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Difference between codes Google Adwords and Google Analytics

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Today I started to teach my classes in the Master Search Engine IDEC-UPFSo I start to get interesting questions in the forum of students. I think some of them may also be of interest to people outside the master, so here's one: the question student at the user level, what is the difference between codes Google Adwords and Google Analytics, and where can find.

Conversion codes Google Adwords

Conversion codes Google Adwords You are provided this service and should be included on the final page of what you consider to be a conversion. For example, if you have an e-commerce, must be codes on page: "gracias.php" ie last page of the checkout process, in which you thank you for purchasing.

Thus, when a user who has entered your site from an Adword, completes a purchase, Google Adwords knows why not perceived this, the user activates the code and Adwords account that can offer it as a sale, which makes statistics on how many customers have achieved through ads and how much it cost you to get each of them ... without this code can only tell you how many visitors you had and how much it cost you to get them.

The conversion code you find Google Adwords Adwords menu under Tools -> Conversions.

Google Analytics codes

On the other hand, are codes google Analytics. Estos deben incluirse en todas las páginas del sitio web, de esta manera, Google puede ir haciendo el seguimiento de qué hacen los usuarios en ella. Los encontrarás en Administrador –> Propiedad –> Información de seguimiento –> Códigos de Seguimiento.

Para conocer las conversiones de tu web desde Google Analytics, no hay códigos especiales, debes ir a Administrador –> Ver –> Objetivos–>Crear objetivo y allí le indicas que el objetivo es llegar a la URL “gracias.php” y así Google Analytics sabe cuántos usuarios han llegado allí y por lo tanto, cuántos clientes has tenido. También sabe de dónde venían, por donde han navegado antes de iniciar la compra, y si tienen una sesión de Google abierta, puede saber si son hombres, mujeres, la edad y sus intereses… un montón de cosas, vaya.

As you can see, the two systems are different but have similar goals, although one is oriented control of ROI in advertising campaigns and the other not.

Google Tag Manager

To simplify a bit the whole issue of putting the codes, Google created a few years ago Google Tag Manager. A system that once installed on your website, allows steps which codes you want to put it through a friendly form found on the website of Tag Manager. This has greatly simplified the life of marketing agencies and marketers of companies in which the web carries a technical department, which is not always a priority to include a couple of labels that has asked the marketing department. If this is not your problem, the tag manager does not offer much more ...

I hope the answer has been helpful.

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Find out why Google Adwords and Google Analytics show different results

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These days I'm giving my classes in the Master Search Engine IDEC-UPFSo I have a lot of students asking questions about Google Adwords, SEO and Google Analytics.

One of the recurring questions is "why when I check the results of a campaign Adwords these do not match the data provided by Google Analytics me".

Well ... I'm not going to write an article on why reaching forth since Google already has done for me :-)
Here is a link that Google explains each of the parameters that differ in control Adwords campaigns about Google Analytics and why they differ.

Document: Why Google Adwords and Google Analytics show different results.

I hope you find it useful.

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Course SEO, SEM, Videomarketing and Mobile Marketing at the Chamber of Commerce of Sabadell

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This Thursday March 21st classes begin SEO which they are part of Specialization Course in Digital Marketing.

This year, unlike in previous editions, the camera allows students to sign up to loose modules. On Thursday, begins the module "Attracting visitors to a website"In this module all the techniques that will help us attract traffic to a website are treated. The principal of these techniques is the SEO, Engaged to 8 hours, with the SEMThe high in directories and online intermediaries, public relations, videomarketing and mobile marketing.

Sessions SEO and the other techniques I teach, those of SEM imparts Victor Francisco. In total, there are 5 sessions of 5 hours, delivered every Thursday (except Holy Thursday) from this week.

If you want to attend this module, please contact the Chamber as soon as possible. You will find more information here: SEO and SEM course of the Chamber of Commerce of Sabadell

See you on Thursday!

How to attract visitors to our website?

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Many times people ask me what actions Digital MarketingAt least they should do to attract visitors to their website. Respond properly and in detail to this question would take me a few hours and also the "As minimum"It depends largely on what sector we are working. Still, for those who are starting out and need inspiration, may this brief summary will be of help:

If we focus on attracting visitors to a website, the Digital Marketing techniques we could use are as follows:

