Clean, useful Google Analytics data is all-important — both for you, and for the clients and colleagues that will be working on the site in the future. Ruth Burr Reedy shares her absolute best tips for getting your Analytics data accurate, consistent, and future-proof in this week's Whiteboard Friday.
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Hi, Moz fans. I'm Ruth Burr Reedy, and I am the Vice President of Strategy at UpBuild[1]. We're a technical marketing agency specializing in technical SEO and advanced web analytics. One of the things I wanted to talk about today, Whiteboard Friday, is about analytics.
So when I talk to SEOs about analytics and ask them, "When it comes to analytics, what do you do? What do you do first? When you're taking on a new client, what do you do?" SEOs are often really eager to tell me, "I dive into the data. Here's what I look like.Here are the views that I set up. Here's how I filter things. Here's where I go to gain insights."
But what I often don't hear people talk about, that I think is a super important first step with a new client or a new Analytics account, or really any time if you haven't done it, is making sure your Analytics data is accurate and consistent. Taking the time to do some basic Analytics housekeeping is going to serve you so far into the future and even beyond your time at that given client or company.
The people who come after you will be so, so, so thankful that you did these things. So today we're going to talk about actually accurate analytics.