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Best Practices for TrackingCampaigns in Google Analytics
Mike PetroffDigital Content Strategist
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Intro
Mike PetroffDigital Content StrategistOffice of Digital Strategy
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Topics for discussion
● What we’re measuring, and why● How we’re using Google Analytics● Best practices● Tracking campaigns● Dashboards● Analytics distribution● Q&A
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USING GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Google Analytics
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What we measure
WEB● Harvard Gazette● Harvard.edu & President’s site● Alumni website● Harvard Campaign & The Story Map● College/Admissions
* We also have “view” access to a variety of school and department websites when they share them with Digital Strategy.
SOCIAL● Engagement/sharing of Harvard’s social
content:○ Facebook○ Twitter○ Instagram○ Google+ ○ LinkedIn○ Reddit
● Monitoring social mentions of Harvard and related news
MULTIMEDIA● Performance/engagement of University-
wide audio and video○ Harvard Gazette/Kaltura○ YouTube○ iTunes U○ SoundCloud
● Livestreamed video of campus events○ Media Technology Services
EMAIL● Silverpop
○ Daily Gazette○ President & University-wide emails
● Analysis of open & click rates, optimization for mobile platforms and email service providers
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How we measure
Google Analytics
Chartbeat
Hootsuite
● Topsy● Facebook Insights● Twitter Analytics● Iconosquare● SoundCloud● YouTube● Kaltura● iTunes U● More...
WEB SOCIAL & MULTIMEDIA
Litmus
Silverpop
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Why we measure
● The performance of your website● The behavior of your site visitors● The sources driving the most traffic● Communicating success related to
business objectives● Optimizing your content to better the user
experience● Share consistent analytics terminology
Tracking and reporting analytics on your web, social, and other digital properties will give you a better understanding of:
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How we use Google AnalyticsHarvard.edu Harvard Gazette
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How we use Google AnalyticsAlumni.Harvard.edu Campaign.Harvard.edu
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How we use Google Analytics
Google Analytics
● Tracking harvard.edu, Gazette, alumni website, etc.
● Engagement metrics● Regular reports● Tracking traffic sent to/from
sites● Event tracking across site
elementsChartbeat
● Real-time traffic segmented by source
● Helps show anomalous events and spikes
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How we use Google Analytics
Google Analytics: Event Tracking / Tag ManagerExample: Harvard Gazette 2.0 redesign
Site elements tagged to track performance, usability, popularity in new Gazette design.
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How we use Google Analytics
NEXT box in Gazette 2.0 design
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Why we measure (example)
NEXT box in Gazette 2.0 design
EXAMPLE:● Since Gazette 2.0 redesign, NEXT box has been clicked
84,132 times
The ‘NEXT’ box even drove more internal story clicks than the ‘POPULAR’ stories sidebar since the Gazette 2.0 redesign (about 24,500 more clicks)
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Best Practices
Resources:
http://guidelines.hwp.harvard.edu/analytics● Tips from Digital Strategy● Lynda.com resources and videos● Google Analytics setup checklist● Getting Started guide
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TRACKING CAMPAIGNS
Google Analytics
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Anatomy of a URL
Tagged URL
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Anatomy of a URL
hvrd.me/ARCIc
is actually...
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/08/ebola-genomes-sequenced/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-twitter-general
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Tracking campaigns
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/08/ebola-genomes-sequenced/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-twitter-general
utm_source=twitterutm_medium=socialutm_campaign=hu-twitter-general
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Tracking campaigns
utm_source=twitterutm_medium=socialutm_campaign=hu-twitter-general
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Tracking campaigns
Establish consistency in naming:● Medium (email, social, print, etc)● Source● Campaign Name
For example, our ‘Medium’ is the most general, then ‘Source’ gets more specific about the platform, then ‘Campaign’ is the specific name of the campaign.
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Tracking campaigns
Google ‘url builder’
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Tracking campaigns
Shared Spreadsheet
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DASHBOARDS
Google Analytics
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Google Analytics dashboards
● Dashboard example: Technology and Mobile
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Google Analytics dashboards
Resource: https://www.google.com/analytics/gallery/
Things consider:
● Site goals you’re measuring● Visitor technology (mobile/desktop, screen size)● Visitor behavior (new/returning, event tracking)● Who has access, frequency of check-ins
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ANALYTICS DISTRIBUTION
Google Analytics
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Distribution examples
Daily:Gazette email report
Goal:● Provides overall open/click rate, story clicks● Compiled in Silverpop, bulleted insights
Weekly:Dashboard report
Goal:● Overall top stories, traffic breakdown by Harvard sources
(Harvard.edu, daily email, social)● Compiled through GA Dashboard, with bulleted insights
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Distribution examples
Goal:● Trending analytics and analysis for main Harvard web,
email, social properties● Compiled through several analytics sources, collected in
shared Google Doc, bulleted insights
Ad-hoc:Snapshot analytics reports
Goal:● Provide consistent, templated approach to collection of
web, email, social stats and examples● Compiled using several analytics sources, collected in
shared Google doc
Monthly:Monthly analytics report
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Distribution examples
Example: Multimedia section from Monthly Report
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QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION
Google Analytics
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QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION
Google Analytics