• About Us
  • Contributors
  • Guides
  • Speaking Engagements
  • Write for The SEM Post
  • Submit a tip or contact us!
  • Newsletters

The SEM Post

Latest News About SEO, SEM, PPC & Search Engines

  • Google
  • SEO
  • Mobile
  • Local
  • Bing
  • Pay Per Click
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • State of the Industry
You are here: Home / Archives for Google / Analytics

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is Google’s own program for analytics, allowing site owners to track traffic, conversions and other stats on their sites.

Google Analytics Asking for User Feedback

August 21, 2015 at 4:52 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Analytics Asking for User Feedback

Google Analytics seems to be the latest Google product to ask for feedback from its users. When I logged into Google Analytics this morning, I got this pop-up layover on the bottom right of the Analytics screen, this led to a series of questions about the product, satisfaction level, and how they could improve upon […]

Google Analytics Working on Referral Spam Solution

July 14, 2015 at 11:41 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Analytics Working on Referral Spam Solution

Annoyed at all the spam referrals in Google Analytics telling you to buy followers or download website buttons?  Google Analytics is working on a solution to the problem. At Mozcon today, Adam Singer from Google Analytics confirmed that they realize the spam referral issue in Google Analytics is an issue and they are working on […]

Google AdWords Remarketing Ads Using Google Analytics Audiences

June 26, 2015 at 6:02 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google AdWords Remarketing Ads Using Google Analytics Audiences

Google AdWords has announced a new change that allows advertisers to include their Google Analytics audiences as a remarketing list for Google Search ads, all without requiring extra tagging changes before you can run them. Remarketing Lists for Search Ads (RLSA) allows you to tailor your search ads and based on your visitors’ past activity on […]

AdMob Beta Allows App Developers to Remove Ads from Certain Segments of Users

May 28, 2015 at 10:58 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

AdMob Beta Allows App Developers to Remove Ads from Certain Segments of Users

Google is launching a new beta that allows app developers to turn off ads from specific segments of users, while displaying ads to other users. This would allow app developers to turn off ads to premium users or users that are very active and engaged, while displaying ads to more casual or first time users. […]

Twitter Analytics Adds Audience Insights

May 28, 2015 at 6:12 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Twitter Analytics Adds Audience Insights

Twitter has added some new features to their Twitter Analytics product, including new audience insights. The new insights provide users with many more insights including demographics, interests, mobile usage, lifestyle and both purchasing and TV viewing behavior. Then users can drill down into each section for much more detail on each. One of the new […]

How to Create Tracking URLs for Google Analytics

May 15, 2015 at 4:06 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

How to Create Tracking URLs for Google Analytics

Did you know you can create tracking URLs for Google Analytics, even if you are not currently using a third party tool that will do this automatically for you? Just because you don’t have fancy tools doesn’t mean you can’t use the standard tracking URLs in Google Analytics. If you would like to be able […]

Google Webmaster Tools Launches Search Analytics Report

May 7, 2015 at 4:00 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Webmaster Tools Launches Search Analytics Report

The wait is finally over. Google Webmaster Tools has finally launched the long-awaited Search Analytics reporting for webmasters, replacing the less-robust Search Queries report. Google first began alpha testing a new search analytics – originally called Search Impact – earlier this year. It gives webmasters much more search query data than was previously available in […]

How to Set Up Site Search Reports in Google Analytics to Track Visitor’s Searches

April 27, 2015 at 5:10 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

How to Set Up Site Search Reports in Google Analytics to Track Visitor’s Searches

Many people don’t realize that Google Analytics supports site search for websites, allowing you to track the searches that visitors are doing on your sites.  However, it doesn’t work out of the box, you need to set it up. Tracking your internal site searches are great for a few reasons.  First, it gives you some […]

Using Google Analytics To Track PPC Content Performance

April 21, 2015 at 4:00 am PST By Melissa Mackey

Using Google Analytics To Track PPC Content Performance

Content marketing is all the rage these days. I probably see 5 or more tweets per day about how to do effective content marketing. And it’s not just hype: content works, especially for high-consideration products or services that have a long sales cycle. The phrase “long sales cycle” can strike fear in the hearts of […]

New GWT Search Analytics Has a Release Date… But It’s Still Secret

April 10, 2015 at 5:51 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Everyone is waiting for the new update of Google Webmaster Tools when the new Search Analytics is added… but no one knows yet when it will go live for all users.  We do know they were still adding testers as of the end of March. John Mueller was asked today about the release date, and […]

  • « Read Newer Stories
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Read Older Stories »

Founder & Editor

Jennifer Slegg (2052)

Sign up for our daily news recap & weekly newsletter.


Follow us online

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Linkedin
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Latest News

2022 Update for Google Quality Rater Guidelines – Big YMYL Updates

We finally have the first Google Quality Rater Guidelines update of 2022, and like usual, it is … [Read More...]

Recent Posts

  • 2022 Update for Google Quality Rater Guidelines – Big YMYL Updates
  • Google Quality Rater Guidelines: The Low Quality 2021 Update
  • Rethinking Affiliate Sites With Google’s Product Review Update
  • New Google Quality Rater Guidelines, Update Adds Emphasis on Needs Met
  • Google Updates Experiment Statistics for Quality Raters
  • Analyzing “How Google Search Works” Changes from Google
  • Google Quality Rater Guidelines Update: New Introduction, Rater Bias & Political Affiliations
  • Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines: Reputation for News Sites; Video Content Updates; Quality for Information Sites
  • Google Makes Major Changes to NoFollow, Adds Sponsored & UGC Tags
  • Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines Targeting E-A-T, Page Quality & Interstitials

Categories

  • Affiliate Marketing
  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • Bing
  • Branding
  • Browsers
  • Chrome
  • Content Marketing
  • Design
  • Domains
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Firefox
  • Foursquare
  • Google
    • Analytics
    • Google RankBrain
    • Quality Rater's Guidelines
  • History of Search
  • Industry Spotlight
  • Instagram
  • Internet Explorer
  • Links
  • Local
  • Mobile
  • Native Advertising
  • Other Search Engines
  • Pay Per Click
  • Pinterest
  • Publishers
  • Security
  • SEO
  • Snapchat
  • Social Media
  • State of the Industry
  • The SEM Post
  • Tools
  • Twitter
  • Uncategorized
  • User Experience
  • Video Marketing
  • Week in Review
  • Whitepapers
  • Wordpress
  • Yahoo
  • Yelp
  • YouTube
May 2025
MTWTFSS
« Aug  
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2025 · News Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in