Coremetrics

Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Creating User Groups

Creating User Groups within Coremetrics is a simple and easy process to do.  Having user groups allows you to segment user access to reports they should see versus all the reports captured.

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Property View Tag

Are you a travel company looking to measure your property detail page views within Coremetrics but don’t know how to do it? This blog posting will discuss how to do this leveraging the cmCreatePropertyviewTag().

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – API Part 1

As more and more web analytics providers open up their back end systems for customers to be able to pull information from, we as web analytics professionals have more data that is accessible to us.  Within Coremetrics, there are two call types that are currently accepted (and which do not include any additional service fees).

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Creating Calulated Metrics

Do you want to create calculated metrics within Coremetrics but don’t know how to? Creating calculated metrics is a quick and easy process that will be further explained below.

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Tracking Discount Codes

Coremetrics offers a special URL query string, called the site promotions parameter (cm_sp), that allows for almost all promotional on-site tracking.  However, what is your user doesn’t trigger the promotion or discount via banner click but rather enters it into a text field within the cart or checkout funnel?

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Non-Allowable Characters within CDF

Creating the Category Definition File (CDF) within Coremetrics requires you to be aware of the allowable and non-allowable characters.  Knowing these could potentially remove any headaches that can arise in the future.

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Manual PageView Tag

Coremetrics, out of the box, via the cmCreatePageView() tag can track pages being viewed.  However, what do you do when a page lives externally (i.e. outside of your domain) and you can not leverage this function?

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Tracking Registrations

Continuing in the helpful tips for Coremetrics, I wanted to discuss how one can go about tagging registration pages.  Unlike non-product pages that just call the cmCreatePageView tag, registration pages also leverage the cmCreateRegistrationTag().

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Is My Landing Page Working?

Have you launched a landing page, tagged it with Coremetrics, but are wondering how you can determine whether its a success or failure? Here are a few pointers to look at when assessing how well the page is/has performed.

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Coremetrics Helpful Tip – Tagging Order Confirmation Pages

Ensuring each page on your site is tagged accurately the first time out saves so much time and energy as opposed to later trying to fix the process and give stakeholders renewed confidence in the data.  I’d like to look at the Order Confirmation page and show you the tag functions necessary to track.

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