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Piwik Web Analytics Essentials

By : Stephan A. Miller
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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

Tracking campaigns using URL parameters


So let's say you have one landing page and it is designed to get people to buy your brand new one-of-a-kind holy hand grenade. Now this is not the original Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, but a commemorative version, a replica. You have hired the best ad writers to write your copy and the best web designers to design your site and you are ready to rock and roll and sell some grenades.

But your domain, holyhandgrenadesareus.com, is new. You have yet to build links or promote it. But the new team of social media experts, search engine gurus, and advertising experts that you have hired are going to get you that traffic and get it fast.

So in other words, you spent a lot of money to get this business of Holy Hand Grenades going and you expect some results. You need to know who to fire and who to give a bonus to. You need to know where your marketing dollars are best spent. There are many marketing channels on the Internet. Some may work for your company and...