Content marketing is one of the most important parts of the digital strategies we recommend to clients: creating quality content that engages and informs website users. In order to attract and hold the interest of users, content should use the keywords that users search for. So how can you tell …
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Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 4
Part 4: Contact Forms UPDATE: This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. In this fourth and last part of our Google Tag Manager Guide, we demonstrate how to track one …
Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 3
Part 3: Newsletter Subscriptions UPDATE: This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. In the third part of our Google Tag Manager Guide, we introduce a new type of event: form …
Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 2
UPDATE (27.8.15): This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. Part 2: Downloads In Part 1 of our Google Tag Manager Guide we showed you how to set up tags and …
Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 1
UPDATE: This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. Part 1: Outbound Links Even though Google Tag Manager is a relatively easy way to manage snippets of tracking code for …
SEO Tutorial: Geo Targeting with Hreflang Tag
International websites often have similar content for different language groups and countries. The hreflang tag is an HTML tag communicating the language targeting of single pages to Google. This does not only ensure correct indexing but also avoids problems with duplicate content. Duplicate content issues are caused for example if …
SEO for Single Page Websites
For SEO reasons it is recommended to create one landing page per topic and optimize this page using the relevant keywords. Optimizing single page websites for search engines is more difficult because one page contains several topics. For this reason special rules should be applied for single page websites in addition …
The Top 5 Results in Google Get Almost 70% of All Clicks
The latest study about click-through-rates in the organic Google results once more underlines the importance of a top ranking position in Google search. Only if your website is among the top five results it has a good chance to get clicked. On average the first five results on the Google …
Google Analytics Changes Limits on Accounts
Attention Google Analytics users! Google Analytics has changed the limits on account structures. Here’s a quick reminder of how Google Analytics accounts are structured and an overview of the new limits: Account Generally one Google Analytics account corresponds to one company. The account is the top level access to Google …
You Need Google Tag Manager
Here at Amazee Metrics our clients are increasingly curious about Google Tag Manager. What is it? Why do we need it? What is Google Tag Manager? Put simply, it eliminates the pain of setting up and maintaining web analytics. It allows non-programmers to change the way analytics tracking works in …
Google Analytics vs Universal Analytics: Use our Decision Tree to Make the Right Decision
UPDATE 2.4.2014: Universal Analytics is out of Beta! According to the official Google Analytics blog, “all the features, reports, and tools of Classic Analytics are now available in the product”. If you were waiting for the remarketing and demographics features we wrote about below to become available, your wait is …
Do you know where your web analytics data is?
If like millions of other website owners you use Google Analytics, your answer to that question might be, “Everywhere”. Cloud-based analytics solutions like Google Analytics pass traffic data to data centers in locations across the world. This is both good and bad: on the one hand, this secures data against …