Tiny Bites: How to Customize GA4 to be More Like UA
28 Sept 2023 · 33 min
Ally walks through the July 2023 migration from Universal Analytics to GA4, which switched to event-based tracking and changed key metrics like pageviews to views. She explains how to export historical data, use Looker Studio for visualization, and switch Reporting Identity to device-based if conversion tracking looks wrong.
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Hey there. This is Emily from the Food Blogger Pro team and you are listening to Tiny Bites. Tiny Bites is a brand new podcast from the Food Blogger Pro team that is a current events podcast. These episodes are going to be a little shorter than our usual podcast episodes and they won't be released weekly, but instead, whenever we feel like there's something happening in the food blogging world that we just can't wait for a regular episode to talk about. So these episodes might be solo episodes with Bjork, or we might bring in industry experts to help unpack whatever's going on in the food blogging space. We won't be releasing these episodes weekly like I said, but when we do release them, they'll be coming out on a Thursday or Friday. So just keep an eye on your podcast feed for Tiny Bites episodes on those days of the week. These episodes won't have formal introductions and there won't be any ads, but we will have show notes on the Food Blogger Pro website in our podcast page where you can find resources and links links to learn more, so keep an eye out for those. We're really excited to be able to bring you a podcast episode that can address current events as quickly as possible and we really hope you guys will enjoy these episodes. So without further ado, I'm going to let Bjork take it away.
Ally, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you. Thanks for having me.
This is we're trying something called Tiny Bites, which is kind of a play off of our parent company, which is Tinybit, but also it ties into the idea for these podcasts, which is there's a lot of stuff that happens quickly in our industry and things that we need to know. And we want to do these interviews in a way where we're able to surface things that people need to know in a timely manner. So we're not going to schedule this interview way out. It'll turn around relatively quickly and people will get to get this information because it's important information about things that are happening specifically around Google Analytics 4. So for those who have maybe put their head in the sand, aren't aware of what happened, can you talk about Google Analytics 4 and the big change that happened this summer?
Sure, definitely. So Google Analytics as we knew it was Universal Analytics. Google decided to discontinue use of Universal analytics starting July 1st of 2023, and its place took Google's new kind of solution to an analytics platform, which is GA4. GA4. Google Analytics 4 uses and collects data completely differently from Universal Analytics. There's a lot of setup that needs to happen. There's some different metrics and definitions, so it's a completely new ball game. But everyone's kind of in this learning period right now. So this was not a, hey, let's do this. It was kind of forced upon everybody, to be honest.
It wasn't a choice you had. It just happened.
No. Yes, exactly. And there's things still evolving. I mean, I even was probably on the record at some point somewhere thinking that they were going to push the date back, that things weren't ready. It was pretty, you know, I guess communal that we all thought that it was a. It was not quite ready yet. So the fact that we need to kind of do these updates, I was anticipating because, hey, Google's just rolling stuff out as, as it happens.
Yep. And Google is kind of infamous for being this company that, you know, different than Apple, where Apple, like waits until everything is perfect and then they release something. Google is known to maybe do that a little bit quicker or also we'll push something out when it's not fully baked and say like, hey, we're going to update this over time. It's going to get there eventually. So on July 1, that change did indeed happen and that's what they're saying was going to happen. You also had said like, hey, this might not be ready. It kind of wasn't ready because, I mean, it was in the sense that it worked. Yeah, it was fine. But there's also a lot of pieces that are like, wait, how do you do this? Does this work? I had this thing before, now I don't have it. So first of all, the question is what happened to your old account on July 1 when the change switched over?
So you might be surprised if you do still have a Universal analytics account. If you SAW Traffic Post July 1, 2023, you are not alone. So that was definitely something that Google said. Everyone's shutting down July 1st. Universal analytics is no more. Well, it turns out that that actually wasn't necessarily true because there definitely are accounts that continue to collect data. I have seen it even just recently on some of my accounts, like within the last week that it stopped actually capturing data. So what that means though is that it stopped capturing but all the data still there. Google Analytics hasn't quite come up with a good solution on what to do with this data yet. I wish it was as easy as export from universal import to GA4, but that's unfortunately not the case. So we are still kind of waiting on what the best practices to do with this data. If, you know, you want to get ahead of it, I'd recommend taking a look at some data warehouses, you know, seeing if they have any solutions for you specifically, just to hang on to the data in case you do want to end up using it in the future. Or maybe someday we can actually blend all of this, you know, perfectly, seamlessly. But that would be my recommendation if you are really worried about your historical data.
