I created a blog and a CMS for blog's admin. The CMS has it all that admin needs: views, geolocation, subscribers, etc, so I don't really need Google Analytics anymore.
What we do need is to monetise the website and we want to use Google AdSense for that and now comes the question:
If I implement AdSense, will it be able to count my views without using Analytics? Do I need to prove AdSense the number of my views somehow? If so, than how should I, if I don't use Analytics?
Yes, AdSense has its own interface with its own reports, it is independent from Analytics. However it indicates the number of views and interactions with the ads on your site, for sure it is neither a comparable nor a replacement tool for Anlaytics.
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I've been trying to do a bit of research into this but am not really able to find a proper answer.
I have a number of ad campaigns for my site and I want to see where referrals are coming from and which ad campaigns are working best.
For example, I want to tell how direct email marketing campaigns are performing compared to one another. Normally I think most of these come up as 'direct' traffic in Analytics.
However, I want to know if there is some way I can change the URL's in the various ad campaigns like:
example.com?adcampaign=1
example.com?adcampaign=2
example.com?adcampaign=3
etc,
And then be able to see these in Google Analytics as referrals like Google, Facebook etc,.
Note:
I am using Google Tag Manager to handle advanced ecommerce tracking in Analytics
For future reference this is what is needed:
utm_source // the source it came from
utm_medium // the medium used
utm_campaign //the advertising campaign it is part of
ref: support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en
I'm using Google Analytics for the first time. I have been waching some videos about how to set up Google Analytics for a website. I'm a little bit confused. In the videos they paste the tracking code only once like in the index.php. Is this really enough? Can Google Analytics track all the activities on all other pages in my website? I thought there should be a unique tracking code for each page on the website or am I thinking wrong here!? Preciate some explanation. Thanks!
Basicaly it is enough. You have to put google analytics code to all pages you want to track. You can do it by putting it into for example index.php which is shared by each page. Google analytics will handle all the activities on all pages and you will see results in admin section (reports and other staff).
I'm looking to run a PPC campaign on LinkedIn, and I'm just wondering what the best way would be to show how many people that have clicked on ads, have placed an order. LinkedIn don't provide any form of conversion code - and I'm not sure how I could set this up within Google analytics?
use campaign tracking .This is the only way we can track visits from relevant campaign banners. Campaigns in Google Analytics :
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en
Use this line below to create your campaign code.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en
use “Campaign Content” to separate banners (names) .
you can use Advance segments to track the number of conversions.
I use custom google analytics variables to track the user ID of the visitor.
What I want is to see which pages a user visits after he signups to my website.
To achieve this I try to create a custom report about which pages a certain user ID visits.
I can't get this to work, on the custom report system I cannot select the correct filters & settings.
I hope anyone here has experience in doing this and can help me in the right direction.
Google Analytics won't show you this information at scale. It might work for 1-2 visitors, but Google Analytics purposefully restricts you from seeing individual visitor details.
Your best bet is to use a software product so you don't violate any privacy restrictions.
I would suggest looking into Universal Analytics. Much more centered around users - http://online-behavior.com/analytics/universal
I have a website where members can create their own page. Current I have a script that tracks how many views the member page was viewed. But I would like to display more information like unique visits, return visits etc.
Is there any analytic software that could let me do that?
I am guessing you want to display on each member page some analytics information.
You didn't specify what language you used to build the site.
Here's a PHP API class to query a Google Analytics account.
Also, check this and this for documentation about the API. You can retrieve analytics data / metrics in many ways that the default Analytics reports don't show.
Now you need to think of a way to differentiate between member pages in Analytics (use custom variables in your tracking code, maybe).
Hope this helps.
If you don't want to deal with getting in to the Google Analytics API, I suggest you check out some of the solutions on the Google Analytics Application Gallery. I for one work with embeddedanalytics. While we don't have it very well published on our site, we have done a number of CMS type implementations, allowing a single implementation to be used by many different users of the site. The differentiation could be based on page path or some specific custom variable. Visit us and contact us directly if you are interested.
(disclosure - I work with embeddedanalytics)