Has anyone been able to use and see the Enhanced Link Attribution data in the In-Page Analytics interface of Google Analytics as per this document?
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2558867
I've implemented this plugin and call and I can see the data being transferred to GA in my __utm.gif call however when viewing the In-page Analytics of the site, there is no difference. I still see the clicks being shown in an aggregated standard form.
I'm curious if there is a piece missing and I need to enable some Advanced Segment filters or something to view the information.
There is a thread on Google Groups where people shared similar experience with the implementation and my observations are the same:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/analytics/enhanced$20link$20attribution/analytics/-FuKG8ARAPY/t-crCmrGEHsJ
Any help or insight would be highly appreciated! Google seems to be on mute as usual.
To solve the problem, I had to manually put a unique 'id' attribute to each link tag pointing to the same URL that I wanted to distinguish. The scope is the page so you don't need to worry if the same IDs repeat on different pages, they just need to be unique per page.
I used a naming convention that allowed me to have unique IDs and not to worry about duplicity, unless there were two links to the same URL within a section (in my header I have the logo and the home navigation link go to the same URL).
For example, in my site template, all header links use id="header-...", all links in the footer use id="footer-...", and all links in the body of the page use id="body-...".
Example:
Home
<img src="/logo.gif" alt="logo" />
go to homepage
Homepage
This has made the percentage in GA show different values for the same URL, which solved the problem. Nothing else I tried in the settings, or initializing the enhanced attribution plugin, did not work.
This was just announced:
http://analytics.blogspot.co.il/2012/11/announcing-enhanced-link-attribution.html
You'll need to enable enhanced link attribution in the web property settings tab (within the Admin section), which is rolling out - you may see it only in a few days/weeks.
First : Go to Analytics. Click "Admin" in the top right for the selected web property. Property settings tab > In-Page Analytics heading > Use enhanced link attribution = Tick checkbox.
You might also want to narrow down the date window to the last few days when looking at the data (after allowing 24 hours for it to come in). If you don't do this, the link-attributed data might get diluted in the standard "last 30 days" window.
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I created 3 custom dimensions through Google Tag Manager (added them as Data Layer Variables). Then, I added custom fields to my pages for these 3 custom dimensions.
After waiting about 24 hours, I checked the three custom dimensions on Google Analytics and two of them have showed up for all of the pages. The last one is showing up for maybe 4-5 pages, but not all of them. It's now been more than two days and the other pages still haven't populated with the last custom dimension.
Is there a quicker way to see if this third custom dimension is showing up for all of the pages with the designated custom field?
Since this is being done on a test site, most pages have not been visited a ton. Not sure if this can also matter for how long it takes Google Analytics to populate the data.
Get the chrome extension 'GA debugger' and go yourself to the site. On the console you ll see each hit sent to GA and all the fields that are being populated.
PS: Custom dimensions ll show up as 'cdX' where X is the number of the dimension.
I think you are passing the custom dimensions along with pageveiw. you can check the GA tags that are firing in network tab of your browser only to validate
In your browser access inspect element by right cliking on website and select network tab you can check the screenshot mentioned in the below URL to make all setting required to see GA tags in network tab
http://imarunkumar.blogspot.in/2016/08/blog-post.html
And then reload the page and you can see the Google analytics tags firing, check your tags if custom dimensions are being sent in the tags.
I hope you have provided the right custom dimension index number in GTM while creating the tags. Assume you are sending data to custom dimension 1,2,3 the in tag you can see the values sent.
cd1:xxxxxx
cd2:xxxxxx
cd3:xxxxxx
This confirms that Custom dimension tags are being captured on the page and sent through GA tags to Google analytics.
What if you can see these custom dimension beign sent through the tags but you cannot see the same in reports.
Here the custom dimension configuration you did on the analytics property needs to be reviewed.
As you are collecting all the custom dimension at every page the scope for these custom dimensions should be set at "HIT" level.
Let me know if you are facing any issue in checking them according to the instructions provided above.
I had a question about Google Tag Manager. (I also felt bad for having the IT guy fix my mistakes on my simple click tag)
I wanted to track when a user enters a specific url when they click a link button on the homepage.
