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How to use Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager as SEO crawler

In these slides and my conference talk (from 2020), I’ll show you how to use GTM together with Universal Analytics as a SEO crawler.

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Send event nonInteraction field as custom dimension to Universal Analytics

Note: This is an old Universal Analytics related blog post. If the bounce rate is very low (under 10 %) you are almost certainly dealing with a buggy Google Analytics implementation. 

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How to document Silktide Cookie Consent clicks with Universal Analytics events

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with all kinds of cookie consent solutions for WordPress. Every plugin I have tested has the same problem: they provide no way of documenting the consent hopefully given by the user.

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How to use office hours as a custom dimension in Universal Analytics

Creating a weekly heatmap of traffic or conversions is one of my favorite data visualisation tips for Google Analytics users. Sometimes this level of granularity just obscures the most important time related features of the data.