already faced your challenge. www.InhouseExchange.com Hmm.. @kentjlewis “Off-site Local SEO Ranking Factors: consistency & authority of citations & links via @GregGifford #smx #22d”