使用数据洞察实现 Google 搜索流量监控(及更多功能!)
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2022 年 3 月 30 日(星期三)
本文介绍了如何在数据洞察上创建监控 Google 搜索流量的信息中心。尽管 Search Console 提供开箱即用的图表和过滤功能,但您可以使用数据洞察来自定义自己的图表,并且可以并排查看自定义图表与 Google Ads、Google Analytics(分析)、YouTube、BigQuery 等其他数据。如果您错过了我们在本系列中的上一篇文章,请参阅将 Search Console 关联至数据洞察。
详细介绍信息中心之前,我们要为数据洞察用户带来一些好消息:即日起,Search Console 连接器将纳入 Google 探索和 Google 新闻流量的相关数据,呈现方式与最近添加到 API 的数据类似。
在今天的博文中,我们将分享供您使用自己数据的信息中心,可让您在不同 Search Console 资源、数据类型、设备等之间轻松切换。您可以将自己的数据关联到此模板,以监控您网站的 Google 搜索流量。
请继续阅读,以详细了解该信息中心。
信息中心的用法及用途
构建信息中心时,您应始终先定义其用途,并且大多数用例都可以归入以下三个类别:
- 监控效果。快速探索数据的变化,例如监控网站上重要网页的点击次数和点击率 (CTR)。
- 数据探索。从数据中发掘分析结果,例如分析不同国家/地区、设备或网站版块的搜索效果模式。
- 向外界展示信息。发布有趣的趋势和模式,例如分析按行业细分的汇总数据。
今天,我们将讨论能监控效果的信息中心,该信息中心应能帮助您及时发现问题。这种类型的信息中心通常使用简单的可视化图表(如折线图或条形图)和表格,并且非常容易解读。如果发现问题,搜索引擎优化人员或分析人员可以继续进行更深入的数据探索(此主题将在下一篇博文中探讨)。
Google 搜索流量监控信息中心
如前所述,本博文提供了用于监控网站在 Google 搜索上的效果的
模板。在这一部分中,我们将讨论如何将 Google 搜索数据导入到数据洞察、信息中心提供的功能和数据,以及我们制定一些设计决策的原因。
设置 Search Console 连接器
登录
数据洞察,创建
Search Console 数据源,然后选择
URL Impression 表格,其中包含网址级别的 web、image、video、news、discover 和 googleNews 等参数的相关数据。您在此界面选择的
Property Parameter 将是报告中的默认参数,不过,您也可以通过过滤条件访问其他参数,博文后续部分将详细介绍这一点。如需详细了解这些数据,请访问
效果报告帮助页面。
使用过滤条件和日期控制数据
该报告的标题包含多种选项,可用于过滤图表中的数据:
- 使用数据控制功能在您有权访问的 Search Console 资源之间进行切换。
- 选择您要在报告中查看的日期范围。默认情况下,您会看到过去 28 天与上一个 28 天时间段的对比情况。
- 创建过滤条件以深入了解您的数据:
- 网页。使用此过滤条件可包含或排除您网站中的一个或多个网页。提示:您可以使用正则表达式,方法与在 Search Console 中使用时类似。
- 类型。使用此过滤条件可从不同的数据类型(包括“Google 探索”和“Google 新闻”)中进行选择。一次只能选择一项。
- 国家/地区。使用此过滤条件可包含或排除一个或多个国家/地区。
- 设备。使用此过滤条件可选择一个或多个设备类别。
监控一段时间内的点击次数和点击率
折线图是最能有效展示各指标随时间变化情况的可视化图表。在本例中,我们选择同时查看“点击次数”和“网站点击率”。在以下折线图示例中,周末和工作日的模式截然不同(折线图日期范围始终是 7 的倍数的重要原因之一),请密切关注规律出现变化的日期!
