Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics

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John Wiley & Sons, Mar 30, 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

Measuring Success 1
1
Available Methodologies and Their Accuracy 23
23
How Google Analytics Works
63
What Google Analytics Does Not
70
Google Analytics and Privacy
77
Differences between Google Analytics and Urchin
83
Using the Google Analytics Interface
89
Advanced Segments
95
The Funnel Setup Process
282
Choosing Advanced Segments versus Profile Filters
288
Five Common Profile Filters
295
Assigning a Filter Order
303
Creating Custom Intelligence Alerts
311
Customizing the List of Recognized Search Engines
326
Implementing Custom Variables
333
Differentiating PayPerClick Network Partners
340

Aggregate Summary Metrics
97
Summary
116
Top Standard Reports
132
Social Interactions
138
Goal and Funnel Reports
144
Keyword Report
151
Usage Report
157
Part III
163
Tagging Your Pages
170
Keeping a Local Copy of Your Data
176
Creating a New Web Property
182
Integrating with Your AdWords Data
188
Integrating with Your Webmaster Tools Data
194
Common Preimplementation Questions
200
Advanced Implementation
207
Capturing Secure Ecommerce Transactions
214
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
Setting Ignore Referrer Preferences
261
Best Practices Configuration Guide
267
Goal Conversions and Funnels
273
Rollup Reporting
353
Presenting Your KPIs
367
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
Measuring the Impact of Site Search
431
Optimizing Your Search Engine Marketing
437
Landing Page Optimization and
449
Monetizing a NonEcommerce Website
462
Tracking Offline Marketing
470
Combining with Search to Track Offline Visitors
478
Where Does Testing Fit?
484
A Retail Multivariate Case Study 495 xvii
495
Summary
502
Integrating Google Analytics with ThirdParty Applications
503
Working with the Google Analytics Core Reporting API
509
Example Apps
518
Voice of Customer Integration
526
Mobile App Tracking with Google Analytics
534
Summary
542
Recommended Further Reading
557
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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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