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Mobile: Report overview
Analysis into the Squared mobile websites ‘search performance’ and recommendations on improvement.
Data Point: Goal 19 Completions
Additional dimensions /metrics:users,keywords.
Insight
Low performing keywords are ‘remarketing /content targeting’ (zero), ‘Business & Industrial /Business Services’
and ‘Online Communities /Blogging Resources & Services’,as they have comparativelyfew users and are yielding
a low number of goal completions.‘Jobs & Education/jobs’ and ‘Jobs & education’ have a high number ofusers,but
significantlylow goal completions. The bestperforming keywords are associated with ‘+Digital + Marketing’. The
highestnumber ofgoal conversions,as well as the majorityof users ofthe mobile website are those going to the
mobile website withoutsearch (notset).
Recommendations
1. Re-think and change ‘Audience criteria’ for remarketing and contenttargeting as currentcriteria is not mirroring
users.
2. Change topic targeting for ‘Business & Industrial /Business Services’ and ‘Online Communities /Blogging
Resources & Services’ to something more specific and relevantto the course offering,such as ‘‘Business &
Industrial>Advertising & Marketing>Marketing Services’.
3. Change topic targeting for ‘Jobs & Education/jobs’,and ‘jobs & education’ to ‘Jobs &
Education>Education>Distance Learning’ to make itmore specific or A/B teststronger calls to action for these
keywords.

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All traffic: Report overview
Analysis into all traffic coming to the Squared website and recommendations on improving the level of completions.
Data Point: Goal 19 Completions
Additional dimensions /metrics:source/medium,sessions.
Insight
As shown above, traffic from contextual.ctx-traffic.com (Offer Dynamics ad network) is the fourth highestoverall
traffic source and makes up over 12% of all traffic coming to the Squared website for this specific period.It also
makes up 50% of all referral traffic yet has no goal completions (shown in graph) - this means halfofthe referral
visitors (11,421) for this three month period are not being converted to leads.
Recommendations
1. Explore A/B testing for landing pages ofinterstitial,search and text adverts as the bounce rate for contextual.ctx-
traffic.com is 94.97% which also happens to be the highestofall traffic coming to the website.The landing page
needs to be relevant to the advert and have a strong call to action for the bestchance of converting vi sitors.
2. After multivariate testing,compare the goal completion rate with previous periods ofthe same length to see
whether more visitors have been converted to leads.
3. Use the ad exchange to bid on specific audiences searching for digital marketing courses and other Squared
keyword phrases to boostthe efficiency of the ads.

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Geo-Location: Report overview
Analysis into levels of engagementacross the 10 bestperforming cities in Europe within the 3-months period and
recommendations on improvement.
Data Point: Bounce Rate
Additional dimensions/metrics:cities,avg session duration.
Insight
The longer average session duration (numerical),is resulting in a lower bounce rate (percentage),meaning the
content is engaging and generallytranslates into higher completion rates.In terms ofengagement,Birmingham &
Leeds have the lowestaverage session duration,whilstalso having the highestbounce rates.
Recommendations
1. Multivariate testcontent in Birmingham with a view to making the contentmore engaging and improving
average session duration and lowering bounce rate,specificallygeo-targeting 25-34 year olds in Birmingham
who are contributing mostto goal completions in the city.
2. Focus on additional branding and creating engaging contentin Leeds.Specificallycatering to marketers within
the professional service industrysuch as finance,legal and insurance mayincrease average session duration
and lower bounce rate, as after London,Leeds is the second largestlegal centre in the UK*.
3. Explore further geo-targeting opportunities in Dublin byincreasing our geographic bid adjustmentin AdWords,
given users from Dublin are engaging well with the content, shown by a low bounce rate and long avera ge
session duration.
References:
*Geo-Location Recommendation 2, External Data Source: www.thecityuk.com,. 'LegalServices 2015'. N.p., 2015. Web. 2 July
2015.

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Landing Page: Report overview
Analysis into differentsources/mediums oftraffic to a specific landing page and recommendations on increasing
‘Goal 19 Completions’.
Data Point: Goal 19 Completions
Additional dimensions/metrics:source/medium,unique pageviews.
Insight
The landing page receives traffic from an array of sources,the mostprominentofwhich are Google/CPC paid
adverts, Facebook referrals,and direct/none.There is also a number of low performing traffic led to the page,
resulting in extremely low unique page views and goal completions,which indicates thatthe landing page i s
irrelevant for the type of traffic these sources retain.Sources bringing in the mostunique pageviews tell us that
these are essential in directing more visitors to the page and thus opportunities existto maximise goal completion.
WhilstGoogle/CPC and direct/none bring in the highestunique pageviews,their goal completion numbers do not
match expectations considering how manyvisitors they lead to the page.
Recommendations
1. Since a number of traffic sources bring in extremely low unique page views and next to nothing goal
completions, consider designing separate, more relevant landing pages for each source of traffic.
2. Facebook is shown to be an importantassetfor driving traffic and goal completion and is therefore vital for lead
generation.Creating a landing page tab within the Facebook platform can lead to more goal completions since
social media users are less likely to want to go off-platform and this provides a convenient way for them to
submit their details to Squared.
3. Google/CPC and direct/none sources directlarge traffic to the landing page,so to ensure thatthese visits convert into
leads as much as possible, use retargeting to track prospects who have visited the landing page and focus future,
relevant adverts to the same audience.

