Date post: | 22-Nov-2014 |
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@dergal@sitevisibility
… so google docs
… when we notice
We start to fix it …
Meet Dane ….
5 x clients
15 minutes checking each client for issues… Daily
5 x 5 x 15 = 6 ½ hours … per week!
This means monitoring ….
How ? – Google docs FTW
In a google doc, click add-ons …. & install
Next bit is actually pretty easy …
Follow the wizard but select the metrics
Metrics Sessions
Dimensions Dates Medium
This outputs a spreadsheet that needs to be formatted into a pivot table graph.
View IDs
A massively important part of this process is the view ID – Login to Google Analytics Go to “Admin” of the account you want click on
view settings Get the View ID
Rinse and repeat …
Repeat for every client … Run. Creating the graphs ….
So why sites …
Its actually pretty hard to build the cool dashboards in Google sheets
Getting more than one graph on a page is challenging
Sites makes it easy to make a private dashboard that you can integrate any content into it!
You can have multiple pages so split the graphs by account manager for instance – have a separate page for PPC
We can now easily monitor sites
This means we are the first to see spikes and drops in clients analytics accounts if they are using Google Analytics and are correctly tagging campaigns.
In the future we hope to be able to push out more updates to our own platform
Our next steps for us are to pull the data into a SQL database for crazy smart monitoring and analysis, we are already doing this for PPC via Analytics Canvas. http://www.analyticscanvas.com/
We’ve been hit by ….
Panda
Penguin
Caffeine
A Smooth Criminal
The penguin tool from barracuda is awesome …
www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/
But we felt we could go better as we needed - - Seasonality
- Client Updates
- Interactivity
What we came up with Was a pretty awesome self running solution, interactive, zoomable with year on year 7 day average data visualisation that could be copied and given to clients
Overlaid with all the Google Updates
The tech geek bit ….
The data from Moz -
http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
Build your own….
Login to Google Analytics Get your View ID Go to - http://bit.ly/svpenda Make a copy Put in your view ID Install the GA Add in Run Analyse ….
Similarly create a spreadsheet for all your clients speed….
Benchmarking makes the data far more useful…. Run monthly to spot issues …
so … Google docs & analytics
Can create the mother of a dashboard
Compare multiple sites quickly
Make an awesome Penda (name subject to change) tool
Want to see the Penda tool in action? – visit the SiteVisibility stand to get your site run through the tool!
Exports …
Export to Excel for Awesomeness ….
One thing that Google docs can’t do … awesome conditional formatting … and other awesomeness ….
Additional Monitoring everyone should do …
AWR – pretty awesome for daily / weekly rank checking http://www.AdvancedWebRanking.com/online/
StatusCake – free uptime monitoring & speed https://www.statuscake.com/
WMT Google Bing Yandex, Baidu etc.. if you are international
Thanks! Any questions – drop me a tweet!
http://twitter.com/dergal Tune in to the SiteVisibility Podcast for more
hints and tips - http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/impodcast/
Contact us at www.sitevisiblity.co.uk