Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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The Three Whats of Marketing Reporting
Let’s be candid: most marketing reporting sucks. It’s either so superficial and activity-based that it doesn’t tell us anything, or it’s a truck backing up, dumping data all over our desk and expecting us to sort through it all.

Neither helps us improve our marketing. What’s the solution to this conundrum?

One answer is a framework I call the three what’s:
- What happened?
- So what?
- Now what?
Let’s dig into each of these.

What Happened?

What happened is fairly straightforward. What does our data tell us? And yet, even this can be a challenge because an uncomfortable amount of marketing reporting is spent on activities. Take a look at this example from an agency report:

This is what happened, that’s true, in the sense that it is activity based. Someone did those activities. But these are not results. These are not outcomes. At the end of the day, no one cares how hard we worked. Everyone cares what we achieved, what results we brought in.

Look at the results section of the report above. What’s the business impact of these results? What was the marketing impact? Did we earn more traffic to our website? Did we create more conversions? What actually happened? It’s not clear from the results presented what really happened as a result of our activities.

Key takeaway: present results, not activities, in reporting.

So What?

So What? is my friend, partner, and CEO Katie Robbert’s favorite expression. After we present our results, we have to answer the question of so what? So what does this mean? What impact did these results have?

For example, this is the stock Google Data Studio report for YouTube, the template that you’re given as a starting point for using Data Studio:

This is definitely an improvement over the agency report earlier, in that we have quantitative results, but this report completely lacks any context, meaning, or impact. I earned 380 views on my views.

That and $5 will get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks. 380 views doesn’t mean anything. Is that good? Is that bad? Is that an improvement or a decline? This report doesn’t help me understand whether I’m doing well with my efforts on YouTube or poorly.

Granted, there are things that no report can capture. If I changed strategies and started posting cat videos instead of my usual content, you wouldn’t necessarily see that reflected here, and the analysis presented would have to include that, especially if there was a significant variance in the results.

However, in general, even quantitative reports need to explain the implications of the results. Mentally ask yourself after each piece of data, “So what?” to wring more value out of your reports, and keep doing that until you connect the dots to real business value.

For example, let’s say I’m looking at my newsletter issue from this week. I earned 24,637 opens of my email.
- So what? Well, it means that tens of thousands of people read my newsletter.
- So what? That means I sent thousands of clicks to my website and other valuable digital properties.
- So what? That means I generated leads for my sponsors and my company.
- So what? That means I justified the sponsor fees paid.
- So what? That means I can continue to charge the same amount or possibly increase my sponsorship rates.
Ah ha! After playing the So What? game, we arrive at the real meat: I can make more money. Generally speaking, our stakeholders care about earning more revenue, saving time and resources, and reducing costs. Better, faster, cheaper. Keep playing the So What? game until you arrive at a conclusion that aligns with better, faster, or cheaper.

Key takeaway: connect results to business impact.

Now What?

Now What? is the third leg of the reporting stool. Now What? is where we prove our value, by focusing on the actions we need to take, the decisions we need to make. Everything up until this point shows what happened in the past. Now What? is about making decisions for the future.

What decisions do we want people to make? What actions do they need to take?

Here’s an example of the attribution analysis report for my website:

I see what happened – that organic search drove 65% of my conversions for the last 90 days. I see email and social media playing key roles. I understand what happened.

I know why I earned the number of conversions I did, as well as what didn’t earn me conversions.

But the key question is, now what? What should I do more of? What should I do differently? For example, I see that what I share on social media earns more than double the conversions of interactions. I’m sharing the right content, so I need to double down and make sure I’m sharing the absolute best stuff possible. That means digging into more topic research to identify things that garner high interaction rates, as well as building a model of what doesn’t work so I stop sharing content people don’t care about.

I see SEO as a key driver of my website. I need to find out what I’m being found for, make sure it’s aligned with my overall goals, and then double down on the stuff that’s working.

If I were still doing a daily video show, I would most certainly kill it off now. YouTube accounts for 0.1% of my conversions over three months. That’s terrible performance. As a channel, it’s just not working for me – and never really has. In this report, YouTube has proven that even though I got results, they had no impact, and thus the decision I need to make is whether or not to continue my efforts there.

Now What? is where we prove our value as marketers. It’s trivial to copy and paste numbers from a spreadsheet to a slide deck. It’s valuable to explain why we need to either stay the course or change course, and give our stakeholders straightforward decisions to make. If we are the stakeholder, then any reporting we’re looking at should be presenting us with decisions to make and then outline the timeline of when those decisions will be executed.

Key takeaway: any report that doesn’t ask for decisions is not doing the best job possible.

Use the Three Whats Often

If we use the Three Whats to focus our reporting, it will improve. Our reporting will be shorter and much more focused. It will stand out because it creates value and invests time instead of wasting it. And we will make better decisions, decisions informed not only by data, but also analysis and insights. Apply the Three Whats to your marketing reporting today.

