Wednesday, March 26, 2014

reflection of two Google analytics courses


                                                               Reflection

I’ve learned how analytics actually works, and how to use it when it comes to the specific situation. Much of the lessons went into the details of tailoring it to your needs. The most useful part is the tracks how people get to your website through campaign data.


This part is most useful because I can use those data to give myself some idea of why users are coming to Brenda coaching website. And find another ways to leading more people to come. There is great deal of incredible material in this course. Some of it, such as the live event videos and interviews and the course forums, if I want to learn it well, still needs time.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

BUS572-4


                                                 Display Network and Cookies

I’ve read the case about How Jordan received more attention and achieved its success through Google, therefore, I would like to talk more about Google Display network of Google Ads which is an excellent tool that can increase awareness and engagement of a brand. The Google Display Network offers text, image, rich media, and video advertising on Google properties, YouTube, and millions of web, domain, video, gaming, and mobile partner sites. All these media resources like Google properties, YouTube, and millions of web, domain, video, gaming, and mobile partner sites are used for advertiser to reach more potential customers all over the web. 

A cookie is a small file sent to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies help sites remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. With this information, sites can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.(Google, 2014)  for example, when you shop online, you need cookies to enable and record your actions that you completed before and make it easier for you. There are two types of cookies, and the second type is for Google analytics to track. Here is an article that helps us to learn more about cookies. I think it would be helpful if we knew some fundamental knowledge about how this mysterious technology works, and why we can take advantage of this existing metric.

The most useful skill that I learned from my current session is putting Google AdWords with businesses in operation, and learning how to make it better and better. And I still work on it.  How do you increase your visits? Do you agree that just selecting a proper keyword and building up a good landing page? What else

We’ve learned lots of good tools from Google, so, in the future session, I hope I could use them properly, effectively, and not confuse selecting them when it comes to a problem.

reference:
google. (2014). Case study | google display network. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/partners/