1.
Welcome
Phil Pearce
Senior Web Analyst
Top 10 Google Analytics reports
to save you money!

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1. WiFi code
2. Prerequisite: Laptop + Google Analytics
account
3. Questions at the End
4. Copy of slides will be emailed to you
Housekeeping

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6:30 Ten Tips presentation(45mins)
7:15 Finish
7:30-8pm Q & A / Drinks (15mins)
Schedule

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Fun fact, I`m an Identical Twin...
”I successfully cloned myself to increase my productivity” ;)

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Web Analytics
Exchange
mentor
750 GA
questions answered
Tracking
protection
group
Intro
Phil Pearce
Google Analytics Expert and GTM specialist
www.linkedin.com/in/philpearce

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AdWordsClients & implementations – lots!

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Please ask lots of questions
and save lots of bookmarks/shortcuts
Prize at the end for
- Most questions
- Best Questions

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Top 10 Google Analytics tips to save you money!
1. Reducing cost
2. Increasing conversions/revenue
3. Automating reducing cost & increasing revenue

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Cheat sheet…
• bit.ly/ga-report-list
• open in notepad
• replace GA account number…

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Search for
"Google Analytics Demo account"
bit.ly/digitalgaggle

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Demo site…
• https://web.archive.org/web/2015062403
1543/http://www.computeraid.org/

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Best & worse landing pages
1. Best & worse landing pages

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2. Pages by revenue contribution
2. Pages by revenue contribution

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3. Best & worse internal Site Search
3. Best & worse internal Site Search

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4. Broken pages by referral
4. Broken pages by referral

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4. Broken pages by referral - detailed

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6a. Medium pivoted by userType with metrics of
sessions & converison rate

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6b. Channel pivoted by userType with metrics of
sessions & conversion rate

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9. Automatic Alerts

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GA your phone…
New – iOS
tinyurl.com/ga-apple
Android
tinyurl.com/ga-android

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9. Custom Alerts – based on your business logic
1. 404 example
2. Avg order value example

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10a. Google Sheets – automatic
reporting (updates every hour)
bit.ly/ga-api-example

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10b. Dashboard library
Search for “Small Business Owner” in dashboard library…

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10b. Dashboard library
Search for “Small Business Owner” in dashboard library…

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Questions
Thankyou & Answers
Conversion
Prize at the end for
- Most questions
- Best Questions

26.
Bounce Rate Quiz

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Survey: Which one of the following
examples is a Non-Bounce?

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Survey: Which on is a Non-Bounce?
1. Land on News story &
read until the end
2. Land on News story &
retweet
3. Land on News story
interact with Flash
Video
4. Land on Join audience
page and download the
PDF form

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Survey: Which on is a Non-Bounce?
7. Land on News
story & click on
#top button
5. Land on News story
& spend 29mins on the
page
6. Land on News story &
click on an external
Advert or Banner Ad
8. Land on iPlayer
episode & interact with
Flash Video

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Reminder: Bounce
Bounce = Only a single interaction in the
session (e.g land and immediately exit)
Bounce Rate
100%
Heartbeats and page scroll events will trigger a
second interaction.

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Fixes via GTM…

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Live example…
bit.ly/gtm-fix-examples

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See... Google Login for:
login: coolgtmstuff@gmail.com
pw: philrulesgtm8

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Tools examples

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 Includes
“wasted spend
report”
PPC grader

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Free session recording!
(1000 sessions per day)
FREE

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Note: currency not supported using this
method :(
Abandon Revenue

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Session based:
Dynamic values ->
Hit based:
Dynamic values ->
<- Session based: Static goal values
Lead Scoring

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Plugins for Wordpress
New GTM interface
[auto-config file]
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hk1qj
a1fdupzykk/WORDPRESS%20TEMP
LATE%20-
%20NEW%20interface.json?dl=0
Old GTM interface
[auto-config file]
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5pgy
d6w97iw0ntn/WORDPRESS%20TE
MPLATE%20-
%20OLD%20interface.json?dl=0
Reminder: open the import files in notepad,
then find & replace
“yourdomain” and “yourdomain.com” with
YOURDOMAIN before import.
FREE

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Process example…
"4 clicks 2measurement"

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Summary
7. Midnight
Snacks
6. Automatic Excessive
5. Desert
4. Exercise/Goals
3. Main Meal
2. Brunch
1. Breakfast KPIs
(excel sheet):
Dev guide
(word
document):
GTM installation
(generic
containers)
GA configuration
(goals &
settings):
Dashboards
(template
library)
Adwords
Dynamic
Remarketing
Custom Scripts
Wordpress Magento Drupal
Automat
ic
See script library here...
login: coolgtmstuff@gmail.com
pw: philrulesgtm2

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Realtime Game

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Go here…
http://bit.ly/realtimegame2

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Enter Team Name
(e.g. super team1)

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Press Start…

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Results…

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First Team to get to 50 events
wins!

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Thanks
to game
creator...

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3. Google Tag Manager
(implementation tricks & universal migrations
mistakes to avoid)
1. Analytics Processes
(REAN, LEAN, WAMM)
2. SEO dataLayer
(JSONLD)
4. Free tools
(YandexMetrica, Quill, Google Surveys)
5. Dashboards
(GA initially, then
GoogleSheets & Embed
API )