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June 1, 2021
Google Analytics 4 or Bust: Lessons from Google Marketing Live 2021
At the recent Google Marketing Platform’s Google Marketing Livestream virtual event, Google previewed a bunch of changes coming to the platform as a whole, but some of the features that most stood out were:
- Customer Match: the ability to encrypt and upload your customer data lists for ad targeting purposes – will be open to everyone, not just the big spenders in Google Ads. This makes logical sense; Google controls the ad network and has identity resolution capabilities, so they don’t need cookies to know who consumers are and what ads to show consumers.
- Consented Tracking: Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager now offer consent options – aka “can we track you” popups and utilities to comply with new privacy laws. These features are available right now, so if you need them for compliance, go turn them on.
- Inferred Data: Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 will both have machine learning-powered imputation abilities to “fill in the blanks” when dealing with anonymous data that’s missing pieces, typically because someone didn’t opt-in to tracking. Google touted this especially as a solution for understanding Google Ads conversions better, but some of that behavioral imputation will be available in Google Analytics 4 in late 2021.
- Attribution Modeling: Google showed off new attribution modeling capabilities coming to both Google Ads and Google Analytics 4. It was something of a sore point that GA4 didn’t ship with any kind of reasonable attribution modeling, but it looks like it might be worth the wait; GA4 will reportedly have both standard data-driven attribution as well as incrementality modeling built in.
- Media Lift: Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads will inherit some of the Adometry modeling to incorporate the lift effects of both YouTube and Google Display Ads.
- Demand Forecasting: Google Ads will offer 90-day demand forecasting for popular, relevant topics for your ads, so you know what to watch for bid pricing and ad copy. I’m especially looking forward to this feature to see what kind of flexibility it offers and how we might be able to use it for other purposes.
- Google Ads Broad Match: using its natural language processing models like BERT and LaMDA, Google Ads’ broad match – which used to be the fastest way to waste your entire ad budget – will use those language models to deliver more relevant broad matches. Candidly, I’m surprised it took them this long to roll this out; it should be a substantial performance improvement.
- Imputation Blackouts: Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 will offer you the ability to declare time periods as anomalies in your data so they’re not factored into your machine learning models that power your data. That will clean up data-driven attribution as well as ad performance. When would you need something like this? When you do things like forget to put tracking codes on your site or other breaking changes to your analytics infrastructure.
- Incrementality Modeling: In addition to attribution modeling, incrementality modeling will let us understand the baseline of our marketing performance as well as the incremental effects of specific campaigns or efforts in Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads.
- Tighter Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 Integration: One of the demonstrated features was the new Advertising Performance center in Google Analytics 4 that will let advertisers run more detailed analysis on Google Ads performance than is currently possible in Google Ads. This continues the trend of Google positioning Google Analytics 4 as a BI tool and not a reporting engine.
Do you see the theme weaving its way through all the announcements at the event?

Google Analytics 4 is mentioned everywhere. Universal Analytics – Google Analytics 3 – was barely mentioned at all, except when announcing a new feature in GA4 that had been ported over. Google made it painfully clear that no new development is occurring on Google Analytics 3 and if we want ANY of the new features and capabilities, we MUST be running Google Analytics 4. Google’s migration strategy isn’t “we’re going to turn this old thing off” so much as it is “we’re going to put all the shiny new toys in the latest thing so you HAVE to use it”.

In one of the breakout sessions, Googlers reiterated the guidance we’ve been giving customers for more than 6 months now – turn on GA4 today, set it up, start collecting data right now even while you continue to use GA3. If you haven’t already set up GA4, now is the time. Like, today. Get it done. If you don’t want to, then have someone do it for you, but getting it in place and collecting data is a necessity if you ever want to have access to its machine learning features for dealing with missing data and upcoming privacy laws. The sooner you get it running, the more data you’ll have provided it for training when it comes time to use it as your main analytics solution.

Lots of changes are coming to marketing next year as Chrome turns off third-party cookies. Chrome has 64% of the browser market share, with Firefox and Safari (who already don’t support third-party cookies) combined being 22%. All together, 86% of the browser market will stop supporting third-party cookies next year, so the clock is ticking for all of us to implement marketing technology solutions that eliminate our dependence on third-party cookies and ad tracking. If you use any part of the Google Marketing Platform, make the necessary changes now, while you have time and space to think carefully about it and do it right.

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May 28, 2021
Four Requirements of Great Marketing Data Visualization
Shashi asks, “People are very visual. What is your best tool for a novice marketer to create good visuals with data?”

The best tool? It depends. If we think of a visualization like a cooked dish, like a cake, then we have to have four things:
- The recipe. What are we making? What should it look like when it’s done, and how should it taste?
- The ingredients. What do we have to work with, and are the ingredients good? No matter how skilled you are, if all you have is a bag of sand, you’re not making a cake.
- The skill. Do we know how to bake?
- The tools. What will we make the cake with?
Obviously, some tools are more important than others; it’d be almost impossible and certainly very frustrating to make a cake without a mixing bowl of some kind.

The Four Requirements of Great Marketing Data Visualization

The same is true in marketing analytics.

Our visualization, our outcome, is like the cake baking process:
- The recipe. What should the visualization be communicating and more critically, what is the objective?
- The ingredients. What data do we have to work with, and is it any good?
- The skill. Tools can help, but all of them still require skills – in this case, knowing what visualizations communicate insights best, as well as the necessary skills to process the data for the visualization.
- The tools. What tools will you use that best help you work with the above three criteria?
Here’s where most marketers go wrong, most people go wrong in marketing analytics and marketing technology. They start with the tools, with figuring out tools. That’s like getting out an appliance and not knowing what you’re cooking. You may have a great waffle iron, but if you’re making a cake… not so helpful.

The recipe, ingredients, and skill dictate the tool. They define the requirements for the tool and help you narrow down what tools should be available to you. Let’s look at a couple of examples.