Got it. Yeah. And it's interesting. I just pulled up Pinch of Yam analytics, and you can see July 1st still working. You know, August 1st still working. And then last day was August 11th. Like, it goes to zero, right? Yeah. So now we have this, and it's a really valuable tool for publishers like this information, historical information to know, hey, have things grown since 2020? Have things fallen off, like, to do that analysis? And one of the things you talked about was a data warehouse, like how. And I know that you helped Kuchaviam set up something within Google Studio to do some of that compare and contrast. So can you talk about Google Studio? Is that considered a data warehouse? Or should we look at something else as a solution for that? Or data warehouse, whatever?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Great question. So, yeah, Google Data Studio or Looker Studio, they've changed the name in the last six months. That is a data visualization tool. So similar to like a Power Bi or Tableau, if you're familiar with those kinds of products out there. Google Looker Studio is their free version of that. One thing that's really awesome about Looker Studio is that we're able to take data from third parties. Third parties being Universal Analytics, GA4, Facebook even, we can bring Pinterest, we can bring in from a bunch of different third parties and have all of that data live in one spot. So that dashboard through Looker Studio is a great place if you do still want to have some of that historical data at least visualized in one place. Yes, you can definitely still do that. However, just knowing that there's not going to be any future universal analytics data there, we're also just not sure from a Google Analytics standpoint how long they're going to keep the data. So that's where it says, hey, yeah, we can still access it as long as it's there. But as soon as Google Analytics says, hey, we're not holding on to anybody's universal analytics data anymore, that's where, all right, we need to download it, we need to have it or own it ourselves. Either keep it in a data warehouse, keep it somewhere that's going to be kind of the next step there. So right now, yes, we still can use a data visualization tool native to Google to get some of that data, historical information, but who's to say that that might be different in a month? Unfortunately.
Yeah. And so Looker Studio, I was just looking this up. I used to call it Google Data Studio.
That's what it was called.
They just, and then it looks like Looker was a company that Google acquired and so now they call it Looker Studio, which is essentially this tool that brings in different metrics from different places. It could be like you said, Facebook, it could be Google Information, but it compiles that and then you're able to like create a graph or you're able to do charts and things like that. You're able to just kind of like a studio for you to create different visuals that help you understand the information that you're bringing in. And your point is? Universal analytics can be one of those third party sources that you bring in now. But there's no guarantee that at some point Google doesn't say, hey, this is old, we're going to turn this off. And so if that's the case, where's one of these warehouses that you could move it into and what does that process look like?
Yeah, I mean there's a bunch of different solutions out there. Like I said, I'm not sure what the best practice is quite at this point. I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that don't know, but there are a lot of data warehouses which is essentially just a server that can hold your data for you in a place that is not just on your local device or that, you know, hey, your computer gets stolen or gets broken or something happens, then all of it's gone. So and because it's quite a bit of data, that's where using a warehouse as such, where they can keep it for you. And it's not going to take up a bunch of space or a hard drive or something like that. They've got a way to kind of hold it in a better space. So there are, go ahead and take a look at some data warehouse solutions if that is something you wish to kind of move forward with or get ahead of. Like I said, I do hope that Google comes up with something soon. At least a nice way to maybe even just like put a bow on it. So it's like, hey, here's your thing. But one can only hope.
Yeah. And so there's not a solution right now.
Correct.
Probably because, well, not like a built in package solution that Google said, here's our recommendation for exporting data from Universal Analytics. And so the right now there's not a huge risk in just continuing to have that information in the old account. But at some point it might make sense and Google would probably make an announcement, hey, we're turning this off in a year. At that point there'd be some solutions that would spin up, people would look into it, they'd have some best, you know, practices around getting that information out. If you just wanted to be safe. Right now, is there a way that you can do like an export of your entire Universal analytics account and just store it locally?
I believe so. I honestly haven't moved that route myself. But there is a way to export and import data in Universal Analytics. You'll want to do that on the property level. So that's going to be in your middle column in your admin console. So there should be an export functionality. Again, if it's going to probably is going to be some JSON files, some HTML, I'm sure that there's a lot of files in there. But yeah, that's where I would start. If you do want to take a look at what that might entail.
Yep. And the idea with that, again, it's not like you're going to be using that somewhere or analyzing it. You're just kind of storing it as a just in case.
Right.
So it's really like insurance against some weird thing happening where that goes away in Universe analytics, which isn't. We wouldn't anticipate that happening.
Right, exactly.
