measuring social media impact with google analytics
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Measuring Social Media Impact with Google Analytics
Matt AsterManager, Inbound Marketing
Precision Dialogue
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Data Attribution
If you’re main KPI for social is revenue in Google Analytics, you’re going to have a bad
time.
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Instead, look at overall contribution
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Agenda• Best practices for social data in Google Analytics• What is _trackSocial, and how do I use it?• Standard reports that include social data• Attribution modeling• Social media impact to website engagement• Online/Offline Reconciliation
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10+ years experience in online marketing
Data background from Goodyear & Progressive
Manager, Inbound Marketing at Precision Dialogue, a Forrester ranked Customer Engagement Agency
I create strategies and optimize campaigns by using both new and existing digital techniques.
About Me
@MattAster
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Today You Will Learn
• How to accurately measure social media traffic to your website.
• Where to look to determine possible attribution paths.
• A technique for syncing your online data in Google Analytics with your offline CRM (which will ultimately allow 1:1 social mapping)
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Agenda• Best practices for social data in Google Analytics• What is _trackSocial, and how do I use it?• Standard reports that include social data• Attribution modeling• Online/Offline Reconciliation
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Track your URLs
• Utilize UTM tracking– http://bit.ly/GABuilder– Ensure that “social” is in the medium
• Ideally build your own shortener/redirect– Edit links after launch– Insert forgotten parameters
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Best Practices (continued)
• Keep your data clean– Remove dev/test– Exclude your IP(s)
• Establish goals (think microconversions)
• Withhold judgment!
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Agenda• Best practices for social data in Google Analytics• What is _trackSocial, and how do I use it?• Standard reports that include social data• Attribution modeling• Online/Offline Reconciliation
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_trackSocial
_trackSocial(network, socialAction, opt_target, opt_pagePath)
Useful for seeing total actions taken, that’s about it right now.
http://bit.ly/SocialInteraction (link to documentation in GA help)
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Agenda• Best practices for social data in Google Analytics• What is _trackSocial, and how do I use it?• Standard reports that include social data• Attribution modeling• Online/Offline Reconciliation
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Reports That Include Social Data
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Create an Advanced Segment
• If you didn’t set up campaign tracking the way I suggested, you’ll need this regular expression
facebook|twitter|myspace|linkedin|stumbleupon|digg|youtube|flickr|pinterest|etc|etc|etc
• If you did set it up the way I recommended
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Use The Advanced Segment
INSIGHTS!
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Alerting
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Real Time Reporting
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Move The Needle
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Move The Needle
Go find out your social contribution to your site.
Google Analytics > Conversions > Multi Channel > Top Paths
If you’re ecommerce look at Year over Year difference in revenue.
Discover your Social Contribution
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Agenda• Best practices for social data in Google Analytics• What is _trackSocial, and how do I use it?• Standard reports that include social data• Attribution modeling• Online/Offline Reconciliation
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Attribution is not easy
• Attribution modeling is not easy, but spend some time understanding what’s happening on your site
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Conversion Segments in GA
• Build hypotheses and create segments
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Agenda• Best practices for social data in Google Analytics• What is _trackSocial, and how do I use it?• Standard reports that include social data• Attribution modeling• Online/Offline Reconciliation
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What and Why?
• Google Analytics can’t hold any PII– Creative alternative is to insert a unique
identifier into GA as a proxy
• Match your records offline to the data in GA using the unique identifier– If you have offline conversions you’ll know
their traffic source– Begin understanding lifetime value
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Rough Schema
Googlecv #AB12
Your Website
CRMID #AB12
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I’ll explain more in second half
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Know your key performance indicators Keep them realistic and actionable
Be realistic with goals and expectations
Data is your friend
Be consistent How you tag How you report Metrics
Key Takeaways