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Nemo
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 Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject: Setting Google Analytics Goals |
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What the title says really! How do I set GA goals? I've heard it talked about and clearly it would be very useful to tell me where my visitors are coming from and what keywords etc they use, but HOW (in plain english please  ) do I do it?
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tavi
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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haven't a clue!
I have analytics and can barely understand a word of my "metrics"  
was looking at it today and wondering if they really need to use the terms they use...can't they just put it in plain English? This sentence for example ............You can also compare metrics in the graph and use the interactive table below the pie chart to see different top-level metrics for the most commonly viewed visitor dimensions...........
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tavi
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la vache!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:41 am Post subject: |
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You need an enquiry form on your website as it is this that GA tracks. There are quite a few tutorials on how to set up GA goals, and this one is more or less the same as the one I used. You track the url that appears after sending the enquiry (for me thankyou.php). GA can't track emails, so if you just have a mailto: hyperlinks you can't use it.
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kendalcottages
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I'm very interested in this particular subject.
Can this be done with a PIMS booking enquiry form, does anyone know? (Windy... are you about? I'm guessing if it's something that can be done with PIMS, you're probably already doing it. )
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