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Users Taking Longer to Convert

Posted by ppcpro on July 20, 2007

According to the following study it is taking longer for users to convert in terms of both actual time and site visits.

http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/e-commerce/41848.html

This is making paid search conversions harder to track because some users are buying weeks apart from their inital click/visit.  Patience and in-depth tracking are the keys to succesfully managing a paid search campaign.  There is more than just conversion tracking offered by each console that is needed to track the behavoir of users because they only are able to get a certain % of all the orders.  The full analytics packages or in-house reporting should be used to give you the visibility into customer behavoir and time between orders.

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