Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 3, 2012 - Computers - 608 pages

This book is intended for use by customers using Google Classic Analytics and does not cover the newer Google Universal Analytics or related Google Tag Manager.

Google Analytics is the free tool used by millions of web site owners to assess the effectiveness of their efforts. Its revised interface and new features will offer even more ways to increase the value of your web site, and this book will teach you how to use each one to best advantage. Featuring new content based on reader and client requests, the book helps you implement new methods and concepts, track social and mobile visitors, use the new multichannel funnel reporting features, understand which filters to use, and much more.

  • Gets you up and running with all the new tools in the revamped Google Analytics, and includes content requested by readers and users especially for new GA users
  • Covers social media analytics features, advanced segmentation displays, multi-dashboard configurations, and using Top 20 reports
  • Provides a detailed best-practices implementation guide covering advanced topics, such as how to set up GA to track dynamic web pages, banners, outgoing links, and contact forms
  • Includes case studies and demonstrates how to optimize pay-per-click accounts, integrate AdSense, work with new reports and reporting tools, use ad version testing, and more

Make your web site a more effective business tool with the detailed information and advice about Google Analytics in Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, 3nd Edition.

 

Contents

Available Methodologies and Their Accuracy 23
23
Standard Features
54
What Google Analytics Does Not
70
Google Analytics and Privacy
77
Differences between Google Analytics and Urchin
83
Using the Google Analytics Interface
89
Summary
116
Top Standard Reports
132
Assigning a Filter Order
303
Creating Custom Intelligence Alerts
311
Focusing on Key Performance Indicators
359
KPI Examples by Job Role
373
Marketer and Communication KPI Examples
381
Content Creator KPI Examples
391
Webmaster KPI Examples
402
Using KPIs for Web 2 0
412

Social Interactions
138
Goal and Funnel Reports
144
Keyword Report
151
Usage Report
157
Part III
163
ing system so that any person not just Googlers could work through the online tutorials
182
Integrating with Your AdWords Data
188
Integrating with Your Webmaster Tools Data
194
Common Preimplementation Questions Summary
200
How to Contact the Author
201
Virtual Pageviews versus Event Tracking
213
What to Do When a ThirdParty Gateway Does Not Allow Tracking
220
Creating Custom Campaign Fields
234
Tracking Flash Video and Animation as Events
243
Clicks as Events
249
Multiple Domain Tracking
255
Controlling TimeOuts Setting Ignore Referrer Preferences
262
The Importance of Defining Goals
274
The Funnel Setup Process
281
Choosing Advanced Segments versus Profile Filters
288
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434
AdWords Ad Content Optimization
457
Assign Goal Values Method
463
Tracking Offline Marketing
470
Combining with Search to Track Offline Visitors
478
Working with the Google Analytics Core Reporting
509
Example Apps
518
Voice of Customer Integration
526
Mobile App Tracking with Google Analytics
534
Summary
542
Tools to Help Audit Your GATC Deployment
552
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About the author (2012)

Brian Clifton, PhD, is an internationally recognized web analytics expert who specializes in performance optimization using Google Analytics for a variety of high-profile brands. He formerly led the Google Web Analytics team for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and he initiated and helped launch the online learning center for the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ). Brian regularly speaks at industry trade shows, maintains the popular blog Measuring Success (www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/), and wrote the previous two editions of this book, which are used by students and professionals worldwide.

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