Digital Insights

3 Reasons to Avoid Using a “Misc” Category group

For this process, we were going to create a resource center with information that had come from the blog.  As part of the review, there was a group of categories for the resource center that was created. 

Today, I was chatting with a client about some information architecture changes to his website. The changes were being proposed to create a better user experienced and the organize content that had professional value that we buried in a blog.

For this process, we were going to create a resource center with information that had come from the blog.  As part of the review, there was a group of categories for the resource center that was created. 

Google Data Studio Updates Filters and Adds Segments

There was news that Google Data Studio was globally released this week. However, I think the bigger news was that there were some upgrades to the features available including an improvement to the filters and the additional of custom segments from Google Analytics.

Let’s step through the filter updates first.

The Rise of “Near Me” SEO

In a usability study we did for a client pitch in 2009, we queried users how they looked for auto repair vendors. We didn’t ask them how they ‘searched’ for these repair shops, so we got answers like “I ask my dad” or “my husband picked a place”  . . . a pretty typical scenario.  

We further asked them, what factors they ultimately used to make the selection.  Where location and distance from home/work a factor? The resounding answer was YES.

Google Data Studio Lift Report Restrictions

If you haven’t been looking at Google Data Studio to create great reports and sleek dashboards, you have been missing out.  For those of use who have been slathering ourselves in the sleek functionality, we have only been held back by the restriction of creating only 5 reports per profile.

Yes, it hearkened back to the days of Analytics Profiles and Goal Creation in Google Analytics.  However, Google Announced an early bit of love it is spreading by lifting the 5 report limit in Data Studio.