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Piwik Web Analytics Essentials

By : Stephan A. Miller
Book Image

Piwik Web Analytics Essentials

By: Stephan A. Miller

Overview of this book

<p>Without web analytics, you are blind on the internet. In order to improve conversions and revenue on your web- site, you need to know what is going on. Piwik gives you this data and unlike Google Analytics, gives you total control over its usage. Unlike Google analytics where the data can be read by Google, Piwik maintains complete confidentiality of your website data. By harnessing the power of your tracked data, you can raise the conversion rates on your website to new heights.<br /><br />"Piwik Web Analytics Essentials" will show you how to install Piwik Open Source Analytics and have you tracking your website’s visitors within an hour after you pick up the book! After that, you will learn how to track custom events and programmatically trigger tracking events. The book continues with ecommerce tracking and advanced Piwik API usage.<br /><br />This book will take you from installing Piwik on your web server to writing custom tracking code for your apps.<br /><br />You will learn goal and event tracking techniques and how to add them to your standard tracking to fine tune your analytics results. Nothing is untrackable using Piwik: ecommerce shopping carts, web apps, phone apps, and more can make use of Piwik tracking capabilities.<br /><br />"Piwik Web Analytics Essentials" will walk you through every step with detailed screenshots and plenty of example code.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Piwik Web Analytics Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 5. Tracking Marketing Campaigns

A marketing campaign is anything you spend time or money on to increase the traffic and conversions at your website; and anything you spend time or money is worth targeting with your tracking to make sure you are getting a good return on your investment. Unless you are tracking the results of your various marketing campaigns, you could be throwing money away and not knowing it.

You can use Piwik to track all sorts of marketing campaigns including paid ads, display ads, e-mail campaigns, and affiliate marketing campaigns and use this data to increase ROI (Return on investment) from your website. It all depends on how your business defines marketing. If interaction with visitors via a help or contact link is part of your marketing effort, then Piwik will help you do that too.

In this chapter we will learn how to:

  • Track campaigns with URL parameters

  • Use campaign URLs to track Google Adwords and other paid advertising

  • Track social media campaigns

  • Use Piwik...