Marketing, Measured
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Field notes on analytics, SEO, paid media, and AI search—what's actually moving the needle, not what's trending this week.
- Looker Studio
Analytics Roundup – Updates from December 2024
Musings on "what matters is measurable", new Looker Studio features, a cool free GA4 audit dashboard, and more.
Sortable Date Comparisons in Looker Studio Tables
Looker Studio's comparison date range columns are nice, but frustratingly not sortable. Learn how to create a table with sortable comparison columns.
Digital Marketing Updates: December 2024
Google tests AI Sales Assistant with conversational advice; TikTok launches an AI tool to create videos from URLs for effortless ads.
- Looker Studio
Analytics Roundup – Updates from November 2024
Trouble with troubleshooting, new features in GA4 & Looker Studio, what "do not sell" means in privacy regs, and articles that made Nico smarter.
Tracking AI Traffic in GA4: A Step-by-Step Guide
Report on traffic from people clicking through from AI services like ChatGPT. Build an exploration with a custom segment + a new channel group for AI traffic.
Digital Marketing Updates: November 2024
The latest developments in digital marketing include Meta feature updates, Google downgrading ranking on vastly different content, and more.
Analytics Roundup – Updates from October 2024
ChatGPT traffic in the GA house! Plus new features in GA4 and understanding GTM first-party mode (with NotebookLM). Giddyup, it's October's Analytics Roundup.
GA4 Path Analysis with BigQuery
Analyze the pages users visit in their paths through your website with GA4 data in BigQuery. A Google Cloud Project and some coding knowledge will be needed.
Five Great Plug-and-Play SEO Dashboards
Preview five great free dashboards for SEO reporting and analysis, and find the one that works best for you.