4 most common yet important metrics in Google Analytics.


 4 most common metrics in Google Analytics.
Google analytics metrics 
Good thing about digital marketing is that it lets you understand, which of digital marketing strategies are working for you and which are simply proving waste of valued time and funds. This can be easily done with the help of Google Analytics . Any website owner or a digital marketing agency can test new strategies to make informed business decisions about which strategies helping a website to achieve its defined KPIs.
Underneath I’ll explain 4 most common yet important metrics in Google analytics to measure a small business website KPIs. This blog will also illustrate how to set up your free Google Analytics account.

First of all you need to Set Google Analytics Account:

Follow these simple steps to create your free account in Google  analytics.
ØYou need to make a Gmail id first to sign in.
Ø  Click the ‘Start using Google Analytics’ button.
Ø  Fill the following essential details: your website’s URL & name, your name, the type of industry your website is built for & your time zone.
Ø  You need to select  the ‘Get Tracking ID’ button from the end of the page
Ø  After that you need to accept the terms and conditions.
Ø  Once you done with that Google will generate a snippet code – all you have to do is
copy this snippet & enter it onto every page of your website right before the end  of
</head> tag.
How to understand the 4 most common metrics in Google analytics.
Google Analytics help you to develop a variety of meaningful metrics linked to your website visitors & their online behaviors. By Understanding these 4 important metrics you will be able to uncover all your digital marketing campaign’s performance. These metrics are so useful if your a Freelancer or work in any S.E.O agency.

Acquisition

This report will tell you: how your customers find your website and which digital channel originates them. For example you customer could come from social network sites, referral sites or from searching a keyword in search engine like Google. After looking at this report you will be able to understand which digital channel is acquiring more traffic to your website.

Audience

This section will help you figure out who visited your site where they come from, did they use mobile, desktop or tablet. Audience report contains series of useful insights, like location, device, interests and demographic.
Behavior
If you want to check a visual path a visitor took to navigate your site, then you can do this with the help of behavior report. You can also see with this report, which part of your website is more engaged with user and which is not. This report is very useful for your content marketing.
Conversions
This report helps to track the conversions on your website. In this section you can track your E-commerce transactions, amount of money your company has made, from which sources customer has come to your site (AdWords- Email- PPC- Referral). With the help of events you can also track other small conversions on your site like, click on a play button of a video, newsletter sign ups and any PDF download etc.

This is the first article for Small Businesses series. In further articles I will make sure to explain a simple and easy to understand step by step guide for fundamentals of digital marketing your online business. So these are 4 most common metrics in Google analytics. 

5 Most Common AdWords Mistakes To Avoid For Better ROI


5 Most Common AdWords Mistakes To Avoid For Better ROI By Jaspreet singh pabla

Google paid marketing campaign can be one of the most precise or one of the most annoying ways to develop your business. In my opinion, lots of companies get flop on their marketing objectives because they make a few simple mistakes. The good thing is these mistakes are avoidable and easy to fix. So, by now you must be thinking what are these simple mistakes which let your AdWords campaigns fail? In this blog I will explain 5 Most Common AdWords Mistakes To Avoid For Better ROI.

Mistake 1 – Ad Copy that stand out: Did you ever notice how all the PPC ads are competing for the same intended search, but it’s very hard to get noticed when you sound and look the same like everyone else. Now, I personally think there is nothing wrong with learning from your competition, but most AdWords account managers end up writing “me too” ad copies which are largely indistinguishable from their competitor’s ads. The problem is, even if you’re ad is at the top of the page, you won’t get much attention if you don’t stand out in some way. To make standout ad copy, you need to focus on the problem which you will solve for your target audience. Put the problem solving quote directly in your ad copy. Remember, people are looking for companies that understand their problem. If you understand their problem, people will assume your ad copy problem solving quote will fix their problem.  

