google analytics - understand how to correctly track your website visitors
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Google Analytics SeriesUnderstand How to Correctly Track Your Website Visitors
December 2015
Speaker: Jeff Tincher, 610 Digital, LLC
www.ChescoMarketing.com | [email protected]
here’s what GA can do for you...
❖ allows you to learn more about your audience.
❖ discovers where your most valuable visitors come from.
❖ understands what your visitors do while they are on your website.
❖ are your visitors doing WHAT you WANT of them?
❖ more advanced features (previous presentation)
❖ surface key metrics via dashboards and reports
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some best practices
❖ set up conversion goals
❖ filter out your OWN visits
❖ create events to track interactions
❖ use dashboards and reports
❖ link your adwords account to analytics
❖ if using classic GA -- STOP! migrate to universal analytics (or better yet Google Tag Manager)
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where do your visitors come from?
❖ source vs medium
use the source…❖ where traffic originated❖ Google, Facebook, Bing,
LinkedIn, domain.com❖ set utm_source=Jakku
darkside of the sourceanything that looks spammy!
medium (make it a grande)❖ category of traffic❖ organic, cpc, email,
referral❖ utm_medium=speeder
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some examples of source/medium
the “direct issue”...
direct traffic usually means people that go DIRECTLY to your site via
● bookmark
● type it in
● untagged link in email or other link with no UTM
Do you use email like MailChimp or CC?
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...hot off the search...
★ search query reports can give you the scoop!
★ shows what keywords and queries brought people to your site
★ shows average SERP rank and CTR
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know your audience
user # of individuals that have visited your site; multi device counts as multi-user
session active time someone is visiting your site; 30 minutes; resets at midnight; leave and come back
bounce rate percentage of people that leave the current page without visiting another page (OR without interacting in some other way, i.e.
event)
avg session duration & pages/session just what they sound like...
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Track Goals and Conversions!❖ macro vs micro
❖ completed form
❖ transaction
❖ time on site
❖ pages > #
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micro vs macro
micro conversions are activities that users frequently engage in before a purchase.
❖ email signup❖ social share❖ browse site (pages/session;
time)❖ pdf or video view
macro conversions are sales transactions, lead acquisition.
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that’s right!
have a PDF to download - good --- track it!
tell visitors to WATCH a video - yup, track it!
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you can lower your bounce with events
bouncing way too high is not good!
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rev up with dashboards & reports
audience dashboard
acquisition dashboard
tech and page speed dashboard
ecommerce dashboard
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hour & day of week marketing report
landing page by social traffic
facebook, twitter, linkedin only segment
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Need Analytics Assistance?
Contact me for a FREE Google Analytics Audit.
Jeff Tincher - 610 Digital, [email protected] | 610-590-4824
http://linkd.in/TinchLI | @JeffTincher
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