Posts tagged with 'Google Analytics'
If you’ve read the Selfridges Site Review, you’ll know that during
testing, I came across a quite a severe bug. This bug displayed a
confusing error message at the checkout when I was trying to place my
order, but also charged my card at the same time. What fun.
Inspired by this, I've written about four simple & easy to implement ways to reduce onsite errors, whilst making your Helpdesk staff's job a bit easier.
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by Matthew Curry
26 April 2010 11:01am
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When it comes to online advertising and tracking conversions, the first click is often just as important as the last click. And sometimes, it's not even about clicks per se. But unfortunately many advertisers only track the last click.
Google is hoping to change that for AdWords advertisers with a new feature it introduced earlier this week called Search Funnels.
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by Patricio Robles
26 March 2010 10:44am
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Google Analytics is one of the most popular analytics services for online publishers, especially smaller publishers. And for good reason: it has most of what the average publisher needs, and it's free.
But Google Analytics is offered, of course, by Google, and Google is no stranger to privacy complaints. That means that Google often has to look for ways to prove to the world that it cares about privacy. One way it's planning to 'protect' user privacy: allowing internet users to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.
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by Patricio Robles
19 March 2010 10:31am
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This is part three of a four-part series on how to use Google Analytics to track Telephone Leads.
Part one described the overall call tracking system. Part two explained how the data can appear in Google Analytics. Part three (this one) will start on the technical side and explain how to get the phone numbers on your site to switch according to the route to site the visitor has taken.
The final part, yet to be written, will explain how to get the data from the telephone call into Google Analytics (this is the CallTrackID bit).
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by Nikki Rae
08 February 2010 11:21am
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Are government bureaucrats in Europe trying to kill the commercial internet? If
you've been following all of the laws, directives and general bureaucratic gobbledygook lately, you just might start to think the
answer is 'yes'.
And now comes a new gem: some government officials in Germany apparently believe that Google Analytics is illegal. That's right, the free analytics service provided by Google is a threat to the citizens of Germany and they must be protected!
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by Patricio Robles
26 November 2009 09:13am
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This is the second part on a series of posts to document how you can track telephone calls in Google Analytics.
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by Nikki Rae
11 November 2009 09:35am
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Google announced a significant update to the capabilities of Google Analytics this week. If it were software rather than service, I would call it a dot release, maybe 3.2?
In an earlier Econsultancy post the emphasis about the release was on the enhanced mobile tracking. But for me, and I guess most marketers where mobile isn't significant, these are the features which will be most important...
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by Dave Chaffey
23 October 2009 12:43pm
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Having spent time improving your SEO, building natural links and
optimising on site elements then I bet you cannot wait to see the
results. If you're anything like most people (including yours truly),
you'd look at traffic to your site as an indication of how well you've
done. Although the end result is higher numbers of visitors to your
site due to better ranking, it might be while before your ranking will improve.
On the other hand by using Google
Analytics it's easier to see short term improvement in your SEO by
extracting hidden data gems so it's really a question of knowing where
to look. Here are four tips...
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by Ran Nir
21 October 2009 10:33am
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Google’s engineering VP Vic Gundotra may not be bullish on mobile applications, but that doesn't mean that his employer isn't serious about cellphones.
Just after announcing its plans to go it alone with the Android phone, Google has made another step into the mobile marketplace. The search giant already extending its AdWords network to mobile devices. Now you can get mobile measurement through Google Analytics.
What does that mean for brands? Better measurement and actionability on campaigns across platforms.
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by Meghan Keane
21 October 2009 00:18am
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Google remains synonymous with search, but we all know that there’s so much more to it than that.
Most internet professionals use Google’s apps and services to help
power their businesses. It’s pretty much unheard of for a website owner
to be unfamiliar with Google Adwords, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google
Webmaster Tools, much less to avoid using any of these products.
The trouble is, as good as they are, there is always scope for
improvement. So here are my five wishes for improvements to Google’s
existing product set. Admittedly they are not the most ambitious of
requests: they’re simply tweaks that I think Google can introduce
quickly, perhaps with the exception of the first one…
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by Chris Lake
14 October 2009 12:26pm
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