One of the fundamental new features of Universal Analytics is user-centric measurement. This includes measurement across multiple devices – computers, smart phones, tablets, kiosks, etc. But this change introduces a number of new challenges for analysts and marketers. In order to do cross device measurement you need to understand some of the challenges and limitation. […]
How to Use Google Analytics Content Grouping: 4 Business Examples
Content Grouping is a useful feature that let’s you group your website or app content together and view aggregate metrics for each group. This is particularly useful if you have a lot of content to analyze. Rolling up your content, based on your specific business structure, is very helpful when creating dashboards and other custom […]
How to Set Up Google Analytics Content Grouping
Today everyone is creating content – lots and lots of content. Measuring that content can be a challenge given the sheer volume that’s out there. That’s where Google Analytics Content Grouping can help. This feature let’s you categorize your content based on your own business rules. Then, rather than view your data based on page […]
Mastering Google Analytics Custom Variables
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 […]
UPDATED: Integrating Google Analytics with a CRM
A while back I wrote a post about how you can integrate Google Analytics with a CRM system. That posts referenced the old urchin.js code and is in need of an update. Plus a lot of people have been asking me about different integration options and I thought it would be a good time to […]
Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data
I know the past week has been full of Google Analytics news, but I’m excited to tell you about something one of our team members created: Google Analytics Notes. For a long time we’ve wanted to add business data to GA to help keep track of marketing activities, industry news and GA configuration changes. These […]