How to Alter Your Campaign Values Using Google Tag Manager
Campaign tagging is an important aspect of your analytics setup. It’s one of the critical elements in reducing your dark traffic. But sometimes, the tags on the url don’t pull into Google Analytics perfectly, and require a little finesse on the back end to populate your reports properly.…
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Google Search Console and structured data
Google Search Console is an incredibly important tool for website owners. This tool shows you how your site appears in the Google search results. It also shows you what to improve to make the most of your listings in the results. One of the many cool features of Search Console is the structured data analyses found […]
Google Tag Manager: an introduction
Perhaps you’ve heard about it: Google Tag Manager. Google introduced this tool 5 years ago, a tool that would make marketers less dependent on developers and that would, therefore, speed up your marketing process. Google Tag Manager has evolved over the years becoming a more complete and easy to use tool. Here I want to […]
Google Data Studio: What Is It, What’s Working & What’s Missing
What is Google Data Studio?
For those of you who don’t already know, Google Data Studio is a dashboard and reporting tool that is easy to use, customize, and share. It allows you to transform your data into appealing and informative reports for your audience.…
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Resources to Nail an Analytics Interview & Jumpstart Your Career in the Industry
Applying for any analytics role is daunting. Chances are, unless you have directly worked in the industry before (and not just tinkered around with the platform in your non-analytics specific role), you have a lot to learn. All you really need, however, is the drive and resources to master these skills — that’s what my own experiences taught me.…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Adobe Analytics
While most digital analysts understand Google Analytics, many can find Adobe Analytics to be a complete mystery. If you are one of those people, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s dig into Adobe Analytics and get you up to speed!…
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The Best of PPC & CRO from ADworld Experience 2017
The key takeaways of PPC and CRO sessions from the last ADworld Experience conference by Karl Gilis (3rd most influential CRO expert according to PPCHero), David Walker (Segmatic), Marketa Kabatova (uLab) and Samantha Noble (2016 UK Search Personality), who held the most voted seminars and case stories of the event.
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Closed Loop Analytics: How to Measure Actual ROI for Marketing Efforts & Content
If you’re reading this, you probably already know that just about every aspect of marketing can be measured. Tools like Google Analytics are household names when it comes to measuring website and campaign performance. CRMs like Salesforce provide reporting capabilities for sales and lead performance.…
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Targeting generational buzzwords like “Millennials” means targeting no-one
If I were to tell you that marketers were using astrological signs as a way to understand/target specific groups of people, you’d … read more
Cross Device Remarketing for Google Analytics Audiences
As of today, May 15, 2017, audiences created in Google Analytics can take advantage of cross-device remarketing for Google Display (AdWords GDN and DoubleClick Bid Manager) and Search Ads (RLSA).
What does this mean?
The ability to reach customers through Google Analytics audiences in more places.…
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Learn How to Use Regular Expressions (RegEx) to Create Filters in GA API Sheets
If you have previously worked with the GA API and Google Sheets integrations, you may have wondered how you can filter your data on an ad-hoc basis like you do in the interface with this search box:
Or using a more advanced search filter with multiple criteria like this:
Don’t worry – there is a way to do it!…
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Using Primary & Secondary Dimensions in Google Analytics
Premade reports in Google Analytics show you a ton of information about who comes to your website. But what if you’re trying to answer a more specific question, such as “In this specific region of the country, what specific areas are driving the most users to my website?”
What should you do when Google Analytics doesn’t have a premade report for that?…
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How To Find & Fix These 3 Red Flags In Your Google Analytics Data
Through Google Analytics tracking you can gain valuable insights into who is coming to your site, how they are using it and whether or not your website is doing its job.
While implementing Google Analytics tracking is the first step toward making smart business decisions based on data, it’s really just the first step.…
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How to Setup Cross-Domain Tracking between Universal & Legacy GA
What do you do when you’re stuck with Legacy GA tracking on a third-party platform?
When a website is running an old version of Google Analytics (GA) code, our first step is to upgrade them to the current code set, Universal. …
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Direct Traffic is Dark Traffic, and That’s OK
“Martin, it’s all psychological. You yell, ‘Barracuda,’ everybody says, ‘huh, what?’ You yell ‘Shark,’… we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.” – Mayor Larry Vaughn, Jaws (1975)
What is Direct Traffic, Sayf?
Hi random person! Thanks for asking!…
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Google Analytics: Filter Order Matters!
When you set up new views and add your regular filters, chances are, things usually work exactly as expected. But occasionally, you’ve triple and quadruple checked each individual filter, yet the data is not coming in as expected (or isn’t coming in at all).…
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Biometrics and neuroscience: The future of digital analytics?
Advertising has always been about emotions. Emotions lead to actions and, as such, influencing emotions is the most effective route to influencing actions.
Social buttons: How to add and track them on your site
To help your blog gain more readers, you can make use of social buttons which allow your current readers to share interesting posts on their social media accounts. But how should you go about implementing them? In this post we’ll explain how we’ve done this at Yoast and will give you some pointers on how […]
Understanding bounce rate in Google Analytics
“I came, I puked, I left” is a very famous definition of the bounce rate by Avinash Kaushik. But what does it mean exactly? When does a visitor bounce? Is it purely a visitor that hits the back button or is there more to it? And what can you tell by looking at the bounce […]
Why use segments in Google Analytics?
When talking with customers about Google Analytics, you often hear the same thing: “I’m not really using Google Analytics because I don’t know what I’m looking at. It’s just too much”. And that’s a pity because you can learn a whole lot about your website and your audience with Google Analytics’ data. So, is there […]