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7 ways to get more from Google Analytics Ian Miller, Search Director @millerian

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7 ways to get more fromGoogle Analytics

Ian Miller, Search Director@millerian

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• Ian Miller, Search Director at Crafted

• Google Analytics Qualified Individual

• Full service digital agency with a team of 40+

• Dedicated search team spanning organic SEO, paid media, analytics, social, copy

• Clients across a wide range of industries

Hello @millerian

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So what is Analytics?

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Not quite

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What it comes down to

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What can analytics tell me?

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Executives can learn• Which marketing initiatives are most effective

• Accurate website traffic patterns/trends

• Which customer and customer segments are most valuable

Marketing professionals can learn• Where visitors come from and what do they do on the site

• How can the website convert more visitors into customers

• Which keywords resonate with prospects and lead to conversions

• Which online ad or creative is the most effective

Content & developers can learn• Where people leave the site

• Which pages retain visitors the longest

• What search terms people use to find the site

Who’s interested?

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Basic layout

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Be careful out there

• Analytics can be very powerful, it can also be wrong

• Trust data you can prove, then scale up – not the reverse

• Look for comparisons rather than absolute data

• Sample size matters

Lies, damned lies and statistics

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7 ways to get more fromGoogle Analytics

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Advanced Segments

Carve up your data so it tells you more

• Segment traffic based on criteria

• Applied to the current view

• Easily edited and applied

• Multiple segments can be viewed together

• Extremely powerful

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Advanced Segments

Carve up your data so it tells you more

• Segment traffic based on criteria

• Applied to the current view

• Easily edited and applied

• Multiple segments can be viewed together

• Extremely powerful

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Advanced Segments

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Advanced Segments

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Default segments

• All Visits

• New Visitors

• Returning Visitors

• Paid Search Traffic

• Non-paid Search Traffic

• Search Traffic

• Direct Traffic

• Referral Traffic

• Visits with Conversions

• Visits with Transactions

• Mobile Traffic

• Non-bounce Visits

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Default segments

• All Visits

• New Visitors

• Returning Visitors

• Paid Search Traffic

• Non-paid Search Traffic

• Search Traffic

• Direct Traffic

• Referral Traffic

• Visits with Conversions

• Visits with Transactions

• Mobile Traffic

• Non-bounce Visits

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Advanced Segments

Custom segments

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Custom Dashboards

Define and create

• Who needs to know what?

• What’s the most useful “at a glance” data?

• How can it make your life easier?

• What are the repeat requests?

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Custom Dashboards

How to create a dashboard

1. Select the report you’d like to include

2. Click “add to dashboard

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3. Select dashboard

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Custom Dashboards

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Custom Dashboards

Make it your own

• Enter filters and refine

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Custom Dashboards

Share it

• Whether automatically or ad-hoc, save time!

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Link to Webmaster Tools

Why are we getting traffic?

• Linking gives additional information:– Queries users typed to reach your site

– Number of impressions of your website's URLs in search results pages

– The number of clicks on your website's URLs from search results pages

– The ratio of clicks to impressions for your website's URLs

– The average position of your website's URLs in search listings

– The pages visitors landed on when clicking on search results listing your site

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Link to Webmaster Tools

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How to create the link

1. Click the SEO section

2. Presented with this message

3. Click “Edit”

4. Select property

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Link to Webmaster Tools

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What does it look like?

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Link to Webmaster Tools

What can I use it for?

• The data is aggregated, for better or worse

• It serves as a useful overview, but don’t sweat the details

• Identify trends

• Gives you an indication of search volumes & demand

• Consider click through rate – are you relevant & enticing?

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Real time data

See what’s happening on your site right now

• Monitor launches

• Social media stories

• Impact of instance advertising such as TV

• Response to direct marketing emails

• Partnerships and mentions

• PR and news activity

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Real time data

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Real time data

What can you use it for?

• Immediate feedback

• Event monitoring

• Reacting to site changes

• Identifying trends during the day

• Data can be surprising

• Don’t be alarmed if numbers are low

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Custom reporting

The exact data you need

• Standard reports are limited to the default views– Can’t combine metrics

• Custom reporting is like your own Analytics, make it what you want

• The reports can then shared and included in a dashboard

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Custom reporting

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Metrics

Dimensions

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Custom reporting

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Metrics - numbers Dimensions - attributes

Visits Landing page

Pageviews Keyword

Goal completion rate % Browser

Revenue Source

Bounce rate % Medium

Average time on site City

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Custom reporting

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Custom reporting

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Custom reporting

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Custom reporting

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Custom reporting

What can I use it for?

• Create common reports you need often, as well as new insight

• The power is often in drilling down– Group landing page with referrer

– City to keyword

• http://crftd.md/customreporting

• http://www.customreportsharing.com/

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Export to Excel

What’s the benefit?

• Analytics is poor a manipulating data

• You can’t group things very easily within Analytics

• Difficult to combine reports, especially across domains

• Metrics are broadly limited to totals

• Faster, much faster

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Export to Excel

Define your data

• Choose your report view

• Apply custom segments

• Filter if required

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Export to Excel

Number of rows

• Default view is 10 rows

• 25, 50, 100, 250, 500 available via dropdown

• Hack the URL for more rows1. Change view to >10

2. Look for the number at the end of the URL

https://www.google.com/analytics/web/#report/trafficsources-all-traffic/a431143w710102p685592/%3Fexplorer-table.rowStart%3D0%26explorer-table.rowCount%3D25/

https://www.google.com/analytics/web/#report/trafficsources-all-traffic/a431143w710102p685592/%3Fexplorer-table.rowStart%3D0%26explorer-table.rowCount%3D3000/

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Export to Excel

What can I use it for?

• Getting smarter with data

• Combining sources and controlling

• Board reporting

• Pivot tables can be incredibly powerful

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Create Intelligence Alerts

Get notified of changes on your site

• Automatic reporting of metrics

• Early visibility of issues

• Monitor site behaviour, especially after code changes

• Option to have alerts emailed to you

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Create Intelligence Alerts

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How to set them up

1. Click the Intelligence events section

2. Manage custom alerts

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Create Intelligence Alerts

What can I use it for?

• Auto reporting of sales trends

• Monitor enquiry volumes

• Site changes – good or bad?

• Traffic monitoring

• Beware of becoming blind to them

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7 ways to get more fromGoogle AnalyticsTomorrow

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Recap

1. Use advanced segments

2. Create custom dashboards

3. Link with Webmaster Tools for more data

4. Know real time reporting

5. Set up custom reports for the data you need

6. Export data to Excel to manipulate it quickly

7. Automatic alerts of changes to site behaviour

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Ian Miller

Search Director

[email protected]

Ipswich Studio

32 Fore Street,

Ipswich, IP4 1JU

T. +44 (0) 1473 213222

E. [email protected]

www.crafted.co.uk

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