Kris

I'm fascinated by how technology are transforming the marketing landscape, and I analyze those dynamics and trends to help businesses make better strategic decisions.

Google Analytics User Defined Value And Segmentations Members Public

Google User Defined tracking, or “custom variables” are name-value pair tags that you can insert in your tracking code in order to refine Google Analytics tracking. With custom variables, you can define additional segments to apply to your visitors other than the ones already provided by Analytics. The implementation is

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Analytics

Tracking Subdomains in One Profile for Google Analytics Members Public

A common confusion is between cross-domain tracking and tracking cross-subdomain tracking. The analytics.js library uses a unique client ID to determine whether a user is new or returning. A user is considered returning visitor if a hit with a matching client ID has already been sent to the same

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Analytics

The Value of Your Traffic Referrals to a Website Members Public

I’ve picked up an interesting article from Fortune Magazine regarding what makes Google News worth so much to Google when there are no ads.  Through this article, I’d like to share some thoughts around measuring the value of your traffic to your website. Basically, free products offered from

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Marketing Strategy

How To Identify KPI For Your Website Members Public

A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a visual cue that communicates the amount of progress made toward a goal.  In this blog post, I’ll talk about how you can Identify KPI For Your Website. First, you need to ask yourself: * What drives the success of your website? * To whom

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Analytics

Web metrics can mislead you and how to avoid it Members Public

Web metrics can mislead analysts including the Wall Street analysts.  At one point in time, Wall Street ignored comScore’s disclaimer on the limitations of its metrics data, causing people to expect lower Google’s revenue. It turned out that Google had stronger earnings for the first quarter of 2008.

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Analytics

Site Optimization Utilizing Keywords from Search Members Public

When it comes to analyzing “keywords” against your website, you could probably look into few different areas of keywords analysis.  This post talks site optimization by using keywords from search. 1. Keywords from search engines 2. Internally searched terms 3. Data from Google Search Console For Optimizing Your Site for

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Marketing Strategy

ROI Analysis with Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Members Public

Tracking your source of visitors is very important, and Google Analytics’s campaign tracking allows you to measure your success from various sources. If you are spending money on paid advertising then you really need to: 1. Make sure you have set up your Google Analytics campaign tracking right (using

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Analytics

Tracking Google Analytics Linking Across Domains Members Public

The best approach in my view to track cross domain is to use Google Tag Manager and save yourself some time and headache to manage any future changes to your Google Analytics tracking set up. Here are the steps you need to take. Step 1:  Set Auto Link Domains Variable

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Analytics