What are "Goals" and how do i set them up?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by campolar, Aug 21, 2009.

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    I'm new to using analytics, i used to use statcounter before. I see "Completed Goals"... What is this? And how do i set goals?
     
    campolar, Aug 21, 2009 IP
  2. lakkineni

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    If you want to measure the effectiveness of your online campaigns either you should have the E-commerce enabled in your analytics account or you can set up a goal.

    A goal is something similar to measuring how many visits are to a particular product on your site or How many downloaded a pdf from your site. This is basically what you want to achieve from your site, what you want the visitors to do!!

    Help on Setting up goals:http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55515
     
    lakkineni, Aug 23, 2009 IP
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    Cool, thanks for the help...

    Google didn't get me that answer link :p
     
    campolar, Aug 30, 2009 IP
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    Goals will let you know the ROI.
    Setting up goals will let you the the problem pages, where you are lacking ?
    What pages people move just before giving a query or lead and much more.
     
    sprabhu, Aug 31, 2009 IP