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Google Analytics is the free tool used by millions of web site owners to assess the effectiveness of their efforts. Its revised interface and new features will offer even more ways to increase the value of your web site, and this book will teach you how to use each one to best advantage. Featuring new content based on reader and client requests, the book helps you implement new methods and concepts, track social and mobile visitors, use the new multichannel funnel reporting features, understand which filters to use, and much more.
Make your web site a more effective business tool with the detailed information and advice about Google Analytics in Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, 3nd Edition.
Introduction xxi
Part I Measuring Success 1
Chapter 1 Why Understanding Your Web Traffic Is Important to Your Business 3
Chapter 2 Available Methodologies and Their Accuracy 23
Chapter 3 Google Analytics Features, Benefits, and Limitations 53
Part II Using Google Analytics Reports 87
Chapter 4 Using the Google Analytics Interface 89
Chapter 5 Reports Explained 117
Part III Implementing Google Analytics 163
Chapter 6 Getting Started: Initial Setup 165
Chapter 7 Advanced Implementation 207
Chapter 8 Best Practices Configuration Guide 267
Chapter 9 Google Analytics Customizations 315
Part IV Using Visitor Data to Drive Website Improvement 357
Chapter 10 Focusing on Key Performance Indicators 359
Chapter 11 Real-World Tasks 417
Chapter 12 Integrating Google Analytics with Third-Party Applications 503
Appendix A Regular Expression Overview 543
Appendix B Useful Tools 551
Appendix C Recommended Further Reading 557
Index 561
Brian Clifton, who is deeply involved with web analytics at Google, usually succeeds in his endeavor to make Google Analytics accessible to an audience who is not just made up of webmasters. Chapter 9 called "Google Analytical Hacks" is probably by far the most challenging chapter for a non-technical audience. Mr. Clifton is very straightforward on this subject. He assumes that his readers have an in-depth knowledge of JavaScript.
Whoever reads this book will realize how much data Google Analytics can yield. Of course, data overkill can lead to analysis paralysis. For this reason, Mr. Clifton emphasizes that acting on the data is the single most important aspect of web analytics. Yet it is this that most people do not achieve. Furthermore, Bill Hunt, CEO of Global Strategies International, who Mr. Clifton quotes at the beginning of his book, observes: "Eight out of 10 implementations of web analytics solutions are incorrectly set up." Search engine and web site optimization requires time and resources dedicated to this endeavor.
In conclusion, Mr. Clifton shows with success how web analytics can be used to improve the key performance indicators for one's online success without minimizing the amount of work required to get it done.
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So, if you spend quite a bit of money on a Nook, then as your reward, you get to pay more for your ebooks than the print version. Come on B&N, you can do better than that. Of course there's always the Kindle and Kindle apps. FYI the Kindle version of this ebook is $12 cheaper than here.
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Google Analytics is the free tool used by millions of web site owners to assess the effectiveness of their efforts. Its revised interface and new features will offer even more ways to increase the value of your web site, and this book will teach you how to use each one to best advantage. Featuring new content based on reader and client requests, the book helps you implement new methods...