Archive for the ‘Campaign Tracking’ Category

Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Pt. 1: Link Tagging

Friday, November 10th, 2006

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 ...

Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Pt. 0: An Overview

Friday, November 10th, 2006

One of the most useful features in Google Analytics is its ability to track your online marketing campaigns. We all know that GA works great with AdWords, but it can also be used to track your banner ads, CPC ads and even your off line ads (which I've posted about ...

How Does Google Analytics Track Conversion Referrals?

Friday, November 10th, 2006

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 ...

Tracking Offline Advertising With Google Analytics

Monday, June 12th, 2006

With a little bit of programming you can use Google Analytics to track your off-line advertising activities. There are some caveats, but I believe the process below is reliable and convenient for customers. Here's how to set it up. First a disclaimer. I'm not going to go over ...