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Intro to Google Analytics MSBDC - April 25, 2016 tunnel 7 Design Marketing Optimization Overview Introductions Why Google Analytics? Setting Up & Defining Goals Overview of Reports Tips & Tricks tunnel 7 Design Marketing


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Intro to Google Analytics

MSBDC - April 25, 2016

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Overview

Introductions Why Google Analytics? Setting Up & Defining Goals Overview of Reports Tips & Tricks

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Who Are You?

Do you use Google Analytics? What has your experience been?

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This Will Help You ...

Set up Google Analytics Define clear goals for your website Better understand various reports Make actionable tasks to improve your website

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Overview

Introductions Why Google Analytics? Setting Up & Defining Goals Overview of Reports Tips & Tricks

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Overview

Introductions Why Google Analytics? Setting Up & Defining Goals Overview of Reports Tips & Tricks

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All analytical data is useless until you take action on it (Never forget this)

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Why Google Analytics?

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A Few Reasons

Industry standard Easy to use Free!

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Analytics Can Help...

Think about goals Track results Save money on marketing campaigns Better understand your visitors Constantly improve your website

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Setting Up & Defining Goals

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Set Up

Go to http://google.com/analytics Sign up Install tracking code to ALL pages of your website Activate Enhanced Link Attribution and Demographic Reports in property settings

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Think Goals

Goals allow you to monitor your website’s success and failure Examples of goals Sign up / lead generation form Report download / checkout thank you Placing an order

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Defining Goals

Ask yourself: What do I want my visitors to do on my website? Tend to be action oriented Keep yourself focused on no more than 3 goals

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Set Up Goals

Under ADMIN tab in Google Analytics Create new goal Define correct type of goal Define goal funnel

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Under ADMIN tab in Google Analytics Create new goal Define correct type of goal

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Limit Goals to 3

Website visitors have limited attention span Average time on a website is about 2 minutes Keep users focused by keeping yourself focused Goals = high priority items

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Write down the top 3 goals for your website

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Overview of Reports

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Main Categories

Audience - Geography, time on site, mobile or desktop Acquisition - Where users come from Behavior - Page popularity, experiments, flow & in-page Conversions - Tracking goals

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Have a question you want to answer before viewing data

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Audience: Overview

Number of visits and pageviews Bounce rate Average time on site Percent of new visits Action: Are we engaging our users effectively?

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Set Up

Go to http://google.com/analytics Sign up Install tracking code to ALL pages of your website

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Audience: Location

Can see quality of traffic from different locations Drill down to state level Action: Are you hitting the right geographic audience?

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Audience: Location

Are you hitting the right geographic audience? Can see quality of traffic from different locations Drill down to state level

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Audience: Mobile

Shows percentage of mobile visitors Mobile has changed how websites are built Action: Are we focusing on how users visit us?

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Audience: Mobile

Shows percentage of mobile visitors Mobile has changed how websites are built Are you delivering the correct experience?

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Acquistion: Overview

Search engine traffic Referral traffic Direct traffic Marketing campaign traffic Action: Do we have a good mix of sources?

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Acquistion: Overview

Search engine traffic Referral traffic Direct traffic Marketing campaign traffic Action: Do we have a good mix of sources?

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Acquisition: All Traffic

Find your best traffic sources Analyze quality of users from each source Look critically at any paid ads you run Action: What can we do to encourage more users from

  • ur best traffic sources?
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Traffic Sources: All

Find your best traffic sources Analyze quality of users from each source Look critically at any paid ads you run

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Acquisition: Campaigns

Are you getting a return on your advertising? Google Adwords Email marketing Banner advertising Action: Can we do more marketing with what is working? Can we eliminate under performers?

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Acquisition: Campaigns

Are you getting a return on your advertising? Google Adwords Email marketing Banner advertising Action: What advertising is working? What isn’t?

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Acquisition: Social

Reports on social media driven traffic / conversions Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Action: How effective are social media efforts?

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Acquisition: Campaigns

Are you getting a return on your advertising? Google Adwords Email marketing Banner advertising Action: What advertising is working? What isn’t?

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Behavior: All Pages

Most popular pages Number of pageviews Time on page Entrance / bounce rates per page Action: What do are users use the most? Are some pages turning people off?

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Behavior: All Pages

Most popular pages Number of pageviews Time on page Entrance / bounce rates per page Action: Are some pages turning people off?

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Behavior: Page Timings

Checks average load times of each page Identifies any slow loading pages over time Action: Points to where technical issues may exist

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Content: All Pages

Most popular pages Number of pageviews Time on page Entrance / bounce rates per page

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Behavior: In-Page

Visual way of seeing where users go Overlays click percentages over existing website Quickly see most popular pages Action: Where do people go on each page?

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Content: In-Page

Visual way of seeing where users go Overlays click percentages over existing website Quickly see most popular pages

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Conversions: Goals Overview

How many users are completing goals? What percentage of users are completing goals? Action: How well is the website performing?

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Conversions: Goals Overview

How many users are completing goals? What percentage of users are completing goals? Action: How well is the website performing?

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Conversions: Funnel Visualization

See where visitors fall off a defined goal path Then focus on improving conversion rate

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Conversions:Reverse Goal Path

Looks backwards from goal to see how users arrived Can find common patterns of success Then focus on getting users to common paths

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Write down the reports that will help you track your goals

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Dashboards

Useful once you have identified key reports Able to see snapshot of important data at a glance

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Dashboards

have capture in next slide Say something smart about it here

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Tips & Tricks

Reports can be automatically emailed / added to custom dashboards Custom segments can be added (mobile, etc.) Compare timeframes to see improvements / set annotations when changes happen Apply monetary values to your goals Review on a regular basis (or else it’s just a tool)

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Takeaways

All websites have room for improvement - Google Analytics will show the way Set up goals to more accurately (and easily) track successes and failures Focus only on those reports that are relevant to your website Make data actionable to improve your site

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Thank You

All websites have room for improvement - Google Analytics will show the way Set up goals to more accurately (and easily) track successes and failures Focus only on those reports that are relevant to your website

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Let’s review your Google Analytics account (Volunteer(s)?)

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Ask Me Questions

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