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Analytics Blog Posts
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- 28th Nov 2012
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Over 100 More Tips From Conversion Conference London 2012 (Day 2) #convconf
Today was day two of the Conversion Conference in London and it was another excellent line-up with great tips on user testing and gaining every last bit of value from a website. I’ve compiled my favourite take-aways below and it’s another epic list that shows the wealth of great advice on show. -
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- 12th Jul 2011
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Tracking an Email Campaign in Google Analytics
When looking at the Traffic Report in Google Analytics once an email campaign has been sent it can be hard to get a good understanding of how much traffic came to the site and how these visitors interacted and converted.Unfortunately, Google can’t track this automatically for you as there are so many email providers but luckily it’s nice and easy to implement tracking yourself so that you can see exactly how many visits were generated from each email campaign and how these visitors interacted with your site.
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- 3rd May 2011
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Understanding Basic Google Analytics Terminology
This post is for people just starting to use Google Analytics, to take you through what you see and explain some terms that you may not have heard of if you’ve not used Google Analytics before. Some things make complete sense and others look like they make sense but are actually slightly different to what you expect.
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- 6th May 2011
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Site Speed Report Integrated into Google Analytics
The speed with which your pages load can be hugely important, not only in terms of visitor satisfaction but also where you rank in search engines [see: What is Site Speed and How Does it Affect Google Rankings?]. Therefore, it is vital that all sites keep a close eye on their page load time to ensure that there is no unnecessary lag holding you back.
The good news for website owners is that Google is making it even easier to track site speed. As well as providing a general overview within Webmaster Tools, you can also now track your daily fluctuations on the new Google Analytics platform [see: Measure Page Load Time with Site Speed Analytics Report | Google Analytics Blog].
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- 15th May 2012
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Anna Lewis on Overlooked, Underloved & Unknown Analytics at #smxlondon 2012
As this post goes live I am presenting on Overlooked, Underloved & Unknown Analytics at SMX London 2012. I wanted to share my slides and resources as there’s a lot of information in them and I only have 12 minutes to cover it all! I’ve also set up custom reports and dashboards which are linked to here. -
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- 20th Feb 2012
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Customer Retention Strategies: What Are They and How Will Your Website Benefit?
Today we welcome a post from Text Marketer – a Koozai client that lives and breathes SMS marketing - who take a deeper look at effective ways of maintaining customers.In today’s business landscape, returning customers are absolutely vital. Whilst much of your marketing efforts will no doubt be aimed at enticing new customers and clients, ensuring your existing customers return will be far more cost-effective and a great deal easier.
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- Analytics
- 9th Aug 2011
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How To Track Contact Form Submissions Without A Confirmation Page
Sometimes web developers are unable to create a thank you or confirmation page for a form submission, this leaves you unable to easily track how many forms have been completed, as goals in Google Analytics require a URL. However, there is a nice and easy way round this. It just takes a small amount of code and you can create a pretend URL to load when the submit button is pressed. -
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- 11th Feb 2013
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Server Response Codes And What They Mean
Over the life of a website you will be (if you manage it that is) presented with Server Response Codes or ‘HTTP Status Codes’ in regard to a lot of different elements of your site’s functionality and maintenance needs. Quite often these are the largely well-known codes such as 404 errors and 301′s, but there are a whole world of other response codes that you may be presented with when you work on a site. -
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- 19th Apr 2011
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The Benefits of Multiple Google Analytics Profiles and Filters
This post takes you through some of the benefits of things that you may not have realised are possible in Google Analytics and is an introduction to future posts which will explain how to implement these suggestions. Hopefully by reading this post and some of my others, you will start to get to grips with more advanced Google Analytics functionality and get more from your data than you might currently be getting.
So, within your website’s Google Analytics account (one per domain please) you can add a large number of profiles to enable you to segment the data in different ways and gain a much better understanding of the traffic on your site. These are created by clicking ‘Add new profile’ on the right-hand side. On the majority of occasions you will be choosing to create a profile for an existing domain.
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- 12th Apr 2013
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Turning Google Analytics into a Webmaster's Tool Box (#brightonseo April 2013)
Today at BrightonSEO (the fastest growing SEO conference in the UK) I am giving a talk on turning Google Analytics in to a Webmaster’s Tool Box. This post is here to cover everything that I’m talking about to make sure no one misses a tip! I’ve also included all the links in the slides to give you quick and easy access to Google Analytics Dashboards and a CRO Whitepaper. -
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- 20th Apr 2012
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The New Google Analytics is Finally Ready!
In March 2011 Google introduced a new interface for Google Analytics. Over a year later the new interface has just had the addition of what seem to be the finishing touches. Read more
