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Re: How Will Amazon Listing on Google PLAs Impact Advertisers?

tiennguyen — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:05:51 -0000

Nah, to list on Google Shopping you need to publish via the Google Merchant Center, which in turn requires you to verify the domain that you're sending traffic by placing a snippet of code on the site.

Re: Answers to Your Fulfillment by Amazon Questions - Amazon Strategies

tiennguyen — Fri, 30 May 2014 13:27:08 -0000

Great post..ISBN doesn't really apply though since you can't comingle books or other media products anyhow.

Re: Shopping Comparison: TheFind Finds Lowest Price More Often Than Google, Bing, Others

tiennguyen — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:48:41 -0000

The biggest flaw can be found by doing a search on Google Shopping and Thefind.

What you notice is that Google Shopping requires a merchant to list a shipping price, whereas listings on thefind will only sometimes contain it but not always.

So if you are doing a search on each, and each return 50 results, the list that doesn't require shipping will reveal a lower price.

Similar to Amazon, the Buy Box price may be $15 with free shipping, and then there's a seller listing it at $9 but charging $8 to ship. If we were to hide the shipping, the price of that product would be $9.

Re: Are You Being Misled By Google Analytics?

tiennguyen — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:42:36 -0000

Hey Gary, so I made a minor edit above to the post. The data will actually be found within the "User Defined" within Analytics as opposed to "source/medium."

Basically what the "output to -> Constructor" says is to: Populate the "User Defined" field in Google analytics with Field B (represented by $B1), followed by Field A (represented by $A1).

In the view above: Field A, which is the the Referral Source (or "real" domain) = search.yahoo.com, and Field B which is the utm_source within the URL would be Pricegrabber.

So the end result is:

Pricegrabber, search.yahoo.com = Field B, Field A = $B1, $A1.

Let me know if the above made sense, but basically you'll be able to find the data within the "User Defined" section of analytics.

Re: Reporting Offensive Images In Google Image Search

tiennguyen — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:39:03 -0000

You can literally see right through it.

Re: Google Officially Testing Images In Web Search Results Snippets

tiennguyen — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:17:56 -0000

This is going to kill CTR on the paid rails so there is no way this sticks around.

Re: The Test Begins: Do Google Shopping & Other Shopping Search Engines Give You The Best Deals?

tiennguyen — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:30:51 -0000

Thank you for putting this together. We work with hundreds of retailers that are listed on Google Shopping and the article was atrocious and provided 0 relevant insight, and is leveraging a "hatred" of Google to try to stir up controversy with no basis at all to its argument.

Re: What Could Be and What Is (Warriors 99, Mavs 103)

tiennguyen — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:23:56 -0000

Might want to double check the headline.

Re: Quin Woodward Pu gets Dumped by Text and How She Gets Back at Him

tiennguyen — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:10:14 -0000

Wow good luck to the next guy who steps into this mess.

Re: Product Listing Ads Ad Group Strategy

tiennguyen — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:44:33 -0000

Hey Mark,

XMLs and tab-delimited files work nearly identically, basically any values you'd stick in a .txt file would be the same ones that you'd put in an XML file.

e.g. a "live" label or "under50" label in a txt file would be the same as in an xml file.

This link gives a full spec of what Google wants to see: https://support.google.com/...

If you scroll down to adwords_labels you'll see the format that Google wants it in.

Re: Violet Ai-Vy

tiennguyen — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:32:22 -0000

I hope they're paying her under the table.

Re: TED Talk Tuesday: Do What You Love (No Excuses!)

tiennguyen — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:22:26 -0000

@Biff The Bear as the bearista you really need to stop hogging all the coffee.

Re: Google Account Suspended? Here’s how to fix it.

tiennguyen — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:58:56 -0000

By far the most frustrating experience with Google. They'll literally make or a break your revenue for a few days, not tell you what's wrong and then when you fix it make you wait some more.

