If you are using Google Analytics out of the box, without additional event tracking codes or custom configurations, you are missing out on a wealth of good data about what users are doing on your website. Unfortunately, many Google Analytics users do not have the technical know-how or the resources …
Every smart marketer knows that you cannot optimize what you cannot measure. We have showed you how to set up goals in Google Analytics to measure conversions on your website, so that you can optimize your marketing efforts. Google has now created Smart Goals for businesses that cannot measure conversions …
Goals are one of the most important parts of Google Analytics and unfortunately, one of the most underutilized. Goals define the most important business objectives (KPIs) for your website. You can then use these KPIs to determine the value of your online marketing campaigns, measure the success of your content …
How do you know whether your content strategy is working? How can you measure the performance of the content on your website? We have created a Content Analysis Report that will help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of your content. You can add this custom report to your Google …
Google Analytics is a powerful tool, but most users do not even scratch the surface of what it can do. A few simple changes in the Google Analytics interface can activate reports and features that are much more useful than the default setup. We recommend enabling the following 5 features: …
Are you wasting your marketing budget on cost-ineffective campaigns? How can you easily compare the performance and costs of your Google Ads, Facebook, Bing, newsletters or other marketing campaigns in one simple report? We have an easy solution for you: upload data about your non-Google campaigns into Google Analytics. This …
In 2013, we published How to Create Auto-Updated Google Analytics Reports in Google Docs. The process of creating Google Analytics reports in Google Sheets is now much more user-friendly, thanks to the official Google Analytics Add-on. This Add-on connects your Google Analytics accounts to Google Sheets, allowing you to automatically …
In this blog post we will give you an introduction to the new Enhanced Ecommerce functionality in Google Analytics. Enhanced Ecommerce is part of Universal Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce was rolled out as one of the major improvements of Universal Analytics. It is an improved version of the ecommerce tracking available …
Google Analytics recently added a new Treemaps feature to Acquisition Reports as part of the March 30, 2015 Google Analytics update. Treemaps are a very useful way to understand how traffic arrives to your website. You can find Google Analytics Treemaps under: Acquisition > All Traffic > Treemaps So what …
Referrer spam is becoming more and more of a problem in Google Analytics. Referrer spam, sometimes known as referrer bombing, is a technique that exploits the way Google Analytics gathers data to insert fake traffic from spam websites into your Referral reports. It corrupts your web analytics data and wastes …
