Categories: Google Analytics

Google Analytics for Ecommerce – Part 1 – Segment by Product Categories

You are a marketing manager and your online sales have never been better. Your greedy CEO calls you into the office. “We hit our quota this quarter, but next quarter, we want to blow the numbers out of the water! I need to buy a new yacht!”

How are you going to increase online sales when the numbers are already decent? You’re going to really need to dig deep and find ways to cut the data so you can uncover hidden “gems” of insights allowing you to further optimize.

Too many times we see business owners looking at aggregates. What do we care about most in eCommerce? Dollar Dollar bills. The metrics usually measured are things like “conversion rates” and “number of transactions”. This is important obviously, but you’re potentially missing ways of slicing the data that can show you more money.

For Practical Ecommerce, I wrote an article called “5 Ecommerce Metrics You Should Be Tracking“. I thought it would be cool to make a video series based on this.

Here is the first in our 5 part series:

Here’s Google’s developer topic on segmenting by category: Tracking Code: Ecommerce.

Feras Alhlou

Chief Technology Officer Feras Alhlou previously co-founded E-Nor in 2003 and served as President until its acquisition by Cardinal Path in 2019. Feras is passionate about his work with some of the world’s most recognized brands and public sector organizations to deliver data-driven marketing value. A recognized thought leader on the Google Marketing tech stack, he has traveled the globe educating businesses, practitioners, and consultants, and he’s also co-author of Google Analytics Breakthrough: From Zero to Business Impact. Feras received a Masters of Engineering Management degree from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tulsa. He is a Certified Web Analyst, Board Member for Red Cross Northern California, and a 3rd-degree black belt in Aikido.