Example 1: Simple Web Analytics

What you’ve been asked to create, your recipe, is a dashboard of some kind to show the performance of your website or mobile app. That’s what you’re trying to bake, and you have a list of things that should be on it, like a line graph showing traffic over time.

Your ingredients are Google Analytics data.

Your skill is the ability to use basic productivity software.

What tool should you use? In this specific scenario, without a doubt, the tool to use is Google Data Studio. It’s functionally very similar to Google Slides and Google Sheets, it requires little to no coding skills, and it’s highly compatible with Google data.

Now imagine how this would be different if you used, say, Adobe Analytics. You’d have a very different set of ingredients, and Google Data Studio might not be the best tool for the job any more.

Imagine how this would be different if you were asked to show a multi-touch attribution model. Knowing that, you’d need both different skills and a different tool – probably a person who can program in R or Python and with a data science or machine learning background. In this scenario, you’d probably be looking at IBM Watson Studio or another machine learning tool.

Example 2: Marketing ROI

What you’ve been asked to create, your recipe, is a visualization of marketing ROI over time, a simple line graph showing the fluctuations of your campaign data.

You’ll need to gather a lot of ingredients for this recipe. You’ll need hard cost data – what you spent in currency – on things like ads. You’ll need soft cost data as well, the time people spent on specific tasks and their effective hourly bill rates. You’ll probably need data from accounting about overhead costs per employee as well. And you’ll need marketing performance data, how much revenue is attributable to each marketing channel.

This, by the way, is why marketing ROI is so elusive for so many of us. Despite the simplicity of its formula – (earned – spent)/spent – the data that goes into that formula is incredibly complex and lives in multiple parts of the organization if you want to do it right.

Your skill is the ability to aggregate all that data together, probably in some kind of data storage engine, and then perform the math on it. The math isn’t overly complicated – it’s the aggregation and computation of the data that will be the biggest skill gap.

What tool should you use? That depends on how you gather, store, and process the data. You could do it in spreadsheets if you’re an Excel deity, but you’d be better off doing it with a database so that you can bring in the data regularly and frequently. You’ll also need to be fluent with database querying, so that you can perform complex joins and filtering on the data. You’re probably looking at a SQL database of some kind and spreadsheet software.

The reporting software you use to visualize that final result, the simple line graph, can be anything – it’s all the pieces under the hood that will be the biggest challenge.

Know the Four Parts Before You Start

Understanding what you have to work with is critical before you select any tool. If you don’t know what the outcome is you’re trying to achieve, if you don’t know what kind of data you’re working with, and you don’t know what skills people do or don’t have, any effort you make is doomed from the start. You’ll waste precious time and frustrate everyone involved with the project.

Do the work up front to figure out what you’re baking, whether you have the right ingredients, and whether anyone can bake. If you come up short, you’ll know what you need to remediate before worrying about what tools to use.

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May 27, 2021
Solicited Review: Content Inc. Second Edition
The Second Edition of Content Inc. is a fascinating read. If you’re an experienced content marketer, the first five chapters are nothing new; everyone with 5 years or more of content marketing experience should already know and do most of the Content Inc. framework. For newer, more inexperienced marketers, the Content Inc. framework is a useful one filled with practical checklists and suggestions for how to build a content-first business.

Where Content Inc. shines for me is on the back half, on revenue, diversification, acquisitions, and exiting the business. This is obviously the part of the book that didn’t exist in the first edition, before Joe sold CMI to UBM in 2017. He does something that almost no other entrepreneur does: he lays out the bloody guts of the transaction process, including detailed discussions of the financials and conditions of the deal.

This is where I found the most value in Content Inc. You can practically hear Joe reciting all the questions he got after selling CMI, and the chapter on exiting is essentially a recitation, a FAQ for that:
- How much did you sell your company for?
- What was the deal like?
- Who did you consider selling to?
- How did you make your decision about who to sell to?
- When should an entrepreneur sell their company?
Anyone who is or aspires to be a business owner needs to read and re-read the last few chapters to understand just how complex a transaction is. As someone who’s been through four transactions already, watching other people’s companies sell and get bought, all the pain Joe details in the process rings perfectly true. His advice on how to select and pay a financial advisor for the transaction alone is worth the cost of the book, because it’s one of those things that will make or break a deal – and possibly your sanity.

What if you’re not an entrepreneur and have no desire to be? If you’re an employee, reading through the back half of the book will give you a top-down view of what happens in a merger or acquisition, with one caveat: Joe’s a much nicer owner than most, and worked hard to protect his staff from the pain of acquisition as much as possible. I can’t say the same for many other companies.

And for the focus on marketing, the Content Inc. framework is meat and potatoes content marketing. You’ll find a lot of useful tips, reminders, checklists, and tactical ideas in it, stuff that is mostly proven to work.

What would I change in the book? The one area where the book falls short for me will not surprise you: analytics. There’s not a lot of detail spent on it, and I’m firmly of the belief that content marketing you don’t measure well is content marketing that is set up to fail. This is doubly true for a business you’re aiming to sell. Joe rightly suggests that every entrepreneur in a content-focused business exclusively focus on the subscriber, on building a reliably reachable audience, but after that, there’s not much analysis.

What should there have been? An explanation – even if there isn’t an example – of how you analyze your subscriber numbers to determine what’s working, and then make strategic and tactical decisions based on those analyses. It’s a best practice that multiple regression analysis on a KPI is essential for picking apart your KPI, breaking it down so you understand what numbers drive that KPI and then focusing on those sub-metrics. For some businesses, measures like Twitter followers are totally irrelevant vanity metrics. For other businesses, they’re a key driver. You won’t know the difference without that analysis.

