I met with Pam Muirheid of CVPA to discuss some general analytics questions, as well as to address some specific questions from the director of the Potomac Arts academy.
We discussed:
- bounce rates – what counts as a bounce and what does not;
- campaign tagging – strategies for campaign tagging their email communciations and reviewed the campaign URL builder;
- custom segments – setting-up custom segments to determine how certain sub-groups of users interact with the website;
- the behavior flow report – techniques to identify how users navigate through the website;
- custom reports – ways that custom reports can be used to provide specific data that could not be captured from the standard GA reports;
- Google search queries that led people to their website – we set-up search console data sharing and reviewed the data that is available;
- specific issues with cross-domain tracking for Potomac Arts Academy – PAA has at least 3 different domain names, and their cross-domain tracking has not been fully set-up leading to issues such as self-referrals, duplicate sessions, and ambiguity in GA reports.