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Google Analytics And Online Advertising

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Google Analytics account is linked with a Google Adwords account. Auto-tagging has not been enabled and manual tags have not been added to any destination URLs in the Adwords account. Traffic from ________ will appear in the All Traffic Sources repor






2. An advertiser uses Google Website Optimizer to run a test on a headline section. The relevance rating for the headline section is 4/5. From this score the advertiser can determine that the __________ is important for conversions.






3. The Web site displayed when a user clicks on an advertisement.






4. During a given time period - this is a visit who's cookie file does not have our domain registered. A count of the number of times our domain is accessed by an IP who's cookie file does not have a record of our domain during that time period.






5. It is recommended that you not place the Google Analytics Tracking Code at the bottom of ______.






6. A line of identifying text - assigned and retrieved by a given Web server and stored by your browser.






7. A nonprofit industry trade group for the interactive advertising industry. The IAB evaluates and recommends interactive advertising standards and practices and also conducts research - education - and legislative lobbying.






8. The number of times a page with GA tracking code is viewed during a given time period. (even if the person has viewed it before)






9. The practice of designing - running and optimizing search engine ad campaigns.






10. Online ads that include animation - audio - or video.






11. The number of times a page is viewed within different sessions. A page will not be counted twice within the same session.






12. Helps advertisers: improve websites and increase return on investment on marketing campaigns.






13. Most websites place their ____________ at the bottom of the page.






14. Advertisements that are targeted based on a user's query.






15. Number of goals you can create for each profile within your Google Analytics account.






16. You should only assign values to ________: 1. To avoid inflating your revenue results 2. To avoid overwriting your transaction revenue 3. To include non e-commerce goals in the Product Performance results






17. Your total number of visits to the domain is tallied and you are put in a bucket. The total number of visitors that fall into the same bucket are totaled onto a single line. A tally of the number of people who visited x times.






18. Algorithm developed by Google cofounder Larry Page to rank Web sites






19. Someone who's cookie file has a record of our domain at any time in it's history.






20. Search Engine results returned and ranked according to relevance.






21. One benefit of using Google Website Optimizer through ________ rather than through the standalone tool: Sharing a Google Website Optimizer account is only possible through Adwords.






22. Sometimes called 'tracking cookies' - and are served by ad networks or other customer profiling firms. Tracking cookies are used to identify users and record behavior across multiple web sites.






23. Calculated by the current page starting timestamp and the next page starting timestamp.






24. A cost-per-action program - where program sponsors (like amazon - itunes -etc) pay referring Web sites a percentage of revenue earned from the referral.






25. During a given period of time - this is the number of times the site is accessed. This is like number of sessions.






26. A visit of more than one page. (That is longer than the set session timeout)






27. The Google Analytics code should be placed ______ of the website.






28. A situation where ads appear alongside text the advertiser would like to avoid.






29. A concept where advertisers don't pay unless someone clicks on their ad.






30. Advertising based on a Web site's content






31. Each time an ad is served to a user for viewing.






32. Sometimes called 'clickbots' or 'bot nets -' these are horders of surreptitiously infiltrated computers - linked and controlled remotely. This technique is used to perpetrate click fraud - as well as variety of other computer security crimes.






33. The process of improving a page's organic search results.






34. If a keyword's Quality Score increases - it will likely lead to a_________.






35. Cost per thousand impressions (the M representing the roman numeral for one thousand.)






36. A method of charging for the advertising whenever a user performs a specified action such as signing up for a service - requesting material - or making a purchase.






37. Program (typically a marketing effort) that requires customer consent.






38. Graphical advertising (as opposed to text ads)






39. Ads that run before a users arrives at a Web site's contents.






40. The benefits of linking your _______ with your Google Analytics account: 1. This will allow you to have AdWords cost data imported into your Analytics account 2. This will allow you to access your Analytics data from within the AdWords interface 3. T






41. These types of visitors would be reported as coming from '_____': 1. Visitors who typed you site's URL directly into their browser 2. Visitors who came to your site via a bookmark






42. Recruiting a network of users to engage in click fraud with the goal of spreading IP addresses across several systems and make a fraud effort more difficult to detect.






43. Generating bogus clicks - either for financial gain - or to attack rivals by draining their online ad budget.






44. Number of conversion tracking actions that can an advertiser create in an Adwords account






45. Given that web analytics data is never 100% accurate - This is the best use of web analytics.






46. Also called 'spamdexing' or 'link farming.' The process of creating a series of bogus Websites - all linking back to the pages one is trying to promote.






47. The maximum amount of money an advertiser is willing to pay for each click on their ad.






48. This is a person who's cookie file does not have any record of our domain. (ever)






49. Simply - a one page visit to the site. Some examples: 1. Clicking on a link to a page on a different web site 2. Closing an open window or tab 3. Typing a new URL 4. Clicking the "Back" button to leave the site 5. Session timeout (a page is open for






50. The number of users who clicked an ad divided by the number of times the ad was delivered (the impressions). The CTR measures the percentage of people who clicked on an ad to arrive at a destination-site.