Untangling the world of web analytics
Manoj Jasra asked me to write a small piece about the most common web analytics ‘pain’ that many of my clients feel. Thanks Manoj for the invitation! I’m honored that you asked. If you haven’t read the post you can find it here: Identifying & Solving Client Pains: Part 2. Sure, many of my clients [...]
Over the past few months, Robbin Steif from LunaMetrics has been writing a series of posts about regular expressions. The series is amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone learning reg ex (as the geeks call it). In one of Robbin’s posts she mentions a small, reg ex testing tool that we have on [...]
In Part 1 of this series I explained that Google Analytics campaign tracking is based on a technology called link tagging. Link tagging is the process of adding business information to the URLs that we use in our on-line ads. But how do we actually tag these links? Some marketing campaigns can have hundreds, or [...]
What is Link Tagging? To track your marketing campaigns Google Analytics uses a technology called link tagging. This provides a fine level of detail about marketing efforts. The data we gather from link tagging helps us make informed business decisions about our marketing spend. With link tagging, we add additional information to the destination URL [...]
Visitor campaign information is stored in a cookie on the visitor’s machine. This cookie stores the referral information for the visitor’s session. This cookie tracks organic referrals, tagged campaign links, un-tagged referral links and direct visits. Each time a visitor visits your site the Google Analytics Tracking code updates this cookie with the appropriate campaign [...]
Welcome! If today is November 8, 2006 then you’re probably arriving from the Official Google Analytics blog. You’re probably wondering why you’re at Analytics Talk and not This Just in. Well, things are changing. I am in the process of migrating my blog to our corporate site (EpikOne, Inc.). What does this mean? Not too [...]
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