Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to decide how many Google Analytics views your organization needs and which views you cannot afford to skip. Here's what this means for you. You walk away with a clear blueprint for organizing views around raw data, business goals, and funnel stages so every team measures what…
Tyler asks, “How do you prefer to track your channel metrics or content performance metrics? Native analytics? Social Media tools? Combination? Interested in hearing your thoughts!” I prefer to look more at outcomes first, to determine what’s working best. For this, I use custom-coded software that takes Google Analytics data and processes it in a…
Summary In today's episode, I share how I track channel and content performance metrics by extracting Google Analytics data and processing it with machine learning tools. Here's what this means for you. You get a prescriptive view of what to do next instead of a descriptive view of what already happened, so your marketing decisions…
Phil asks, “My site’s functionality is being limited by ad blockers. How do I make my site more trustworthy?” Like email marketing, we will increasingly have to ask users who are using sophisticated ad blocking tools to whitelist our sites. We’ll also need to take at least one other step in the near future as…
Marina asks, “How do you add a comparison of a metric over dates in a table in Google Data Studio?” While this has been requested in Google Data Studio’s feature requests, it’s not available in the application now. But there’s a bigger issue at play: techniques to engineer this sort of thing, like calculated fields,…
Efecan asks, “I saw your video about PDF tracking on GA. I wonder if we can see the source and medium of the traffic that clicks on PDF. Like they came from social media or search etc.” Segmentation is one of the most powerful techniques in Google Analytics. Watch this video to see how to…
Igor asks, “What if I want to track specific file downloads as goals in Google Analytics? How do you do that?” Igor’s question is a followup from the April 25, 2019 episode. It’s quite simple to track any individual file download as a goal in Google Analytics by using the same methods, but there are…
Stephanie asks, “How should marketers measure the performance of content that is not web pages?” This is a very straightforward task that requires you to do two things: first, establish what kind of measure it will be (pageview, goal, etc.) and then create the infrastructure in Google Tag Manager. The best, preferred, and most scalable…
Stephanie asks, “How can you use Google Analytics to track non-digital marketing like billboards and other real world marketing?” You’ll want to use a combination of two techniques: UTM tracking codes and custom subdomains in your DNS. Watch the video for the complete explanation of how to set it up, what software you’ll need including…
Stephanie asks, “Is your paid traffic outperforming your organic traffic? Or vice versa?” This is a bit of a misleading question, in the sense that it implies you want to focus on one more than the other. The real goal is to evaluate the synergy of paid and organic traffic working together. As the cliche…
