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GA4 User Properties (User Scoped Custom Dimensions) – Tutorial

Understanding GA4 user properties is a game changer for anyone looking to understand their audience really well. GA4 user properties

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GA4

GA4 Certification Exam: Questions, Answers for Skillshop (GAIQ)

Prepare for the GA4 Certification Exam with this guide. Access questions and answers to help you pass the Skillshop (GAIQ)

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Voice AI

The correct way to setup Cal.com for Voice AI.

Cal.com is an open-source, API-driven scheduling platform you can run hosted or self-hosted.  Unlike Calendly, it is designed to

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GA4

GA4 (not set) - Guide to fixing (not set) issue

Learn to fix GA4 (not set) issues through this step by step guide. Note: The (not set) and unassigned traffic

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Voice AI

Custom Reporting For Voice AI - Mini-Course.

Here is how most Voice AI agencies handle client billing: 1. Log into your provider dashboard. 2. See workspace-level totals.

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GA4 Bigquery

How to access GA4 Sample Data in BigQuery

If you don’t have your own GA4 data in BigQuery, you can query the GA4 sample data available via

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GA4 Bigquery

How to access BigQuery Public Data Sets

BigQuery provides many public datasets you can use for practice.  A public dataset is stored in BigQuery and made available

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GA4 Bigquery

Calculating New vs Returning GA4 Users in BigQuery

First things first.  Both ‘New’ and ‘Returning’ GA4 users need to be manually calculated in BigQuery. They are not available

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GA4 Bigquery

Extracting GA4 User Properties in BigQuery

User properties in GA4 are attributes of your website visitors, such as age, gender, geographic location, language preference, membership level,

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GA4 Bigquery

How to handle empty fields in GA4 BigQuery

Empty strings in query results from a GA4 BigQuery data table often indicate that certain fields are unpopulated or undefined

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GA4 Bigquery

First User Primary Channel Group in GA4 BigQuery

Following is the overview of my query logic for calculating the 'First User Primary Channel Group' in GA4

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GA4 Bigquery

Tracking Pages With No Traffic in GA4 BigQuery

GA4 does not report on pages that received no traffic (zero pageviews) during the selected time period. However, it does

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GA4 Bigquery

GA4 BigQuery SQL Optimization Consultant

In BigQuery, you can use a dozen different optimisation techniques to produce the same result. There's no single

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GA4 Bigquery

Extracting Geolocations in GA4 BigQuery

These are the Geolocations fields in GA4 BigQuery: In the GA4 BigQuery Export table, you can retrieve: * The value of

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GA4 Bigquery

Calculating First Time Users in GA4 BigQuery

You can calculate first time users via the 'user_first_touch_timestamp' field. This field tells when a

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GA4

GA4 Conversion Tracking (Key Events) Tutorial

What are Conversions in Google Analytics 4 (GA4)? A conversion is a goal/objective for setting up a website or

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GA4 Bigquery

GA4 BigQuery Export Schema Tutorial

Once you understand how the GA4 data is stored in BigQuery data tables, it will become easier for you to

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GA4 Bigquery

How to Calculate Unique Users in GA4 BigQuery.

Calculating Unique Users in GA4 BigQuery. You can calculate Unique users by counting the unique values of the 'user_

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GA4 Bigquery

How to access nested field in GA4 BigQuery data table

Consider the following data table: This data table is for Nov 17, 2025 which is denoted by events_20251117 Let

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GA4 Bigquery

GA4 BigQuery Query Optimization

In this article, I will show you how to write the same query (for extracting GA4 data in BigQuery) in

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Voice AI

CRMs like GHL are overkill for building Voice AI Agents.

Using a CRM (like GHL) is Overkill for Voice AI Agent Development. ‘GoHighLevel’ (GHL) is a great AI-first CRM and

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Voice AI

How To Bill Your Voice AI Clients Like A Pro.

If you're building voice AI agents for clients, you need to understand how billing really works. Because it&

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Data Analysis

Best Types of Charts in Excel for Data Analysis, Presentation and Reporting

This article will show you the best Excel charts for data analysis, presentation, and reporting. You will learn about the

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GA4

GA4 Scopes – User, Session, Event & Item scopes

Your GA4 and Looker Studio reports may be all wrong if you don’t understand the concept of scopes. Most

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GA4 Bigquery

Understanding the BigQuery User Interface

Google BigQuery is a product of the Google Cloud Platform. BigQuery is a data storage and management system used to

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GA4

gtag.js – Google Tag in Google Analytics 4 and beyond

What is Google Tag? The Google tag is just a new name for the global site tag (gtag.js).  Global

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Voice AI

Voice AI Knowledge Base Creation Best Practices

In this guide, I show you what content to include in the knowledge base (KB) versus the global and state-specific

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GA4

GA4 Direct Traffic Spike: Common Causes and How to Fix Them

Understanding Referrer. To understand how direct traffic works, you first need to understand the concept of the referrer.  To understand

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Voice AI

LLMs can hallucinate even the most reliable data sources.

When you use tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or other AI assistants for topics such as GA4, GTM, or BigQuery, it’

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GA4

GA4 Regex (Regular Expressions) Tutorial

Understanding GA4 regex is crucial for unlocking the full potential of Google Analytics 4’s data filtering and customization capabilities.

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