The latest news and our thoughts on the ever changing world of analytics, ppc and digital strategy.

Setting Up Audiences For Remarketing In Google Analytics

Remarketing via Google Adwords offers a powerful opportunity to retarget people who have visited your site. With the introduction of Google Analytics audience lists retargeting has become even more powerful.

For example, someone may have visited your site and not completed a purchase or some other interaction you were hoping for and so targeting them with a tailored ad may encourage them to return.

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Google Analytics - Spam Referrals Update

In a number of previous articles we've talked about the problem of spam referrals appearing within Google Analytics data. This problem now appears to be growing exponentially and without taking steps to exclude this data from your reports (changing your tracking / configuration within Google Analytics or using advanced segments to remove this data) your reports and any insights derived from them could become meaningless - or worse still highly misleading.

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Enabling Site Search in Google Analytics with Missing Query Parameters

If your site uses a site search facility you will probably want to know what your users are looking for.

This kind of information can be particularly helpful in two areas:

  • Mining for keywords – it’s likely that people will use the same search terms on your website as they are using in a search engine so knowing what they are looking for can help you create keywords lists for better targeted paid advertising campaigns as well as SEO
  • Optimizing landing pages – visitors might use the site search on a landing page if they are having issues in finding relevant content. This can flag potential navigational issues with your site.

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Google Analytics - Event Tracking versus Virtual Page Views

"Out of the box" Google Analytics captures a wide range of visitor activity on your site. By default data is collected for each page view generated.

Sometimes however you’ll need to track additional interactions – for example visitors playing videos, downloading files, progress through complex forms where URLs don’t change or clicking onto outbound links. To do so Google Analytics offers two tracking options – to either capture such interactions as “events” or “virtual page views”. Tracking can be configured programmatically on your site or using customisable ‘tags’ within Google Tag Manager. So which should you choose and what’s the difference between them?

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Working With Analytics Treemap Reports

Treemap reports allow you to visualise your data with a primary metric denoted by area (the larger the area occupied the higher the metric value) and a secondary value shown via colour coding (with green good and red poor).

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