Reporting can be a pain. In today's post, Tian Wang explains about an oft-ignored tool that can help ease some of that pain and make your reporting a breeze: the Google Analytics add-on for Google Sheets.
When it comes to automating your Google Analytics reporting, Google Sheets is your friend.
What you measure is what you're able to improve. Setting yourself up for success involves measuring your traffic metrics the right way, so you can identify areas to work on and implement the right actions. In the first Whiteboard Friday of 2016, Rand explains what you need to include when building your own traffics metrics dashboard in the new year.
How do you keep track of all the data that supports your business intelligence? Ian Watson walks us through setting up a live reporting dashboard that integrates your favorite APIs into an easy-to-visualize format.
Be honest: Are your recommendations based on true analysis, or a template you've become comfortable with? This piece by Bill Sebald will challenge you to think about how you value and use your time in Analytics, and provide useful Analytics examples.
Pay-per-click advertising generates vast amounts of data, which presents us with tremendous potential for optimization and success. However, this formidable sword cuts both ways—even skilled managers can quickly find themselves adrift if tests and changes are not carefully tracked. Here’s a quick, actionable guide to keeping order in your AdWords account with a simple and professional activity log.
Don't be distracted by web spam. A simple, easy to use filter could remove the majority of your worries surrounding spam.
If Google Analytics was failing to report data correctly, would you be able to recognize and rectify the problem? After reading this post you will.
In today's Whiteboard Friday, Ed Reese, the founder of Sixth Man Marketing, shares his five favorite approaches to organizing informative analytics dashboards.
This is a post about how anyone can write a clearer, more persuasive report. And the lessons contained herein can help you with any form of corporate communication, whether you're writing for a client or your boss. Get ready to sound smarter.
The metrics we show in our reports should be based on our goals, but that leap is easier mentioned than made. In today's Whiteboard Friday, MozCon speaker Dana DiTomaso walks us through the process of converting our goals into truly reportable metrics.
Without a basic understanding of statistics, you can often present misleading results to your clients or superiors. In this post I want to cover the main aspects of planning, monitoring and interpreting CRO results so that when you do roll out new versions of pages, the results are much closer to what you would expect. I’ve also got a free tool to give away at the end, which does most of this for you.
Let's face it: We're all pressed for time, and measuring, analyzing, and reporting the success of content marketing is time-consuming work. Here's how you can distill the performance of your content into a single metric: one metric to rule them all.
We all look at keyword rankings, but is it still a useful metric to report? In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Cyrus Shepard discusses how changes in search have made individual keyword rankings a shaky metric at best, and he presents 10 needle-moving numbers to measure and report instead.
