{"id":206,"date":"2018-05-16T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:41:23","slug":"urgent-google-analytics-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/urgent-google-analytics-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Google Analytics changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from my friends and colleagues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellerdeck.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sellerdeck Ltd<\/a>, passed on with acknowledgement and thanks.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellerdeck.co.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sellerdeck-logo-200.jpg\" rel='magnific' alt=\"Sellerdeck Ltd\" width=\"200\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may know that Google announced new data retention settings which take effect for Google Analytics users on the 25th May.<\/p>\n<p>Any user or event data that is older than your retention setting will be permanently deleted.<\/p>\n<p>The steps below show how to change the settings so that your data is held for the length of time you require.<\/p>\n<p>Sign into Google Analytics and click Admin (the cog)<\/p>\n<p>Under the Property column, click on Tracking Info, Data Retention<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Data Retention, choose the length of time to keep the data (we recommend Don&#8217;t automatically expire) and click Save<br \/>What does this mean for you?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1018\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, these changes will affect how you use Google Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>The Retention period applies to user-level and event-level data associated with cookies, user-identifiers and advertising identifiers <br \/>The data managed by this setting is needed when you use certain advanced features<\/p>\n<p>Call the Sellerdeck Sales team on 01932 358350<br \/>\u00a9 1996-2018 Sellerdeck Ltd\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from my friends and colleagues at Sellerdeck Ltd, passed on with acknowledgement and thanks.\u00a0 You may know that Google announced new data retention settings which take effect for Google Analytics users on the 25th May. Any user or event<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/urgent-google-analytics-changes\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><b>Read more &#8250;<\/b><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphicz-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}