Category Archives: coremetrics

How to Optimize Your Marketing Spend

In this post, Mike explores how an optimization strategy for Search Engine Optimization (SEM) based solely on clicks is a formula for disaster. After demonstrating that clicks aren’t the answer, outcomes are, Mike continues to provide a framework for how to optimize your SEM campaign to not drive more clicks but rather to drive return on your marketing investment. The components of Mike’s successful optimization strategy include: listening to the language of your visitors, evaluating which keywords are actually contributing towards success and then investing heavily in your options that produce the highest return on your investment (which isn’t necessarily the highest clickthrough rate). Continue reading

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Best Practices – Tracking Flash Files

There’s often a lot of confusion when it comes to understanding where to even start when tracking a site that’s essentially only a Flash movie so this post will try to clear some of that up. I’ll make the assumption … Continue reading

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