Learn to create web analytics goals and use attribution modelling reports

Setting up web analytics goals is an essential component of any digital analytics measurement plan.

On this two-week course, you’ll find out how to set up goals in Google Analytics and how to use attribution modelling reports to go beyond the last click. This practice will help you learn how different channels and content contribute to your end goals throughout the user journey.

Discover how to create and use Google analytics goals effectively

You will learn how to set up and customise a range of goals in Google Analytics, including some of the complexities and differences between goals in Universal Analytics and Google Analytics 4. You will also explore web analytics goals reports and how to interpret them to gain extra insights on the goals being completed.

Use attribution modelling to explore the steps of a user journey

Digging deeper, you’ll learn about attribution modelling to understand the different steps of a user’s journey that have led to them completing your goals.

You’ll explore the role of contribution modelling in going beyond last-click attribution, how to use a range of reports in Google Analytics to carry it out, and evaluate the different models available. With this knowledge, you’ll understand the benefits and limitations of the models.

By the end, you’ll know how to set up goals in Google Analytics and evaluate the true value of your digital marketing activity.

Develop web analytics skills from digital marketing experts

This course is designed by Target Internet’s CEO Daniel Rowles with The Open University. Daniel has provided expertise to well-known brands such as the BBC, Sony, Tesco, Vodafone, Mercedes, L’Oreal, and Warner Bros.

What topics will you cover?

The role of goals and going beyond last click
Setting up web analytics goals
Web analytics goals reports
Attribution modelling in perspective
Multi-channel funnel reports
Attribution modelling models: benefits and limitations

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Evaluate the importance of goals and the limitations of volume-based metrics
Demonstrate how to set up and customise goals to be aligned with your organisational objectives
Identify the role of contribution modelling in going beyond last-click attribution
Evaluate the different attribution models available and their benefits and limitations

Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for those who are interested in using web and channel analytics to get more from their digital marketing activity.

It will be of particular interest to anyone wishing to further their studies and practical knowledge of marketing, communications, and business.

Who will you learn with?

Daniel Rowles

MD TargetInternet.com - helping upskill the world's leading organisations in Digital Marketing & Digital Transformation.

Host of the Digital Marketing Podcast, a global top 20 business podcast.

Who developed the course?

The Open University

As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.

Established
1969
Location
Milton Keynes, UK
World ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

Target Internet

Target Internet delivers digital training to some of the world’s leading organisations, as well as building online learning that is used in over 100 countries worldwide. As publishers of the global Digital Marketing Skills Benchmark and the Digital Marketing Podcast, they have unrivalled access to market insights and expertise.

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