I’m presenting at the Denver Google Analytics Meetup tonight, and put together this cheat sheet on Google Analytics Events. Here’s a PDF version. Hat tip to Lunametrics for helpful scripts and being generally awesome.
Part III – Automation Everywhere Two Octobers has become a hotbed of automation. Around the office, people are creating tools to monitor shopping campaigns, forward emails based on client names, and manage ad copy programmatically. The complete list is far too long to include here, and I’m sure there are some I don’t know about. This
Part II – My First Project The problem: automated budget tracking and management My first project with Google Sheets and Google Apps Script (GAS) was to rebuild the campaign budget tracker we use to monitor budget pacing in paid search campaigns. This was the core functionality I had tried to replace first with a
Using the Google Merchant Center API, Supermetrics & More By Nico Brooks & Maggie Castle It doesn’t take much to upend a Google Merchant Center (GMC) account. A single recalled product in a feed of thousands could suspend an entire feed. Discrepancies in shipping costs, lost site verification, or expired feeds are also common culprits.
A handy trick for using google sheets regex File under: anecdotes from my love affair with Google Sheets. If you’ve ever had to consolidate a bunch of messy data into a few stem patterns, read on. I recently found myself needing to consolidate a bunch of Google Analytics page view data into a shortened list.
Part I – Failure and recovery This post is aimed at people who work in marketing and advertising, and are interested in automating tasks to improve quality and efficiency. It describes my recent journey towards achieving these goals. For a little context on my philosophy of automation, check out this post from a few
We are doing a presentation on September 15th for Denver Startup Week. More to follow after the presentation, but here is a link to the Google Presentation: How to get the most out of Google Analytics And here is a description of what we will be presenting on the Denver Startup Week site. The jittery
The Google Analytics assisted conversions report is very helpful for demonstrating which channels or sources indirectly influence conversions on a client’s site, but there are two somewhat confusing aspects to this report. The number of conversions shown by channel or source does not match other Google Analytics reports. Huh? The conversion numbers in the assisted conversions column sometimes exceeds
A quick primer on the nature of the problem One of the most common problems I run into with Google Analytics (GA) occurs when a website uses a 3rd-party shopping cart, booking system or other transactional functionality. These systems often run on another domain, which means a user goes from xyz.com to xyz.shoppingcart.com to
At Two Octobers, one of our core working principles is that collaboration makes work more productive and fun. To get better at it, we brought in some of the fabulous folks at On Your Feet. Here’s a short video capturing the ensuing productivity and fun. Video production, direction and editing: Johan Christanson Muse: Balto
Updated August, 2016, to reflect changes in Google Ads Editor and added support for the expanded text ad format. In the Summer of 2015, Google removed the HTML export feature from Google Ads Editor. We made heavy use of this functionality in order to share new campaigns with clients for approval. To replace it, I
Google recently released a major update to product advertising on their Ads platform. With the update came a new name, Shopping campaigns, replacing their previously-named Product Listing Ads (PLA) campaigns. Shopping campaigns generate keywords and ads from a product data feed provided by the advertiser, and are an incredibly effective way to market products online.