That said, I’m honestly okay with Joe not including that level of detail in the book because then the rest of us would have nothing to write about.

So, to sum up:
- If you’re an entrepreneur, you must read the back half of Content Inc.
- If you’re a junior marketer, you must read the front half – and DO the work.
- If you’re an employee and you work for a company that’s even hinting about getting acquired, you must read the back half so you understand what’s going on behind the scenes.
Buy your copy wherever books are sold. Here’s the Amazon link (disclosure: affiliate link).

FTC Disclosure: Joe sent me a copy of the Second Edition of Content Inc. for free along with a pack of cookies. The cookies were okay, the book was better.
May 25, 2021
How to Think About Conversion Efficiency in Content Marketing
One of the more interesting content marketing metrics that I rarely see in the field is conversion efficiency. There’s some content that simply outperforms other content, but one of the things we forget to include in our normal analysis of content is how much effort, in terms of time and resources, went into the promotion of that content. Did a piece of content perform well because it was great content, or was it merely good content with a great budget?

More important, what would happen if you put that great budget behind a piece of already great content?

Why isn’t this done more? Part of the reason is that understanding what content performed well is challenging for most companies that don’t use multi-touch attribution at the content level. Most marketers are familiar with multi-touch attribution overall – how did any one channel contribute to a conversion, knowing that channels work together sometimes to create better synergies together than any one channel would alone.

However, we don’t often think about our content with the same lens. What pages on your website, on the media properties you own, help nudge people towards conversion in concert with the pages you already actively promote?

Using Google Analytics data plus some classical machine learning techniques, we can understand what content nudges people towards conversion most; this is the basis behind the Trust Insights Most Valuable Pages analysis we wrote a couple of years ago that’s still in use today.

What is Conversion Efficiency?

If we pair the output of that report with the number of pageviews for any given piece of content, and essentially measure how many pageviews on average it takes to convert a user, we end up with a measure of conversion efficiency. In other words, conversion efficiency is pageviews per conversion.

Why does this matter?

A page that converts 1 person for every 10 page views will need less promotion and a lower budget than a page that converts 1 person for every 100 page views. Assuming that our traffic is roughly equal quality, we should promote and pay for promotion of pages that are the most efficient at converting users if we want the biggest bang from our buck – especially if budgets are tight.

Conversion Efficiency Example

We’ll start with a most valuable pages report for my website:

What we see is very straightforward; from the top to the bottom, these are the pages on my website that nudge people towards conversion the most. For my site, conversion includes things like signing up for my newsletter, buying a book, filling out a form, etc., and there are some pages that clearly outperform in terms of total numbers of users they help convert.

However, this data is skewed somewhat, because some pages receive a lot more attention than others. So, let’s look at a conversion efficiency report now:

This is, for the most part, a very different list. Why? Because the pages at the top require the least amount of traffic to convert, and they’re not always the pages I’ve been promoting. Some of these are even really, really old content, but content that still performs, content that still gets people to do the things I want them to do.

What Do We Do With Conversion Efficiency Data?

So, what do I do with this information? The top priority would be to assess whether the pages I’ve uncovered can be reshared as is, or if they need updating. Once I’ve made that decision, it’s time to get to work, either optimizing and updating, or promoting.

What we want to keep track of is whether the efficiency ratios hold firm as we send more traffic to these pages. It may simply be they are attracting small, niche traffic that’s highly optimized around a specific channel – as the floodgates open, that ratio may drop as the audience becomes more broad. The ideal situation, of course, is to find those hidden gems that maintain their conversion efficiency ratio as we send more traffic to them; those are the pages that we should divert as much traffic to as possible.

Find the conversion efficiency measurement method of your choice (or I can do it for you if your data is in good shape), and get started sending traffic to the pages that convert the best.

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May 24, 2021
What Are Your Customers Telling You They Want?
Here’s my question for all the apps begging users to re-enable ad tracking in iOS 14.5…

What have you been doing all this time with the data we DO give you?

Think about it for a moment. How much data do we voluntarily give different social network and content providers all the time? We share our viewing preferences, our search preferences, the people we interact with, the content we create. It’s a gold mine of information voluntarily and freely given.

What has the ad tech industry been doing this whole time with that data that they’re suddenly in a tizzy about losing access to cookies and other forms of user tracking?

Take a look at the publicly-available tweets I post, for example:

There’s enough information to infer a fair few things here, concepts I talk about a lot.

Look at my YouTube history:

Could you make some logical advertising inferences from this data? I would hope so.

What about all the things I share on Instagram?

Any half decent image recognition algorithm can pick out the obvious brands of the stuff I like. Why would Facebook or any ad tech company need any more data than that to create targeted ads that actually show me stuff I might want?

For example, just looking at my Instagram history alone, you can see a few instances of technology and a bunch of nature stuff. What could a half-decent advertising algorithm infer from that? Well, if you own an Omlet chicken coop, you’re probably not poor; they’re one of the more expensive coops available on the market. And if the nearest 5 pictures contain no fewer than 3 Apple devices, you’re definitely not poor. Do you need third party advertising data to show ads for more luxury brands? Definitely not. The majority of photos show nature of some kind; targeting this consumer just on six photos should be straightforward. Show this person eco-friendly, more expensive goods and services, renewable energy, and eco-smart tech brands.