Mistake 2 – Keyword Stuffing: Luckily, this problem is easy to fix too. First of all, you need to know that Broad match is default match type for keywords in AdWords, but that doesn’t mean that Google is recommending you to use this match type. In case you are using broad match type keywords I strongly suggest stopping them immediately. Next, you need to find those keywords which are costing you a lot but not helping in conversions. To do that, you need to go to your Keywords tab and then click on [Search terms report]. And then create a filter mentioning [Conversions < 1]. With this report in mind, you can start looking at your poor performing keywords and remove them. You have to focus your budget on keywords with high conversions. Your overall traffic will drop down, but since the wrong clicks never converts you can expect high conversion rate.

Mistake 3 – Overestimating CPL: In my opinion instead of aiming on metrics like CPL, you should focus on profitability. To do so, you need to tie your AdWords campaign data through to your bottom line. You should know which keywords cause the lowest cost-per-sale, which search terms drive the most revenue and which ad copies creates the highest ROI. The best way to set this sort of tracking up is with a CRM. This will take some sweat, but the results will have an insightful effect on how you approach PPC advertising

Mistake 4 – Bidding Too Low: Instead of starting with low cost per click bids and then increasing your bids to get to the way up, according to me it works better to start with high bids and get the data you need and then bid exactly what it take to get higher ROI. For instance if Google recommending bid for a keyword is $1, try to bid for $3-$5. By doing this you’re actual CPC will increase only for few dollars but you will be able get the clickable data that you need to know whether your campaign strategy is worthwhile or not. It’s very vital to note that this plan only works if you have a steady and gripping funnel set up for your AdWords campaigns. If you’re landing pages, keywords and ad copies don’t have a call to action offer then you can spend a lot of money and get very less out of it. When it comes to split testing for ads your initial goal has to be establishing viability, not profitability. Once you know that your campaign is successfully driving sales, and then you can cut on your bidding levels and to get higher ROI.

Mistake 5 – No Call Tracking on call only campaigns: Tracking your Calls in “call only campaigns” is fairly easy to get start with. For this, you can use a forwarding number in your ads call extensions “option provided by AdWords” and start noticing calls down to the ad group level. You can also place a simple piece of snippet on your site that dynamically put your onsite Phone Number with a forwarding number and allowing you to record which campaigns produced which calls from your website.

Summary

I can strongly say that by avoiding these few basic mistakes every AdWords marketer can increase his/her productivity. Think of this like an old 80/20 rule, in which most of your productivity comes from “strategically planned” 20% of your hard work. So these were the 5 of very common AdWords mistakes that cost lots companies thousands of dollars each year in wasted ads spend.

How To Become Google AdWords Certified Expert

Lots of individuals recently inquired me how to become Google AdWords certified expert. This blog is going to tell you how.

There is a lot of misunderstanding in this field because Google lately changed how the entire certification procedure works.

Google AdWords certification is certainly favorable if you want to brand yourself as a Pay Per Click expert. But keep in mind that having this certification alone does not make you an expert.Previously, the test only cost 50 US dollars to try and the procedure of the certification issue was different. But now it is totally free to take the test. If you take the test and fail, there is a time period of 7 days where you have to wait before you give a repeat.The whole certification process is now known as Google Partners Bandage. You can visit Google Partners website at https://www.google.com/partners/

There are 6 exams available:
  • AdWords Fundamentals
  • Search advertising
  • Display advertising
  • Video advertising
  • Shopping advertising
  • Mobile advertising

google adwords exams types
Adwords Exams Types

After you clear the exam and become certified, You will get a link which you can share online. This link will display your profile with the certificate. If any individual wants to confirm it online they can. My online profile resides here. Google also allows you to show your hard earn certificate to the world. That’s why there is a printable version of the certificate which you can access from the Google Partners login. Here’s mine:

jaspreet singh pabla's google certificate
Adwords certificate

Important tip please use the same Google account to sign in for google partners page that you have for your Google+ profile.
All the best! To all of you whoever want to give it a go.If you have any questions, leave the comments below for me.