So how about for the people who haven't made the switch yet? They're. They would log into their account. Like if we hadn't made the switch, we would log in and August 11th, we suddenly wouldn't have any information anymore. My guess is most people who are using this frequently would have made the switch over to Google Analytics 4. But like, let's say somebody hasn't. What do they need to do in order to make that switch? And anything they should be aware of in that process, definitely.
So there's a couple things that Google did to help people who weren't, you know, in our position that we were kind of getting ahead of it. What essentially Google did is that it took your Universal analytics property and did its best to transition it into a GA4 property. With that there's obviously it's as we mentioned before, it's not apples to apples. So there is some stuff that feels kind of wonky because it just doesn't quite fit with the new platform. So it does exist though, and it very well could be that you do have a GA4 account. There's going to be two things that are happening. Either the data is collecting, which is great. Which essentially means that you were using a new enough version of the tracking code for universal analytics that GA4 was able to kind of like jump onto that and then be able to pull data from. So you might be getting data, which is great. You don't have to do anything, at least at this point. The other thing that might be happening is you have no data that you don't have this new tag or this new code in place. So you need to get it installed. Couple things we can do there just depending on your platform. If you're using a WordPress, go ahead and take a look at Google SiteKit. If you're not using that already. I know Monster Insights also has one. There's a handful of plugins. Be able to make sure you can just get it installed and running on your site. Google Tag Manager is also an option. A couple different solutions out there, but yeah, I would definitely just get the code on your site. Google does have a pretty good helping system. It even says you can put your website in and it will scan your website for. Hey, this looks like a Shopify website. Hey, this looks like a WordPress website. This is how you should go ahead to install this. So there are some. They do try to decent job at helping users with that.
Where is that? Is that like a tool that Google has that you can.
Yes, it's their setup assistant essentially. So it's usually at the very top. It's like you kind of have to go through all of the steps. You might also still see kind of this like big red scary bar of like things that need to be done. There's just a manual checklist you need to kind of check off once things are going. But yeah, so that's, that's what I would do. Just get the data running from there. There's, there's a lot that can be done with GA4. Unfortunately it's just a very difficult, different platform from Universal Analytics. And all of us who knew it very truly that this is, I mean truly a different, different monster. So understanding what your KPIs are is definitely the next step for me is usually kind of what I'm helping with people is all right, what are your KPIs? What.
What's important for those who aren't familiar.
Yes, key performance indicators.
So knowing, hey, Things that are really important, essentially. Like what are your important metrics that you want to.
Exactly. So let's just say it's email subscriptions for the purpose of our conversation. Great. We won't know that email subscriptions is going to be a goal. We want to make sure people are coming to the site and doing so. What is the. What are the KPIs that are saying if that's actually successful or not? I like to do this method where I kind of visualize myself through the website. What are all of the different web parts that I need to touch in order for me to sign up for that subscription. Need to hit a page, I need to fill out the form. I need to potentially come back if I'm one, you know, if I'm really engaged. So there's a bunch of things that need to kind of happen. Once you have those things kind of lined out, pull up all the verbs. All of the verbs are going to essentially tell you what those KPIs are. So page views, that's going to be 1. Form fills, that's going to be 1. So what are all of those different steps that need to take place in order for us to know what we're tracking? Once we know that data, it gives us a pretty streamlined version of all right, where do we need to go? What data do we need to be looking at? We know then, hey, we can build custom reports. We can use Google Data or Looker Studio to do that as well, to help us understand. So there's a lot of customization. So that is one of the pros of GA4, I will say, is universal analytics. We were kind of stuck having to use the audience behavior acquisition reports as they were. Now within GA4, we can actually customize all of the reporting, all of the reports that you see that are most helpful to you. So that's one thing that you don't need to know everything because you don't have to. Not everything's going to be relevant to you and your business. But GA4 is actually able to reflect your business instead of you reflecting your business. How your universal analytics is set up.
Sure, that makes sense. And I think if you haven't gone through that process before, it's a helpful one to think, what do you want people to do when they get to your site? Like, for a lot of people, we just think page views, page views, traffic, traffic. But it's like, in service of what? And right, even if you want to get more page views, you can think about how to do that strategically. Okay, you do want people to sign up for email so then you can message them after. Or even like you want to see how many people are clicking the print button on a recipe. That's important as well. Like all of these actions that you can track to start to understand the success that your site is having given what your hope is in terms of what the outcome would be. There's also been some changes in terms of just kind of language that's used to describe, you know, like users, new users. You know, when I look at the report snapshot kind of on the right on the main page when I get in, there's not really a place where I'm seeing page views. And like in our world, people talk about page views a lot. So can you talk about some of the language changes that happened and how we should be thinking about those changes relative to like what Universal analytics was?