  1. The search engine optimization. Also called SEO Search Engine Optimization. It is to make our website appear in the top positions for a given search. Naturally, and at no cost. Here you will find a basic introductory course: Introduction to SEO
  2. Buying search engine keywords. Also called SEM Search Engine Marketing. It is to buy certain key words when someone look, do see an ad our search engine. Here you will find information on how to improve your campaigns SEM.
  3. Advertising on third party websites. It consists of advertising space on web pages where we can find our target audience.
  4. Affiliate programs. Broadly speaking, we could define this technique as an advertising technique that is paid for results rather than clicks or times you see an advertisement. In Zanox (And other pages of the same type) find the easiest way to create an affiliate program.
  5. The presence in directories and online markets. It is to be present (for free, in many cases) in directories and markets including companies like our own. In Emarketservices.com We find a list of all directories and world markets.
  6. The public relations in online press. They are very similar to public relations in offline media, but this time, guiding our efforts to appear as articles or interviews in the press network.
  7. Shares of public relations blogs. They are similar to public relations press but posting on blogs rather than in print. This action is practically free and offers very good results. We can find listings blogs Technorati. In www.Zync.es bloggers find they charge for posting reviews.
  8. Email marketing to external databases. It is to buy or rent databases emails. This technique is very effective especially when we are heading to companies and databases are purchased from official bodies such as the Chamber of Commerce (Camerdata.es).
  9. The actions related to Web 2.0. The presence in social networks, collaborative tools and generally in the social web, is a type of action that can offer very good results if we know how to do it, but we need to spend a little more time than the rest of techniques and requires constancy.
  10. The Content Marketing. Is the creation of content that appeals to different segments of our target audience, for entering our website and convince them that we are the solution to their problems. To carry out successfully, you have to find out what market segments are creating content that interests them and that is related to your services and publicize this content using 9 above techniques.

On all of these techniques you can find information on this blog and many others. So if you do not know where to start, first make a good benchmark (How to Make a Benchmark?) And then plan some actions related to the techniques cited therein.

Surely you need training to carry out some of them. You are looking at Google and Youtube find manuals of all types (you may see section Youtube University This blog will be of help). If you want specialized training, are looking at Google are the days that are taking place near where you live ... and if you want something more specialized, here you will find a list of masters and postgraduate courses where I teach (both onsite and online): Masters and Graduate Studies

If you need specific training on a particular topic, please contact.

I hope this post has been helpful.

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Microsegmentation and Marketing 2.0

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What is microsegmentation?

The microsegmentación It is a technique that involves dividing the target audience of an almost unique product or service in parts as small as possible ... in really very very small segments.

Many of these segments, so far, were out of the market because they did not represent sufficient critical mass to be considered profitable and therefore were not attacked by advertising or customized products.

This has changed with the advent of the internet and now the cost of reaching these segments and prepare an offer specially designed for them, has made itself considered profitable part of the market, and therefore the microsegmentación is an increasingly used practice because of the good results obtained using it.

The Long Tail and microsegmentation

This marketing concept that involves dividing the target audience and take it into consideration micro segments commercially, is what he calls "The Long Tail" or "the long tail"And it is typical of the new internet, what we call Web 2.0.

It is the opposite to Pareto PrincipleA classical principle in economics and marketing. The Pareto principle postulates that 20% of an action will produce 80% of the effects, while the remaining 80% originates only 20% of the effects.

The Long Tail principle has many advantages, including the following:

  • Thanks to techniques such as SEO or SEM attacking the cost of micro segments is actually very low. In fact, in SEM, the more specific are the words we buy, the less people will buy them and therefore have lower cost.
  • Thanks to microsegmentation can get CTR (click through rate) higher in our campaigns, which allows, for example, improve our position in the sorting algorithm results Adwords, at no cost to us.
  • As few companies practicing Marketing 2.0 these segments will be attacked by few people and have more chances that our message reaches our target audience successfully.

So you know ... the next time you make a campaign of any kind, think of micro segments and creates content / ads for each of them.

Event: Course on Electronic Commerce and Digital Marketing in the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce

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Cámara de Comercio de BarcelonaThe next 13, 20 and 27 April (yes, it's the day of my Holy), I have the pleasure of giving this new edition of Course on Electronic Commerce and Digital Marketing offering Barcelona's Chamber of Commerce companies in their area.

The course objective is to provide companies with the necessary training and the necessary tools to enable them to carry out successfully their e-commerce initiatives in the network.

To do this, we have divided the class into 3 sessions of 5 hours each, in which students will have a computer each and which may be practicing everything that is learned in the course.

Also, from the first day, students will be given the skeleton of a Action Plan Digital Marketing to go scoring and specifying in it, all actions are explained in class, but already adapted to your company. Thus, at the end of the course, the participant both in class and their own company, will have a concrete action plan to carry it out immediately.

In the course we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to Digital Marketing (online benchmarking and segmentation)
  • Key features of Electronic Commerce.
  • How should an Electronic Commerce (functions, tools to create, etc.)
  • legal aspects of electronic commerce.
  • Pyramid conversion.
  • The 21 basic to drive traffic to a website and convert them into customers techniques. These techniques include SEO, SEM, advertising, web 2.0 tools, usability, etc.
  • How to make a good action plan online.

