improving results through google analytics - dave chaffey : smart insights
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6 techniques to customise Google Analytics to help you get better results from your website.TRANSCRIPT
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Using Google Analytics toimprove your business results
Presented to The Internet ConferenceNottingham, 14th May 2010
Dr Dave Chaffey, CEO, Smart Insightswww.smartinsights.com
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Engaging web users is tough!
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Best practice
Qualifications
Books
About Dave Chaffey
Strategy &AnalyticsPortal & Software:www.smartinsights.com/beta
Search &Conversionconsulting
Strategyconsulting
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Agenda
• Mini case study• 1 Conversion optimisation strategy and planning
► The REAN framework. The “Cult of Analytics”► Conversion optimisation strategy
• 2 Google Analytics setup and customisation in 6 steps► 1. Working with reports ► 2. Segmenting with advanced segments► 3. Creating custom reports and dashboards ► 4. Setting up marketing campaign tracking► 5. Modifying profile and filter setup ► 6. Customisations with server modifications
► 3 A very brief intro to AB and MVT
► Please ask questions after each section…► No question too simple or too advanced!
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Case study Euroffice
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SEO and brand intro
OVP
OVP
Encourage searchdominant visitors
Encourage browsedominant visitors
“Reasons to return”
Social proof
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Euroffice social presence
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Euroffice Email Examples
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1 Conversion (goal)optimization strategy
Producing a plan defining:• Business goals and KPIs to improve?
•Areas of site to focus on?• Sequence of tests?
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What are we trying to achieve?Introducing the REAN framework – application – goals and dashboards
► Reach – Reach prospects and customers via search engines and brand communications on publisher, social network and other partner sites
► Engage – Engage through relevant quality content mainly on your site, but also content syndicated to partner sites
► Activate – Convert engagement into business value – generate leads and sales
► Nurture – Build relationships throughout the customer lifecycle through online direct messaging (Email, Blogs, RSS Feeds and SMS messaging) and community content
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REAN Questions► What would go on the REAN dashboard for you?
► Reach:► ► ► ►
► Engage► ► ► ►
► Activate► ► ► ►
► Nurture► ► ► ►
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Examples of measures within REAN framework
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How do we compare? Benchmarks
Source: http://www.marketing-online.co.uk/wiki/Ecommerce_Conversion_Rates_Statistics | 13
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Coremetrics summary dashboard example
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Where do we start? What will give us the biggest uplift in…?
Home page Landing pages
Category pages
SearchProduct pages
Conversion goal pages Check out pages
Branding & utility pages
Practical Tip – Identify most important page types by Content Drilldown volume, $Index (low or high), bounce
and exit rates multiplied by page views
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SOUND ADVICE…
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Source: Craig Sullivan independent survey 2009 | 17
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Activity: Where do most prospects enter and leave your sites? What are bounce rates? How does this differ for segments.
Home page
Search page
Category page
Product page
Sub-product page
Checkout / forms
Tailored landing page
Security & Privacy
About Us“Points of Resolution”
Pricing
Detailed product info
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Practical Tip Review % age of visits by
different landing page types (for first time and repeat visitors)
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Source: Craig Sullivan independent survey 2009| 19
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Tracking session interactions
Source: www.clicktale.comSee also: http://www.marketing-online.co.uk/wiki/Website_Visitor_Behaviour_Analysis_Tools
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Granular call tracking example
Source: http://www.clickthrough-marketing.com/phone-call-tracking.phpAlternatives: http://www.freshegg.com/call-track-id.htm,http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/call-metrics | 21
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Tip. Use Feedback tools“Why” not “What”
http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-software/website-feedback-tools-review/
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Google Analytics will only show you ‘What’ not ‘Why’ – other tools can helpiPerceptions http://www.4qsurvey.com/
“Bad web site. Difficult to find item as no search box provided for short cut”
“I can't find any prices on your website” “Would like to see where I can buy products from” .
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1 Google Analytics setup and customisation in 6 steps
1. Working with reports 2. Segmenting with advanced segments3. Creating custom reports and dashboards 4. Setting up marketing campaign tracking5. Modifying profile and filter setup 6. Customisations with server modifications
See: http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/web-analytics/customising-google-analytics-for-your-business/
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Working with reports in a smarter way
Customisation technique 1
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Smarter reporting options1. Using the calendar / time period options for comparison2. Pivot tables3. Filter reports with simple filter based on page or keyword name or New: an
Advanced Filter on any variable4. New: Setting annotations – beneath the top chart
5. Intelligence Beta:Review standard alertsvia left menu
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Use your “Intelligence”
http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/web-analytics/google-analytics-web-analytics/my-experiences-of-using-the-google-analytics-intelligence-feature-to-review-seo-and-pay-per-click/
Tip: Use Custom Alerts in your system
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Example Pivot + Filter
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Page analysis technique : Reverse and forward path analysis
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How effective is your scent?
