Book description
Sams Teach Yourself Google Analytics™ in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use Google Analytics to accurately measure your website’s performance–and improve it!
10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…
Quickly create a Google Analytics account and add Google Analytics to your site
Define goals and measure how well your site is achieving them
Track visitors from search engines, pay-per-click advertising, email, and other sources
Discover the pages your visitors view, how long they stay, and where they exit
Monitor specific user actions, such as playing embedded video, selecting Flash menu items, or downloading files
Identify your best and worst content, and fix poorly performing pages
Improve your site by tracking error pages and broken links
Measure AdWords traffic, position, and e-commerce performance
Manage Google Analytics through the Dashboard
Customize Google Analytics to work more effectively with your site
Capture more accurate information by filtering out internal traffic
Choose the right reports and data, understand them, and act on what you learn
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Lesson 1 A 10-Minute Guide to Web Analytics
- Lesson 2 Creating a Google Analytics Account
- Lesson 3 Adding Google Analytics to Your Website
- Lesson 4 Using the Google Analytics Dashboard
- Lesson 5 Customizing Data in the Dashboard
- Lesson 6 Tracking Visitors
- Lesson 7 Analyzing Traffic Sources
- Lesson 8 Analyzing Top Content
- Lesson 9 Tracking AdSense Performance
- Lesson 10 Viewing the Site Overlay Report
- Lesson 11 Tracking AdWords Traffic
- Lesson 12 Tracking Ecommerce
- Lesson 13 Measuring Site Search Usage
- Lesson 14 Setting Up Goals and Funnels
- Lesson 15 Using Event Tracking
- Lesson 16 Creating Custom Reports
- Lesson 17 Filtering Data
- Lesson 18 Customizing the Google Analytics Tracking Code
- Lesson 19 Creating User-Defined Visitor Types
- Lesson 20 Filtering Out Internal Traffic
- Lesson 21 Tracking Error Pages and Broken Links
- Lesson 22 Tracking File Downloads
- Lesson 23 Tracking Full Referring URLs
- Lesson 24 Identifying Poorly Performing Pages
- Lesson 25 Fixing Problem Pages with Website Optimizer
- Index
Product information
- Title: Sams Teach Yourself Google Analytics™ in 10 Minutes
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2010
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: 9780672333200
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