Google Analytics makes it easy to see how many people visit your website. Sign up for GA, add some code to your website theme, and voila! You’re rolling in data. But, of course, you’ll soon learn that this is only a small piece of the puzzle. Google Analytics is great, but with ONLY the base
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Working in Google Ads is all about control and efficiency. You want to take control of your advertising, and you don’t want to let Google choose how you spend your budget. In Ads, keyword match types determine how much control you have over the searches that trigger your ads. There are four different keyword match types.
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How many of your current customers do you think you can target using Google Ads? Don’t know? Good news! Google can tell you. Google will even tell you how many of your customers they can find on the Search Network, the Display Network, YouTube, and Gmail. Crazy, right?!? It’s called Customer Match. Customer Match allows you
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Where do IP addresses factor into the world of Google Analytics? The answer to this question is both complicated and straightforward at the same time. Google collects IP addresses from your website visitors whenever you send a hit to their systems (think each time a page finishes loading). That means every Google Analytics hit from your
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Creating a successful marketing strategy all starts with defining your objectives. But what’s the best way to identify your marketing objectives? Should you choose goals based on the platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.), you plan to utilize for reaching new customers? Or should you choose to experiment with some marketing tactics that seem reasonable, commit to them,
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Let’s talk about bot traffic in Google Analytics. Most of the time, bot traffic in our analytics data gets a bad name. We think of it as spam, but there are good bots too. Whether or not you welcome them, 99% of the time you don’t want to see bot traffic in your analytics reports.
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