Do you need to know the person’s age or gender or location to infer any of this? No. Ten seconds of looking at photos is enough to make some reasonable inferences.

Do this exercise with your own social feed. What could someone infer from what you share? Is that enough information to develop ads that would interest you?

What about a feed of a person who’s sharing only selfies all the time? That’s even easier! Show them lots of self-care stuff.

You might say, well, that’s fine for some users who are more engaged, but what about the passive consumer who is more of a lurker? Most ad systems have a term for that already – the lookalike audience, people who behave in similar ways, who like similar things.

Maybe someone doesn’t post all the time on Twitter but they like and retweet a ton of stuff. Show them ads for the things they like and retweet that match the likes and retweets of consumers who do share more often.

The future of marketing – and advertising in particular – is behavioral. Stop obsessing over whether someone is a 40-45 year old Asian male who lives in Massachusetts and start paying attention to what people do. Start paying attention to what people volunteer about themselves. The consumer is telling us – shouting at us – all the things they really want us to talk to them about.

The irony of this is that we would see much stronger ROI on our efforts if we did grow these capabilities. In no other industry can you fail 99.2% of the time and call that success, but in advertising, a 0.8% click through rate is a good thing. Perhaps ads perform so terribly because we haven’t spent any time investing in understanding what the consumer is already saying, and serving them things that align with the interests they’re talking about publicly.

Why aren’t companies doing this already?

First, we have a bad tendency as marketers to look for the easy button, and third-party data segments are easier and faster than doing the hard work of getting to know our audiences.

Second, we woefully underinvest in data analysis capabilities. Assembling models for this kind of work is challenging and expensive, and companies would rather shift that responsibility to someone else than develop rich data analysis capabilities themselves.

In the end, with privacy restrictions increasing, we will have no choice but to rely on what the consumer gives us voluntarily. Fortunately, billions of people are already telling us every single day what they want, what they’re interested in, what makes them happy. Most marketers just lack the will to invest in listening.

Want to get ahead of the curve?
- Develop your listening powers now.
- Invest heavily in data analysis, modeling, and machine learning now.
- Start giving customers what they are telling you they want more of now.
While your competitors struggle to rely on ever-declining ad performance, you’ll surprise and delight your customers all the way to the bank.

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May 20, 2021
Google Analytics: A Content Marketing Engagement Test
Here’s a content marketing question to start your thinking: what would you assume the relationship is between average time on page and word count?

I would assume there would be a linear relationship, right? More words on a page means more time to read, so there should be a linear relationship between these two variables.

What if there wasn’t? What if that relationship didn’t exist?

For example, if you’ve got a page that’s 200 words and a page that’s 1200 words, you would expect the average time on page for the 1200 word page to be 6x longer than the time on page for the 200 word page, yes?

The absence of that relationship might indicate that you’ve got a content quality problem. Why? Because if a page is longer and people don’t stick around, then they’re not interested in what that page is about. They bail out before they read the whole thing.

A Walkthrough Example

Let’s take a look at how this might play out. I’ve loaded my blog’s Google Analytics data and a count of the words on each page into a spreadsheet, sorted by sessions in descending order. Google Analytics doesn’t have word or sentence count data, but that’s easily obtained from the SEO tool of your choice or from any good content scraping utility (I wrote my own).

Next, let’s make a simple scatterplot of average time on page and word count, with a sub-dimension of number of sessions:

Already we see that there isn’t really a relationship between these two variables – and there logically should be, if the content was all of the same quality. But it’s not- why is that? It’s because the pages aren’t the same quality. They’re not the same topic, not the same age, not the same writing quality. My blog is 14 years old as of 2021; it would be a bad thing if the writing quality of content from 2007 was the same as it is in 2021.

There are, of course, external factors to take into account as well. The audience has changed, search algorithms have changed, social media newsfeed algorithms (and social media channels) have changed. We can’t ignore those, but we also can’t do much about them.

Let’s take our data and make it a little easier to see by changing the axes from linear to logarithmic and putting some median lines on it:

Ah ha! Now we have four basic quadrants of content quality. In the lower left, we have content that has relatively few words and low time on page. That’s normal; those would be good pages to beef up, perhaps, especially those getting more traffic already.

In the upper left, we have pages with high time on page and low word counts. Those are definitely pages to take a look at and see if there are opportunities to improve them.

In the upper right, we have pages with high time on page and high word counts. These are the pages that are behaving as expected.

In the lower right, we have the problem pages – high word counts and low time on page. These are the pages people are simply not sticking around for.

What Next?

Now that we know what pages are potentially problematic, we export them and start digging in:
- Is the page quality really bad?
- Is the writing so bad that it needs to be completely rewritten?
- Is the topic so far off what I want to be known for that the page should just be retired?
The good news is this analysis can be done in any modern spreadsheet software, combining the data from Google Analytics with data from an SEO tool. Try it for yourself, and see if you can shed some light on what content isn’t carrying its weight.

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May 19, 2021
How To Improve SEO With Network Graphing
One of the earliest parts of Google’s algorithm was PageRank, a network graph that looked at who was most linked to as a proxy for which sites should rank highest for a given search term. While PageRank has evolved along with the rest of Google’s algorithm, it’s still very much part of the company’s search DNA.

Which raises the question: why don’t more SEO tools display link graph data themselves? Many of them have the data in some fashion or format. Why don’t more technical SEO marketers use link graph data as part of their SEO strategy?

Let’s dig into this a bit more and see if we can come up with some answers.

What is a Network Graph?

