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Tools to improve your online marketing campaign

9 August 2017 | 15 Comments
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Michiel Heijmans

One of the most frequently asked questions by fellow SEO consultants probably is: “What online marketing tools do you use?” In the ever-changing SEO world, it was time for us to update our list with the present day tools we use on a very regular basis in a variety of projects. Some of these tools …

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Tools to improve your online marketing campaign

Google Tag Manager: an introduction

14 June 2017 | 9 Comments
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Annelieke van den Berg

Perhaps you’ve heard about it: Google Tag Manager. Google introduced this tool 5 years ago, a tool that would make marketers less dependent on developers and that would, therefore, speed up your marketing process. Google Tag Manager has evolved over the years becoming a more complete and easy to use tool. Here I want to …

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Google Tag Manager: an introduction

Google Analytics custom dimensions

1 June 2017 | 7 Comments
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Annelieke van den Berg

Custom Dimensions is a very powerful ‘tool’ within Google Analytics which will give you a lot of extra tracking power. However, the fact that it’s powerful also means that it can be hard to understand or know what you can do with it exactly. What are custom dimensions and how you can use and find them …

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Google Analytics custom dimensions

Perfecting your goals in Google Analytics

4 May 2017 | 5 Comments
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Annelieke van den Berg

There are quite a few tracking features in Google Analytics for which you have to do a bit more than just implement the UA-code on your pages. One of those features is the ‘goal’. The goal is a feature in which you can track one of the following things: how many people reach a designated …

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Perfecting your goals in Google Analytics

How to create and use dashboards in Google Analytics

13 April 2017 | 13 Comments
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Annelieke van den Berg

Google Analytics is a powerful tool. However, it does take quite some time to get used to it, which is why many people are missing out on a lot of functionalities. They simply don’t know some options exists. So today, I’ll explain a feature that I find very useful: Google Analytics dashboards. Here, you’ll read what they …

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How to create and use dashboards in Google Analytics

Tracking your SEO with Google Analytics: a how-to

29 March 2017 | 16 Comments
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Thijs de Valk

At Yoast, we’re known for giving you numerous tips to improve your site’s SEO. However, how do you know whether those tips are actually working for you? There are a number of tools out there that can help you track your SEO, but most of them will cost you money. And, in the end, it’s obviously just …

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Tracking your SEO with Google Analytics: a how-to

Why use segments in Google Analytics?

24 February 2017 | 9 Comments
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Annelieke van den Berg

When talking with customers about Google Analytics, you often hear the same thing: “I’m not really using Google Analytics because I don’t know what I’m looking at. It’s just too much”. And that’s a pity because you can learn a whole lot about your website and your audience with Google Analytics’ data. So, is there …

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Why use segments in Google Analytics?

A new home for our Google Analytics plugins

Today we’re announcing that our Analytics plugins are getting a new home on MonsterInsights.com. One of the “problems” of a quickly growing business is that you have to choose what to focus on. We’ve made that choice: we’ll focus on building best in class SEO products, from plugins to training programs. We’re very happy to be …

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A new home for our Google Analytics plugins