Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in campaign-tracking, event-tracking, tracking | 28 Comments »
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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 ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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 ...
Posted in ecommerce, tracking | 31 Comments »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The Google Analytics e-commerce reports contain two specific reports that I believe are critical to understanding the behavior of site visitors: Days to Purchase and Visits to Purchase. These reports are the only way to measure the online sales cycle using Google Analytics.
But, as their names imply, these reports ...
Posted in ecommerce, tracking | 41 Comments »