请注意,此图片对应的是与工作有关的网站,因此在工作日流量较高,在周末流量较低。
您的网站的情况可能截然不同。
我们没有将 Google Analytics(分析)数据纳入此报告中,不过,您可以考虑添加一个图表,以展示网站通过 Google 搜索自然流量获得了多少次转化。了解如何将 Google Analytics(分析)关联至数据洞察,这将有助于改进您的分析。
深入了解特定网址(或网站版块)
在分析趋势和模式时,图表对您更有帮助,但如果您想更深入地分析,使用表格分析特定的网址(或网址群组)会更有效。例如:
- 使用“网页”过滤条件可仅包含网站的特定部分。
- 使用“国家/地区”过滤条件可查看不同网页在您关注的国家/地区的效果。
- 使用“类型”过滤条件可分析每种数据类型的网址级别效果。
额外提示
提示 1:让您的信息中心适合移动设备
大多数信息中心不需要适合移动设备,因为用户一般使用计算机进行查看。然而,有的用户可能会在上下班途中经常使用监控信息中心,因此设计信息中心时确保适合移动设备非常重要。
为了打造具有良好移动体验的监控信息中心,请将“显示模式”设置为“适合宽度”(位于报告和页面布局下),这会让信息中心的宽度自动适应屏幕尺寸。如果您选择此选项,请务必查看报告在不同屏幕尺寸上的显示效果。
提示 2:缩短网址字符串
如果报告仅包含一个网域(没有子网域),您可以考虑从报告中移除域名,避免表格过于杂乱。例如,如果您要为 example.com/cool-dashboards/search
构建报告,则只会看到 /cool-dashboards/search
。为此,您可以创建一个计算字段,使用正则表达式从网址中移除域名。例如,对于 .com
域名,您可以使用以下表达式:
REGEXP_EXTRACT(Landing Page, ".*\\.com/(.*)$")
下一篇:可用于针对 Google 搜索进行优化的高级图表
在下一篇博文借助 Search Console 气泡图优化网站表现中,我们将讨论一个高级图表,该图表可帮助您了解在针对 Google 搜索进行优化时重点关注哪些方面。
与往常一样,如果您遇到任何问题,请通过 Google 搜索中心社区或数据洞察社区告知我们。此外,如果您使用 Twitter,请务必关注我们;我们会在未来推送更多相关博文。
快来打造自己的信息中心吧!
发布者:Daniel Waisberg,搜索技术推广工程师
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It explains how to use a provided template to track Search Console data, including web, image, video, news, Discover, and Google News traffic. Key actions include setting up a Search Console connector, using filters (page, type, country, device), and analyzing clicks and click-through rates (CTR) over time via line charts. It also emphasizes mobile-friendly design and URL shortening tips. The core function of this dashboard is to monitor performance for quick issue detection.\n"],null,["# Monitoring Search traffic (and more!) with Data Studio\n\nWednesday, March 30, 2022\n\n\nThis article shows how to create a monitoring dashboard for your Search traffic on Data Studio. While Search Console provides\nout-of-the-box charts and filtering capabilities, Data Studio allows you to customize your own charts and view them side\nby side with other data, such as Google Ads, Analytics, YouTube, BigQuery, and others. If you missed our previous article\nin this series, check it out at [Connecting Search Console to Data Studio](/search/blog/2022/03/connecting-data-studio).\n\n\nBefore we dive into dashboarding, we have some good news for Data Studio users: *as of today, the Search Console connector includes\ndata for Discover and Google News traffic, similar to the data [recently\nadded](/search/blog/2021/10/search-analytics-discover-gnews) to the API*.\n\n\nIn today's post, we're sharing a dashboard for you to use with your own data; it makes it easy to toggle between different Search Console properties,\ndata types, devices, and more. You can link your own data to\n[this template](https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/7300a2df-97a2-408a-b10c-43acd2270fe6/page/6zXD/preview) to monitor\nyour site's Google Search traffic.\n\n\nKeep reading to learn more about the dashboard.\n\nHow and why you should use a dashboard\n--------------------------------------\n\n\nWhen you build a dashboard, you should always start by defining its purpose,\nand the majority of cases can be classified as one of three options:\n\n- **Monitoring performance**. Quickly discover a change in the data, for example monitoring URL clicks and click-through rate (CTR) for important pages on your site.\n- **Data exploration**. Uncover insights from data, for example analyzing search performance patterns across different countries, devices, or website sections.\n- **Informing the world**. Publishing interesting trends and patterns, for example sharing aggregate data segmented by industry.\n\n\nToday we'll discuss a monitoring performance dashboard, which should help you find out issues as they happen. Usually, this kind\nof dashboard uses simple visualizations such as line or bar charts, and tables --- those are quick to interpret. Then, if an issue\nis discovered, the SEO or analyst can proceed to a deeper data exploration (this will be covered in the next post).\n\nSearch traffic monitoring dashboard\n-----------------------------------\n\nAs mentioned, this post provides [a template](https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/7300a2df-97a2-408a-b10c-43acd2270fe6/page/6zXD/preview) to monitor Google Search performance. In this section, we discuss how to get your Search data into Data Studio, what functionality and data the dashboard provides, and why we made some of the design decisions.\n\n### Set up a Search Console connector\n\nSign in to [Data Studio](https://datastudio.google.com/), create a [Search Console data source](https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7314895), and choose the **URL Impression** table, which includes data for web, image, video, news, discover, and googleNews on a URL level basis. The **Property Parameter** you choose here will be the default one in your report, but you'll have access to the others through a filter, more about it later in the post. To learn more about the data visit the [Performance report help pages](https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/9384513).