Tracking YouTube Videos with Google Analytics

YouTube Insight: Information about those viewing your videos on www.youtube.com.

A while back, Google Analytics and YouTube introduced YouTube Insight, a tool to provide more information about the people viewing your videos on www.youtube.com. It’s pretty cool stuff and if you’re posting videos to YouTube it provides a lot of great information. But what about YouTube videos that are embedded in a site? What’s the [...]

Tying clicks & content to conversion in GA

Google Analytics goal settings

Many site owners spend a lot of time creating content that is supposed to drive conversions. But what’s the best way to measure the performance of this content with Google Analytics? How can we measure a specific piece of content, be it a page or a piece of creative, and it effect on conversions? Google [...]

Do we really “get” Google Analytics?

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It’s been just over a year since Google redesigned and relaunched Google Analytics. In that time GA has become an innovative product that seems to improve every day. But I believe that many of us, myself included, are really missing the point when it comes to Google Analytics. I don’t think that we fully embrace [...]

Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking Pt. 4: Tracking Lead Gen Forms

Google Analytics Transaction Report for Lead Gen Site.

One thing that I try to stress in my client work and training is that Google Analytics is a platform. If you understand the framework you can use it to track many different things. E-commerce tracking is one part of Google Analytics that is particularly flexible and can be used many different ways. There’s a [...]