Sure. So the biggest thing here is that the data, how the data is collected is different. So once you kind of understand that, it makes a lot more sense about why things are the way they are in GA4. So in Universal analytics, how the servers really worked is that there were four different types of hits. Types. There was event, there was a session based hit, user based hit. So essentially just ways to identify these different types of things that are happening. When those things are happening. It's Google's having to kind of track them individually, not able to track them seamlessly. GA4 tracks everything the exact same. So everything is seamless. So that is where it's finding out. This user journey. And understanding what your users are doing before and after an action is significantly easier in GA4 than it ever was in Universal Analytics. So what we're trying to do there is the reason that these definitions are going to be different because of how the data is collecting is different. So obviously users is going to be users. We're all users, individual users. There's now going to be engaged users, total users. There's new users. So there are a couple different deviations of this. Users trying to just get to get you the best information possible. Engaged users essentially is the user that is engaged on your site, new users, people that have never been to the site before. There's just different little attributes of these user events or these users that you're able to see. So that's going to be why users might be a little bit different. Specifically, GA4 also really specializes. One of their prompts is trying to, I keep using this word. It's not a real world de duplicate users across devices. You Know, so it's essential. I mean, we've all been there, like, hey, especially within the food blog industry, how many times you start, you know, looking at a recipe on your phone and you're like, I just know, get my computer. Because it's so much easier to just have this in one place instead of having to use my phone all the time. Great. So GA4, if you're signed in to go Google on your phone and you're signed into Google on your computer, Google can use Google signals, which is their kind of like way of doing that, as part of one of their identifiers, to say, hey, great, this user is the same user. So we don't actually need to count those as two separate users. They are one user having two sessions on two different devices. So you might see a discrepancy, I guess, in your data, in usership, for example, because of this, because things are simplicating or. Yeah, I'm just making my own language at this point. They're just. Yeah, there's no. I get it.
Yeah, yeah.
So there's. There's things like that. Just because of how things are collected, the data is going to be different, the definitions are going to be different. So there are. The. Google has a really great kind of block in their support. I can even send to you saying, hey, this is what it was in Universal. Here's what it is in GA4 and how it's different.
That makes sense. And users can almost be like, I think of it as people. Like, yes, it's how many people are coming. And if a person is using an iPhone and then they switch to a computer, it's not a different person, it's the same person. And so what Google's doing is like tracking that as one person and using all of their fancy technology to do that. And so it's helpful because you can see, okay, I know that there are a hundred thousand people coming to my site. 100,000 users, and of those, 50,000 are new users. Okay, so that means that there's 100,000 people and 50,000 of those people weren't new and 50,000 were. Do you know, because Google Analytics 4 is new, will it assume, starting the first day that you have it, like, everybody is going to be a user and a new user until you have some time, and then it starts to recognize because it can't pull information from universal analytics to know if it's new or not. Does that sound right?
Yes. So that is also my understanding is that you're going to see a higher number of new users right away just because there's new cookies, new data measurement protocol things in place that is just going to not know that you had already. You've got that universal analytics cookie. If you do so yeah, you might see a higher number of new users to begin with.
Got it. And then is there. Is there an equivalent to page views? Like there's users which that pulls over. Is there page views and where do you find that?
Yeah, absolutely. So as I kind of mentioned how things are now tracked all of the same. I know we've talked about this on our other podcast as well. The episode everything is now event based. So event based meaning hey, if I go to a page that's an event. If I click a button that's an event. If I download something that's an event. So everything tracked as events again all the same. So yes, now we have a page view event. So that's page underscore view in your events report. If you see events, you also for the metric, it's just going to be views. So they kind of got rid of the page part of page views for some reason. And actually I think I know the real reason of that is GA4 really was built to support apps and websites. So when you say views, it's not explicit to web page views. It could be screen views of an app anyway. So that's why you might see it as views as opposed to page views. But the page view event and the event count of page view events will be your page view number.
Got it. That is really interesting. I see a. Maybe this is a custom event. Two Pinch of Yum. Oh, I wonder if it has to do with video. Now I'm just getting into asking you specific questions about rga. It's called buffer. But I wonder if that has to do with the video starting. I think this probably has to do with our video.