\n\n\n### Control the data using filters and dates\n\n\nThe header of the report includes several options for you to filter the data in the charts:\n\n1. Use the [data control](https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7415591) to change between the Search Console properties you have access to.\n2. Choose the date range you'd like to see in the report. By default you'll see the last 28 days compared to the previous 28 days.\n3. Create filters to drill down on your data:\n - **Page** . Use this to include or exclude one or more pages from your website. Tip: you can [use regular expressions](/search/blog/2021/06/regex-negative-match) similar to the way you use it in Search Console.\n - **Type**. Use this to choose among the different data types (including Discover and Google News). You can only choose one at a time.\n - **Country**. Use this to include or exclude one or more countries.\n - **Device**. Use this to choose one or more device categories.\n\n\n### Monitor clicks and CTR over time\n\n\nA line chart is the most effective visualization to show how metrics change over time. In this case, we chose to look at both\nClicks and Site CTR. In the line chart image, weekends and weekdays have very different patterns (one of the reasons it's\nimportant to always use a multiple of 7 in your line charts date range) --- *keep your eyes on days that break that pattern!*\n\n\nNote that this image is for a website that is work oriented, hence the traffic is high on weekdays and low on weekends.\nIt might look very different for your site.\n\n\nWe have not included Google Analytics data in this report, but it might be interesting to include a chart showing how many conversions the\nwebsite got from organic Google Search. Learn how to [connect\nGoogle Analytics](https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/6370352) to Data Studio; this would help closing the loop.\n\n### Drill down into specific URLs (or website sections)\n\n\nWhen you analyze trends and patterns, charts will be more helpful to you, but if you want to go deeper, it's more effective to analyze particular\nURLs (or groups of them) using a table. For example:\n\n- Use the page filter to include only specific sections of your website.\n- Use the country filter to check how different pages perform in countries you care about.\n- Use the type filter to analyze URL-level performance for each of the data types.\n\n\nBonus tips\n----------\n\n### Tip #1: Make your dashboard mobile-friendly\n\n\nMost dashboards don't need to be mobile friendly as people use them on their computer. But a monitoring dashboard can be often\nused while commuting to work, so it might be important for it to be mobile-friendly.\n\n\nIn order to create a good mobile experience for a monitoring dashboard, set \"Display mode\" to \"Fit to width\" (found under\n[report and page layout](https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7355651)) --- this will adjust the\ndashboard width to the screen size. If you choose this option, make sure to check how the report looks on different screen sizes.\n\n### Tip #2: Shorten URL strings\n\n\nIf your report includes a single domain with no subdomains, you might consider removing the domain name from your report\nto make the tables less cluttered. For example, if you're building a report for `example.com/cool-dashboards/search`,\nyou'd see only `/cool-dashboards/search`. To do so, you can create a\n[calculated field](https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/6299685) to remove the domain name\nfrom the URL using a regular expression. For example, for a `.com` domain name you\ncould use the following expression: \n\n```scdoc\nREGEXP_EXTRACT(Landing Page, \".*\\\\.com/(.*)$\")\n```\n\nNext: An advanced chart for optimizing your Search efforts\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn the next post, [Optimizing website performance with a Search Console bubble chart](/search/blog/2022/04/performance-optimization-bubble-chart), we'll discuss an advanced chart that may help you understand where to focus your attention when it comes to\noptimizing your Search efforts.\n\n\nAs always, let us know if you have any questions through the [Google\nSearch Central Community](https://support.google.com/webmasters/threads?thread_filter=(category:search_console)) or the [Data\nStudio Community](https://support.google.com/datastudio/threads?thread_filter=(category:connect_to_data)). Also, if you're on Twitter, make sure to [follow us](https://twitter.com/googlesearchc);\nwe'll announce future posts over there.\n\n\n*Happy dashboarding!*\n\nPosted by [Daniel Waisberg](https://www.danielwaisberg.com), Search Advocate"]]