While Google Analytics provides many reports and metrics designed to evaluate the effectiveness of content marketing, there is no report showing the conversion rates of specific posts or pages on your site. For example, if you’re tracking registrations on your…
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Google’s online spreadsheet service, Google Sheets, allows users to install add-ons (aka plugins or extensions) for additional functionality. After making a little Google Sheets add-on of my own, Archive Data, I became curious about what add-ons are most popular. Through…
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In response to many questions about tracking IP addresses in Google Analytics, this is a follow-up post to Get Visitor IP Address with Google Tag Manager. Please follow the instructions in that post first to collect visitor IP address into a…
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Google Analytics’ e-commerce tracking is generally the most developer-intensive part of a Google Analytics implementation, because it requires a developer-built data layer on the transaction confirmation page. The data layer collects all the relevant data — the transaction ID, the…
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If you have a blog or work with content, you will likely want to know which type of posts are viewed most frequently by your readers. Google Analytics provides a lot of options for tracking content: it will show you…
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This guide describes how to integrate the Google Analytics Client ID with the Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress. No additional plugins are needed, though you will need to have Google Tag Manager available on the form page. While this post…
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This post provides downloadable Google Tag Manager (GTM) scripts and a walkthrough of the necessary steps for getting clickstream data out of Google Analytics. This clickstream data already exists behind the scenes; every time a user takes a tracked action…
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Google Optimize is Google’s A/B testing platform that lets you build variants of your site and run experiments to determine which version performs the best. Without additional configuration, you can choose among the following default experiment objectives: Bounces, Pageviews, Session…
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Google’s Tag Assistant plugin is a great tool for troubleshooting various Google tags like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and Google Tag Manager; just install and navigate to your site to enable checks for hundreds of issues. This post will describe…
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While Google Tag Manager is best used in conjunction with a data layer, there are many cases where it will make sense to more rapidly deploy tags by scraping the DOM instead. Generally this is because DOM scraping means using…
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