Probably. Yeah, there's a couple different video. Yeah, there's some different listeners just depending on the video host that you have. If it's YouTube, obviously that's Google based. It's a little bit easier for, you know, us to track that out of the box. Especially if you're using Vimeo or something along those lines, you might have access to some different events that may be firing.
Cool, that's great. Anything else that you've noticed as things that would be worth mentioning or things that have come up when you've been working with clients on their GA4? Things that are maybe commonly confusing? Things like that?
Yeah, I think that there's one. I'D like to say it's not big, but it's definitely been a reoccurring problem that I've been seeing. This is something to do with reporting identity and I'm actually going to kind of go back to that Google Signals chat we were just talking about. About de duplicating users.
Yeah.
So Google Signals is a way that we have essentially said this is how we are going to be reporting using Google Signals and these device IDs and there's a couple different factors that go into identifying a user on your site. So that's going to be user id, Google Signals, device id and then modeling. Modeling is essentially if you have cookies disabled on your computer, it's going to find users similar to you and try to guess the data, which I don't love, but that's essentially what it's doing. So using Google Signals and having this essentially blended way of us to be able to understand these users is how GA4 really recommended everybody set up their data using Google Signals. Now as time has kind of gone on, able to take a look at the data. We're seeing a couple things specifically for users that have E commerce businesses specifically or if you're tracking sales, you're tracking individual downloads and such. From what we've understood is that this blended model is not sufficient. Reason being is that as I mentioned that modeling, as I mentioned some of the other kind of blended ways that it's trying to find the data. Google thinks that if there's not enough of those events or not enough things happening that you as the owner of your analytics or site will be able to figure out that individual user that's doing those things. To me, that's bananas. The fact that I don't, first of all, I'm never going to do that. Second of all, who's going to be tracking on an individual user basis without a user ID or something like that offline. So it's a very, in my opinion, silly way that why it's doing this. So while that's happening, it's not going to be reporting 100% of what's accurate on your site. So when we see this, I'm seeing sales that are completely different I'm seeing from what we see in Shopify or sales that are data that's completely off. Been seeing that quite a bit and it's very concerning to a lot of people, which I completely understand. So what the one other thing that this Google Signals and blended model does do is it gives us demographic reports. So this it has to be Enabled for you to get age, demographics, all of that kind of stuff, you have to be using this blended model. However, as I mentioned, you use that blended model, you get your demographics great. However, your data might not be super accurate compared to what you might be looking for. So what we can do is go into your analytics admin in your center column, which is that property column, and you're going to see a note for reporting identity. So you're going to click that reporting identity. When you click that, you're going to see that blended is at the top, most likely selected. The second one I think is observed, which is essentially just not using that modeling. And then device based is actually, you can't even see it. You have to click see all and then you'll see that device based one is the third option. So when we switch to device based or device id, that is essentially as close as we can get to universal analytics or what we were seeing from a hey, individual user basis. So that's what we're kind of at this point, hey, let's switch back, let's switch to device based. Let's get rid of this blended just because things are not looking like they should in our opinion. The good thing about this, yes, you will be potentially losing your demographic info if you switch to device id. However, you can switch back and forth between blended and device and observed as many times as you want and all the data will reflect that it is retroactive. So this is just a new setting that you're going to have to just become familiar with if you are going to be paying attention to your demographic reports as well as wanting to make sure that your data is potentially as close as possible. There's also some data thresholding issues that also happens with this Google Signals. That's kind of when it says hey, you might be able to figure out who this is. You might see a little note at the top. It kind of think it's a little orange triangle with an exclamation point. Essentially just saying, hey, this report is being thresholded because of the Google signals. When you turn that off and enable device based that will disappear. I'm hoping that if you are seeing some data discrepancies in what you might be considering if you have another system elsewhere and you're comparing the two, go ahead and switch over to device based and just take a look at your data and see if it looks better. See if it's more on track of what you would expect. I think that that has been quite a bit of a thing that I've seen at least a lot in the last couple months.
And is that, you know, I think probably people hear that and they're like oh shoot. Like it's not actual accurate information. Are you seeing that mostly with people who have tracking around things like commerce like.
Yes.
Purchase based behavior. You buy a thing and you have Shopify and you know that you sold a thousand dollars of product today. But in Google it shows it as 2000 or something like that.
Right.
Are you seeing that with issues with like actual page view tracking and user numbers? Not necessarily the commerce type stuff. Okay.
