This is a helpful list of questions (in no particular order) you, the construction marketer, may want to ask yourself just before hitting that “go live” button for your newly re-designed website.
It’s your responsibility as a marketer to ensure all the necessary tasks, elements and checks are in place to improve performance of your website from the word go. Continue reading
Today I have just noticed that the below event in your Google Analytics event tracking reports is actually spam.
I did actually notice it a few days ago on another clients profile but it just so happens that there was some event tracking integration going on at the same time – so i just put it down to user error (developer not following instructions).
Google Analytics recently announced they are bringing back Benchmarking reports for all Google Analytics users. If you login to your account you should see “Benchmarking” within the Audience category of reports as shown below. 
I’ve just spotted the reports appearing in my accounts as of today and here’s a quick glimpse of what data is available to compare. If you don’t see the reports yet in your account then scroll to the bottom for a quick video on how to set it up. Continue reading
Twitter announced this morning that Twitter Analytics is now open to all users – it was already open to all users but there’s been a complete revamp in the data available.
Here’s a quick look around:
Useful to see if this months activity has generated more impressions than previous month – but remember this needs to be put into context or viewed alongside other metrics such as clicks, retweets and favourites. Continue reading
Some of you who follow me on Twitter may already know that I’m a bit of a part-time investor and tweet stats and financials from various companies in the construction sector as and when they are released.
One company on my watch list is an engineering services company by the name of Renew Holdings. Continue reading
I was recently contacted by Mark Schenkel of Embedded Analytics to try out a piece of software he’s created which allows you to quickly create and embed your Google Analytics data right into a web page.
No more learning how the Google Analytics API works and no more remembering all those dimensions and metrics.
I’m normally accustomed to using the Google Analytics API with Google Spreadsheets and some scripts to fetch the data, run the queries and then turn it into visualisations such as graphs, line charts, pie charts and maps so this was a no brainer for me as I knew it could save me some time doing a lot of the manual work. Continue reading
Many web analytics peeps will be seeing a strange referrer at the top of Google Analytics reports for their sites.
Semalt.com is a piece of software that tracks a sites position in search engines and it works by sending out a crawler to your site to gather information about your site and its pages. Continue reading
Content grouping in Google Analytics is a wonderful new feature which I have been playing around with for a few weeks now.
Basically, the content grouping feature allows you to group a set of URL’s or pages so that you can view aggregated data such as visits and conversions by category or by sections of your website.
For those who need an intro, here’s a video which explains what it is and how it works:
Quite often, Google Analytics can be minefield when it comes to extracting data which actually means something to the person looking at it (the marketer).
I’ve heard this phrase so many times “I just don’t know where to start or what to look it”.
Google Analytics dashboards present a very quick and easy way to view just the top level data you need to answer some very simple marketing related questions.
Remember, the purpose of dashboards is to get you, the marketer, to ask better questions. To then be curious and ask “why has this gone up or down?”. That’s where data mining then starts.
So here are my top widgets that every marketer in the construction industry should have on their Google Analytics dashboards: Continue reading
A few days back an Architect I follow on twitter, Mark (@ArchitectMark), wrote a brief blog post about some website trends he’d spotted with his website traffic.
Below is the graph he’d posted on his blog.