You can read more about this course on the website of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona: Course on Electronic Commerce and Digital Marketing

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How to discover your market segments

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Following the class hypersegmentation / Microsegmentation in the subject of SEM Master in the UPF seekers I'm giving this week, I have seen that in many cases it is not evident discover who are the market segments of a company (whether it's your own as if it is for someone who has hired you as a specialist in Marketing). So here are some tips on how to discover who are the market segments of a company:

1. Analyze and segment existing customers.

It is always best to start analyzing what the company is doing right now, so except when we analyze a business start-up, the first thing we should do is create a list with current customers and go looking for demographic and behavioral patterns.

My advice is that you create an Excel spreadsheet and include in it the following fields: business name, business sector to which it belongs, services or products that you hired ever, why you think you hire the services, income generated your company during the past year. If possible, also indicates the number of employees you have and where it is located geographically, as well as any other information that you think may be relevant.

While this Excel spreadsheet analyzing discover patterns that allow us to group customers based on behavior and according to certain attributes.

With this information have discovered the market segments currently working with our company, and probably already discover some micro segments, but the interesting thing is to discover new micro-segments to attack from now, let's see how.

2. Analyze competition.

Another good way to find out who can be your market segments is analyzing the communication of your competition and their website.

Si la página web está bien hecha, estará orientada a cliente y no a producto y podrás ver a qué grupos de clientes se dirigen y cuál es su propuesta de valor para cada grupo. Por desgracia, la mayor parte de páginas web están orientadas a producto y no es fácil ver a quién dirigen la información.

If brochures communication have been made by someone marketing specialist it will also be easier to give you clues as to which market segments are addressed ... but again, sometimes companies conduct communication activities Marketing without marketing specialists , so that the resulting product is useless level of segmentation and value propositions for the market.

Analyze competition will also help us differentiate ourselves from it (if we carry out a differentiation strategy, obviously).

3. Investigate patterns of behavior.

Using certain tools can know which websites people visit entering our website (through google AnalyticsFor example) and what websites people visit entering the competition website (through Alexa.com or through Google Trends para Websites, for example). With this information we can discover sites that compete with our company and types of customer that will help us better target.

Once the segmentation and discovered the potential niche market, you have to decide which of them we will attack (certainly be just some ... but if we follow a strategy of "long tail"We should try to reach the largest possible number of small segments).

Having decided this, we can begin advertising campaigns we have in mind, segmentándolas well, and we can prepare our website orientating market segments and not product, and preparing for both landing pages for SEO and SEM.

I hope this information has been helpful and that from now on make it easier to discover market segments and can make your digital marketing actions considering microsegmentation.

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How do you know which browser is most popular in a country?

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In classes and conferences dedicated to International Digital Marketing There are always those who ask me how to get useful to perform Search Engine Marketing in remote countries data.

My answer is always that when someone meets the need to know which search engines dominate in each country, its evolution over the years and the percentage of searches performed on them, we can find it on this website: GS Statcounter.

For example, did you know the following?

  • Globally, the last month, Google dominates 90% of searches: Searches worldwide
  • The last two months, Bing (the new MSN search engine) is catching up with Yahoo, which is losing market share in favor of the latter and also in favor of Google: Yahoo Bing reaching
  • Google rampaging in Spain with 97%: Google rampaging in Spain
  • In Andorra, the most used search engine is Google (with 96%) but Bing has surpassed Yahoo for 4 months: Andorran also use Bing
  • Google is also in Cuba who destroys searches (97% this month): Cubans are doing Google
  • In Russia, a local search engine has almost the same market share Google. It is Yandex, created in 1997 and for years was the number one search engine in the Russian Federation: Compidiendo with Google Yandex in Russia
  • In China, local search engine Baidu searches sweeps also an unrelenting pace with last year: Baidu Sweeps China. Google does nothing to lose market share in this country. It is not therefore surprising that Google Tomase 2% stake in Baidu when it went public in 2005 ... but now that the war is serious, Google has sold its stake Baidu (earning more than $ 50 million from the sale) and decided to go for it.
  • In Hong Kong, Yahoo is ahead of Google, and Baidu does not eat a donut: Yahoo beats Google in Hong Kong
  • In Japan, Google and Yahoo are not so far apart, though Google dominates the market: Google and Yahoo in Japan

So if we need information on search engines or browsers, operating systems, mobile phones, etc. in GS Statcounter we can find interesting information for international digital marketing conditions.

With this information we can use different actions Search Engine Optimization to a particular country or a particular language, and advertising campaigns in search engines (SEM) without having to rely forever on Google and its network.

I hope this information will be useful.