Dr Dave Chaffey introduces practical techniques for configuring your Google Analytics tracking, customise your reports, and interpret your results so that you can implement those “quick win” improvements essential for online marketing success
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1. Using Google Analytics toimprove your business results Presented to The Internet Conference Nottingham, 14th May 2010 Dr Dave Chaffey, CEO, Smart Insights www.smartinsights.com Download via “Presentations”
15. Case study Euroffice 6 Encourage search dominant visitors SEO and brand intro OVP Encourage browse dominant visitors “Reasons to return” OVP Social proof
21. Engage – Engage through relevant quality content mainly on your site, but also content syndicated to partner sites
22. Activate – Convert engagement into business value – generate leads and sales
23. Nurture – Build relationships throughout the customer lifecycle through online direct messaging (Email, Blogs, RSS Feeds and SMS messaging) and community content|10
31. Practical Tip – Identify most important page types by Content Drilldown volume, $Index (low or high), bounce and exit rates multiplied by page views Where do we start? What will give us the biggest uplift in…? Home page Landing pages Category pages Branding & utility pages Search Product pages Conversion goal pages Check out pages |15
34. Practical Tip Review % age of visits by different landing page types (for first time and repeat visitors) Activity: Where do most prospects enter and leave your sites? What are bounce rates? How does this differ for segments. “Points of Resolution” Home page About Us Search page Category page Detailed product info Product page Sub-product page Pricing Security & Privacy Checkout / forms Tailored landing page | 18
36. Tracking session interactions Source: www.clicktale.com See also:http://www.marketing-online.co.uk/wiki/Website_Visitor_Behaviour_Analysis_Tools |20
37. Granular call tracking example Source:http://www.clickthrough-marketing.com/phone-call-tracking.php Alternatives: http://www.freshegg.com/call-track-id.htm, http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/call-metrics |21
38. Tip. Use Feedback tools“Why” not “What” 22 http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-software/website-feedback-tools-review/
39. Google Analytics will only show you ‘What’ not ‘Why’ – other tools can helpiPerceptionshttp://www.4qsurvey.com/ “Bad web site. Difficult to find item as no search box provided for short cut” “I can't find any prices on your website” “Would like to see where I can buy products from” . |23
40. 1 Google Analytics setup and customisation in 6 steps1. Working with reports 2. Segmenting with advanced segments3. Creating custom reports and dashboards 4. Setting up marketing campaign tracking5. Modifying profile and filter setup 6. Customisations with server modifications See: http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/web-analytics/customising-google-analytics-for-your-business/
42. Smarter reporting options Using the calendar / time period options for comparison Pivot tables Filter reports with simple filter based on page or keyword name or New: an Advanced Filter on any variable New: Setting annotations – beneath the top chart Intelligence Beta:Review standard alertsvia left menu | 26
43. Use your “Intelligence” 27 Tip: Use Custom Alerts in your system http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/web-analytics/google-analytics-web-analytics/my-experiences-of-using-the-google-analytics-intelligence-feature-to-review-seo-and-pay-per-click/
65. ROW| 33 See http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/web-analytics/google-analytics-web-analytics/segmenting-google-analytics/ + By behaviour – search and browse
66. Advanced segmentation exampleSegmentation by Visitor Type Practical Tip Use Content Drilldown for understanding grouped content popularity But need DFA! URL Strategy |34
67. Advanced: Dimensionator for second page viewed 35 http://www.analyticspros.com/blog/googleanalytics/93-dimensionator-google-analytics-dimensions.html
68. Handy plugin for relative SEO changes Firefox plugin: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/enhanced-google-analytics-firefox-plugin/ |36
69. |37 Advanced segmentation 2:Tracking social media Source (Step 10) : http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/web-analytics/configuring-google-analytics-guide/ See also: www.davechaffey.com/online-reputation-management-tools
70. Creating dashboards and custom reports within Google Analytics Customisation technique 3 | 38
