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About Me!
•I.T. (6 years)•Instructional Technologist (software/portal trainer)•Promoted to Webmaster (maintained the Rollins website)
•Marketing & Communications (7 years)•Web Technology Manager, Webmaster
•Cascade site maintenance/enhancements/training•Google Analytics-accounts/tagging/reporting
•MBA: Aurora University•PCM: Professional Certified Marketer (American Marketing
Assoc.)
Rollins College-13 years
Linda M. Watson, MBA PCM
We've Got Google Analytics(And I Have a Treadmill in my Basement)
Linda M. Watson, MBA PCM
You Can't Improve What You Don't Measure
Who owns web analytics?
Marketing side or “the what & why”What Rollins tracks/measuresReporting and types of reports
Technical Side or “the how” Accounts/ProfilesDashboardsWeekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly reportsSegmentation
Going Forward
Analytics is ½ Marketing & ½ Technical
ReportsAll Traffic – External Visits – Internal Visits
What Rollins TracksWe built it! Did they come?
Measuring Year/Year Visits
Keeping track of what happened when
Annotations
External vs. InternalWho Came and what are they looking for?
Trend TrackingThe Trend is our Friend
Tracking Conversionsor measuring success
Link Trackingonclick event tracking code
onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Athletics', 'Click', 'RollinsIndexRightNav']);
In-Page AnalyticsFor those who do not event track links
Who gets a link on the Home Page?
Site Redesign
What is missing?Or what are users looking for and can’t find?
Moving departments to a new site
•Top/lowest viewed pages•Who is their Audience •Traffic Sources•Site Search•Referral Links•Recommendations•Review the plan
We meet with each department before they can move to a new site…..
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The technical stuff……
•Google Analytic Tracking Code•Profiles in Google Analytics•Dashboards•Reports
The how
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CodeTwo Google Analytics accounts
All Traffic
External/Internal
Department Dashboard/Report
Dashboard Widget
No Department Profile? Use Segmentation….
Segmentation
Profile Filter
Keep it Simple Reports
If your boss (or the president) hasn’t started to ask for web analytics reports at your university, college or school…….
Get ready: it may happen sooner than you think.
Going ForwardFocus Your Visitor Flow Report
To determine the complexity of our website to the average user.
Do My Visitors Actually Read Stuff On My Site?
Track Visitor EngagementContinue to tag links Look into Webmaster ToolsCreate informative reports for BOT/upper management
In Conclusion….
IT takes work….
You Can't Improve What You Don't Measure
•Create annotations to mark major events for future reference
•Add Dashboards and email reports
•Enable site search tracking
•Add event tracking for important links
•Create a plan to measure conversions/results
5 takeaways to improve your Google Analytics setup