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Re:The scourge of web analytics by cm2012 on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:15PM (#14441784)
99% of ecommerce folks are not a scale where this would effect anything, and even then google display ads are less than 5% of the usual online marketing mix. It's well worth the tradeoff for the power and flexibility of GA.
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Re:The scourge of web analytics by gator-io on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:20PM (#14441804)
Why would scale matter?
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Re:The scourge of web analytics by cm2012 on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @01:21AM (#14443115)
As a small company, you are barely affecting Google's targeting algorithms on your own.
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Re:The scourge of web analytics by gator-io on Thursday June 01, 2017 @01:03AM (#14458112)
They target individual users based on their browsing history. Scale doesn't matter.
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