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Showing posts with label Google Analytics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Analytics. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Google Analytics Assessment test 1

Google Analytics Assessment test 1 

I got 93%!  Since I had some experience with GA and done a lot of ad-hoc reporting, this test wasn't that hard (especially with the Tutorial videos).  Some of the questions weren't discussed in the videos, but you can look it up.







Ask: What is web analytics vs. marketing analytics?

Ask: What is web analytics vs. marketing analytics?

In marketing, we have the concept of a purchase/sales/click funnel. There are different stages within the funnel that describe customer interactions. A basic purchase funnel includes the following steps:


- Acquisition involves building awareness and acquiring user interest (Facebook Ads, Google Adwords) - Behavior is when users engage with your business (measuring activities on your website) - Conversion is when a user becomes a customer and transacts with your business (sales, download, etc) The current job market: Marketing analytics tend to focus on Acquisition + Landing page/AB Testing/ Conversion while Web analytics focus on Behavior /Missed Opportunities + Conversions.

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

What's the difference between Digital Marketing Analytics v.s. Web Analytics?


What's the difference between Digital Marketing Analytics v.s. Web Analytics? 

My co-working in Branding Marketing asked me a question today when I was pulling a report for her: What is the difference between Digital Marketing analytics and Web Analytics since I'm doing both for our company.


Web analytics

How is it defined? Short Answer: The goal is to analyze the Click Path or ClickStream.  Long Answer: It zooms in on the elements in the "user behavior" such as how potential customers or site visitors interact with particular elements in your marketing campaign or website. Interactions can be in the form of page views, time spent on a page, or click-through rate which give you an idea on customer/visitor behavior or Click-Stream behavior.

Softwares or tools used are Google Analytics ( used to be Urchin Software before Google bought them) and Adobe Analytics.

Marketing analytics 

How is it defined? Short Answer: The goal is to measure ROI.  Long Answer: It takes on a wider perspective than web analytics. It focuses on your marketing campaigns (such as Facebook or Instagram advertisement) and activities, multichannel attribution, marketing mix modeling, distribution of marketing efforts and the like, all within the context of discovering ROI and how effective your marketing tactics and strategies are.

Software or tools used? Since there are lots of different social media marketing platforms emerging and offline marketing campaigns that can't be tagged/streamlined, it's often executed by Analysts like me via adhoc- reporting.  I pull the data thru the platforms or API and then clean up the data in Excel or SQL (if IT dept got involved - usually startup/tech company have this covered). 

Saturday, July 20, 2019

How to Start Using Google Analytics with Your Blog!

How to Start Using Google Analytics with Your Blog!  

So before you start using Google Analytics (which is free if you didn't know.  Google bought Urchin Software in 2005 made it free for merchants..why? I'll let u know later)

You need to implement Google Tag for it to work correctly.  

Add Google Tag Manager To Your Blogger Blog

You can add the Google Tag Manager code to the HTML template.  (similar to Wordpress).. But there's a small catch ...

You need to change the ampersand (&) to its HTML encoded version (&) 

due to strict encoding schema in Blogger template. 

To edit the HTML template of your Blogger blog, click the Template menu item in the main navigation of your blog settings, and then choose Edit HTML in the screen that is displayed.

Next, copy-paste the GTM container snippet into its rightful place just after <body>.

In the container snippet, find the following string: dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';, and change the ampersand (&) to its HTML encoded counterpart (&), so that the string looks like this: dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&amp;l='+l:'';.

This needs to be done, as the template format used in Blogger has a strict encoding schema, and unescaped or non-encoded special characters such as ampersand will cause errors in the template if not fixed.

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