[_] Adwords v Analytics v conversions
Joel Hughes
jh at jojet.com
Mon Aug 20 15:15:33 BST 2007
. You could set a cookie for every Google adword referral, > then check it to see if the person had clicked an adword after each > goal conversion but you would then have to have another way of > reporting. You can export the google analytics data as xml/csv and > then write a custom script to reconcile that data with your local > cookie collection. Or just report on each stage of your sales pipeline > and treat them as an inferred relationship (all though that introduces > new errors in measuring ROI). sorry, meant to say, I have zero control of the website and have to deal with a totally numpty. > > Also how do you factor in people seeing your google ad but not > clicking it but searching for your company name afterwards? Is that > even a metric worth measuring ...maybe but if they didn't click on the ad (and incur the client a cost) then this is an added bonus. Joel