First, let’s define a network graph. A network graph is essentially a graph of relationships, a diagram of how different entities relate to each other.

A network graph is simply a way to visualize these relationships:

Inside a network graph, you have two kinds of entities, nodes and edges. Nodes are the things themselves – people, websites, social media handles, whatever. Edges are the connections between the nodes. If I link to Trust Insights from my blog, that’s an edge. If Trust Insights links back to my site, that’s an edge, too. Edges can be one-directional or bi-directional.

In the example above, we see four sites. Site A has two links going out and none coming in. Site B has one link coming in and two links going out. Site C has two links coming in and one link going out. Site D has two links coming in and no links going out. In this very rudimentary example, the site that’s most authoritative here is Site D, if you were to use the most primitive form of the PageRank algorithm on this network graph.

In the case of SEO, the more sites that link back to my website, the more my site is perceived as authoritative and trusted by the network graph portion of Google’s algorithm. That’s why SEO folks have been saying for nearly two decades that building links to your website is a critical part of SEO, one of the most important things you can do.

How Has PageRank Changed?

PageRank used to be the heart of Google’s algorithm, the core of everything it did. Over the years, as black hat (malicious or unethical) SEO folks have tried to trick the network graph, from link spam to outright website hacks, Google’s algorithm has adapted like an immune system to devalue more and more of what marketers can do to influence the algorithm:

As early as 10 years ago, Google started rolling out massive changes that dramatically reduced the value of both black hat techniques and linking techniques that were too easy to game, like buying press releases.

Today, over 200 different data points go into Google’s search rankings, and from there its machine learning models engineer many more behind the scenes that neither we nor Google even fully understand, thanks to the nature of deep learning models. However, we do know that quality inbound links still do matter, still do strongly influence the model. Google technical folks have said as much in very recent interviews and on their podcasts.

What Do We Do With Network Graphs?

So how do we make use of this information? How do we turn a concept into a functional reality? Let’s look at applying network graphing theory to real data. Suppose I want to rank for the term “marketing analytics”. I’d go into my SEO tool of choice (use pretty much any major vendor, this part is all the same) and see who ranks for those terms:

So far, so good. Now the question is, what kinds of inbound links help Google recognize these sites as authoritative? To understand that, we need to extract who links to them. Most modern SEO tools will allow you to extract backlinks, or the sites that link to a website. So what we’d do is export all the sites who link to this list of the top 10-20 results; because some of them are quite large, we might want to filter the links to be specifically about analytics or isolate those publications which create content about analytics frequently; doing so dramatically reduces the amount of data we need to process.

Once we’ve narrowed down our huge collection of backlinks, we need to reformat them to a list of edges and a list of nodes, then feed that data to network graphing software. For non-programmers, the open-source application Gephi is probably the best bet. For programmers, chooes the appropriate libraries in the coding language of your choice; I’ve become a fan of tidygraphs for the R programming language.

Feed the nodes and edges list into your graphing application and visualize it. It should look something like this, in a visualization:

You’ll know you have it correct when you see a graph network that looks like a constellation, with a handful of really connected hubs – those are our starting sites we put into our software – and then all the sites that link to them, helping boost their authority.

If we switch to our data view and use a measure of centrality that’s mathematically close to what Google used for its PageRank, eigenvector centrality, we can then rank all the sites granting links to our targets to understand which ones are the most valuable and important:

This is now our to-do list, our punch list of sites to go acquire links from. Some of them will be very straightforward; creating content on Medium.com, for example, is very simple to do. Creating a new repo on Github and ensuring we have code freely available is straightforward. Other sites will require the help of an SEO firm or a PR agency to obtain placements, to obtain credible links.

Why Is This Better?

Most modern SEO tools have some kind of link building feature, some way of identifying which sites to approach for building links. However, often these features use algorithms that are substantially different than the way Google uses network graphs. They use much lower-computational methods like basic link intersections, which often tends to bubble up the same very high authority sites over and over again – the New York Times, Wikipedia, Forbes, Gartner, etc. While this is factually correct – obtaining high value links from the New York Times would be wonderful for any site – it’s not attainable by most companies.

By using a network graph with a similar algorithm to Google’s, we can explore in a more nuanced way what sites help boost authority, and then pursue them. While some of the publications are still top-tier (and thus difficult), many others are not and accept contributions of useful content.

This technique also helps focus your agencies and in-house teams’ efforts. While they try to land the big fish – like the New York Times – they can also focus on the relevant industry publications that appear authoritative. They’ll reap more for their efforts and in a shorter period of time than focusing only on top-tier sites alone.

Work with your analysts and programmers to follow the steps outlined above, and see how your link building efforts change – and hopefully become more productive and valuable.

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May 18, 2021
Friday Foodblogging Solicited Review: GrillGrates Replacement Grill Grates
I had a chance recently to test out a new set of GrillGrates from GrillGrate.com. These are exactly what they sound like – replacement grill grates – and they’re one of the easiest upgrades I’ve made to my grill.

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First, what are they? Unlike regular grates, GrillGrates are heavier pieces of metal that link together and form a coherent grilling surface on the grill. They offer a lot more surface area and have much less air moving through them, which makes them operate at significantly higher temperatures than the default grates that came with my grill.

Installing them is stupid easy. Remove the old grates. Maybe clean up some of the mess inside. Put the new grates on. An 8-year old (albeit a strong one, the GrillGrates are heavy) could do it. No tools or anything required.

