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  • GA4 Explorations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Valuable Reports

    Google Analytics 4’s standard, aggregated reports give you a strong understanding of the metrics that matter the most to your business, giving you the freedom to plot, sort and filter different metric and dimension values to gain insight.  However, for more advanced queries that require reports with combinations of metrics, dimensions and segments not available […]

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  • How to Use Your Digital Black Friday Data

    Before the Black Friday period, with the day itself falling on 29th November 2024, it’s likely that the focus will have been on preparation. To make the most of one of the busiest online shopping periods of the year, working hard on ecommerce strategy, website content and measurement to ensure that everything is in order […]

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  • How to get your GA4 ready for the Ecommerce Golden Quarter

    Prepare for the Golden Quarter in GA4. Learn to check measurement scope and integrity, configure custom reports, create audiences and configure custom alerts.

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  • The Latest GA4 Updates: Everything You Need to Know

    The Latest GA4 Updates: Everything You Need To Know Google Analytics 4 (GA4) continues to evolve as Google rolls out changes and updates to enhance, fix and change how we can make use of this powerful platform. Some take place behind the scenes, changing how GA4 measures and attributes, whilst others are visible as you […]

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  • Understanding the Purchase Journey and Checkout Journey reports in GA4

    If you run an ecommerce website, you’ll want your customer’s experience within your site to be the best that it can be. A well-designed and well-optimized ecommerce site is a free-flowing system, one that encourages customers along a buyer’s journey and appears frictionless to them. It directly contributes to increasing purchases and amassing revenue, whilst […]

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  • Where’s the “Conversions” report gone in GA4?

    As we know, Google likes to keep everyone in the digital industries on their toes. They certainly know how to launch (and delay) new features and platforms, switch things up to solve common problems, and try to keep things fresh. Are they always liked? No. Do they always make sense? Sometimes. We’ll let you make […]

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  • How to Prepare for the Removal of Historic Universal Analytics Data

    Following the deprecation of data within Google’s Universal Analytics (UA) on 1st July 2023, Google has announced that exactly one year on, on 1st July 2024, all Google Analytics users will lose access to their historic UA data. “Starting the week of July 1, 2024: You won’t be able to access any Universal Analytics properties or the API (not even with read-only […]

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  • Google tag Replaces GA4 Configuration Tag in Tag Manager

    If you’ve previously set up Google Analytics 4 (GA4) inside Google Tag Manager, you would have probably used the GA4 configuration tag. However, thanks to some changes from Google, that is no longer the case. At the beginning of September, Google announced the release of a new tag called “Google tag” to replace the Google […]

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  • Schema Markup for Dummies: An MRS Guide 2024

    You don’t need to be a web developer to understand schema markup. Discover the what's, how's and where's in plain English, simply explained.

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