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Beyond basic Cost Per Action (CPA) measurement – looking towards CPnA (Post 1/2)

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Cost Per Action (CPA) can be defined within the following capacity; “An advertiser that only pays for an advertisement when an action has occurred. An action can be a product being purchased, a form being filled, etc. The desired action to be performed is determined by the advertiser.” – and thus calculated as follows:
CPA = [...]

Comments from Search Engine Strategies New York 2007

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Just finishing up and closing down after four great days at Search Engine Strategies – New York … Waiting to go to the Airport in Newark (how did I end up there?).

I think my one (actually two) takeaways from this show would be that:

Use of Analytics to perform in a very competitive Affiliate Marketing [...]

Competitive Intelligence. Why?

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Why?: There is a revenue opportunity using competitive intelligence!
I think it’s naive to believe that you control your own web setting. You might control your website, but numerous factors way beyond site optimization have impact on your Revenue! – and more often than not, a revenue impact is due to competitor actions. It’s time [...]

The Long Tail … and how to calculate missing Revenue

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Inspired by Avinash’s “long tail” post today I thought it would be appropriate to take it a step further and indicate how you as an affiliate with revenue generation based on content can calculate how much revenue you are leaving on the table - spotting a drooping tail. I know this is going to be [...]

Q. Name an example of when analytics can increase an affiliates revenue

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I was recently asked whether I wanted to answer a set of questions in line with the topic of my blog – which I am of course delighted to do. The first question goes like this:
Q. Ingrid:“Kindly give us an example of when analytics could increase an affiliates revenue drastically – indicating why analytics [...]

Local Online Media blog – Dennis R. Mortensen featured as Web Analytics Expert

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I was graciously introduced over at - Ihász Ingrid’s blog – as the Web Analytics Expert or as the post says in Hungarian – “Web analitika expert a Rabbitblogon” - and THAT is something worth posting about.. ha ha.
But seriously, I will be answering a set of question in line with the topic of my [...]

Conversion Tracking (outline)

Friday, March 9th, 2007

I talked about conversion funnel analysis in one of my first posts and I do profoundly believe that increasing your website conversions is the most effective way to increase Revenue. However; this is easier said than done if you are in affiliate marketing, as most of the conversions you are working with happens on the [...]