This is what it looks like
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This is my idea on what the Tag and Trigger should look like
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But I'm worried about having the trigger be fired when there is another page in the funnel
Also if the only way to do this is in the goal feature of GA that is good to know also. (I currently don't have the permissions here)
Thanks for responses
While it is difficult to achieve exactly what you're describing (it would involve storing data in cookies and then using these cookies to conditionally fire tags), there is a better way to achieve what I assume is your ultimate objective: an analysis of the shopping funnel.
Specifically, the Google Analytics enhanced ecommerce module has a dedicated report (the Conversions > Ecommerce > Shopping Behavior report) that shows you exactly this. It shows you the number of sessions for each stage of your shopping experience (product view -> add to cart -> checkout -> purchase) along with drop-off rates and volumes between each of these steps.
It is a little bit more involved to implement enhanced ecommerce but the final result is definitely worth it for an ecommerce business. Instructions for implementation of enhanced ecommerce (using Google Tag Manager) can be found here.
GTM is hit based without any notion of persistence. So by default this will not work.
You would need a custom HTML tag with a javascript function that sets a cookie, or writes a value to localstorage, when the button is clicked.
Then on your destination page you can check if the cookie exists and fire the tag accordingly.
I don't think the goal feature in GA can do that, either. A goal is registered when you hit a destination URL or event, you cannot specify conditions other than the destination.
I am trying to implement Enhanced Ecommerce (EE) for Google Analytics (GA) using Google Tag Manager (GTM) but don't see any data showing up in GA.
Using the GTM preview mode, I can see that the data in the dataLayer is correct and that the right Tags are fired. I have also made sure to (correctly) create separate Tags for all the things I want to measure, which are:
measuring the product detail view
measuring the checkout process (both checkout steps and checkout options)
measuring purchases
Perhaps I should also note that I am developing from localhost, but I don't think that should matter (?).
Edit:
When composing this question I was unable to post images, but I later realized I can post links of course. So, for clarification:
Tags that are fired on my Product Detail Page:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/2woeqe8.jpg
The dataLayer containing the ecommerce data:
http://oi59.tinypic.com/6s7yxd.jpg
It turned out working localhost actually was the problem, my solution to this problem is explained here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29214212, but in short: go to Tags > My Tags > Configure Tag > More Settings > Fields to Set, type in 'cookie' in the Field Name input field, select cookieDomain from the suggestions, and set the value to none.
I embed custom links into each resume I send out, so I can see who as clicked on the links. I then take the custom value (passed through a url parameter) and pass it into Google Analytics as a session level custom variable. What I want to do is create a report that will show me all the typical information I can normally see (pages visited, time, etc), but filtered down by custom variables. i.e. I want to see that people form company X have looked at these parts of my website. I've been reading through all the documentation and feel like a custom report is the right way to go, but I'm not really sure. Any suggestions, links, instructions would be appreciated.
Create a custom report. Play around with some configuration like the following:
I'm trying to get Google Analytics to track the specific link in the page that was used by the users to get to a specific location.
Say I have links poing to the contact page from the main menu, the page's contents and the footer.
Looking at what other websites are doing, I've added references inside GET parameters for each of the links like so: http://www.example.com/contact?ref=menu , http://www.example.com/contact?ref=content and http://www.example.com/contact?ref=footer . I've also added the ref parameter to the ignore list inside Google Analytics so the three URLs are not tracked as separate pages.
My question now is: How sould I go about tracking which one was used to get to the contact page?
Although the post is a bit old, for others like me finding this via search, here is the solution. Enhanced Link Attribution in Google Analytics.
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2558867
Sounds like you are already tracking them with the URL param.
If Google Analytics is successfully tracking them as separate pageviews with the ref= URL param, then you could create a custom report in GA that shows the number of pageviews. The custom report can be added to your dashboard for quick reference.
The custom report can be set up like this:
Metric groups: pageviews
Dimension drilldowns: page
Filters: include -> Page -> regex -> /contact\?ref=(content|menu|footer)
Or, for each click, add the following to each link:
Contact
Contact
Repeat for each link. This is no more work than adding a ref= to each link.