Google Data Studio

At Learn Digital Advertising, we absolutely love Google Data Studio! We haven’t found a more efficient or effective way to aggregate web analytics from sources like Google Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook, Instagram, Mailchimp, and much more.  Take advantage of our free Data Studio tutorials. We hope you enjoy!

18 08, 2020

Connect MailChimp to Google Data Studio – 5 Minutes

2022-05-30T08:56:48-05:00By |Categories: Email Marketing, Web Analytics|Tags: , , |

Ready to create the ultimate MailChimp email marketing dashboard? If you're anything like us, you're confused as to why MailChimp standard reporting is so, well, unhelpful. Although MailChimp has made recent attempts to improve their overall experience with reporting, we believe it still lacks the necessary features we want.  Here's a no-BS way to track [...]

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18 08, 2020

How to Track Multiple Google My Business Locations in One Dashboard

2022-05-30T08:56:48-05:00By |Categories: Web Analytics|Tags: , , |

Whether you work for a brick and mortar with multiple locations (2-1,000s) or are in house at an agency, you may be looking for the best solution to track multiple business location Google My Business (GMB) stats in one place. Enter, Google Data Studio. Not only can this save you a ton of time, but [...]

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2 10, 2019

How to Use Google Data Studio Optional Metrics

2022-05-30T08:56:51-05:00By |Categories: Web Analytics|Tags: , |

Let's look at Google Data Studio's Optional Metrics feature. This is a feature which you can add to almost any chart to allow the user to add/remove/change the metrics in the chart. Why Use Optional Metrics? Keep dashboards looking clean while still offering the ability to analyze tons of data! Allow more interaction in your reports. Include [...]

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18 09, 2019

What is a Dimension in Google Analytics?

2022-05-30T08:56:54-05:00By |Categories: Web Analytics|Tags: , , |

Here's a common question we get all the time- What exactly is a dimension when referring to Google Analytics? And thus, today's short lesson on dimensions. But first, here's why you need to know this- Custom Reporting. That's it! Google allows you to create custom reports (in Google Analytics or using tools like Google Data [...]

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11 09, 2019

Google Analytics Segmentation Tutorial

2022-05-30T08:56:55-05:00By |Categories: Web Analytics|Tags: , , |

Greetings class! Let's up your Internet marketing game with this fresh Google Analytics segmentation how to guide. What is Segmentation? In Google Analytics, segments are subsets of data which you can create to compare onsite behavior. In other words, you can create subsets of traffic (samples below) and then compare segment behavior for all the [...]

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11 09, 2019

Data Studio Migrating Files Away from Drive

2022-05-30T08:56:57-05:00By |Categories: Internet Marketing News|Tags: , |

 Episode Highlights Why? Simplify the process of connecting and managing data sources. TRUE! Always felt messy with the current process Non GSuite users, nothing you need to do, this will happen over the next few weeks GSuite users: Further instructions to come Transcript Juan: All right. Looks like we got Data Studio is migrating [...]

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16 08, 2019

Internet Marketing News – Google Analytics App+Web, GDS Updates, Google Indexing Explained

2022-05-30T08:57:00-05:00By |Categories: Internet Marketing News|Tags: , , |

Welcome to the show! A friendly reminder to help support us if you like the news content the way we bring it to you please give us a like and subscribe, also any comments let us know how we can make it better. Moving right along we’ve got a couple of news updates starting with [...]

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27 06, 2019

Internet Marketing News – Google Ads & Local Updates, GSC Changes, No More Google Hangouts on Air

2022-05-30T08:57:03-05:00By |Categories: Internet Marketing News|Tags: , , |

Digital Marketing News Highlights Google Ads & Local Campaigns Updates Shoppers are always looking for deals not just during shopping seasons and upcoming Googles updates are focused on that Seasonality adjustments will signal any smart bidding such as enhanced CPC, CPA More in-market audiences for search (people who are ready to buy) total of about [...]

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30 04, 2019

Audit Your Google Ads Account with Google Data Studio

2022-05-30T08:57:12-05:00By |Categories: Paid Search, Search Engine Marketing|Tags: , |

If you are tasked with managing your own or your clients' Google Ads accounts, there are countless tools to do so. Most however, require a firm understanding of the Google Ads platform. Knowing where to look and what to look for takes years of practice. And Google Ad audits can take hours to perform even [...]

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8 04, 2019

Custom Rolling Dates in GDS

2022-05-30T08:57:14-05:00By |Categories: Web Analytics|Tags: |

Today's post on using custom rolling dates in Google Data Studio is brought to you by the color blue! Seriously though, we totally had trouble figuring out how these worked (and probably mis-reported a bit) so once we did, we wanted to run through the seemingly simple feature. Video below. How to Use Custom Rolling Dates Configuring [...]

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