This document discusses growth hacking with Google Analytics. It provides dos and don'ts for using Google Analytics effectively. The key recommendations are to 1) opt out of tracking yourself in Google Analytics, 2) define goals for your site such as destinations to track success, and 3) track sources of traffic using available parameters to understand referrals. Real-time dashboards are not useful as the data is too late, time spent on a site is not a good metric, and high bounce rates are not necessarily bad. The document provides tips on using tools like the URL builder and shortener to effectively set up tracking and goals in Google Analytics.
14. Sources won’t track themselves
No referrer = no source
No source = Direct traffic
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15. 5 parameters available
Source
Medium
Campaign
Content
Term
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Referring website (eg: twitter, youtube, internal, etc.)
Type of referral (eg: email, social, display, organic, cpc, etc.)
Date + Topic (eg: 20131012_free_shipping)
Use it for segmentation (eg: «women» vs. «men»)
Use it to add a keyword (if relevant)
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27. RECAP
1 Stop tracking yourself
1 Real-time is a waste of time
2 Define goals
2 Time spent on site is useless
3 Track sources
3 Bounce rate is not evil
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