3. WEBINAR AGENDA
• Why
do you need Google Analytics to track social media ROI?
• How does Google Analytics treat traffic from social media?
• How to use custom link tagging for tracking social media traffic?
• How to easily instrument reporting and analysis?
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6. WHY DO YOU NEED GOOGLE
ANALYTICS TO TRACK SOCIAL MEDIA ROI?
• Social
networks have become strong traffic drivers
• Owned
& Paid Media
• Earned Media
• Neither
Facebook, nor Twitter provide data on what happened after the click
• Facebook
Insights
• Twitter Ads
• Understanding
the “path to purchase” requires combining Engagement metrics
with Traffic data
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7. USA
87%
EUROPE
77%
PERCENTAGE OF TOP 100 APPAREL &
ACCESSORIES RETAILERS LINKING BACK TO
THEIR ONLINE STORES FROM FACEBOOK
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8. Percentage of Status Updates Linking to Retailers’ Online Stores
33.9%
40.3%
0%
10.25%
20.5%
Europe
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30.75%
United States
41%
10. Percentage of Tweets Linking to Retailers’ Online Stores
26%
30%
0%
7.5%
15%
Europe
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22.5%
United States
30%
11. HOW DOES GOOGLE ANALYTICS
TREAT TRAFFIC FROM SOCIAL MEDIA?
• All
outgoing traffic is “parsed”
• Facebook: l.php
• Twitter: t.co
• Google Analytics
cannot capture the origin of the traffic
• Regular
referrers vs. social networks
• Paid, owned or earned?
• By
default, Google Analytics won’t give you actionable insights
(good for reporting though)
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14. HOW TO USE CUSTOM LINK TAGGING
FOR TRACKING SOCIAL MEDIA TRAFFIC?
• Link
tagging involves adding utm_ parameters
to the the link published in social media
• Link tagging allows Google Analytics
to put social media traffic into correct “buckets”
• Source, Medium, Campaign
• Facebook
• Url
page, Facebook Ads
shorteners DO NOT replace link tagging!
• bit.ly
• ow.ly
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17. USA
54%
EUROPE
52%
PERCENTAGE OF TOP 100 APPAREL & ACCESSORIES
RETAILERS USING LINK TAGGING FOR ADVANCED
TRACKING OF TRAFFIC FROM FACEBOOK
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18. HOW TO USE CUSTOM LINK TAGGING
FOR TRACKING SOCIAL MEDIA TRAFFIC?
• Link
tagging requires an internal policy
that everyone on the social media team follows
• Owned, earned
and paid media
• facebook_ads? facebookads? fbads?
• The
more granural you want to analyze, the more resources it involves
= fbpage vs. utm_campaign = fbpage_nov_12_2013
• tagging automation can help!
• utm_campaign
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20. HOW TO INSTRUMENT
REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
• Link
tagging without consequitive analysis is a waste of time!
• Google Analytics custom reports
• High
detail
• Retrospective view
• Google Analytics
custom dashboards
• Less
detail
• Real-time
• Other
options
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