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WHY CHOOSE US?
WHERE / HOW TO BUY?
NEW CUSTOMER?
<CUSTOMER-CENTRIC SERVICE NAMES>
Example SCENT TRAILS
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Segmenting your audience by setting up advanced segments
Customisation technique 2
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Advanced segments – how it works
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Advanced segments – some options• 1. Segmentation by Referrer / Traffic source:• Paid• Natural• Paid and natural brand and non-brand• By number of keywords – 2,3,4• Social media • 2. Segmentation by Visitor Type• New visitor• Returning visitor• Registered visitor• Customer
• 3. Segmentation by Engagement• 5 pages,• <3 pages
• 4. Segmentation by Content Viewed • Key landing page• Product page• Checkout complete• Folders for large organisation
• 5. Segmentation by Landing Page Type
• 6. Segmentation by Event:• Conversion goal types and E-commerce
• 7. Segmentation by Platform (less important)
• Browser• Screen resolution• Mobile platforms
• 8. Segmentation by Location Geography
• Main markets• UK• US• FIGS• ROW
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See http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/web-analytics/google-analytics-web-analytics/segmenting-google-analytics/
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Advanced segmentation exampleSegmentation by Visitor Type
Practical Tip Use Content Drilldown for understanding grouped content
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Advanced: Dimensionator for second page viewed
http://www.analyticspros.com/blog/googleanalytics/93-dimensionator-google-analytics-dimensions.html
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Handy plugin for relative SEO changes
Firefox plugin:http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/enhanced-google-analytics-firefox-plugin/
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Advanced segmentation 2:Tracking social media
Source (Step 10) : http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/web-analytics/configuring-google-analytics-guide/
See also: www.davechaffey.com/online-reputation-management-tools
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Creating dashboards and custom reports within Google Analytics
Customisation technique 3
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How do you use the dashboard??
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Custom reports beta (can overlay segmentation)
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Some ideas for using custom reports• 1. Time reporting.
Use a dimension of week/month to compare performance over time more easily
• 2. Value reporting. Repeat the value of different contributors:
– Keywords– Landing pages– Product categories– Countries
• 3. Role-based reporting.Setup different tabs for different types of people or marketing activity
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2010/02/leverage-custom-web-analytics-reports-insights.html
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Bubble ormotion charts
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NB shows animated performance by day
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Setting up marketing campaign tracking
Customisation technique 4
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Campaign tracking • Adwords will be tracked automatically
provided you have specified within Adwords• All other referring campaign traffic sources
need parameters adding where practical• Example: http://econsultancy.com/reports/search-engine-optimization-seo-be
st-practice-guide?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=generic Variable Meaning - http://www.epikone.com/blog/
utm_campaign The name of the marketing campaign, e.g. Spring Campaign.
utm_medium Media channel (i.e. email, banner, CPC, etc). What is the ‘distribution method’ that is used to get our message out to our clients?
utm_source Who are you partnering with to push your message. A publisher, or for paid search Google, Yahoo, Live Search,
utm_content The version of the ad (used for A/B testing). You can identify two versions of the same ad using this variable.
utm_term The search term purchased (if you’re buying keywords). This is not always used and is NOT included in the above example.
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Tip: Use a URL builder or spreadsheet• Another example:• http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8909• &utm_campaign=CCXAQ081009A• &utm_source=Monthly_xArts_Email• &utm_medium=Internal_Email• &utm_content=CCXAQ081009A_Bunker_image [or A_Bunker_intro]
• Activity: • Try the Google URL builder•
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578
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New May 2010 Google Adwords Beta
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Modifying profile setup within “Google Analytics Settings”
Customisation technique 5
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Setting up conversion goals
► Remember to►Setup multiple conversion goals►Attach notional value to each►Can then assess $Index value by referrer and content
► Ecommerce sites have specific product value attached so generally best not to add value to non-sales goal
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Consider additional goals – social bookmarking, commenting, catalogue requests, etcSee Ran Nir: http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2009/03/10-must-track-google-analytics-goals.html See also http://www.viget.com/engage/how-to-track-internal-links-in-google-analytics/
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New – 20 goals in GA so group them!
