
Master Google Analytics with advanced concepts, including setup, campaign tracking, non-page-view actions, segmentation, custom dimensions and metrics, and custom reports, plus an introduction to Google Tag Manager.
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Access the Google Analytics demo account to explore real ecommerce data from the Google Merchandise Store, view reports, and practice manipulating data with read and analyze access.
Create and analyze Google Analytics goals to measure conversions and engagement, using templates or custom goals, and explore goals reports and acquisition channels.
Discover how to track campaigns in Google Analytics with five parameters, including the required utm_source and optional utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, and utm_term, using consistent naming.
Use the URL builder to create campaign tracking URLs with destination URL, campaign source, media, and name, and learn to handle spaces with percent encoding or underscores.
Learn how attribution models in Google Analytics allocate credit across a customer journey through search, social, email, and direct channels. Compare last, first, linear, time decay, and position-based models.
Learn to create and apply Google Analytics segments, both system generated and custom, using demographic, technology, and behavior data; compare female and all users to uncover trends.
Explore how the secondary dimension in Google Analytics drills down data by device category to compare pages viewed on desktop versus mobile, with two dimensions on a single report.
Discover how to configure custom reports in Google Analytics, drill down into landing pages with keywords, and combine sessions, bounce rate, and revenue across views, tables, and maps.
Discover how Google Tag Manager uses a container to manage tags, triggers, and variables, enabling Google Analytics deployment and publishing across all pages.
Learn how to track user interactions as events in Google Analytics using event category, action, label, and value, and implement with JavaScript or Google Tag Manager for videos like YouTube.
Enable cross-device tracking in Google Analytics with universal analytics using a first-party cookie user I.D. Read the cookie via Google Tag Manager, pass it to GA, and view cross-device reports.
Explore custom dimensions in Google Analytics to capture non analytics data for deeper insights, segmentation, and remarketing by creating a user-level dimension and passing a user ID via cookies.
Integrate offline CRM data with Google Analytics by creating custom dimensions, capturing the user ID from a first-party cookie with Google Tag Manager, and importing CRM data for deeper analysis.
Create and use custom metrics in Google Analytics to track video progress, such as reaching 50 percent. Use these metrics in custom reports and for segments and Google Ads remarketing.
Content grouping in Google Analytics categorizes pages into groups and lets you compare metrics by group. Configure up to five groups in the GA view using code, extraction, or rules.
Learn how to track user journeys across subdomains with Google Analytics by using a root domain cookie, configuring Google Tag Manager variables, and applying referral exclusion to stitch sessions.
Learn how to enable cross domain tracking in Google Analytics to stitch a single user journey across domains using linker parameters, with or without Google Tag Manager.
Understand how Google Analytics uses default channel grouping to categorize traffic by source and medium, and explore how to view, edit, and interpret channel definitions in acquisition reports.
Create custom channel groupings in Google Analytics to categorize sources like newsletters beyond the default, and promote them to the view level for all users.
Create calculated metrics in Google Analytics by defining a name and a formula that combines standard and custom metrics, then apply the metric to a custom report.
Explore Google Analytics annotations and custom alerts to track trends and receive prompts when visits fall, using admin view and report annotations.
Stay tuned as the Google Analytics advanced training evolves with your questions and new features. Share your burning questions to receive answers and maximize your learning and career in analytics.
Google Analytics has a lot to offer than what's available in out of the box solution. In this advanced Google Analytics course, you will learn Google Analytics features and functions that will take your Google Analytics and Web Analytics understanding to the next level.
What You will learn
Connect with a Demo Account - eCommerce site - those who don't have Google Analytics can get all GA functionality in this demo account
Metrics and Dimensions
Creating Goals
Campaign Tracking
Segmentation
Attributions
Secondary Dimensions
Overview of Google Tag Manager and how to use it for some advanced tracking
Track Events in Google Analytics (non-page view actions) - Learn example of YouTube video tracking with Google Tag Manager
Cross-Device user tracking
Custom Dimensions
Import offline data such as CRM data into Google Analytics
Calculated Metrics
Custom Metrics
Sub-Domain Tracking - Using Universal Analytics and Google Tag Manager
Cross-Domain Tracking - Using Universal Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
Content Grouping
Alerts and Annotations
This course assumes that you have a basic understanding of Google Analytics and are familiar with the interface and standard reports.
This course also has a crash course in Google Tag Manager as a lot of cool functionality is easily enabled with Google Tag Manager.
I have worked with Google Analytics since it's the first version and taught the classes since then. I teach in a way that even a beginner (with no background) can understand and lead the content to a more advanced level content.
This course applies to everybody from individuals running their blogs to people working in corporations. If you are looking to start a career in Digital Marketing or Analytics, this course is a must for you. You will learn the skills you need to analyze your website performance and visitors.
Why you should learn from me?
I have been in Digital Marketing and Analytics for over 15 years. I have trained people from diverse backgrounds and have converted them into high performing Digital Marketers and Analysts. I understand both the technology and the marketing side of the business. I have dealt with many analytics technologies way before Google Tag manager existed and know the inner working of Digital Analytics.
In addition, I have developed various courses and taught students from all over the world. I am an online instructor for the University of British Columbia (Canada), University of Washington (USA), Bellevue College (USA), and Digital Analytics Association.
I have engineering degrees and an MBA.