Designed for the advanced Google Analytics (GA) guru, Frank Klassen, CEO of Brightfind presented PersoniFest 2018 attendees with a deep-dive into using GA to go beyond basic web page tracking. Participants learned how to use advanced Google Tag Manager (GTM) functionality to truly understand the journey their constituents have across their websites. They discovered how Personify customers are tracking this data to pinpoint where to make improvements in order to enhance digital experiences and to increase transactions and conversions.
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Goal Setting
Use ESA as example. Make some recommendations – ASK
THE AUDIENCE TO MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS!
If there is enough data – could use WEF as example as well.
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Funnel Analysis
Use ESA as example. Make some recommendations – ASK
THE AUDIENCE TO MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS!
If there is enough data – could use WEF as example as well.
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Funnel Analysis
Use ESA as example. Make some recommendations – ASK
THE AUDIENCE TO MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS!
If there is enough data – could use WEF as example as well.
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Personify360 eBusiness Case Study - WEF
• Cross domain configuration is essential
• Choose your most important/active product
• Set up your goals
• Review the funnel
• Baseline for a week/month
• Start a campaign
• Track campaign success
• Make adjustments to the flow
• Repeat
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Tips and Tricks
• Adding event tracking (with cross-domain) and/or UTM
codes messed up another property that did not know how
to handle additional URL parameters!!!!!!
• Understand and USE secondary dimensions.
• Easy to do searches, then save report.
• Triggers allow for multiple, AND conditions. In order to
do OR, you just need to add another Trigger in sequence!
• A specific CSS class can exist in lots of places in your site.
• Remember to “Publish” in GTM after you’ve updated
items. Especially after “Preview”! (I forget to do that – a
lot).
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Tips and Tricks
• Turn on IP Anonymization.
• User ID — This should be an alphanumeric database
identifier. This should never be plain-text PII such as
email, username, etc. – may be allowable, if done right,
but Don’t.
• Hashed/Encrypted Data such as Email Address – may be
allowable, if done right, but Don’t.
• Transaction IDs – may be allowable, if done right, but
Don’t.
• Using cookies - you’ll need to ask users for their
permission clearly and most importantly, before Google
Analytics executes.
Once you have created a GTM account, you can locate the GTM script within the top level navigation. We’ll leverage this GTM-id later on, in order to connect different web platforms.
First, biggest script goes in the <head> tag – as high as possible; Second goes right below the <body> tag.
You need to know a little bit about CSS!
Watch for funny characters like double-underscores!
Using Chrome, put your cursor ever the element, right-click and “inspect element”
I start with the Trigger first.
Just Links
Then we do the Tag
Add trigger
Put GTM into “Preview” mode. Remember: take it out of Preview mode if you make another change!
Trick – hold the ESC key immediately after clicking the link.
I use two tabs or windows – one with GA, one with GTM
Home Page Promo CTA
Choose the secondary dimension drop-down to see Event Labels as well
Home page navigation – drop down
Each menu item link destination (Action), and which page the menu was used from (Label).
Focus on a particular menu item (search – against Action column)
Focus on a particular page’s menu (advanced search – against Label column)
Tag settings are very similar.
Javascript gets run on every page – you can filter the trigger to only run on certain pages – if you want to reduce the report!
Need to show the custom events and the javascript – this is rather complex, don’t want to bog down the presentation…
Tab User Interfaces have always been tough to track. Not anymore!
Use Click Text as the Action – since there is NO link to track.
Tab User Interfaces have always been tough to track. Not anymore!
Vertical Tabs – all of them.
Vertical Tabs – filtered by specific page. “/industrial-waterwastewater”
Horizontal Tabs – all of them
Horizontal Tabs – filtered by specific page. “/industrial-waterwastewater”
Required – since the form was the landing page for a campaign (email and social) they wanted to see the impact of that campaign.
Required – since the form was the landing page for a campaign (email and social) they wanted to see the impact of that campaign.
Funnel Analysis
Product Detail – ANY PRODUCT
Shopping Cart
Checkout – Then Thank you page.
Conversion funnel – from any product detail to Purchase Confirmation
Marketing Product Detail page – does this help to drive conversions?
Conversion funnel – from specific product detail to Purchase Confirmation