How to Track Dark Social in Google Analytics

Nathan PatrickMarketing, Matrix, Social Media, Web AnalyticsLeave a Comment

  What is Dark Social? The channel Dark Social contains users who arrive to a website via a messaging app, and it’s currently incorrectly tracked in Google Analytics. Read The Atlantic’s post on Dark Social as a primer, otherwise you’ll quickly get lost. Dark social is really just another channel so we’ll be changing how analytics groups users into channels. … Read More

The ROI of a Logo

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When you go to the grocery store, there are two types of products: Brand and Generic. Without a second of thought, you know the difference between the two. While these products (spanning all categories of CPG) are mostly the same, the branded products are typically better in every aspect. When you are building your new business, or refreshing your old … Read More

Google Analytics Misattributes 70% of Social Traffic

Nathan PatrickMarketing, Matrix, Social Media, Web AnalyticsLeave a Comment

I won’t apologize for the clickbait title, because it’s true. And lots of different people completely agree. The idea may seem jarring, but once you dig into dark social it isn’t that surprising. A good chunk of social referrals are simply difficult to track, so Google Analytics lumps it into other categories. What is dark social, why doesn’t Google track … Read More