universal analytics and seo: how to improve your sem strategy with analytics's new features
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Presentation made at the Superweek 2014 in Hungary by Sébastien Monnier from Woptimo. These slides explain a few tips on how you can configure Universal Analytics, with the help of Google Tag Manager, to have a better understanding of your SEO and SEA traffic.TRANSCRIPT
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What Universal Analytics can do for your SEM
strategy.
@smonnier
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Who am I?● Natural Language Processing Academic Background● Googler for 3 years (Search Quality + GA team)● Woptimo founder in 2010: SEO, SEA, Digital Analytics...● Woptimo international founder in 2013
Some clients:
@smonnier
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Server-side Hit● GoogleBot monitoring● Offline conversionCustom Dimensions● MetaRobots information● Authorship
@smonnier
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Server-side Hit. It is time to take control of all your metrics.
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What is an offline conversion?http://jonburrows.co.uk/media/images/offline.pn g
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Client ID
Client ID
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1 - Use Universal Analyticshttp://www.stumiller.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/googles-new-universal-analytics.jpg
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2 - Send Client ID along with the form
<script>
ga(function(tracker) { var clientId = tracker.get('clientId'); $("form.wpcf7-form").append("<input type='hidden' name='clientId' value='"+clientId+"'>");});
</script>
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3 - Save the ID in your CRM (or just keep it in your incoming e-mail)
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4 - Create a specific form
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When processing the formJust send it to GA collector... with a server-side Hit
using curl or any other system.
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Define this event as a goal in Analytics
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GoogleBot Monitoring
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Why should you monitor GoogleBot ?
● Know if GoogleBot misses some pages● Evaluate time between publishing and crawling / indexing● Identify pages that should not get crawled● Check how important Google thinks you are
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Specific Universal Analytics account
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Specific PHP server-side script inspired by Cardinal Path’s script (source)
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Check PageViews report --> interesting insights
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Not as accurate as checking your log file, but much easier to put in place.
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Custom Dimensions
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Collect anything : Metrics or other type of data
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Example 1 - Custom Dimension - Robots
1
In GA Admin - Create the Custom Dimension
2In GTM, create a macro to get Meta Robots
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Example 1 - Custom Dimension - Robots
3In GTM - send the macro as Custom Dimension
4In Ga - Create a Custom Report
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Example 2 - Authorship
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Example 2 - Custom Dimension - Authorship
Same process:
1. Create a Macro in GTM2. Send the Macro as a Custom Dimension3. Create the custom Dimension In GA4. Create a custom Report
.... and voilà !
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Beyond usual Analytics
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A WebPage is not only● URL● Title
It also has● an author● indication for the bots● call-to-action● a layout● breadcrumbs● convincing and relevant content● images, rich media ...
All this can have an impact on SEO, we should integrate this in your Digital Analytics
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Here is a sample of things I would like to know
Do I get SEO traffic on pages with a canonical link?
Do people stay longer on articles with images? what kind of images?
Which author manage to have the more comments? Is it related to the size of its articles?
If I use 3 synonyms of my main keyword, will I get more SEO traffic?
Do I have more SEO traffic when sentences are short?
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... and this is just the beginning. @smonnier