Many people ask me lots of simple questions about Google Analytics every single day. I find that while many of these questions have very simple answers they are often quite valid to the novice user. As such, I am going …
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Last week Google made some hugeenhancements in functionality to their Google Analytics product. We will be reviewing the enhancements in one at a time in separate posts over the next few weeks but for now here is a brief overview …
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Here’s a piece of advice for those that are A/B testing page variations using Website Optimizer with Google Analytics on the same pages. During recent testing we saw an abnormal increase in direct visits around the same time as the …
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Last month we looked at 'Ensuring Data Accuracy' within your Google Analytics profile. To summarize this post, there is little to no point reporting on data which doesn’t accurately reflect what your true visitor is doing on your site. I cannot …
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The TechWyse team has been writing on this blog for quite some time. We have recognized that one some of the most popular articles we write are the ones that have a month to month following. Currently DJ writes a …
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In a lot of our postings, we assume the basic premise that you are committed to gleaning the maximum amount of information from your website. Many of the people our sales team speak with, however, don’t even understand the impact …
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Google has two analytics solutions available to monitor and improve web site usage, online advertising campaign results and conversion reporting. I’d like to explain a little about what differentiates these products and the criteria business owners should use when deciding …
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Google is continuing to improve their cross-product functionality. The latest enhancement released today allows you to use Google Analytics goals as Adwords conversions! It is an easy configuration that allows more functionality with just a few clicks. This will be …
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This article extends on a recent article written by Matt on the 4 Ways To Measure Your Conversions With PPC. To Measure your website – goals are essential. I can’t put it better than Matt’s statement:- ‘Goals and conversions are where it’s at. …
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Clean data is what we analytics guys strive for. In order to keep Google Analytics reporting as clean as possible it is vitally important to filter out visitor data that is not true customer traffic. If you don’t, visitor patterning …
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The wealth of detailed information that Google Analytics can provide is impressive. There are hundreds of ways of charting and displaying metric data. But lets face it, website marketing strategists and/or business owners, whilst being wowed with the information need …
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