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Why Retailers Should Use Goals in Google Analytics

December 15, 2011

I got a surprise at a recent ecommerce conference. For the price of a coffee in the break, I offered to show people how to use Google Analytics Custom Dashboards to see all their key ecommerce goals in one place. I was shocked to discover that many retailers don’t have any goals set up. So [...]

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Why you need at least 2 profiles in Google Analytics

August 6, 2010

The first thing any GA implementation should include is two profiles: a working profile and a ‘raw’ unaltered backup profile. One day that raw profile will save your bacon. The ‘raw’ unprocessed profile is one in which the data has not been modified in any way when configuring the profile settings or by adding filters. [...]

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Setting up more profiles in Google Analytics

July 19, 2010

Why would you want to set up more than one profile for each website in Google Analytics? There are things which GA advanced segments cannot do You should always have two sets of data One of the classic uses of profile in the early days of Google Analytics was to look at chunks of traffic. [...]

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