Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Week 13 - Analytics


In the advertising and campaign performance category I think I might use advertising reports when I do any ad campaigns and I would plan to use the SEO feature in order to get a better sense of where people are getting to my site from.  I would like to use the mobile ads measurement once I had the mobile integration up and running just to see if anything looked different among mobile users and I could catch any issues with the mobile functionality and correct or capitalize on them.

I would probably not track by campaign at first because I do not foresee running multiple campaigns at once, and I would not initially do cost data import because my campaign expenditure would be small enough to where I probably don’t need to have my spending tracked for me in the system at first.

Annotations seems really nice.  It is annoying to have to just remember why you’ve seen spikes at different times, whether it was because a campaign you did or a news story that you were featured in or an event you held.  Annotating allows you to note the perceived reasons for trends so you don’t forget when reviewing data long after the causes of spikes are done.

I might use custom reports if the company grows and we need to share data in that format.  While it’s just me and my husband I don’t need to be able to create a special report for anyone yet.  Dashboards on the other hand will let me look at my most important things every time I go into analytics quickly and easily.  I’d definitely use a dashboard.

I probably won’t have enough initial traffic to justify real-time data, even when I do campaigns, so I’d probably skip that unless I got really obsessed with what’s going on or really needed to figure out some problem or something.

Audience data reporting could be useful to help me correct any misperceptions I have about who my audience is, or help me attract certain segments that I should be attracting that I’m missing.

Map overlay sounds awesome.  I would definitely want to see that to see where some of my potential markets are.

I would want to filter out my own company and my family as much as possible from the analytics data, so I would want to use the filter app to only look at certain types of traffic.

We don’t need user permissions until the company grows and we have people who we don’t want to mess things up.  J

We don’t have any apps yet, so we’ll wait on application analytics until we do.

Alerts and intelligence events sounds cool.  It would be nice to have running in case anything causes a spike when we are not watching for it.  Then we could do some research to figure out why and possibly prepare for any consequences of the spike.

Site search sounds cool.  We could use that to see what our site visitors wish we had or are happy to discover that we have or what they had trouble noticing on our site.

Site speed analysis seems really useful not only for customer satisfaction but also for SEO.  I’d want to use that.

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