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= Limitations =
= Limitations =
== Goals ==
* Goals can not be set retroactively; you must set them and only once they are set, data is collected.


== Custom variables ==
== Custom variables ==

Revision as of 12:22, 25 October 2011

Google AdWords

  • To get useful information from your AdWords campaign in your Analytics account, you must link your accounts. This is not done automatically.

Conversions

  • A conversion (1-per-click) means only a single conversion is reported for a single visitor / customer; this is true even for multiple conversion goals. On the other hand, conversion (many-per-click) reports the total number of conversions for a visitor, following 30 days of an AdWord click.
  • To view a detailed Conversion report, including segmentation by conversion name (very useful if you have several conversions), you must include the Many-per-click conversion column. Then you can use the segmentation by conversion name (or type) by creating a normal segment.

Concepts

  • Dashboard: not very useful, a collection of shortcuts.
  • Intelligence: useless, allows you to define automatic alerts.
  • Visitors: information about visitors (browsers, capabilities, country).
  • Traffic sources: very important, can help you understand where your visitors come from.
  • Content: which pages are viewed.
  • Goals: user-defined goals.
  • E-commerce: track transactions and items sold.
  • Custom reports: this can be quite useful as well.
  • Advanced segments: crucial, allows you to set custom segments.

Limitations

Goals

  • Goals can not be set retroactively; you must set them and only once they are set, data is collected.

Custom variables

  • Only 5 custom variables. To overcome this, you can put data in the URL (maybe with virtual page views?).
  • 50 variables are available in the Premium version of Analytics.

Sampling

Questions

  • What's the difference between "Organic" and "Referral" ?