A New Method to Track Keyword Ranking using Google Analytics

The search terms and ranking are stored as Google Analytics Events.

In the past I’ve written about different ways to customize Google Analytics for SEO. This post is all about a new way to track keyword ranking using Google Analytics. A little background… There are lots of paid tools that will track where your content ranks in your search results. But my friend AJ Kohn wanted [...]

Cohort Analysis with Google Analytics

Cohorts are groups of people that share a common trait within a certain time.

You might have heard of Cohort Analysis – it’s a time-tested segmentaiton technique used to understand user behavior. Cohort analysis has never been a core part of Google Analytics – it’s always been a bit of a hack. I wanted to discuss how to do cohort analysis with Google Analytics today and what it might [...]

Getting Started with Google Analytics Remarketing

Google Analytics Remarketing

Digital analytics is all about finding insights and making changes to your business. One of the easiest changes to make is to optimize your digital marketing based on things like bounce rate the performance of your campaigns. But there’s an awesome way to use your Google Analytics data to create new marketing campaigns specifically targeted [...]

Nurturing Your Customers & Business with Universal Analytics

Universal Analytics means User Centric Measurement in Google Analytics

Disclaimer: This is a personal post on a personal blog . I’ve been working in the analytics industry as a consultant for a few years and have gotten a feel for some of the challenges that business face. These are my personal ideas and do not reflect those of my employer. Now that all the [...]

2012 Google Analytics Summit Recap

2012 Google Analytics Summit

It was a busy week at the 2012 Google Analytics summit. If you’re in the online marketing space you’ve probably heard many of the announcements and some of the features we’ll all see in 2013. Here’s my recap of what’s coming from Google Analytics. Universal Analytics This was the big news. Universal Analytics is the [...]

Universal Analytics: The Next Generation of Google Analytics

Universal Analytics: The next generation of Google Analytics

Google Analytics is introducing a number of new technologies, collectively called Universal Analytics, that will create a better way for businesses to measure their digital world. The cornerstone change in Universal Analytics is that Google Analytics is becoming user or customer centric rather than visit centric. This paradigm, sometimes called customer centricity, more closely aligns [...]

Getting Started with Google Tag Manager

If you’re new to Google Tag Manager, or container tags in general, check out these posts. I tried to organize them in a logical way: 1. All About Google Tag Manager 2. Implementing Google Analytics with Google Tag Manager 3.Preview and Publishing Tags with Google Tag Manager More coming soon :)