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A New Method to Track Keyword Ranking using Google Analytics

Posted: January 14, 2013 124 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Analysis, Event Tracking, Tracking Tagged With: Analysis, keywords, ranking, seo, Tips, tricks

Google Analytics Custom Variables for Publishers

Posted: September 12, 2012 1 Comment

Measuring Members with Google Analytics

In the past I wrote about 5 Google Analytics custom segments for ecommerce, so it only makes sense that I return the favor for publishers! Publishing is changing drastically. It’s all about creating a dedicated audience and providing them with good, consistent content. If you can achieve this then you’ll have a loyal, attentive audience […]

Filed Under: Tracking Tagged With: custom variables, publishers, segmentation, seo, tracking content

Make Analytics Better with Tag Management and a Data Layer

Posted: May 14, 2012 87 Comments

Use a data layer to store page data on every site page.

There’s something new in the world of tracking: the container tag. It’s more commonly known as Tag Management. You may have heard of it over the last year or so. Very quickly this technology has spawned a number of companies and investment in this area. Some of the more well known tag management tools are […]

Filed Under: Tracking Tagged With: Data, data collection, data layer, javascript, tag management

Advanced Content Tracking with Google Analytics: Part 1

Posted: February 21, 2012 118 Comments

Do people actually read content?

This is part 1 of a two part series on advanced content tracking. This post is about why you might want to use this technique and how to implement. The next post will cover the reporting and analysis. The default content tracking content in Google Analytics is fairly straight forward. Using the standard page tag […]

Filed Under: Event Tracking, Tracking Tagged With: advanced, content, Data, events, Tracking

5 Google Analytics Custom Variables for Ecommerce

Posted: June 14, 2011 38 Comments

I believe that every business can use Google Analytics custom variables. Especially ecommerce businesses. Custom variables inject new data dimensions that are crucial for segmentation. As analysts we need to do segmentation to understand user behavior. And ecommerce sites have certain unique behaviors that are not tracked with a basic Google Analytics implementation. For those […]

Filed Under: Analysis, Ecommerce, Tracking Tagged With: custom variables, ecommerce, Tips, tricks

Mastering Google Analytics Custom Variables

Posted: May 18, 2011 59 Comments

Google Analytics Custom Variable Dimensions

I’ve got a stack of posts that I want to write, and realized that the all deal with Custom Variables. So, to make sure that we’re all on the same page when it comes to custom vars, here’s my guide to Mastering Google Analytics Custom Variables. For those of you that have not used custom […]

Filed Under: Resources, Tips, Tracking Tagged With: advanced, code, configuration, custom variables, implementation

Merging Google Analytics with your Data Warehouse

Posted: May 5, 2011 40 Comments

Many of the projects that I’ve been working on over the last 6 to 9 months have evolved to include more and more data integration. Specifically companies are looking to import more Google Analytics data into other systems to do various types of analysis. Data integration is nothing new, companies have been doing it for […]

Filed Under: Tracking, Web Analytics Tagged With: advanced, business intelligence, data integration

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