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Campaign Tagging: Television Advertising

Need to generate some campaign-tagged URLs for use in television advertising? Please try the Mason Campaign URL Builder Application. How To Use Campaign Tagging in […]

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Goals and Goal Values: Case Study on www2.gmu.edu

We currently have set two conversion goals on the analytics view for the Mason core website (www2.gmu.edu): Undergraduate application click-throughs Graduate application click-throughs Why? Although […]

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Google Analytics Organization and Naming Recommendations

The Google Analytics framework is organized into three hierarchical levels: Accounts, Properties, and Views. There is often confusion about what these different levels of organization […]

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A Case Study on the Importance of the Referral Exclusion List

Proper configuration of the referral exclusion list is very important, because the referral exclusion list has a huge effect on how visits to you website […]

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Volgenau Printed Annual Report Tracking

Background Each year, the Volgenau School produces an Annual Report about what the school is doing. The report is printed and mailed to a number […]

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Annotations Recommendations (Google Analytics)

What are Annotations in Google Analytics Annotations are small notes associated with specific dates that you can add to Google Analytics. Annotation you create will […]

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Google Analytics: Change in Interface for Report Sampling

Google Analytics has recently changed how they notify users of data sampling in the Google Analytics reporting interface. Here is an example of the interface […]

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Google Analytics: Tracking Activity on a Page for Which the URL has Changed

Occasionally, as the result of a site redesign or migration, the URL for one of your pages will change. If this is a page you […]

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Campaign Tagging: Print

Need to generate some campaign-tagged URLs for use in printed materials? Please try the Mason Campaign URL Builder Application. How To Use Campaign Tagging in […]

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Google Analytics: Three Ways to Pull Data

For this example, we will be pulling the top 100 internal site search terms from the Mason core website (www2.gmu.edu) for the ‘off-campus’ segment. Account: […]