A presentation covering the what, why, and how for using Google Analytics as the central hub for gaining marketing insights and acting on them to drive business growth.
To Participants: (Click to show mediums) Mediums are the channel – how visitors came to the site. We’ve already talked about direct, referral, and organic and paid search. You can add other mediums, such as email, banner ads, etc.To Participants: (Click to show sources) The source is where the visitor came from. (Click to show connections between mediums and sources) For direct traffic, there’s no source. For referral traffic, it’s the site where the link was. For search traffic, it’s the search engine. For email, maybe the source is the name of your newsletter.To Participants: (Click to show campaigns) Finally, there’s a third label we haven’t talked about yet called the campaign. You can use this to label a particular marketing activity and to tie together multiple marketing activities across sources or channels.
To Participants: (Click to show mediums) Mediums are the channel – how visitors came to the site. We’ve already talked about direct, referral, and organic and paid search. You can add other mediums, such as email, banner ads, etc.To Participants: (Click to show sources) The source is where the visitor came from. (Click to show connections between mediums and sources) For direct traffic, there’s no source. For referral traffic, it’s the site where the link was. For search traffic, it’s the search engine. For email, maybe the source is the name of your newsletter.To Participants: (Click to show campaigns) Finally, there’s a third label we haven’t talked about yet called the campaign. You can use this to label a particular marketing activity and to tie together multiple marketing activities across sources or channels.
To Participants: (Click to show mediums) Mediums are the channel – how visitors came to the site. We’ve already talked about direct, referral, and organic and paid search. You can add other mediums, such as email, banner ads, etc.To Participants: (Click to show sources) The source is where the visitor came from. (Click to show connections between mediums and sources) For direct traffic, there’s no source. For referral traffic, it’s the site where the link was. For search traffic, it’s the search engine. For email, maybe the source is the name of your newsletter.To Participants: (Click to show campaigns) Finally, there’s a third label we haven’t talked about yet called the campaign. You can use this to label a particular marketing activity and to tie together multiple marketing activities across sources or channels.
To Participants: (Click to show mediums) Mediums are the channel – how visitors came to the site. We’ve already talked about direct, referral, and organic and paid search. You can add other mediums, such as email, banner ads, etc.To Participants: (Click to show sources) The source is where the visitor came from. (Click to show connections between mediums and sources) For direct traffic, there’s no source. For referral traffic, it’s the site where the link was. For search traffic, it’s the search engine. For email, maybe the source is the name of your newsletter.To Participants: (Click to show campaigns) Finally, there’s a third label we haven’t talked about yet called the campaign. You can use this to label a particular marketing activity and to tie together multiple marketing activities across sources or channels.
Explain the examples given. Compare and contrast the campaigns, mediums, and sources given and point out that the combinations of these each uniquely identify a particular marketing activity.Point out that there are additional labels (keyword and content) available to differentiate ads, but we won’t be discussing those in detail today.ACTIVITY:Refer participants to the Experience Guide.Instruct them to complete one or two example campaign-medium-source combinations to describe a marketing activity for their site.When they are complete, ask for a few examples, or questions where participants had trouble deciding how to label their marketing.
To Participants: This is a simple form provided by Google where you can fill in the details and it creates the URL for you. You can take the sample labels we created a few minutes ago, for example, and put them in here. You need to know:The landing pageThe source, medium, and campaign(Optional fields for term and content, which we didn’t talk about)To Participants: Once you fill in the form and click the button, it generates the URL for you. Then you can copy and paste this URL into your email newsletter, into a banner ad, etc.
To Participants: This is a simple form provided by Google where you can fill in the details and it creates the URL for you. You can take the sample labels we created a few minutes ago, for example, and put them in here. You need to know:The landing pageThe source, medium, and campaign(Optional fields for term and content, which we didn’t talk about)To Participants: Once you fill in the form and click the button, it generates the URL for you. Then you can copy and paste this URL into your email newsletter, into a banner ad, etc.