{"id":168,"date":"2010-08-21T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2020-01-08T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:02:52","slug":"using-google-analytics-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/using-google-analytics-data\/168\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Google Analytics Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"SheerSEO
SheerSEO page rank check screen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m happy to announce on a great addition to our SEO software, which could be very beneficial to many of our users. You can now see your real visits from organic search. This data is very important when used within the rankings reports. The best way to explain this is by showing it, so here is how it looks for sheerseo.com (we track our own site in the online demo):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cReal clicks\u201d column on the right is the data taken from Google Analytics. This new feature is only available in the advanced and professional accounts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Enabling Google Analytics data collection<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

To activate this feature, you need to do two simple things. First share your Google Analytics data with the user we are using to collect the data: account-3@api-project-1097503045745.iam.gserviceaccount.com. Then, update the G. Analytics \u201cProfile ID\u201d in your SheerSEO account.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can share your reports with our user only for viewing, so this keeps your data protected. Also, since the sharing is done on google analytics interface, we are not exposed to the login details of your Google Account, which makes it safe too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Each domain In Google Analytics is managed by a profile, and each user has access to one or more profiles. You can either share data with our user for the entire account, so all domains (profiles) that belong to that user will be shared with us, or you can share a single profile and thus allowing us to access only that single domain\u2019s data.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How to share and activate G.Analytics – 2 simple steps<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Step 1 – Share G. Analytics Data with Our User:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

a. Users page:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Login to your G. Analytics account and go to \u201cAdmin\u201d > on \u201dProfiles\u201d (3rd column ) select “User\u00a0Management”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Adding
Adding user to Google Analytics – step 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

b. Add Permission<\/span><\/p>\n

On the second block, add our email (account-3@api-project-1097503045745.iam.gserviceaccount.com) \u00a0make sure that the right permission is given and please don’t check the “Notify this user by email”.<\/span>
\nIf everything is OK, Clicking the “Add” button will\u00a0immediately add a new row on the block above (users list).
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"adding
Adding user to Google Analytics – step 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Step 2 – Update profile ID in SheerSEO<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

a.<\/strong> Getting the G. Analytics Profile ID.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1.Return to Admin’s main page (<\/span>make sure you’re still on the same account):<\/span><\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>
How to get G.analytics profile ID – step 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2. Click\u00a0“View Setting” on the left column in\u00a0main admin page.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>
Getting google analytics profile ID – step 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Copy the “View ID”<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a>
Getting Google analytics Profile ID – step 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

b.Update SheerSEO with the Profile ID<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nNow login to your SheerSEO account and go to \u201cSettings\u201d > \u201cDomain Settings\u201d > \u201cAccount Details\u201d screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the bottom of the screen, under the \u201cGoogle Analytics Activation\u201d section, enter the copied \u201cProfile ID\u201c and click the \u201cactivate\u201d button as seen below. If everything is OK, the activation section will disappear and the status (marked in green) will change from “disabled” to “active”.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Adding
Adding Google Analytics profile ID to SheerSEO SEO Software – step 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nIf this didn’t work, you’ll see an error message. Failure will probably be caused because the data sharing wasn’t done properly. If all goes well, you should now be able to go to “Rankings” > “Current” screen and see the “Real Clicks” column. <\/span><\/p>\n

About the data collected<\/strong> This feature is only meant to show the real users coming into your site from specific organic queries. It doesn’t replace the Google Analytics or equivalent site, cause we only take very limited data. We pull this data weekly, and in each collection we take the last 30 days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Future Plans<\/strong> One plan is to also use this data to propose more keywords in the search terms admin screen. Another plan is to add getclicky data.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m happy to announce on a great addition to our SEO software, which could be very beneficial to many of our users. You can now see your real visits from organic search. This data is very important when used within the rankings reports. The best way to explain this is by showing it, so here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[10,15],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}