How to Find Your Campaign Data in Google Analytics
Video guide to finding campaign data in Google Analytics.
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Video guide to finding campaign data in Google Analytics.
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Google Analytics shows you lots of useful data about your site’s usage and performance. However, not all of the metrics reported by Google Analytics are 100% accurate. At Whole Whale, we like to call these ‘Misleading Metrics’.Keep reading to find out which metrics are misleading, why they’re misleading, and how you can use this knowledge to better inform… Read more »
Google created the Solutions Gallery to help deepen the Google Analytics experience. It allows users to upload and download dashboards, custom reports, goals, and segments to form a public database with thousands of ways to look at your Google Analytics data. This enormous free resource allows people to capitalize on the work of others. Hooray… Read more »
Google Analytics doesn’t give you enough metrics. There, I said it.But thankfully, it does allow you to create “events” within your account for additional tracking capabilities. This allows you to specify specific interactions which you deem valuable- say, a newsletter signup- and track them!So if you’ve clicked on this article, it’s safe to assume you… Read more »
When Google announces an upgrade, you can expect great changes. Unlike Apple, for which an upgrade means “Hey, our phones now come in lime green,” Google makes significant improvements and addresses shortcomings with each new iteration of their products.
In late October, Google Analytics made some big changes to the platform interface and added some new functionality. Now, not only will you be able to tell how many mobile visits from Jersey Shore came via a Facebook referral, but also, whether or not they were dudes. In addition to gender information, this new feature… Read more »
The Year is 2045. As I lean back in my iRock-ing Chair with my grandson seated accross from me, tweexting (it’s the new thing) with his iPhone 732S, I reminisce about the golden days of Google search. “You know sonny, when I was your age, analysts had alllll the keywords they needed,” I say wistfully.… Read more »