Their technology is amazing, and their people are friendly, but the actual "support" in customer support is severely lacking.

Re: Report: Google PLAs Dominate CSE Channel Like Never Before [CPC Strategy]

tiennguyen — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:23:01 -0000

Great coverage Ginny!

We were pretty surprised ourselves as to the Amazon drop, but it's telling that it's not just Google PLA's dominating, but the CSEs that are using Google are reaping the benefits as well from it.

-Tien

Re: Most Used Social Login Sites [Infographic]

tiennguyen — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:14:44 -0000

Great infographic, just shared on my Facebook!

Re: Google Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option

tiennguyen — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:56:01 -0000

"For me, that is not an option. I need the alerts immediately but I also cannot have them in my inbox."

Ugh, this.

Re: Shark Fin Soup Ban Takes Effect Today in California

tiennguyen — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:21:54 -0000

Spot on analysis, to pull the race card in this scenario is ridiculous.

Re: I partied so hard that I lost a sock. - Violet Ai-Vy

tiennguyen — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:33:49 -0000

THIS SOCKS

Re: Warning Tale: Kevin Harmon Shares Co-Mingling Product Nightmare When Using Amazon FBA

tiennguyen — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:58:52 -0000

Very enlightening story.

Re: Microsoft Says Goodbye To “Scroogled” Ad Campaign

tiennguyen — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:35:09 -0000

Good riddance to possibly the worst ad campaign in history.

Re: The Importance of Clean and Meaningful Google Analytics data

tiennguyen — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:23:02 -0000

Love this detailed post! I replied on our blog to the points you made, I'll post them here for your readers too:
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Here are a few points I'd like to address:

-" Knowing the true referral source for this Pricegrabber traffic is not actionable "

In some cases this may be true, but there are instances where knowing the "true" source can be extremely important. For instance if the traffic we're getting is from say an international domain, e.g. South America, England, India, etc.. then we know that that traffic is completely useless to the merchant since they don't ship there.

Or we'll observe that 40% of traffic is from a source that doesn't convert, or is from a "questionable" site, the CSE that sends that traffic can shut off those sources. So we'll tell the CSE, "we noticed that we're getting traffic from a cobrand based in South Africa, can you shut it off" and no longer will the merchant be paying for clicks that are completely useless to them.

You're 100% right that product suppression (as well as brand or category suppression) is a major factor in optimization, but the actual source, if it's of very low quality can be just as important.

"Namely, that anybody who is interested in using this “clever” filter should ONLY do so in a new profile."

Another good point. I think the screenshots taken were a bit dated and we had one minor update that we do in-house, and that's instead of using the "output to -> constructor" set to Campaign Source, we'll use "User Defined" so that it doesn't interfere with any data moving forward.

You're right in that if we did set it to campaign source, that'll really screw up with how the old/new data work with each other, but if the output goes to a field in analytics that is not being populated by any data, using the current profile shouldn't mess anything up.

Re: Analysis of Google's acquisition of Channel Intelligence - Comparison Shopping Engine Strategies

tiennguyen — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:39:00 -0000

"Without visibility into the full transaction loop at a sku-level (e.g. what products are selling and what price), Google is partially blind to the value they are providing and maybe leaving click revenue on the table."

Do they not get visibility based on their adwords tracker and Google analytics, which a good % of retailers have installed on their site?

Re: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly’s Comments on Asian Americans and Backlash

tiennguyen — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:59:24 -0000

And thus giving O'Reilly and the other pundits exactly what they want....attention and relevancy.

Re: 10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit Your Job This Year

tiennguyen — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:30:19 -0000

Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe that there are people who work at jobs that they aren't miserable, where they're treated well, enjoy the company culture, and believe in the company?

Re: ExpertSexChange.com vs ExpertsExchange.com: Google Ain't Fooled

tiennguyen — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:18:35 -0000

Empirical evidence suggests otherwise...If I google "Expert sex change" then the second result is this twitter https://twitter.com/Experts...