For the most part, Google Analytics tracks Google AdWords data (big surprise!). However, there is one odd quirk about the manner Analytics reports AdWords data—you can only view metrics for an Ad Groups within their respective campaign. In other words, when Lumberg wants metrics like revenue and bounce rates for every AdWords AdGroup, you have …
Read MoreUse Email Reporting to Save time with Google Analytics
Why Email Reports? You can avoid the time involved in logging into Analytics (this is especially useful when checking metrics for multiple profiles/accounts). You can add multiple recipients for these reports (this is especially useful when having to send to a high number of recipients). Last but not least, you will save even more time if your …
Read MoreUpdate on Tracking JavaScript Redirects
In a previous post (Track Redirects in Analytics), I gave a couple of examples on how you can track redirects using Google Analytics. One of these methods was to implement a JavaScript redirect after you run your Google Analytics tracking JavaScript. This way the redirect runs after the page has tracked a visit (and the …
Read MoreBlogs/Articles for 2009-06-17
Blogs/Articles for 2009-06-17 PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI – Avinash Kaushik Matt Cutts: Watch my site review session from Google I/O Online Copywriting Advice – SEOChat Google Webmaster Blog: Best practices for Product Search Matt Cutts: PageRank sculpting New Dashboard in Google’s Local Business Center Extends Your Analytics – WebShare
Read MoreSEO for Static Websites: Creating/Editing Static Pages for SEO
Due to the time needed to create and edit them, static pages are often the bane of web developers and designers alike. To an SEO professional, however, they provide for an easy way to tailor SEO efforts to specific keywords. Here is a guideline for creating new or editing existing static pages for maximum SEO …
Read MoreUsing Google Analytics to Track Email Address Signups
If your website has an email sign up form you can use Google Analytics to keep track of which email addresses are signing up. Simply use the parameter you are using to pass the email address as the query parameter in your Analytics Site search setup (go to Profile Settings and click Edit Profile on …
Read MoreSEO for Dynamic Pages and Content
Dynamic websites have their obvious advantages. The ability to automate, create, edit, and delete content through a database and server side scripting is a must when dealing with large and constantly updated websites.
Read MoreCanonical Link Rel vs 301 Redirects: Using Canonical Link Rel tag for SEO purposes
Back in February, Google announced their support of the Canonical Link Rel element, and it was also announced that Yahoo! and MSN would soon follow suit. If you’re not familiar with it, think of the Canonical Link Rel element in terms of a 301 redirect–you can tell the search engines to ‘focus’ (though in this …
Read MoreAct on Extremely Relevant Data with Advanced Segments
I recently wrote another guest post on the Bronto (an email marketing service provider) blog. This one relates to using Custom Segments to better track your email marketing campaigns. The entire post can be read here: Act on Extremely Relevant Data with Advanced Segments
Read MoreTesting report discrepancies with Google Analytics (Advanced Segments)
So I ran into a brain-racking situation with my employer the other day. A certain 3rd party advertiser is linking to one of our websites from several places on their all-flash website (and not for free mind you). In an effort to gauge the utility of these links, I’ve been perusing through both Google Analytics …
Read MoreBlogs/Articles for 2009-05-05
Blogs/Articles for 2009-05-05 The Changing Face of SEO – Duct Tape Marketing Back to Basics: An easy way to spot quality traffic – Google Analytics Blog Survey says… – Google Webmaster Central Blog Guest Post – Creating an Image Rotator – Soh Tanaka Don’t Forget About Us, The Web Directories – Search Engine Land Dear …
Read MoreGoogle Analytics: Using Regular Expressions to Segment Data (Guest Post)
I just wrote another best practices tutorial as a guest blogger on the Bronto Blog. This one pertains to using regular expressions to better filter email send campaign data in Google Analytics. You can read the entire article here: Google Analytics: Using Regular Expressions to Jump Onto More Data!
Read MoreHootsuite Product Review: Hootsuite helps mitigate your Twitter addiction
I jumped onto the Twitter bandwagon fairly recently and like many others, have found it addicting. In looking for ways to pass on useful articles and blog posts I run into without cutting into my productivity, I ran into Hoostuite. I’ve been using HootSuite for about a week now and I continue to find it …
Read MoreBlogs/Articles for 2009-04-20
Blogs/Articles for 2009-04-20 Showing Off “The Innovation Machine” At Google – Search Engine Land Back to Basics: Pressing the right buttons – Google Analytics Blog Standard Metrics Revisited: #6: Daily, Weekly, Monthly Unique Visitors. – Occam’s Razor Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery PR Goes Multichannel – Click Z Can High IQ Make You Rich? …
Read MoreTrack outbound links and file downloads with Google Analytics
Track outbound links and file downloads with Google Analytics One of those not-so-obvious features of Google Analytics is its ability to track outbound links and file downloads. This feature isn’t available by default, because Google Analytics tracks links by way of the tracking script you paste. So when users click from one page to the …
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