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Tag Management: How to Monitor & Improve Site Performance

There are hundreds of services for site tracking, advertising, customization, and, in general, souping up your ability to measure, reach, and convert your visitors.

Most services rely on JavaScript to track the activity of visitors on your website and report on—or respond to—their behavior.

When people talk about “tags,” they’re talking about snippets of JavaScript provided by third-party services like Google Analytics, AdRoll, Adobe Analytics, etc.

Each tool can improve your ability to reach and serve customers, but it also means adding a new piece of JavaScript (i.e. a tag) to your site.

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Mobile Conversion Optimization: Common Mistakes & How to Fix Them

If there’s a consensus about anything in the mobile market, it’s that mobile ecommerce conversions are lower than on desktop.

Smartphones have the lowest conversion potential, but tablets also win fewer conversions compared to desktop.

For example, Monetate reported that, globally, desktop conversion rates are more than twice that of mobile devices:

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Headlines that Convert: 5 Key Characteristics

We see somewhere between 4,000 and 10,000 marketing message per day. To get conversions, you must first grab attention, and the headline is what everyone sees first.

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No More “Double Dipping” on Featured Snippets—Does It Matter?

On January 23, Google announced that, “If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat it in the first page of results.”

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How to Hire for Growth, Not Skills

No hiring process in the world is designed to hire the best and brightest.

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Google Analytics & Optimization: 10 Experts Share Their Favorite Reports

Google Analytics helps us identify conversion uplift opportunities. Traffic is precious, and we don’t want to waste it on tests that don’t result in learning or uplifts.

That’s why we want good data for:

Which pages have uplift opportunities;
Specific page issues.

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12 Unconventional Landing Page Strategies to Increase Conversions

We talk a lot about creating high converting landing pages, getting traffic that converts, and making the most out of your conversion points.

But what we don’t talk about often are outside-the-box landing page strategies you can use to increase conversions right away.

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How to Use Google Optimize & Tag Manager for Personalization

About two years ago, I wrote an article on using Google Tag Manager (GTM) to personalize your website. Even then, people asked why I wouldn’t just use Google Optimize. At the time, the answer was simple: Personalization was part of Google’s six-figure paid solution.

However, in November 2018, Google released the functionality to all users. Since then, Google Optimize has become a primary platform to initiate personalized experiences. But GTM is still critical to overcome its enduring limitations.

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Tracking Multiple Domains: Setup & Reporting for Dozens of Sites

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 countries?

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