Yeah. Mostly the commerce stuff. Maybe some events that are firing weird or having too many that you wouldn't expect or too few than you would expect. But that's traditional. Yes. More in an E commerce space. So. But again the demographic point is really is really where a lot I do tend to find the people that are in not an E commerce space do still tend to care about the demographics which in case. Yeah. You have to have that blended on to be able to do so.
And can you explain that again, it's hard to talk through it on a podcast but you go into Google Analytics and then.
And then you'll go to your admin which is in the bottom left a little icon.
Yep. Click on that little gear in the bottom left and then you go to under property. You go to property settings.
Nope. So just go keep on going down and you'll see reporting identity. It's about 3/4 of the way down I think.
Yep, got it.
So when you click that. Yep.
You'll see a box. Yep.
It says two options observed. And then there's another See all. At the very bottom click See all. Then you'll see the third for the device based.
Yeah, got it. And that would be. People would be looking at that. If they have a commerce site they notice that things are looking a little bit off. That might get them closer to more accurate information. But they would lose the tracking of demographic information which would be the downside of doing that.
Correct.
The other thing that would be worth mentioning is for anybody who uses an ad network making sure that if you are changing or adjusting any of these settings that that doesn't. Because I know some of the reporting on the ad network side it ties back to it. So checking in with them. The other question that I had was around demographics. If you. I don't know. I'm trying to see if we have that on. How would you check in property. That property area if you have that on? Because I think that would be an.
Important that is you're just going to look at the report itself. So if you have just the standard GA4 reporting set up, you'll go to reporting, which is that second bubble on the left hand, far left hand utility navigation, click that and then under engagement, I'm sorry, there's going to be a life cycle and then user information. That user cycle. I think it should be at the very bottom on the left. Then if you open that, if you expand that, you'll see demographics. Is the report in there?
Demographic details. Okay, got it, Yep. So for anybody who's listening in and, and talking through this. So again it's reports on the left side and then you go down to under users user attribute. Then you can click demographic details and you can see the different countries people are coming from, the percentages and then all the details on those. And you're saying if you were to switch over to that ID tracking, that would go away?
Yeah, you just wouldn't. You'll see quite a bit of unassigned, which is still to be expected. Again, where Google's trying to still figure out, hey, this is a new system. Are you, you know, what's your gender, what's your age? Those are obviously things we don't input into Google as we as, you know, usually. So there might still might be some unassigned there. But that's definitely something that if you, you probably are confused at this point. You're like, I only see countries where's actual demographic stuff. So if you see there's actually a drop down for your primary dimension, you'll be able to select that. And that's where you're going to see gender, age, interests, those other demographic reports.
Well, that's great. And my guess is, Ellie, they're going to be people who are listening to this and they're like, this is all important. I want to do this, but I don't want to do it by myself.
Yes.
Which is great because you have a service and a little agency that focuses on stuff like this to help bloggers and publishers. Can you talk about how people can work with you if they wanted to connect with you and have some help with all things Google Analytics?
Yeah, absolutely. So I have a website, digitalaid.com, so it's digital hyphen, a d e.com on there. Feel free to send me a contact form. Happy to help. I'm also, actually this might be new to you as well, Bjork. We are starting kind of a little leg of digital aid called the Insights Co, which is going to be specific to Data and Looker Studio. So essentially we'll be able to we'll be building a bunch of different templates that you can just use as is for just a monthly fee or if you want to have one and then have it customized. That's also something that we can do for that and support you that way. So we know that this is important. We know a lot of people want dashboards. They want to visualize their data. GA4 is confusing. It's a whole new thing to learn. It's a lot. So if you just don't want to do that, which I completely understand, feel free to reach out to us. We this is again, you're not the only one. You're not alone. We have seen a lot worse than whatever you think you have potentially or don't have. So yeah, happy to help out if you just need, you know, an ear or someone to talk to about it.
Awesome. Ally, thanks so much. We'll put that link in the show notes if people want to check it out. And thanks for doing the first ever bite sized episode here. Appreciate it, of course.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks.
Hey there Emily from the Food Blogger Pro team here. We really hope you enjoyed our first episode of Tiny Bites. And big thanks to Allison for joining us for our inaugural episode. Like I mentioned during the introduction, if you'd like to learn more about the episode, head to foodbloggerpro.com podcast where you'll find the show notes for this episode. In these show notes, we walk through step by step how to do some of the processes that Allison Talk talked about, like changing your reporting identity or finding your demographics reports. We have images and just step by step directions that should make it super easy to follow along from at home. So definitely check those out and we'll see you again at some point soon for another Tiny Bites episode. Thanks so much for listening.
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