One of the most useful features of GrillGrates is that they’re double-sided. One side is the standard grill that gives you nice grill marks on whatever you put on them. The other side is a flat, smooth surface like a griddle – which is the side I use more often, frankly. Because they interlink, if you bend them carefully in the correct direction, you can lift the entire grilling surface and flip it over all in one go.

They’re energy savers, too. Either you run your grill at normal burner temperatures and you grill hotter and faster, or you run your burners lower and save gas. Because the grates heat up so fast and much hotter, you don’t need to use nearly as much fuel or take as long to cook things.

The only downsides? I’ve been reluctant to go slamming my cast iron pans around on them for fear of marring the surface. The grates are really well-machined, smooth anodized aluminum, and I don’t know they’d tolerate being hammered with a few pounds of cast iron very well; I’ve kept the old grates for when I need to abuse the surface of the grill. And because they’re anodized aluminum and not iron or steel, they would offer little to no protection if you had to use them in a pinch against small firearms as makeshift armor – aluminum will tend to shatter more easily when struck by bullets. Hold onto your cast iron for that. (though obviously they’re better than nothing)

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So far, I’ve made:
- Fried rice (yes, with the griddle side, you can!)
- Green beans
- Steak
- Bacon
- Chicken
- Burgers
- Garlic naan
- Mixed vegetables
- Tilapia
- Salmon
- Breakfast sandwiches
- Fajitas
- Corn on the cob
The only food that absolutely does not work on the GrillGrates is anything that’s purely a liquid, like eggs. There aren’t many holes in the grates, but there are enough that you’d still lose most of the liquid to the grill; in that regard, it’s not a true griddle surface.

GrillGrates ship with a spatula designed for the raised rails, as well as a wire cleaning brush. The cost is dependent on the side of your grill but ranges anywhere from US $60 to US$ 200 depending on how many panels you need. If you want an exact fit down to the eighth inch, you can commission custom cut panels as well for more.

Would I buy them with my own money? If I hadn’t had a chance to try them, I wouldn’t have because I wouldn’t have understood the difference they make. Now that I’ve tried them? You bet. And I’ll probably buy a set for my father, too.

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May 14, 2021
Solicited Review: Techsmith Camtasia 2021
In this video review of the new Techsmith Camtasia 2021, you’ll learn about the three features in the new upgrade that I think are worth talking about: proxy video, auto ducking, and great big piles of new transitions.

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Okay, folks, this is a quick review and look at what’s new, in Techsmith, Camtasia 2021, full disclosure FTC requirements.

I am Camtasia Techsmith Ambassador stuff.

So they gave me a copy of it for free.

So you have to put that out there to see solicited review.

So what’s new in Camtasia, if you’ve been using it for any amount of time, you know that it’s essentially a nonlinear editor that is somewhere between the, between iMovie and Adobe Premiere, right, it’s not nearly as sophisticated as Adobe Premiere, which is good, because Adobe Premiere is kind of like, you know, using a rocket ship.

And then it’s not as overly simplified as iMovie, where you can not do a whole lot.

So it’s right in that middle zone where it’s got a nice sweet spot.

And I find it especially useful for building training videos and stuff.

There’s a lot of integrations for creating, learning and development.

But in the new version, there’s a lot of good stuff in here, a bunch of things that are new.

So let’s look at a few of the features that I personally find useful and I think are valuable.

The first by far is what’s called proxy video.

proxy video is what you do this is again, something that the bigger MLS like Premier, do, they help you create a scaled down version of a video to minimize its size and editing.

It’s basically a low res version.

And the creation of that means that you can drag and drop in the timeline, play it test effects and stuff.

And if your computer is slower, or you don’t have, you know, a great graphics card, it makes them a little bit easier to work with, right.

So when you load your video clips in, you’ll set them all to convert proxy video and then go get a sandwich, because it is doing some encoding to turn these videos into lower res videos for editing.

And then when you go and hit render, when you export the video, it’ll render obviously with the complete full version, but you’ll be able to edit it a little bit easier.

So that’s number one.

Very, very useful.

Number two, they had a lot of transition.

So one of the things that people have been critical in the past was there wasn’t a ton of transitions, and that’s okay.

transitions.

Look, transitions are like hot sauce, right? A little bit goes a long way.

For those who remember the early days of video editing, when we first got our hands on avid systems and stuff, there were a lot of these transitions in there.

And we all be honest, we all made that one video where we used every single transition in one video, right, we’ve all been there, we’ve all done that.

There are a lot of really good new transitions in here.

Some favorites and things are the digital version, where it sort of pixelate the screen out, which I think is kind of neat is a fun effect here.

You name it, there’s now probably a transition that matches what you want to do.

Now the one thing that I wish was in here was the ability to stack transitions to be able to use multiple transitions on the same clip right now you can’t do that.

So if you want to have an effect that’s layered like a zoom and a digital at the same time, you’ve got to do one transition on a clip, render it, then import that rendered clip in and then apply the second transition to it.

If somebody knows how to do Stax transitions, without doing that step, please leave something on the comments and tell me because I would love to know how to do that.

But there’s a ton of new transitions.

Again, remember, transitions are hot sauce, please don’t go overboard on them.

A little bit goes a long way.

Other things that are in here that are really nice.

There is now a motion blur, visual effects.

Motion Blur allows you to you can see here, just a little animation, it smooths out the effects and makes it look more natural.

So for a lot of the rendered effects and including a lot of the transitions and things as well as you know swiping and like logos and stuff in and out of the screen.

