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Increase Affiliate Income by Learning Your Visitors' Intent & Needs

Have you ever seen one of those “Jack-of-all-Trades” websites, promoting everything from hosting services to vegan recipes? I see them way too often when going over affiliate applications, and vast majority of such websites perform poorly when it comes to conversions. Unfortunately, many affiliates in the pursuit of a revenue […]

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Will 2012 Be the Year of Attribution Modeling in Online Marketing?

How many different online marketing channels are you employing simultaneously? Let me guess… At least three; maybe five or more. If you’re reading my blog, then you, probably have an affiliate program. Besides it, you’re more than likely also engaged in paid search, SEO, social, possibly display and/or remarketing initiatives;

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Search Versus Social: Analysis of One Blog's Traffic Sources

Earlier this morning Fred Wilson published an interesting comparison of his blog’s traffic sources where upon splitting “the top ten” referrers “into three categories”, he discovered the following breakdown: Direct — 50% Social — 40% (with nearly 1/2 from StumbleUpon) Search — 10% These numbers amused me to say the

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A/B Split Testing: Definition and Popular Tools

Known under such names as “A/B testing” and “bucket testing”, split testing is a method of marketing testing whereby the performance of two versions of the landing page (or webpage elements) are being tested one against the other. The end goal is to determine which one performs better, or yields

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Are You Analyzing Your Mobile Traffic?

Good thing Dave Chaffey tweeted a link to Gary Robinson’s Your 60 Second Mobile Review post yesterday. I got hooked on this immediately, and was indulging myself in the analysis of my site’s mobile visitors literally seconds after reading Gary’s post. My Observations: Approximately 3.5% of visitors view my website

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20 Must-Follow Web Analytics Twitter Accounts

Are you into web analytics yet? If you want to succeed in digital marketing, you must be! All successful marketers (regardless of their focus, but especially affiliate ones) constantly measure, test, tweak and improve, replicating and perfecting what works, and cutting off what doesn’t. Below I am listing the 20

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