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    You send newsletters to your customers, but how many customers click on them to visit your Magento shop? Next questions should be:


    • If they click what happens in the next step?
    • Does a text mail work better than a html mail?
    • What is the bounce rate?
    • Does the message in your mail creates a conversion?
    • What are the transactions on your site?


    In the following tutorial we like to give you an overview how you can use Google Analytics, to track your ads, mails and many more. Get full control on your marketing activities and get more conversions, optimize your content by facts.

    The simple concept

    The process to track email campaigns in Google Analytics is called „tagging“. This means nothing else than to add additional information to your link.
    As example link:

    http://www.your-magento-shop.com/a-category/
    http://www.your-magento-shop.com/a-category.html
    Now you need just a „tracking code“ of your choice:
    http://www.your-magento-shop.com/a-category/?your-code
    http://www.your-magento-shop.com/a-category.html?your-code
    Once the code is setup you need to configure Google Analytics.

    1. Go to „Standard Reporting“ -> Overview and click on „Advanced Segments“
    2. Click on „+ New Custom Segment“
    3. Create a „Name“ for the segment
    4. Now you need to choose „Page“ and „Ends with“ in the option list.
    5. In the field „Ends with“ you need to enter the code (In our example ?your-code )
    6. Now you can save the new segment and you are done.



    Please keep in mind that it could take 1 or 2 hours before you can see the fist results. We recommend to prepare new segments before you start a new marketing campaign. You can also use the ending code for every other link, like Adwords or other adds. The end of the link must start with „?“ - this is very important! Else you get a Magento issue site.
    The deep Concept of analytics and Magento

    Google Analytics offers „parameters“ for tagging and you can add more informations to your tracking code.
    If a customer clicks on a tagged link, Google Analytics stores this information in a cookie. Now Google Analytics associate all visitor actions and you get a pretty overview on conversions, transactions behind your ads like your email.
    Start the advanced „tagging“

    For giving more information to the „URL code“ you need to use the Google Analytics tagging parameters. These parameters are predefined.
    On the left side you find the parameter name, on the right you need to enter the value.
    Here is a short example for the parameters and their values:
    utm_campaign=sale-dezember-20percentoff
    utm_medium=email
    utm_source=female
    The final URL link with tagging:

    http://www.your-magento-shop.com/a-category/?utm_campaign=sale-dezember-20percentoff&utm_medium=email&utm_source=female
    Each of these parameters helps analytics to understand that the visitor arrived your shop by mail. Please keep in mind that you can only use parameters that Google provides.
    Of course, you can use any value for each parameter. In case you use individual information for each parameter you can add the links to different ads.
    Mail links are just an example.
    More details through each parameter

    utm_campaign

    This parameter is for identifying the campaign name.
    For example: If you create an advertising campaign with paid search, display ad and mails, you can group the customers which came through mails only.
    utm_medium

    „Medium“ describes how the advertising reached the visitor. In our example it is by „mail“.
    utm_source

    With this parameter you can fine tune the „who“. Here are some nice examples for using „utm_source“:
    utm_source=gender:male
    utm_source=gender:female
    utm_source=purchase:last-45-days
    utm_source=purchase:last-90-days
    utm_source=purchase:free-gift-offer
    The key should be used for identifying the segment in this parameter. For using this parameter efficiently, you should create some customer segmenting before you send mails.
    utm_content

    utm_content=15-off-offer
    utm_content=25-off-offer
    utm_content=buy-one-get-two
    A next great value for this parameter can be the position of the link.
    This could look like this:
    utm_content=top-nav
    utm_content=call-to-action
    utm_content=image-link
    Google Analytics tagging URL builder

    If you are unsure how to create these links you can use the following link:
    Google Analytics URL builder
    In case you create a lot of different campaigns we recommend to add the values to a Spreadsheet. Else you can easily loose the overview.
    Reporting in Google Analytics

    Open your Google Analytics account and go to:
    Traffic Sources -> Campaigns report.

    All values in your used link tags get automatically pulled directly in Google Analytics.
    The report contains the values of your umt_campain parameters and you are able to measure the performance of each campaign.
    If you use google adwords ad, you see the campaigns there, too.
    With just one click on each campaign you can enter the details of it. Now you can select at „Dimension“ the „Source“ -> Medium (utm_medium).


    Now you can easily evaluate the sources across multiple campaigns.
    For this please go again to Traffic Sources > All Traffic Sources report.
    In the first column you can see all sources and mediums, which can be filtered by „ utm_medium“, to identify the segment.



    You can find the data „utm_source“ at: Traffic Sources -> Ad Versions report There you can evaluate the performance of different variations. All these reports have 3 tabs with metrics:

    1. Site usage
    2. Goal conversions
    3. Ecommerce (For this you need to activate Ecommerce tracking in Google Analytics)

    Create your own Advanced Segment

    For this you need to click on „advanced segments“-> „+New Custom Segment“ Now you select the „medium“ dimension and enter a value. In example „email“ or a other medium value for „utm_medium“. Before you save the new segment you can test it.

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    Very good tips, thanks

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    Well it did worked for me. Do really appreciate you for such a vulnerable post.

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    Good to know this analytics report by Google..

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    Good Tips for us Jaredovi..
    It works for us...

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    Hi all ,

    Yes,It is possible . Magento Email Tracking in Google Analytics .few steps for it.

    Step 1: Create a Google Analytics Account
    Step 2: Configure Your Store for Google Analytics
    Step 3: Check the Status of Your Account

    After then

    Go to „Standard Reporting“ -> Overview and click on „Advanced Segments“
    Click on „+ New Custom Segment“
    Create a „Name“ for the segment
    Now you need to choose „Page“ and „Ends with“ in the option list.
    In the field „Ends with“ you need to enter the code (In our example ?your-code )
    Now you can save the new segment and you are done.

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    nice information thank you.

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    nice information thank you, i going to implement this method to improve the sale of website.

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    very good infomation, thank you

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