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Separate the places a business controls from the channels that send people there. You’ll sort websites, stores, apps, search, social, email, and ads into a simple map of destinations and traffic sources.
Use what you learned in the previous lesson to solve real-world problems.
Compare owned, paid, and earned media using everyday examples like a brand’s website, a Google ad, and a customer review. You’ll recognize why marketers use different expectations and metrics for each type.
Check what you understood with a short quiz.
Trace what happens when someone clicks an ad or search result and lands on a page built for one action. You’ll identify the headline, offer, call to action, form, and checkout elements that turn attention into a next step.
Compare organic search results with paid search ads on a results page. You’ll see how keywords, search intent, rankings, ad copy, and clicks connect search engines to business goals.
Trace how a social post can reach people through followers, sharing, recommendations, or paid promotion. You’ll distinguish engagement signals like likes and comments from traffic actions like profile visits and link clicks.
Follow how an email, SMS, or push message reaches someone who has already given permission. You’ll connect lists, opt-ins, subject lines, links, unsubscribes, and click data to the idea of direct audience access.
Recognize how mobile apps create marketing touchpoints through app stores, push notifications, in-app messages, and mobile deep links. You’ll see why apps can be both a destination and a channel back to action.
Walk through an online store from product listing to cart to checkout confirmation. You’ll identify product pages, reviews, shipping choices, payment steps, and order data as parts of the digital marketing system.
Follow the basic path of a display or video ad from advertiser to publisher space. You’ll reason through inventory, placements, creative, budgets, bids, and delivery without getting lost in platform jargon.
Compare common audience types such as saved segments, remarketing audiences, customer lists, and lookalike audiences. You’ll understand what data each one depends on and when a marketer might choose it.
Break a campaign into objective, audience, channel, creative, budget, schedule, and measurement. You’ll see why a campaign is not just one ad, but a coordinated set of choices aimed at one outcome.
Read traffic labels like source, medium, referral, direct, organic, paid, and social. You’ll use them to answer the basic question: “Where did these visitors come from?”
Trace how UTMs, pixels, tags, cookies, and events help connect a click to later behavior. You’ll recognize what tracking can measure and why clean naming matters across tools.
Distinguish micro-conversions like email signups or add-to-carts from macro-conversions like purchases or lead submissions. You’ll calculate conversion rate and spot where people drop before the goal.
Connect marketing activity to money using revenue, average order value, cost per acquisition, and return on ad spend. You’ll reason through whether a campaign brought in enough value to justify its cost.
Review this chapter with practice based on your mistakes.