Accurate conversion tracking and effective conversion attribution are two of the biggest challenges in paid search. After all, your optimization decisions are only as good as the data associated with your campaigns. Over the years, I’ve worked with many brands when their conversion tracking dropped off the website or was installed on all pages with over-reported conversions. … [Read more...] about Why Google Ads and Google Analytics Convs. Don’t Align (And Why You Should Try The Attribution Beta)
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Build Custom Reports in Google Analytics
When I first started working in PPC, I loved building reports - I was new, I had the time, I loved getting into the weeds of all the data for that month. As my career progresses, I’m finding less and less time to sift through data to create my own reports manually. Here’s the bright side! Since I am a data nerd and love learning new things, I invested in … [Read more...] about Build Custom Reports in Google Analytics
Adjust Your Small Business Strategy With Google Analytics
Do you work with/for a small business that’s struggling with low-funnel ads? Look no further! Use Google Analytics to redefine your goals to make data-driven, informed decisions. One of my former clients sold exclusive, high-end items. Their business model was incredibly unique as their online shop was only open a few times a year. During times they weren’t open, they built … [Read more...] about Adjust Your Small Business Strategy With Google Analytics
How To View Google Ads Data In Google Analytics
Connecting Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts offer several benefits to digital marketers. Analytics is a truly powerful and robust platform that will allow you to gain additional insight into what your customers do on your website post-click. Google Ads is a pay-per-click model, and understanding the full picture of how your customers interact with your website is … [Read more...] about How To View Google Ads Data In Google Analytics
Last Click is Outdated: Learn to Use Google Analytics’ New Attribution Beta
Google’s new tool compares how different attribution models impact the valuation of your marketing channels. Attribution models can be beneficial if you are looking for a deeper understanding of the customer journey, changing internal mindsets on how conversion credit is given, or want to look for areas to optimize and grow. Join Briana Ogle from Hanapin Marketing and Dmitry … [Read more...] about Last Click is Outdated: Learn to Use Google Analytics’ New Attribution Beta
How to Scale Tags: Example Google Analytics Properties via GTM
My Dilemma: I am one person. Google does not automate GAUIDs, Google provides wonderful tools that depending on what “Scale” means to you. That are not very efficient at “Scale!” Are you smiling in agreement, good, ice is broken so let's do this thing. Friendly reminder I am big fan of not re-inventing the wheel, I am big fan of studying wheel's and attempting to … [Read more...] about How to Scale Tags: Example Google Analytics Properties via GTM
Key Google Analytics Features For Effectively Analyzing Data
Being able to effectively analyze your data is critical when it comes to PPC performance. This article covers a few key Google Analytics features important for quickly analyzing your data in the interface. If you’ve used Analytics before but haven’t ventured in too deep then this article will help you better segment and view your performance. Secondary Dimensions Since … [Read more...] about Key Google Analytics Features For Effectively Analyzing Data
Troubleshooting Google Analytics Tracking
As an Account Analyst, a frequent request we get is to troubleshoot Google Analytics. Sometimes it’s a very specific request, like “can you see why our sessions don’t match our AdWords clicks?” and other times it’s a generic “can you make sure GA is set up correctly?”. In this post, we’ll go through some reasons why your data might not be accurate due to the account set up and … [Read more...] about Troubleshooting Google Analytics Tracking
A 180 of Google Analytics 360
A perk of most paid search management platforms is the level of data we are able to obtain without having to go far. As an individual that has focused on a variety of marketing efforts, spanning from paid and organic to print and media, I've spent my fair share of time poking around in analytics platforms. For the past year I've had the opportunity to work with a company … [Read more...] about A 180 of Google Analytics 360
How To View Bing Spend In Google Analytics
Using Google Analytics data to track performance and find optimization opportunities is crucial for successful PPC campaigns. Getting Bing data to import into GA is simple with Bing’s auto-tagging. Bing campaign spend, however, does not automatically import into GA. If you are using cost per conversion or ROAS data to analyze performance in GA, you’ll need to get the spend data … [Read more...] about How To View Bing Spend In Google Analytics
Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
8/12/2020 What is URL Tracking? URL tracking is the process of adding unique identifiers to your final URLs. If you aren’t tagging your URLs for tracking in either Google Analytics or your analytics platform of choice, you are losing out on helpful information. When you manage pay-per-click campaigns in conjunction with other online marketing efforts, it is extremely … [Read more...] about Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
Using Google Analytics To Power AdWords Campaigns
All too often we tend to think of Google Analytics and Google AdWords separately, when in reality, we need to be using them together. The amount of information that can be gathered from both platforms could lead to “analysis paralysis” but, when used correctly, you can optimize your campaigns to perform that much better. Lately, I have been writing about Display advertising. … [Read more...] about Using Google Analytics To Power AdWords Campaigns
