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Google AnalyticsMaster: Tracking the Money
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Overview
• What do we want to know?
• and how do we track it?
• What reports show this information?
• How can we simplify it?
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What do we want to know?
• Who sends visitors to our site?
• Who sends visitors who book?
• How different sources compare in visitors and bookings?
Follow the Money!
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How do we track that?
• Who sends visitors?
• Tracked by default in Acquisition
• Comparison of results by referral source?
• Can be configured as custom Segment
• How many bookings /how much revenue?
• Configure Ecommerce
• Configure GoalsOne or the other (not necessarily both)
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Who sends Visitors?
• Acquisition
• Either All Traffic or All Referrals
• Default is sorted by number of Sessions
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Compare results by source
• Same screen (Acquisition -‐> All Traffic / All Referrers)
• Ecommerce or Goal Set view (if available)
• To compare similar sources (directories?)
• Create custom Segment
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Create a custom Segment
• Add Segment -‐> New Segment
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Create a custom Segment
• Name segment
• Filter Sessions
• List paid Traffic Sources
• Save
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Create a custom Segment
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Create a custom Segment
• Clicking “Test” will show if data will be created
• After saving, click Add Segment, select your new segment, Apply
• Compare results of only the sources in your new segment
• Get the Paid Listings segment at
http://goo.gl/F7FWs1
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Why This Is Not Enough
• How do you decide if a source is sending enough bookings to justify the expense?
• “Seems like they're not sending enough traffic”
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Why This Is Not Enough
• What if Google sends you AdWords bucks to try?
– How will you know if it sent bookings? • What if Directory “X” calls to ask you to upgrade, promising more traffic?
• How will you know it is worth it?
• How do you know if a new paid listing is bringing new bookings?
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The only way to KNOW
• Flying by the seat of your pants isn't good enough!
• You need to
• Compare bookings before/after (not just visitors)
• Compare organic before/after to PPC+Organic
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The only way to KNOW
Is to
Follow the
Money!
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Tracking the Money
• Using Ecommerce tracking
• Using Goals
• Caution: If you have both set up to track the same event (booking), be careful that reports don’t “double-‐dip”
• Your Booking Engine must support GA for both and must support Ecommerce to track it.
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Whichever method you use
• You need to make a small, cut-‐and-‐paste, change to your GA code on your website (to allow tracking to include your booking engine)
• If you use Universal Analytics:
• http://goo.gl/LutTMe
• If you use traditional GA:
• http://goo.gl/dTvQIN
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Ecommerce Tracking
• Setup
• Admin -‐> View -‐> Ecommerce Settings (ON)
• Set up check-‐out screens for ecommerce
• Must use booking engine that supports ecommerce, or there will be no data
• If they support ecommerce, this part will be set up for you
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No Ecommerce? Set up Goals
• What we will need:
• URL of the page after a booking is completed
• Preferably, URLs of pages leading to a completed booking
• Value of your average booking
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Goals
• In GA, Admin -‐> View -‐> Goals
• Click New Goal
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Goals
• Provide Goal name
• Set type to Destination
• Click “Next step”
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Goals
• Change “Equals to” to “Begins with” if your URL has a question mark followed by other data at the end of the URL, then remove the question mark and everything after it.
• Put the URL for the goal in the box
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Goals
• Turn on Value, and enter the value of your average booking in the box.
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Goals
• The Goal will work now
• Data will show up after about a day
• If you would like to be able to see where prospective bookers abandon the booking process, add a Funnel
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Goals -‐ Adding a Funnel
• Turn on Funnel, then add the pages users follow to complete the goal.
• Save
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Viewing Ecommerce Data
• Acquisition -‐> All Traffic, select Ecommerce at top of page
• Conversions -‐> Ecommerce -‐> Overview, select Source/Medium (full report is same as #1)
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Viewing Ecommerce Data
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Comparing SourcesUsing our Segment of Paid Sources
Sources bringing revenue
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Compare Time RangesBefore/After (usually year-‐over-‐year)
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Compare Time RangesBefore/After (usually year-‐over-‐year)
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Giving Partial Credit
• Multi-‐Channel Funnels (MCF)
• Gives partial credit to sites sending visitors who return multiple times before booking
• Assisted Conversions are conversions a source participates in without being the final conversion interaction (Last Click)
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Multi-‐Channel Funnels
• Conversions -‐> MCF -‐> Assisted Conversions
• Then click the Channel you want to view (Referrals, Organic, Direct, Paid Search, etc.)
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Multi-‐Channel Funnels
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Automate Reports
• Build a Dashboard
• Widgets provide graphs and charts for “At-‐a-‐Glance” info
• Shortcuts create Bookmarks for favorite reports
• Email Reports
• Once, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly
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DashboardsColumns for Acquisition, Behavior, and Conversions
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Dashboards
• Get the sample Ecommerce Dashboard at
http://goo.gl/e2dZxT
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Email Reports
• Open a report you want to receive
• Click “Email”
• Enter Recipient email address
• Select format (CSV, PDF, etc.)
• Select frequency
• Add some text
• Send
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Email Reports
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Summary
• See who sends visitors in Acquisition
• Compare sources using custom Segments
• Evaluate results by Bookings (not visits)
Follow the Money!
• Automate reports with Dashboards, Shortcuts, Email
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