.@Google @googleanalytics here's a quick down and dirty.
No small to medium sized business can use #G4. End of story.
So either admit that you don't care about it so we could just move on or let us know if you're going to fix it because right now it is not a viable option.
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No small to medium sized business can use #G4. End of story.
So either admit that you don't care about it so we could just move on or let us know if you're going to fix it because right now it is not a viable option.
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You have a massive disconnect between your teams and what your users actually have as far as internal s talent to work with your products or use just decided you don't care about SMBs anymore which is fine then let us know so we can find something else.
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Because as someone who works with regularly with companies of all size I can guarantee you the only people that have data teams are going to pull your data into big query are ones that are Fortune 500s or about that size.
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Most companies I work with don't even have internal developers or SEO teams everything is contracted out because they can't afford it on a monthly basis.
You really think they have data scientists? Data teams? They don't.
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You really think they have data scientists? Data teams? They don't.
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It's fine if you wanted to offer a SECOND data warehousing product w bigquery upgrades to report from it for companies that needed it but 9 out of 10 of the companies don't nor will they understand it & they won't pay for it.
SO YOU HAVE LEFT THEM OUT IN THE COLD.
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SO YOU HAVE LEFT THEM OUT IN THE COLD.
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And if I sound angry, I am angry.
The idea that I now have to figure out what clients can use because you've made an unusable product for some idea that doesn't work while you didn't listen to the entire industry tell you that? It's just arrogance.
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The idea that I now have to figure out what clients can use because you've made an unusable product for some idea that doesn't work while you didn't listen to the entire industry tell you that? It's just arrogance.
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Now let me go add an extra 20 hours of unpaid work to my week next week while I try to figure out how in the world I'm going to communicate to clients what they need to do and then research what product I'm going to have to move them off to because you've made GA unusable.
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Oh and additionally fun I get to explain to them how all the yearly data that they need? That we need? You are not going to maintain for them.
It shows them you don't care at all about the needs of SMBs.
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It shows them you don't care at all about the needs of SMBs.
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And finally? As someone who helps recover sites from your algos? We often need more than 16-18 months of data to diagnose a lot of the issues that happen on sites.
Not to mention basic SEO reports are gone.
So thank you very much for the big F you to the SEO community.
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Not to mention basic SEO reports are gone.
So thank you very much for the big F you to the SEO community.
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