Category Archives: Analyze
How to link BigQuery to GA4?
BigQuery is a cloud data warehouse designed to help you turn big data into valuable business insights. Linking BigQuery to Google Analytics was available only to GA360 users – the enterprise versions of Google Analytics. However, since the introduction of the new GA4, linking BigQuery to GA has become now available to everyone with no…
Data Blending in Google Data Studio – Practical Guide
Data blending in Data Studio let you combine multiple data sources into a single chart or visualization, called blended data source. Data blending brings in additional information from a secondary data source and displays it with data from the primary data source directly in the view. Blending saves time and removes the need to manipulate…
How to upgrade to GA4 (Google Analytics 4)?
GA4 is the latest version of Google Analytics, it’s formerly known as App + Web. You can use it for a website, an app, or both a website and app together. Universal Analytics properties only support websites. Google has made GA4 the default experience for analytics properties and strongly encourages users to upgrade to Google…
Import Facebook Ads Data to Google Sheets via Apps Script
There are a few Google Sheets add-ons that allow exporting Facebook Ads reports to Sheets, however, some of them tend to be expensive or lack the support of some new metrics and dimensions. Today, I will walk you through how to get Facebook Ads data to Google Sheets without buying any add-ons and even schedule…
Recreating GA4 Traffic Acquisition Report in BigQuery
Google Analytics 4 allows exporting all the raw data and events to BigQuery automatically, and use SQL syntax to query and model the data. When you export GA4 data to BigQuery, you own that data, and you can analyze users and their traffic on your property. To make sense of the data and create reports,…
Machine Learning inside Google Tag Manager
Machine learning has disrupted many sectors in our life including marketing. Marketers are now able to analyze large amounts of data and provide understandable analysis or results that can use to their advantage. There are many ML libraries and APIs that you can start using today to enhance your digital analytics and marketing results. Machine…
Practical Guide to Regex in Google Data Studio
Regular expressions (regex or regexp) can help save time and effort when working with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and now Google Data Studio. They add extra flexibility to the way you create definitions or include & exclude data from your reports. You can think of regex as specific sequences of characters that broadly or narrowly match…
How to upgrade to GA4 on Squarespace?
GA4 is the latest version of Google Analytics. You can use it for a website, an app, or both a website and app together. Universal Analytics properties only support websites. Google has made GA4 the default experience for analytics properties and strongly encourages users to upgrade to Google Analytics 4 properties. In this article, I…
Deep Dive Analysis: Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web Placements
If you ever run a display campaign through Google Ads or any DSP with the objective to drive traffic or conversion, you’ve probably noticed a big difference in traffic performance driven by ads within mobile apps vs mobile web pages. If you realized this already, you’re probably wondering what you should do? Should you exclude…
Facebook’s Audience Network Analysis
Audience Network allows advertisers to extend their ad campaigns beyond Facebook to reach more audiences on third-party apps and websites where the targeting works by matching each person’s mobile device to his or her Facebook profile. At first, when Facebook introduced the audience network placement, we were very excited to test it out and see the results it…