It makes them less janky.

It makes them look a little bit more natural, which is nice.

Now, two of the things I think are really helpful.

One is the blockchain I think by them the most important of all is this this corner rounding which will make you know things like collages and stuff a little a little bit more natural.

So let’s put some media on the timeline here.

Here.

zoom into this and then take this clip here and let’s so I can take this clip here and let’s go ahead and apply a visual effect and slap some corner rounding on it.

I can take the corners in a lot.

And now I get us you can see here it’s rounded.

That edge I can make like little fly ins and stuff like that.

I could have this be a nice little effect.

There.

Let’s go ahead and put an animation on this asset to behavior.

Let’s do a fly in.

Do a quick check here.

Boom.

And then for that, let’s also apply our motion blur.

And see what happens corner rounding and motion blur.

So you can stack the visual effects, you can stack the transitions, which is is unfortunate.

And then just a quick you can see how see as it zoomed in there, you can see that nice motion blur that it applies.

Looks really nice.

More important, though, is ducking ducking.

For those who are unfamiliar, when you have two pieces of audio.

Generally speaking, you don’t want them on the same volume, right? You it gets tough to listen to.

So let’s go ahead and toss in some music here.

If I were to play this right now, you can see from a volume scale, they’re both playing, it’s essentially the same volume.

So this would be challenging to listen to you.

This is a video I’m doing in the middle of editing a video about grilling.

And what I would want to do is I would want to hear you know that grilling sound, right, there’s no point in having a grilling video of can hear the you know, hear the sizzle.

So there’s a new audio effect.

Let’s go to audio effects, called emphasize audio, right, this is auto ducking, you slap it on.

And then it’s going to ramp your main track to be 80% of the volume and then take everything else down to 20%.

And you can change that in in the settings here on the panels.

But this makes ducking super easy because you can now do it also on a per click basis.

So if you want to emphasize one clip here, let’s go ahead and split and then split again.

And then I want to go and switch maybe to my voiceover, I can now auto duck the grilling in this section of the clip.

So we don’t have to track duck, which is what you see a lot in in really good audio programs like Adobe Audition, for example, can duck one track and change it, this is now taking it down to the clip level, which is really cool.

Because I can duck in and out different sections.

If somebody’s speaking, for example, I have two speaker tracks.

And one speakers got some background noise.

I couldn’t silence that.

But if I wanted to sort of sound a little bit natural, I can just duck back and forth between them based on who’s speaking at the same time.

So really, really helpful.

If you are a video person, and you know what to do with them, you have color el UTM, which is a fast type of color correction setting, which again, really nice, nice to have some of these more pro features showing up in the application.

So there’s a lot of good stuff in here in terms of what’s available for folks who have who knows what the buttons do, frankly.

But for me, the emphasize audio effect is killer.

The motion blur is nice, the rounded corners is cute, and the transitions are nice, but really that emphasize audio, especially if you were take if you’re doing stuff with your video that has multiple media purposes.

It’s so important.

So what do I mean? Every week, my my colleague and co founder Katie robear.

And I do a podcast right? The In-Ear Insights podcast.

And big with this podcast.

It’s we record it in in stream yard because we want it to be able to have the multiple camera views and stuff really easy.

And then I take that into Camtasia.

And I do the editing in here.

With the auto ducking with no they emphasize audio effects.

And all the other things I can sequence in all the audio I want and then export the video and export the audio as an mp3 to make my podcast, which is fantastic.

So now that we have some more Pro Audio features in here, it takes out additional steps afterwards, right we we already have the audio compression in here which is is decent, we have some noise removal.

Now with ducking, we’re one step closer to being able to use Camtasia pretty much for everything and use fewer tools in the process.

So there’s a lot of good stuff in Camtasia 2021 there’s all a bunch of stuff that for folks who are doing brand stuff where you have a custom assets, you can share assets with your team.

And so I don’t really use that because it’s literally just me doing all the editing.

But if you did have that, you would be able to do it within the application.

And you can also do consolidation of all your stuff into you know, standalone project files.

So you can lump them all together.

Like when I was assembling this.

This project.

I now I could do

Good to have all these little snippets and stuff and not have to provide the source video files, it all just comes lumped in all at once.

It looks like my, my media file here has finished rendering itself for and you can see it’s, it’s now proxied.

Let’s go ahead and slap that in.

You can see it’s definitely is lower resolution, but it also scrubs faster.

If you look here, and I see when I scrub through this video can see it’s stutters because the full resolution video, and here, when I scrub through this, this scrubs a lot faster.

Right.

So that’s that proxy video working, doing a really nice job, making it smooth to preview what’s going on, if I hit play on this, you know, looks good, nice full motion.

And then on the fly, you still get the full motion because that’s not a particularly large video clip.

If your videos are on a mechanical hard drive, the proxy veto is really important.

Because the access times typically are slower than like on an SSD.

So on.

Depending on technology setup, you may be using proxy video a lot.

Remember, with proxy video, if you’re going to use it, if it’s a big editing project, give yourself time for the proxy videos to render.

Right.

So maybe if you’ve got all your source footage, you load it up and set it to proxy and then you go to lunch, right or you do it the night before a big editing day.

So that’s already for you, you have to wait for it to render because that took about, you know, probably five ish minutes to render a clip that is only about I think two minutes long to scale it down and make it ready for proxy editing.

So that’s what’s new in in Camtasia 2021.

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May 13, 2021

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