by Lee Hurst | Feb 11, 2020 | Data Studio Help, Small Business Marketing
How Changing the Links to Your Site In Google My Business Listings Can Make Your Google Analytics Work Smarter. Google My Business (GMB) listings play a vital role in most businesses’ visibility to prospective customers. In order to understand the impact a GMB...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 6, 2020 | Data Studio Help
A Data Citizen’s Survival Guide Update 2/1/2020 – People in the US and Canada are receiving their books! The sales of the book have been excellent! It has placed as the top new title is several categories on Amazon and has almost sold out several times. ...
by Lee Hurst | Feb 18, 2019 | Data Studio Help, Small Business Marketing
This is the second post in a series that explores ways you can use Search Console (SC) and Google Data Studio (DS) together. This time we will be looking at some traffic that is often hidden from Google Analytics: Direct PDF downloads. In the first post, we looked at...
by Lee Hurst | Feb 11, 2019 | Data Studio Help
This is the first post in a series that explores ways you can use Search Console (SC) and Google Data Studio (DS) together. The goals here are: Get better and faster insights. Reuse and build on previous work. Where possible, eliminate exports to worksheets for...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 27, 2019 | Data Studio Help, Helpfullee Services, Small Business Marketing
Dear SEO’s, please answer these three questions. Do you work with a business that has a Google My Business (GMB) listing in addition to a regular site? Are you SURE? Go check right now! If not, I’m curious why! Let me know in the comments. Does the GMB listing...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 14, 2019 | Data Studio Help, Tools and Tips
This post, like many, started from a conversation on Twitter. I was patrolling for interesting Data Studio tweets when I saw a frustrated person with a request for the addition of a “slicer” to the tool. I had only just started my first coffee of the...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 6, 2019 | Data Studio Help
Who To Follow for Google Data Studio? – Updated November 12, 2019 – This is a guide to 28 notable people and organizations that are active in supporting the Data Studio community. Google Data Studio has only been around for a couple of years now, and...
by Lee Hurst | Dec 29, 2018 | Business Services, Data Studio Help, Small Business Marketing
Google My Business (GMB) listings and website visibility in search results have a huge impact on local businesses. But there is a problem: Many small businesses have no feel for how their digital properties are performing. Even though data is freely available,...
by Lee Hurst | Nov 4, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Google Data Studio has long given report makers the ability to create their own “calculated fields”. Recently, blended data sources were also made available. What was missing was the ability to combine values from blended sources using...
by Lee Hurst | Oct 12, 2018 | Data Studio Help, Small Business Marketing
Here’s a real example from a local business that has a Google My Business listing as well as a website. This report is interactive – feel free to play with the date settings! This report is designed to be embedded right into the owners’ site, on a...
by Lee Hurst | Aug 24, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Ok, so you just finished your data studio masterpiece and its time to share! How you share depends on who you want to share it with and how much access you want to give them. One of the reasons Data Studio was developed was to increase the ways Google Analytics...
by Lee Hurst | Jul 18, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Is adopting Google Data Studio “Risky Business?” UPDATE 9/29/2018 – Data Studio moved from “Beta” to “Generally Available” on September 20, 2018. This removes a lot of risk in adopting the tool as Google has officially...
by Lee Hurst | Jul 2, 2018 | Data Studio Help
UPDATE – 9/30/2018 The Let’s Validate API that was producing page thumbnails is back up! Im still looking for another source of dynamic thumbnails…. UPDATE – 9/29/2018 The Let’s Validate API that was producing page thumbnails is down. ...
by Lee Hurst | Mar 30, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Use this handy historical tweet widget to search for tweets on Google Data Studio. Searchable tweets go back to June 18, 2017. You can also select a particular date range or filter by who tweeted. Links are provided to go directly to the tweet. Share this:Click...
by Lee Hurst | Nov 17, 2017 | Data Studio Help
I really should be working on my presentation for WordCamp Rochester right now… But I just couldn’t help myself … I thought ” why would someone want to show their analytics stats on their own pages?”. Then I thought, “Sure, why...
by Lee Hurst | Oct 8, 2017 | Data Studio Help
What a month for Google Data Studio! There were so many big announcements it was hard to keep up with all the changes in September. Among the changes were: Data Studio Community Connectors – A wide range of data connectors and the ability to develop your own...
by Lee Hurst | Aug 10, 2017 | Data Studio Help
Update Feb 17, 2019 – There are now over 280 resources available in the finder! Also more than 30,000 tweets on the subject can be searched on the Historical Tweets page! Have you been looking for a source for Data Studio examples, free templates, tutorials or...