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Conversion funnels► These can be setup for each conversion goal► Example: Email sign-up, Landing page, checkout► Consider higher level funnels – or use conversion goals for these
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Show me the money!
http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2010/05/11/how-much-value-is-your-website-generating/
• The 3 key value measures in GA:– 1. Index value (Top content reports)
Shows the influence of pages in generating value either through Ecommerce transactions or conversion goals with a value assigned.
– 2. Per Visit Goal Value (Traffic Sources reports for Referring sites, Search Engines and Keywords – Goal tab) Based on value assigned to your conversion goals this shows you the Total Goal Value for your reports.
– 3. Per Visit Value (Ecommerce Revenue per visit) You can see Per Visit Value measures within Traffic sources on the Ecommerce tab if you have Ecommerce tracking enabled.
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Tracking on-site search
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Coremetrics UK Retail benchmarks
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Q. What to look for in site search reports?
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Filters and profiles – use for site structure
• To avoid a problem of 0 traffic there should be a master profile which NEVER has any filters applied.
• Process:1. Create Advanced segment
to test filter.2. Create filter.3. Apply to a test profile (only
used for testing purposes – can check in minutes).
4. Create final profile and apply filter.
5. Grant access to this profileFurther reading:http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2009/12/09/how-to-choose-between-advanced-segments-versus-profile-filters-in-google-analytics/http://www.google.com/support/conversionuniversity/?hl=enhttp://services.google.com/analytics/breeze/en/accounts_profiles/index.html http://services.google.com/analytics/breeze/en/filters/index.html http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsAccounts.html
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Excluding staff access to data1. Single IP address
• Select Filter Manager
• Select “exclude all traffic• from IP address”
• Use regular expression, e.g. • 176\.168\.1\.1
• 2. Range of IPs• Ssimilar – use IP address
tool at address below
• 3. Exclude by cookie
• Has to be based on login page to intranet or similar.
• Sets variable identifying employee in cookie
• Exclude visitors with cookie from main profile.
See Step 2: http://www.smartinsights.com/web-analytics/configuring-google-analytics-guide/
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Customisations that require server modifications
Customisation technique 6
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Ecommerce tracking
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And _trackTrans
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Using event tracking in GA ► Use event tracking for finding how popular different activities are:• Downloading documents (PDFs)• Clicking outbound links• Playing video clips
► Best script to apply :http://blog.immeria.net/2009/01/google-analytics-script-to-track.html
• Can also use Virtual Page Views but need to exclude False Page Views with additional profile – see http://www.viget.com/engage/how-to-track-internal-links-in-google-analytics/
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Engagement essential configuration:Event tracking
Source: Google announces final rollout of Event tracking June 2009:http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/06/event-tracking-now-available-in-all.html
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Custom variables in Google Analytics►Original called _setVar Javascript function on
page that uniquely identifies these visitors. Sets cookie for 2 year period.
►Now _setCustomVar ►With up to 20 variables►Possible applications:
►Different subscribers - bronze, silver, gold►Customers vs non-customers
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Read more: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingCustomVariables.html
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5 AB and multivariate testing
Introducing the Google Web Optimizer Tool
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Google Website Optimizer:7 key test types
• 1. AB Test (ABC Test)• Compare 2
or more page versions• 2 Multivariate test• Compare different versions of
page elements• 3 Split-path test• Compare 2 or more linear paths• 4 Multipath multivariate test• Multi-elements, multipages
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•5 Do Anything Test• Measure multiple conversion goals•6 Linger test• Measure engagement with page•7 Click•Measure clicks on advertiser links or to an external checkout
Read more: http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/11/02/google-website-optimizer-7-powerful-tests/
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Google Website Optimizer case study
Source: Moneyspyder blog (with permission):http://blog.moneyspyder.co.uk/2009/06/enhanced-google-website-optimiser.html x
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Combining event tracking with GWO
•Each variation / recipe in GWO is tracked as a separate event and can then be used to view more granular info – e.g. influence on AOV
Source: Moneyspyder blog (with permission):http://blog.moneyspyder.co.uk/2009/06/enhanced-google-website-optimiser.html x
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Don’t give too much choice?!
•Six different jams. 40% of the customers stopped to taste. 30% of those bought.
•Twenty-four different jams. 60% of the customers stopped to taste. But only 3% bought! http://sivers.org/jam
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Autoglass case study
Source: Craig Sullivan talking at Econsultancy Masterclass:http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/digital-marketing-strategy/online-marketing-masterclass-liveblogging
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TV Comparison
+2.4%
TV - Off
+6.4%
TV - On
-1.3% +14.8%
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Another example
+5.3%
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