Google Analytics Dashboards

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In Google Analytics Dashboards, you can display useful data that can be understood quickly and made accessible to other team members. Start with either a starter dashboard (default widget) or a blank canvas (no widget). For each GA account, you can customize 20 dashboards that include 12 widgets for each View | Property and get an overview of the most sought after KPIs. Add a widget or use the widget editor depending on your selection either added to an existing dashboard or for a blank canvas. Select the type of widget and customize its dimensions and metrics. Widget configuration will depend on the widgets selected. Filters allow you to limit data on a widget. Moreover include or exclude data based on a mix of norms for the filter used. Add multiple rows for your filter definition and ensure all conditions are met for it to work. Real-time widgets display only active users or pageview metrics.

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Links in Google Search Results

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For online businesses, links in Google search results are opportunities for back-linking. To start with know who your competitors are. Find out how to check links in Google Search results. Leverage Google Search and filter out results. Understand Google Search terminology relating to Logical Operators, Specifiers – Common & Shortcut, Sites & Document, and Metadata. The AND, OR, and NOT are logical operators. Common Specifiers include the exact match, placeholder, and range. Shortcut Specifiers have translated word expressions that include weather, location, and time specifiers. Use Google Calculator for simple calculations. Transform units of measurement using the Google Internal Converter. Google Sites and Document Specifiers tell about the site, filetype, related, link, cache, and info specifiers. Google Metadata Specifiers are about inurl/ allinurl, intitle/ allintitle, inanchor/ allinanchor, and intext/ allintext specifiers. It is possible to customize the settings for the preferences page to change the way the main search page looks.

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Google Analytics Reports

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Google Analytics Standard Reports are the built-in reports available from the left-hand side of the dashboard. These Google Analytics Reports are divided into five segments consisting of Real-Time, Audience, Acquisition, Behavior, and Conversions. Real-time user reports provide data for top-ten pages about the number of active users on each page with the source. Audience reports furnish user info related to demographics, behavior, mobile usage, and industry. The Acquisition reports inform the source from where your users come from either search engines, social media, or referrals. In Conversion reports, available metrics call for evaluation in terms of value which can be either signup, subscriptions, leads, downloads, etc. Save, Import, and Share your Google Analytics Reports for a particular date range. Check your analytics from time to time using the scheduled email feature. Google Analytics Custom Report assembles data by drawing up dimensions and metrics. The customized data is then displayed in the way you want it.

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Google Search Console

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Navigate each section of Google Search Console and review your website. Set up Google Search Console and get all website information related to links and indexing. It can drive and increase traffic to your site. Block spam links using the Google disavow tool. The insights provided allows you to see how Google views your site. Use structured data to improve your CTR. Evaluate search term queries and keywords using the performance and coverage reports. The URL Submission tool shows crawlers at work and calls for improvements by fixing errors. robots.txt tool singles out blocked URLs. Identify security – spam or malware issues. Google notifies any manual penalties that are imposed. Submit your sitemap and remove from search engine results, those content that is not fit for display. Use GSC to monitor and enhance website rankings. Boost UX with AMP, Page Speed, and mobile usability optimization to enhance your SEO efforts.

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Google Analytics-UTM parameters

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Google Analytics-UTM parameters are five forms of URL parameters used to track the success of online marketing campaigns across traffic sources and publishing media. They were introduced by Google Analytics’ predecessor Urchin and are supported out-of-the-box by Google Analytics. UTM [Urchin Tracking Module] parameters are tagging solutions. They can be formatted on your websites to obtain marketing insights about specific URLs. Such data collected enable you to identify the source of the traffic to your websites. Find posts and social media channels, backlinks, etc that attract the most traffic getting many likes and shares. Measure and enhance the performance of your campaigns by setting conversion tracking for advertising platforms. Use UTM parameters to find your most performing display ads. Add UTM parameters to external links. These inbound links can be placed in your email newsletters, landing pages, guest posts, etc.

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Trello for Project Management

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Trello for Project Management is a web-based software. It is the equivalent of a digital version with a large board and index cards linked to it. The index cards are accessible to all members of your team worldwide. Everyone can view those cards, and communicate directly on those cards with other members of the team. Use Trello to build your team for free but it also has a paid version. Organize your work and control big projects in partnership with your team. Manage notifications and forward to cards and boards. Assign due dates, and carry out a diversity of tasks that take your project management work inside Trello. With editorial calendars, organize and schedule marketing campaigns and make sure your content is optimum. Get the best out of Trello by managing your cards, creating workflows and tasks, using labels, drag-n-drop moves, keyboard shortcuts, highlighting popular boards, etc.

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Google Tag Manager

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Google Tag Manager is a tag management solution that mediates between a website or a mobile app and tracking tools like Google Analytics. GTM allows the use of one container for all code tags. Tracking codes have to be added to Google Tag Manager which is common across all pages. This JavaScript code acts as a container and is a home to other scripts that tags the system for injecting scripts into the page. Configuration rules apply for firing tags dynamically eg clicks form submission, track links, etc. Add or modify code snippets of GA by adding them to the existing container. Save your time by leveraging GA built-in tags, create variables and control versions, fire triggers in GA events, and so on. Work with Accounts and Containers by understanding permissions and security. You can also opt for multiple containers. The mobile version of GTM caters to a deferred audience.

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Majestic SEO

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Majestic SEO is a backlink tool having exhaustive data to display for analysis that require a full backlink profile. The backlink index goes back to 2011. Majestic backlink crawlers provide meaningful insights into competitors’ backlinks. It provides reports for the presentation of their backlink profile. Partnering opportunities with sites, tracking the progress of what content works, and competitor analytics play a role in getting more traffic to your websites. Majestic own search engines with ranking factors help bring more traffic to your site. Metrics used are Citation Flow (number of backlinks), Trust Flow (quality of backlinks), and Topical Trust Flow (importance of a site industry-wise). Several tools are available for backlink and domain comparison and link building. Information is retrieved quickly and tools can handle bulk requests. Searches can be conducted for Fresh index or full historic data.

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Get started with Twitter

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Get started with Twitter to push your brand on social media, to find and follow people. Set up your profile and integrate Twitter on your website. Before a relevant keyword use hashtags (#) to categorize tweets and show them on Twitter search. Twitter for Marketing helps businesses to describe brand personalities and start marketable tweets. Analytics and lead generation calculate the influence of each tweet for finding what works and what does not. With an Advertising account on Twitter start off with sponsored tweets and ads. Twitter for Advertising is an ideal way to define and target your audience by demographics, keyword, username, or interest. Advertise on Twitter by creating a captivating Ad to increase followers, traffic and leads. Track and measure the results of your Twitter Advertising and use this information to make adjustments to your future campaigns.

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Video Marketing

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Video Marketing help develop and distribute content. Follow best practices for Video SEO to increase organic traffic by optimizing content and UX. Online video marketing for brand promotions through visual campaigns can impact global reach views. From storytelling to editing, create videos that engage and succeed to generate leads and conversion. Include corporate and business videos, events, testimonials, and commercial videos. Incorporate campaigns for your email marketing, online reputation, and PPC in your videos. Publish your videos on video sharing sites eg YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, etc. Ideas scripted to produce videos to position your brand can lend trust for your products & services and subsequently more views. Explainer videos and a constructive snippet of less than 4-minute videos are the search engine preference to feature at the top of Google search results.

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