How to Measure File Downloads in Google Data Studio

How to Measure File Downloads in Google Data Studio

In this post I'll show a method to measure file downloads in Google Data Studio. To be more accurate, I'll show how to track file downloads in Google Tag Manager and how to monitor and measure the types of file that have been downloaded in Google Data Studio.

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How to add Dynamic Page Links in Google Data Studio

How to add Dynamic Page Links in Google Data Studio

Google added a new feature recently, the ability to add Dynamic Page Links in Google Data Studio. This looks to be a great new feature, and makes linking between multi-page reports much easier.

Thanks to Pat Strickler for first spotting these and sharing the update on Twitter!

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How to add a Feedback form to Google Data Studio

In this post I'll show you how to add a Feedback Form to Google Data Studio.

This will allow you and your team to post feedback about the Data Studio report, as well as to note any annotations or make comments on the data itself.

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How to automatically adjust Dimensions in Google Data Studio

In this post I'll show you have to automatically adjust Dimensions in Google Data Studio.

What I mean by this is that I'll show you how to set up a custom Dimension that changes based on another dimension.

I have to admit I wasn't clever enough to think this up on my own, and saw the brilliant Mehdi Oudjida show the method on Twitter.

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How to build an SEO dashboard in Google Data Studio

How to build an SEO dashboard in Google Data Studio

In this post I'll show you how to build an SEO dashboard in Google Data Studio.

I call it an "SEO (Search Engine Optimization) dashboard" as it focuses only on organic search traffic to a website. So hopefully you can use the information in the report to see what pages and search terms are bringing in traffic from search engine results pages.

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A Data Studio of Ice and Fire

A Data Studio of Ice and Fire

Since we're in the final stretch of Game of Thrones, I thought I'd find a dataset and have a play around in Google Data Studio.

I found some good episode data on Kaggle, so used that for the second page of the report.

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A Daily Analytics dashboard in Google Data Studio

A Daily Analytics dashboard in Google Data Studio

In this post I've created a Daily Analytics Dashboard in Google Data Studio. Although it shows the performance of the past week, I call it a 'Daily Dashboard' because its the type of dashboard I would like to check it with daily.

I wanted to make something that showed the performance of the website so far that day, and for the previous week.

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