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Adwords: Report overview
Analysis into Adwords campaign performance and recommendations on Goal 19 Completions improvement.
Data Point: Goal 19 Completions
Additional dimension/metrics:campaign,CPC.
Insights
The top three campaigns with no ‘Goal 19 completions’,and a higher than average cost per click are ‘S - Marketing -
Digital - Europe - NL - English’,‘S - Google - Generic - Europe’ and ‘S - Marketing - Digital Marketing Course -
Europe - DE - English’.
Recommendations
1. ‘S - Marketing - Digital Marketing Course - Europe - DE - English’ - Change the keywords to German to increase
the number of clicks, as well as, potentially lower CPC, given the campaign has a significantly higher than
average page/session, but substantially lower number of clicks.
2. ‘S - Google - Generic - Europe’ again has a higher than average page/session, and lower than average bounce
rate which implies a higher level of engagement, but it is not converting so experiment with stronger calls to
action.
3. ‘S - Marketing - Digital - Europe - NL - English’ - This campaign is not converting directly but has higher than
average time spent on site so the content should be developed in order to promote engagement.

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Executive Summary
The key goals of the Squared Online website is to generate enquiries from prospective students. The primary
indicator of the site’s success is the percentage of visitors that convert to prospective leads. This report focuses on
evaluating Squared Online’s marketing and lead generation activities, in key areas to recommend improvements in
terms of user engagement and conversion to prospective leads between 08/12/2014 - 08/03/2015. The analysis
explores the website’s KPI’s, identifying opportunities to generate more enquiries, as well as, evaluating the
performance ofvarious different marketing strategies implemented in the relevant period.Using Google Analytics as
the platform, the report has focused on 5 key segments: Mobile, All Traffic, Geo-Location, Landing Page and
AdWords.
The two key data points used are WWW Thankyou (Goal 19 completions) for conversions, and ‘bounce rates’ to
assess levels of user engagement with the content, with other relevant dimensions and metrics.
Key findings:
Between 8th December 2014 & 8th March 2015 there were 6,463 enquiries generated.
Mobile attracts less traffic to the site than desktop,butstill brings in high number of enquiries. 1,824 enquiries were
registered through mobile in the relevant period, the majority of users found the mobile website without search (not
set). This indicates that there is potential for mobile to generate more leads through enhanced search performance,
and a need to identifying what activities can help in attracting more users.
A large number ofprospective leads come from directsources, Google organic & paid sources. Email and Facebook
sites generate high conversions rates, butstill attract less users. However the main concern here is that some of the
paid traffic sources result in no conversions at all, as noted under ‘All Traffic’.
In terms of Geo-Location targeting, the UK attracts the highest number of enquiries. With the exception of London,
the performance ofall other cities in attracting new users and enquiries can be improved. London generated 2,228
enquires,followed by 103 from Manchester in second place.Other cities like Birmingham and Edinburgh have high
enquires butlow visitors and sessions. There could be potential to attract enquiries from other regions where these
is a high level of engagement, and therefore it is worth exploring appropriate marketing tactics to attract audiences
based outside of London, such as in Dublin.
The number of new users are significantly more than those who actually convert. During the relevant period, the
number of new users through organic & paid sources were 6,962 & 4,068 consecutively, however the number of
people who signed up for the course details were 518 & 218 consecutively. This calls attention to how users can be
converted into potential leads, by tailoring landing pages to the source/medium, such as creating a sign-up page
within Facebook.
Between December and March, 26 AdWords campaigns ran with total cost of £29,407.49. It resulted in 469
enquiries which is comparatively low as compared to other channels, therefore it is key to identify underperforming
campaigns, with a view to implementing improvements to search performance and prospective lead conversion.
Based on the analysis and key findings, it is recommended:
● To rethink and change remarketing, content and topic targeting for underperforming keywords in mobile.
● Explore A/B testing for landing pages, as well as, search and display ads to create more contextually relevant
advertising.
● Match the audience targeted through various ad networks to the highest converting user characteristics &
demographics.
● Explore geo-targeting opportunities in cities such as Dublin which has demonstrated a high potential based on
the levels of engagement, and improve engagement in cities such as Leeds and Birmingham by tailoring
advertising to the industry bases in that region.
● Tailor landing pages to the source / medium such as Facebook & LinkedIn, so users can sign -up within the
social Platform, and share content with friends / colleagues without having to go off-platform.
● Develop language specific ad campaigns and keywords to attract attention from specific regions and cities.

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● Test different call to actions and content for both landing pages and ad text.