@@rooted-digitalif you’re open to content ideas for future vids … I would love to hear your thoughts on Google dropping continuous scroll for search. I’m curious if it was just a bad user experience for searchers or if they (Google) benefited more from having the individual pages. You know, the big man has to make his money. lol
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you found it worth checking out. I'm not much use when it comes to app tracking. I have actually never done that myself. Is there something specific you're looking to track in app? All I know is that you use the logEvent method to make it happen. Link below. firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/unity/events
@@rooted-digital yea! I'm figuring out if I can create events on my own that are not automatically generated by Google for mobile apps. It looks like setting up for mobile apps is much complicated than web. It's alright, I'll try ask my dev team for help on this. Appreciate it! Currently binging on your other videos.
@@justingoh8555 well best wishes to you. Please feel free to check back if you learn anything from your dev team. It's totally new territory for me and I'd love to learn along with you. Best wishes! 👏
How would you create an event tracking a specific incoming link? Like tracking how many people arrive at the site from a specific link in the description of a youtube video.
For that, you’d actually use a traffic report to see the source of your visit from your UA-cam video. You can add things like “UTM parameters” for cases like the one you’re describing to see all the traffic source details in GA4. There are two videos on UTM parameters on this channel that I’d recommend you consider. Best of luck and Godspeed! 🙏✌️
I followed the instructions for creating the custom dimension for link_url and it still doesn't display on the click report details page. Not sure what I'm missing?
It can take up to 48 hours for GA4 to recognize it. If it hasn't been that much time, I'd wait a bit longer. If it has been that long, I'm hoping it's now showing for you (it should be).
Hihi, I cannot see "Life Cycle". Actually, I just wanted to track when an e-mail was open, but that seems impossible to do even with custom backend. :(
Hello there! If you’re most interested in seeing opened emails, that’s not something that GA4 can help you with. You can see open rates and click rates in your email service provider like Mailchimp or Mailerlite. You CAN use GA4 to track the performance of emails on your website (aka, what people do after they open and click your email). For that, you’ll need to use “UTM parameters”. Here’s an article on that if you’re interested: www.rootandbranchgroup.com/utm-parameters-google-analytics/ In terms of not seeing the life cycle reports, you may need to edit the reports that are available in your reporting library. Happy to help with more if I can. Good luck! ✌️
I hear you, brother. UA was really great. Still, I appreciate the kind words. Ps. You might consider checking out Microsoft’s free analytics tool (Clarity). I’ve found it picks up a lot of the gaps created by GA4. Happy to share a couple resources if you decide you’re interested. Good luck and Godspeed!
I don't have "Engagement" in my Reports menu. Now rest of your video is probably useless. I am about to go crazy. This is the most sucky product of google.
What do you see in the lefthand navigation? You should see 4 things in the far left (Home // Reports // Explore // Advertising) Click into Reports and then look in the "Life cycle" bucket of reports in the vertical menu that emerges. You should see "Engagement" right below "Acquisition" If you don't, it means you just don't have those reports available in your "Library" which would be based on a decision made when your property was set up (when Google asked how you planned to use GA4). Try this article and scroll down to "Customizing your reports in the library" roirevolution.com/blog/customizing-the-ga4-report-library/ By the way, I agree with you that Google isn't doing us all many favors with this tool. Complex to learn at first.
this seems really good
Well, hey! I appreciate the feedback. I hope it proves useful for you. Good luck and Godspeed!
Very helpful. Thank you.
You’re very welcome. Glad you found it useful 🙌!
thanks bro to share with us all amazing value info ❤
So glad to hear you found it worth your time. I appreciate you checking it out. ☺
Thank you for all the great insights!
Ray, you're very welcome. Glad it was useful. Thanks for coming by and saying hello!
Desperately needed this. Thanks!
So glad to hear it was useful. Best wishes! ✌️😄
@@rooted-digitalif you’re open to content ideas for future vids … I would love to hear your thoughts on Google dropping continuous scroll for search. I’m curious if it was just a bad user experience for searchers or if they (Google) benefited more from having the individual pages. You know, the big man has to make his money. lol
Nice guide
Glad to hear this was useful for you. Thanks for watching and for taking a minute to share this.
Is there a tutorial for app? That’s not covered by many people. Fantastic video by the way.
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you found it worth checking out.
I'm not much use when it comes to app tracking. I have actually never done that myself. Is there something specific you're looking to track in app? All I know is that you use the logEvent method to make it happen. Link below.
firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/unity/events
@@rooted-digital yea! I'm figuring out if I can create events on my own that are not automatically generated by Google for mobile apps. It looks like setting up for mobile apps is much complicated than web. It's alright, I'll try ask my dev team for help on this. Appreciate it! Currently binging on your other videos.
@@justingoh8555 well best wishes to you. Please feel free to check back if you learn anything from your dev team. It's totally new territory for me and I'd love to learn along with you. Best wishes! 👏
How would you create an event tracking a specific incoming link? Like tracking how many people arrive at the site from a specific link in the description of a youtube video.
For that, you’d actually use a traffic report to see the source of your visit from your UA-cam video. You can add things like “UTM parameters” for cases like the one you’re describing to see all the traffic source details in GA4. There are two videos on UTM parameters on this channel that I’d recommend you consider.
Best of luck and Godspeed! 🙏✌️
I followed the instructions for creating the custom dimension for link_url and it still doesn't display on the click report details page. Not sure what I'm missing?
It can take up to 48 hours for GA4 to recognize it. If it hasn't been that much time, I'd wait a bit longer. If it has been that long, I'm hoping it's now showing for you (it should be).
Hihi, I cannot see "Life Cycle". Actually, I just wanted to track when an e-mail was open, but that seems impossible to do even with custom backend. :(
Hello there! If you’re most interested in seeing opened emails, that’s not something that GA4 can help you with. You can see open rates and click rates in your email service provider like Mailchimp or Mailerlite. You CAN use GA4 to track the performance of emails on your website (aka, what people do after they open and click your email). For that, you’ll need to use “UTM parameters”. Here’s an article on that if you’re interested: www.rootandbranchgroup.com/utm-parameters-google-analytics/
In terms of not seeing the life cycle reports, you may need to edit the reports that are available in your reporting library. Happy to help with more if I can. Good luck! ✌️
2 years in, I still hate GA4 with a passion.. Great video though, thank you
I hear you, brother. UA was really great. Still, I appreciate the kind words.
Ps. You might consider checking out Microsoft’s free analytics tool (Clarity). I’ve found it picks up a lot of the gaps created by GA4. Happy to share a couple resources if you decide you’re interested. Good luck and Godspeed!
I don't have "Engagement" in my Reports menu. Now rest of your video is probably useless. I am about to go crazy. This is the most sucky product of google.
What do you see in the lefthand navigation? You should see 4 things in the far left (Home // Reports // Explore // Advertising)
Click into Reports and then look in the "Life cycle" bucket of reports in the vertical menu that emerges. You should see "Engagement" right below "Acquisition"
If you don't, it means you just don't have those reports available in your "Library" which would be based on a decision made when your property was set up (when Google asked how you planned to use GA4).
Try this article and scroll down to "Customizing your reports in the library"
roirevolution.com/blog/customizing-the-ga4-report-library/
By the way, I agree with you that Google isn't doing us all many favors with this tool. Complex to learn at first.