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How to Use UTM Parameters to Track Social Media Success

Hootsuite

And they work with Google Analytics. If you’re sending any traffic at all to your web properties from your social accounts, UTM codes should be a critical part of your marketing toolkit. UTM tags provide three key benefits: They help you track the value of social marketing programs and campaigns and measure ROI.

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19 Social Media Metrics That Really Matter—And How to Track Them

Hootsuite

How to track it: STEP 1 : Measure every mention your brand receives—direct and indirect—across your social networks. Note : Using social media analytics tools will make this process easier. Bounce rate lets you measure your social media traffic—and, in turn, ROI —against other sources of traffic (e.g.,

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Google Internship

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Beginner’s Guide to Google AdSense for Publishers – While you won’t find many mind-blowing, “Increase Your AdSense CPC in Minutes!” The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make and How To Avoid It – Discover 5 steps to bring extreme focus to your digital analytics efforts, identify relevant business insights and drive profitable actions.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Movie of the Week

Kikolani

What I learned about blogging from the Tanzanian blog project – what Darren Rowse learned while pursuing a life changing experiement seeing what social good could be done through social media and blogging. How to get Facebook ads for (almost) free – optimizing your ads for lower CPC bids.

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Organic vs. Paid Social Media: How to Integrate Both into Your Strategy

Hootsuite

The major social networks are reporting some ups and downs in their revenues as many brands pause their advertising, either to save money during an economic downturn, or to take a moral stance against hate speech. For instance, Facebook’s CPC went down from 11 cents to 9 between January and March alone. Read on to learn more.

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19 Social Media KPIs You Should Be Tracking

Hootsuite

When it comes to measuring and proving your brand’s social media success, data speaks volumes — and that’s where social media KPIs come in. Social media KPIs are measurable metrics that reflect social media performance and prove social’s ROI for a business. Cost per click (CPC). Source: Hootsuite.

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How to Create a Social Media Strategy in 8 Easy Steps (Free Template)

Hootsuite

Without goals, you have no way to measure success and return on investment (ROI). And if you advertise on Facebook, cost-per-click (CPC) is a common success metric. Social media goals should align with your overall marketing objectives. Check out our guide to using social media analytics and the tools you need to track them.

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