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Laura MacTaggart

Inside Discover

Laura is a Senior Consultant, Team Lead, and Discover evangelist. Since joining Omniture, an Adobe company, in 2006, Laura has been actively involved with Discover, including presenting at Summit. While working with industry leaders, such as Microsoft, Samsung, eBay, Electronic Arts, Laura has become an expert in using Discover to help identify, understand, and optimize web performance based on customer segments. Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lmactagg

Time Based Analysis, part 2

Monday, 4 October 2010 @ 10:17, by Laura MacTaggart

To further build upon how to leverage time based segments in Discover I have the following example business question and how one might go about answering that question and taking actions from the data.
Who are my visitors that purchased last month and have returned to the site this month, but not purchased?
The segment needed to … Read more »

Time Based Analysis, part 1

Friday, 24 September 2010 @ 10:16, by Laura MacTaggart

With the release of Discover 2.9 a few months ago new functionality was introduced that makes it possible to create time based segments.  In this post I am going to try to address the business value of this new functionality with a few analysis examples.  These examples will be spread out among two posts, so … Read more »

5 Helpful Discover Tips

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 @ 14:22, by Laura MacTaggart

Do you want to be able to get to the data you need more quickly in Discover?  Below are 5 tips to save you time as you discover more information about your visitors and opportunities to enhance your site.
1.  Quick segment creation
Often I find myself looking at a report in Discover and I think that … Read more »

How Does Paid Search Affect Visitor Behavior?

Wednesday, 16 June 2010 @ 15:03, by Laura MacTaggart

Does the success or failure of your paid and natural search initiatives create more questions?  Do you want to understand better how visitors react to your site entering from external search?  Do you want to know how to improve your site to take better advantage of the traffic you are driving to your site from … Read more »

Welcome to Inside Discover

Thursday, 13 May 2010 @ 9:10, by Laura MacTaggart

Over 5 years ago Omniture Discover was launched and in the past five years so many wonderful, amazing, and dare I say, magical improvements have been made.  On April 8 the magic continued with the release of Discover 2.9.  With all the great improvements in this release we decided that it was … Read more »