How To Recover Deleted Google Analytics Data?

Have you accidentally deleted your Google Analytics data or accounts? Or maybe you were doing a clean-up, but have now decided that the old data could still be useful? Well, worry not because Google Analytics has introduced a new recovery feature. The new "Trash Can" feature will allow users to undo deletes in their Google Analytics account.

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How To Analyse Website 404 Error Pages With Google Analytics?

404 or Not Found Error pages are very common, especially since the content on the internet is being changed all the time. Websites are migrated, new themes and templates are deployed and old ones discarded, low-quality content from the past is deleted, URLs are removed, and so on. 404s occur a lot, and they reflect on a site's user-experience, and how much effort has been put into it. In this post, I'll talk about how best to deal with these pages so as to improve your site's user-experience, and the general SEO.

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Now Auto Track On-Page Events With Google Tag Manager

The Google Tag Manager is a marketing tool that lets business owners keep track and take control of their remarketing and other data-driven campaigns by letting them assign tags to campaigns and events in Google Analytics. Hence, Google Tag Manager makes it easy to track events. Ordinarily, tracking events requires adding custom Javascript and HTML code to your individual webpages to tell Google Analytics when the event occurred. But thanks to Google, this is no more the case. As announced on the Google Analytics blog, Google Tag Manager now hosts a latest feature - auto event tracking which lets you measure events happening on the page without writing HTML or Javascript!

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How To Easily Upgrade To Universal Analytics?

Google Analytics is a widely used analytics program used to monitor user interactions and behaviours. The Google Analytics team is always trying to bring out the latest and improved features, which is what makes it the best Analytics program for webmasters. In fact, a lot of new changes were introduced in this year's Google Analytics Summit, and they include the all new integration with Universal Analytics. Universal Analytics was launched last year, and is a technology that allows you to measure customer interactions across platforms and devices. It is the new operating standard for Google Analytics. And Google has just announced the Universal Analytics Upgrade Center, an easy, two-step process to upgrade your existing properties from classic Google Analytics to Universal Analytics.

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Now You Can Easily Import and Share Analytics Insights With a Click!

Google Analytics can be hard to follow, especially for beginners. They simply feel lost in a plethora of so many options and features, and are drowned out by so much information. And it isn't a challenge just for newbies either. Even experienced webmasters can have difficulty navigating through Google Analytics and finding the feature they're looking for. To help users with this problem, the Google Analytics team introduced the Analytics Solution Gallery back in February this year which was a portal of sorts where the Analytics team would upload basic collections of dashboards, reports and segments for users to import and use. Now though, Google Analytics has just made this Gallery public, allowing anyone to contribute their solutions, free for everyone to download them!

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How To Set Up Alerts for 404 Error Pages in Google Analytics?

To a casual web surfer, there's nothing more annoying than hitting rock-bottom, i.e. getting a soft 404. I mean sure, things can be spiced up by adding creative 404 pages and what not. But a 404 is usually not a good sign, and shows negligence on your part. Server errors (3xx) are somewhat tolerable (and permissible), since there's no controlling a web server. But a 404 is something a webmaster can easily correct. Talking about which, Google Analytics can make finding 404 errors a lot easier! There's a small trick you can use to get alerts for 404 error pages, so that you'll be the first to know when there's a 404 broken link on your site!

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Learn From The Latest Upcoming Google Analytics Events

One of the most amazing thing about Google products is the endless support you get, not to mention all the functionality. The Google team is always hard at work, making changes, bringing about new updates, organizing events, conferences, and so on, which makes Google the best in the market. This fall is no different, and there are about a dozen Google Analytics events coming your way! So gear up, and get ready to learn from the top Googlers and Google Analytic experts!

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