Omniture Aquires Mercado – End to End Demand Engine in the Works
Monday, 20 October 2008
Last week, web site analytics engine Omniture agreed to acquire Mercado’s multi-channel retailer site search and merchandising businesses. Macy’s, Overstock.com, Williams-Sonoma Inc., Sears Holdings Corp., and OfficeMax, are just a few of the major retailers who use leverage Mercado consulting and technology services to vastly improve the effectiveness of their store’s navigation, search experience, and
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Rand Announces Advanced SEO Analytics Engine Linkscape at SMX East
Monday, 06 October 2008
I’ve just seen the future of link analytics and it is SEOmoz. Perhaps the most engrossing and entertaining presentation at SMX East was Rand Fishkin’s introduction of Linkscape, an advanced link intelligence engine delivering rich data to website owners and SEOs regarding inlinks, related anchor text, trust, and rank. SEOmoz has indexed over 200M domains
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Seeking Business/Marketing Analyst
Thursday, 03 April 2008
I’m looking to hire a talented, driven Business Analyst, motivated by the rapid pace and growth of startup internet technologies and businesses. For those of you that know me, you’ll appreciate that I need someone with substantial analytics experience and a desire for a fast-paced environment. This person will lead the development of metrics dashboards
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Analytics Comparison: 3rd Party Paper
Wednesday, 05 September 2007
Doesn’t that just take the cake? Here I spend a few hours writing up my perspective of the major web analytics platforms only to have a much more comprehensive report released by StoneTemple Consulting shortly thereafter. Joking aside, for anyone contemplating the right solution, their report is worth the read. They cover HitBox, Affinium NetInsight,
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Analytics Vendor Comparison : Omniture, Coremetrics, Hitbox, and Google
Friday, 10 August 2007
For years, we have all pined over the lack of a comprehensive comparison of analytics platforms from Omniture’s SiteCatalyst, Coremetrics, Visual Sciences’ Hitbox (previously WebSideStory), and Google. Online marketers and web designers have to sit through cumbersome sales pitches and wade through confusing RFPs to decipher which solution is best for them. No more I
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Modeling Search and User Behavior to Measure Campaign Performance
Wednesday, 30 May 2007
The concept of using behavior, namely search behavior, to understand user intent and awareness is difficult to grasp. In an industry in which focus groups and panels are the norm, the most alien of insights is that of the searcher but, consider, the ability to track the behavior of an immense audience actively seeking, evaluating,
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Google’s Top 100 Validates Search as a Gold Mine of Insight
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Anyone still question that search behavior and trends are your greatest source of insight to customer awareness, interest, and demand? Google doesn’t. Tuesday, Trends released a feature displaying the most recent, dynamic 100 searches (excluding porn, weather, and popular websites & celebrities), replacing Google Zeitgeist and giving us insight to why Dancing with the Stars
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