Getting the Most Value From Google Analytics

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Google Analytics, much like the search engine, changes and evolves constantly. There is so much to keep up with – so much data to slice and dice, so many new features being released – but there’s good news: there is also a gold mine of rich insights that can show you the value of your marketing efforts and help you make better decisions. During this webinar, Search Mojo’s Janet Driscoll Miller and Scott Garrett will show you how you can get the most from everything Google Analytics has to offer, using it to your advantage to become a true marketing superhero! What You’ll Learn: • The Old Way vs. the New Way of measuring in Google Analytics • How to use Google Analytics to measure for paid and organic search • Useful Analytics tools tailored specifically for ecommerce websites • How to use Goals, Attribution Modeling, and Experiments to track results

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JANET MILLER,

PRESIDENT & CEO

SCOTT GARRETT,

ACCOUNT MANAGER @SEARCHMOJO

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Janet Driscoll Miller,

President and CEO,

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Follow on Twitter: @janetdmiller

Scott Garrett,

Account Manager,

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Follow on Twitter: @scottgarrett89

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• Search engine marketing firm founded in 2005

– Search engine optimization (SEO)

– Pay-per-click advertising management (PPC)

– Social media advertising

– Online reputation management

• Headquartered in Charlottesville, VA

– Office in Charleston, SC

• Featured in the Washington Post, B2B Magazine,

MarketingSherpa, Visibility Magazine and many blogs

• Speakers at SMX Advanced, MarketingProfs, PubCon and more

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Measurement What It Measures

Visitors Total visitors to the website Can be repeat visitors

Unique Visitors Total UNIQUE visitors to the website Does NOT count repeats

Pageviews Total pageviews on the website Regardless of visitor or type

Unique Pageviews (Uniques)

Unique visitors to the site Does NOT count repeat visits

Pages/Visit How many pages on average were visited each visit

New Visits Percentage of visits that were from visitors who had not been to the site before

Time on Site (Visit Duration)

How long a visitor, on average, stays on the site

Bounce Rate Percentage of how many visitors immediately leave the site once they get to it

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Measurement Why It Isn’t Enough

Visitors Unless you remove them, can include employees Just a traffic stat – doesn’t measure visitor value Double counts

Unique Visitors Like total visitors, may include employees Just a traffic stat

Pageviews Shows the page was served, but doesn’t indicate action

Unique Pageviews (Uniques)

Pages/Visit Is this really indicative of your goals? Know your personas.

New Visits Subject to cookie deletion

Time on Site (Visit Duration)

Tabbed browsing and server timeouts make these difficult to track with accuracy

Bounce Rate

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• Set up goals in Google Analytics to measure

types of conversion

– Examples:

• Newsletter signups

• Quote requests

• Visits to specific pages

• Can show which channel helps

you

meet a particular goal best

• Instead of measuring traffic, measure your goal!

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• Segmented into Goal Sets

– Up to 4 Goal Sets

• Each Goal Set can have up to 5 goals

• I.e., you can only set 20 goals/profile

• Goal “slots” can be reassigned later

• REMEMBER: Goals will not track

retroactively

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• Google Analytics Code

• Enable Ecommerce tracking

• Link Adwords Account (if applicable)

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Analytics

URL

builder:

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• Measure organic search value to

the goal

• Track various channel attributes

– Google v. Bing

– One website page vs.

another

• REMEMBER: Keyword tracking is

essentially going away

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• Hook Google Analytics to Google AdWords

– Enables Google Analytics to show in Google

AdWords

• Enable “autotagging” in Google AdWords (on by

default)

– Allows for Analytics code to be automatically

added to the destination URLs

• Use Google Analytics to tag destination URLs on ads

in other paid search platforms

– Use the URL Builder

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• Similar to tagging for paid search ads in

platforms other than Google AdWords

• Use the URL Builder to build your

destination URL with tags

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• Attribution

is one of

the

greatest

challenges

of

marketing

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Experiments in Analytics:

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• Click on Dashboards

– Then simply edit and create new widgets to

meet your performance monitoring needs

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Success

September 19, 2013

2:00 p.m. ET

Register today at

www.search-mojo.com/youtube

Tad Miller

Vice President of Accounts

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Blaine Anderson

Junior Account Manager

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Contact Search Mojo:

Sean McCusty

800-939-5938 ext. 116

smccusty@search-mojo.com

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Janet Driscoll Miller

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Twitter: @janetdmiller

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Twitter: @SearchMojo

Facebook:

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Scott Garrett

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Twitter: @scottgarrett89

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