
Before we dive in Google Analytics it is critical to understand what Web Analytics and Digital Analytics is and how Google Analytics fits into it.
Learn how Google Analytics works so you have clarity on the reports that we will cover in this course.
Sign up for a Google Analytics account, set your account and website properties and views, select industry and timezone, and obtain the tracking ID to place on your site.
Discover how to obtain and install the Google Analytics tracking code, apply the unique tracking ID, and use universal analytics with head-section placement and WordPress plugins.
Learn how to connect to a demo account for an eCommerce site that you can use to learn about various Google Analytics reports.
Learn how demographic reports in Google Analytics reveal age and gender trends from Google and third-party data, guiding marketing targeting and site design.
Explore acquisition reports in Google Analytics to understand how you acquire users across channels, using the acquisition overview with primary dimensions, goals, and ecommerce conversions.
Explore how Google Analytics behavior overview reports reveal how users navigate your site, track page views, unique page views, time on page, bounce rate, and exits.
Explore Google Analytics conversion reports, including goals, e-commerce, multi-channel funnels, and attributions, to measure how marketing drives user actions.
Create and configure Google Analytics views to tailor data with filters, keeping a raw unfiltered view, and manage access via the account–property–view hierarchy, including limits of 25 views per property.
Create and customize goals in Google Analytics, using templates or a custom option, assign name and goal set, track pages per session, verify, and save for conversion reporting.
Track campaign performance in Google Analytics using five UTM parameters, with UTM source required and the others optional: medium, campaign, content, and term, and encode spaces as %20.
Master the campaign URL builder to create fully encoded campaign URLs by setting website, campaign source, campaign medium, and campaign name, then copy or short-link and deploy them.
Stay tuned as this course evolves with your questions and new features, and expect more lectures, emails, and direct answers to help you advance your analytics career.
Google Analytics has become an integral part of Business and Marketing in most of the organizations. Having the right level of knowledge of Google Analytics will help stay ahead of the others in your organization.
In this course, you will learn how to use Google Analytics to measure the performance of your website and marketing programs. We'll cover the most essential, out of the box functionality from account creation to reporting fundamentals and also, how to glean insights from the vast array of data available. This course will make it easy for you to build upon and learn Advanced Google Analytics.
What You will learn
What is Web and Digital Analytics - get the foundation right
How does Google Analytics work
Getting started with Google Analytics - installing on your website
Understand Google Account Hierarchy and Structure
Connect with a Demo Account - eCommerce site - those who don't have Google Analytics can get all GA functionality in this demo account and gets hands on training and experience.
Create Views and Filters
Overview of various reports
Home Screen
Audience reports
Acquisition reports
Behavior reports
Campaign reports
Create Goals in Google Analytics - measuring success of your marketing efforts
Learn how to track campaigns in Google Analytics
Lear how to track and report on events - non-page view actions such as video views, downloads etc.
More added frequently
I have worked with Google Analytics since it's 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 to more advanced level content.
Note: This is a beginners course and meant for those who want to learn Google Analytics.
This course applies to everybody from individual running their blogs to people working in the corporations. If you are looking to start a career in Digital Marketing or Analytics, this course is a must fro you. You will learn the skills you need to analyze your website performance and visitors.
Note: This course will keep evolving for nest few weeks based on the feedback I get from students. So stay tuned for messages from me and send me your questions. My goal is to provide you the best experience and learning!
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 marketing side of business. I have dealt with many analytics technologies way before Google Analytics, Google Tag manager, Facebook etc. existed and know the inner working of Digital Analytics.
In addition, I have developed various course and taught students from all over the world. I am online instructor for University of British Columbia (Canada), University of Washington (USA), Bellevue College (USA) and Digital Analytics Association.
I have an engineering degrees and an MBA.