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Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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1. Get relevant stakeholders on board2. Avoid multiple Google accounts 3. Identify key performance indicators 4. Define and configure website goals 5. Filter out internal traffic 6. Implement email marketing campaigns
Overview
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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In order to truly benefit from analytics-driven marketing, the top stakeholders from every department have to buy into Google Analytics.
They need to understand: what the benefits are how analytics works
1. Get relevant stakeholders on board
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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Stakeholders from other departments often want to control their own site.
They may think there’s a benefit to having their own Google Analytics account.
However, it can actually deter the process for them and the whole school.
2. Avoid multiple Google accounts
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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Your KPIs are the most important drivers of your website and your business decisions for it.
Schools have to ensure that they identify Key Performance Indicators that are relevant to each tier of stakeholder.
3. Identify key performance indicators
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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What do you want Google Analytics to tell you? More importantly, what objectives do you want visitors to
your site to accomplish?
Those questions are sometimes not asked, and that’s a major problem.
Google Analytics has to be aligned with your overall strategy, and this relies on the definition of clear-cut and measurable goals.
4. Always define and configure website goals
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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Schools can sometimes have hundreds of employees and terminals: accessing the website on a day-to-day basis accruing page:
views visits traffic.
This isn't what you want Google Analytics to measure, so it has to be filtered out.
5. Filter out internal traffic
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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Schools often use email marketing, which drive people to the website.
Problem is: they don’t properly implement those emails into their
analytics, which means they don't know the efficiency of this marketing tactic.
6. Implement email marketing campaigns
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
Avoiding Common Google Analytics Mistakes
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