73. Some ideas for using custom reports 1. Time reporting. Use a dimension of week/month to compare performance over time more easily 2. Value reporting. Repeat the value of different contributors: Keywords Landing pages Product categories Countries 3. Role-based reporting.Setup different tabs for different types of people or marketing activity 41 http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2010/02/leverage-custom-web-analytics-reports-insights.html
76. Campaign tracking Adwords will be tracked automatically provided you have specified within Adwords All other referring campaign traffic sources need parameters adding where practical Example: http://econsultancy.com/reports/search-engine-optimization-seo-best-practice-guide? utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=generic
77. Tip: Use a URL builder or spreadsheet Another example: http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8909 &utm_campaign=CCXAQ081009A &utm_source=Monthly_xArts_Email &utm_medium=Internal_Email &utm_content=CCXAQ081009A_Bunker_image [or A_Bunker_intro] Activity: Try the Google URL builder http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578
84. Ecommerce sites have specific product value attached so generally best not to add value to non-sales goal|48 Consider additional goals – social bookmarking, commenting, catalogue requests, etc See Ran Nir: http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2009/03/10-must-track-google-analytics-goals.html See also http://www.viget.com/engage/how-to-track-internal-links-in-google-analytics/
89. Tracking on-site search | 52 Coremetrics UK Retail benchmarks Tip. find the search query parameter from the URL of a search results page
90. Q. What to look for in site search reports? |53
91. Filters and profiles – use for site structure Process: Create Advanced segment to test filter. Create filter. Apply to a test profile (only used for testing purposes – can check in minutes). Create final profile and apply filter. Grant access to this profile To avoid a problem of 0 traffic there should be a master profile which NEVER has any filters applied. Further reading: http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2009/12/09/how-to-choose-between-advanced-segments-versus-profile-filters-in-google-analytics/ http://www.google.com/support/conversionuniversity/?hl=en http://services.google.com/analytics/breeze/en/accounts_profiles/index.html http://services.google.com/analytics/breeze/en/filters/index.html http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsAccounts.html
92. Excluding staff access to data Single IP address Select Filter Manager Select “exclude all traffic from IP address” Use regular expression, e.g. 17616811 2. Range of IPs Ssimilar – use IP address tool at address below 3. Exclude by cookie Has to be based on login page to intranet or similar. Sets variable identifying employee in cookie Exclude visitors with cookie from main profile. See Step 2: http://www.smartinsights.com/web-analytics/configuring-google-analytics-guide/
99. Best script to apply :http://blog.immeria.net/2009/01/google-analytics-script-to-track.html Can also use Virtual Page Views but need to exclude False Page Views with additional profile – see http://www.viget.com/engage/how-to-track-internal-links-in-google-analytics/
100. Engagement essential configuration:Event tracking Source: Google announces final rollout of Event tracking June 2009: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/06/event-tracking-now-available-in-all.html |59
106. Customers vs non-customersRead more: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingCustomVariables.html 60
107. 5 AB and multivariate testing Introducing the Google Web Optimizer Tool
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109. Google Website Optimizer case study Source: Moneyspyder blog (with permission):http://blog.moneyspyder.co.uk/2009/06/enhanced-google-website-optimiser.htmlx
110. Combining event tracking with GWO Each variation / recipe in GWO is tracked as a separate event and can then be used to view more granular info – e.g. influence on AOV Source: Moneyspyder blog (with permission):http://blog.moneyspyder.co.uk/2009/06/enhanced-google-website-optimiser.htmlx
111. Don’t give too much choice?! Six different jams. 40% of the customers stopped to taste. 30% of those bought. Twenty-four different jams. 60% of the customers stopped to taste. But only 3% bought! http://sivers.org/jam
112. Autoglass case study Source: Craig Sullivan talking at EconsultancyMasterclass: http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/digital-marketing-strategy/online-marketing-masterclass-liveblogging