Director of Client Success
Director of Client Success and crazy cat lady.
Originally from Germany, Anna is super efficient and logical and has been softened by years of British politeness and queuing. Anna is a speaker and author of a book she doesn’t like to talk about. For over 12 years she has devoured every scrap of knowledge about search marketing and is diligently passing her knowledge on to her team, clients and anyone else who cares to listen. Day to day she works with clients on their marketing strategy, specifically leveraging search to realise concrete business goals.
Anna is particularly passionate about psychology and user behaviour in search. She specialises in search intent research and loves nothing more than diving head first into enormous amounts of juicy data and creating meaningful, actionable reports.
Collecting data is exciting. There’s a big buffet of data out there to choose from, with companies analysing everything from scroll speed to mouse movement. Finding new ways to learn about your site visitors is a great technical challenge. Okay, maybe that’s just me. But whether you find it exciting or excruciating, collecting data on […]
On July 1, Universal Analytics will stop processing data. UA will be permanently replaced by Google’s new reporting platform, Google Analytics 4. To help you prepare for this transition, we have compiled all of our GA4 information into one place, ranging from guides to FAQs and deep-dives into specific features including cookie-less tracking, API quotas […]
Stop someone on the street and ask them what they think when they hear “AI.” You’ll likely hear a few answers. ChatGPT. Automation. Computers taking over the human race. Many conversations about AI are warped by preconceptions. These range from sci-fi ideas about AI capabilities, to limited understandings of AI’s use based on specific services. […]
On 10th November 2022, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) introduced some major changes with massive implications for other Google properties, particularly Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio). The GA4 team implemented API “quotas” – a PR friendly way of saying “limits” – on requests for Management and Reporting APIs. API stands for “Application Programming Interface” and […]
This week Google announced that it has delayed phasing out third-party cookies from Google Chrome until at least the second half of 2024. This isn’t the first time Google has delayed these plans, and it’s clear that megacorporations are struggling just like smaller businesses to take on the transition to a cookie-less world. Despite the […]
Switching reporting platforms isn’t easy. Not only will Universal Analytics stop processing data next year, but you should make the switch from UA to Google Analytics 4 as soon as possible if you want easily comparable data from this year to next. Such big changes naturally come with a lot of questions. Here are some […]
From July 2023 Universal Analytics (UA) will no longer process data, leaving anyone who hasn’t got a grasp of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) by then at a serious disadvantage. I recommend using GA4 from July 2022 at the latest to give you a full year of comparable data once that transition happens, as well as […]
You’ll need to switch to Google Analytics 4 sooner or later, and the sooner, the better. Universal Analytics won’t stop processing data until July 2023, but if you want comparable data from this year to the next you should start using GA4 a full year before that hard deadline. Learning how to use GA4 when […]
Earlier this year Google announced that the latest version of Google Analytics, GA4, will become the only available web analytics service offered by the company starting in July 2023. Universal Analytics (UA) is on the way out and will cease to process new hits as of October 1, 2023. UA and GA4 operate on very different […]
Have you been manipulating events in UA (Universal Analytics) and struggling to fit all the data you need into “Event Category,” “Event Action,” and “Event Label”? Often, these attempts end in long strings of data parts which need to be pulled apart again and regrouped in reports. Custom dimensions have been one solution but setting […]
On 23rd July, I delivered a talk at BrightonSEO (virtually this time round!) all about persuasion in search, exploring how (and why) you should harness the power of psychology in SEO. By leveraging a range of persuasion techniques in your content and other areas, you can encourage more people to visit your site and engage […]
Understanding what your website analytics mean is so important when making decisions about your digital marketing activity. A deep-dive in Google Analytics will help you learn where your customers come from, who they are, which marketing channels work well (and which ones don’t), and just how effective your website is at turning visitors into business. […]
