• 9 – 9:15: Eat, sip and mingle Icebreaker topic: If you could do anything, and money and safety weren’t a concern, what would you do? • 9:15 – 9:50: Google Analytics Basics • 9:50 – 10: Wrap-up and Goodbyes Next Session: June 18th “Drive Marketing Results with User Experience” Dan Lovejoy, Senior User Experience Architect, OG&E
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• 9 – 9:15: Eat, sip and mingle
Icebreaker topic:
If you could do anything, and money and safety weren’t a concern, what would you do?• 9:15 – 9:50: Google Analytics Basics• 9:50 – 10: Wrap-up and Goodbyes
Next Session: June 18th“Drive Marketing Results with User Experience”
Dan Lovejoy, Senior User Experience Architect, OG&E
Google Analytics Basics
Ruth Burr Reedy
Lift Digital Marketing Sessions
May 21st, 2015
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INSTALLING GOOGLE ANALYTICS
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Sign Up
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http://www.google.com/analytics
Could be “My Websites,” your company name, anything that
encompasses all the sites you’ll track
Make this the name of the site, not the URL
Here’s the URL!
Google wants to know Make sure you do this! Because, midnight.
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On Data Sharing
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Get the Code
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Put It in the <head> Section
• Add directly to the header template• WordPress Plugins:
– Google Analytics by Yoast – WP Google Analytics– Google Analytics Dashboard for
WordPress
• Or use Google Tag Manager
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Need it Later?
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WHAT TO TRACKAND HOW TO TRACK IT
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How to Speak GA• Session: Basically, a visit.• Source: A specific site sending traffic.
– Example: Google, Facebook, espn.com
• Medium: A specific kind of traffic.– Example: Organic, referral
• Channel: A traffic source.– Very similar to “medium”
• Metric: A quantitative measurement.• Dimension: A category that can apply to metrics.
Conversions
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What is a Conversion?
• Purchase• Request for more information• Signup for an event or newsletter• Click to email• View of a certain page