Looking at WordPress Tags in Google Anlaytics

  • Okay. Hopefully this is a straightforward question to what may be a complicated answer.

    I want to be able to see the stats for all articles on my site tagged “foo” all in one place in Google Analytics. Anyone know how?

    In other words lets say I have 100 articles tagged “foo”. I just want to know how popular they are as a collective without grinding through stats for 100 articles one by one. I’m assuming there’s some way to do it. Reckon it’s based on filters somehow. Extra bonus would be to also include data from the main tag landing page: mysite.com/tag/foo

    How would one go about setting this up? Obviously, if “foo” were in all the URLs, then I’d be stoked but that’s not the case.

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  • Have you looked at the GA plugin by Yoast? I haven’t used this particular feature of the plugin that you’re looking for, but it reads like it MAY do the trick? Though I may be misunderstanding its description or your question ??

    Under Custom Variables… “Tags: track all tags for each post, has its limits but might be useful.” *If* it allows for analytics based solely on the tags themselves, that should let you get at the metrics you’re looking for.

    https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/google-analytics/

    Thread Starter nickaster

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    Yeah, just checking that out, thanks! This might be the ticket…

    Thread Starter nickaster

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    Darn. Apparently I’m out of luck until because I upgraded to “Universal Analytics” … god only know what the difference is.

    I’m sure there’s still away to do this because my Google DFP ad server is capable of recognizing tags on pages… so somehow the muse be visible to Google. If only I had a clue how!

    Thread Starter nickaster

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    I did a little more digging around and I *think* this is somehow related to “events” in Google which I don’t really understand. I’m kicking myself for making this “upgrade” on Google that doesn’t work with Yoast… but this just has to be a fairly straightforward change if I could only get Google to recognize the Tags/Category/Author metadata that is already sitting there on the pages….

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