Archives Tag: Google Analytics
Why Clicks Don’t Match up with Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
Great video by Matt about the reason behind clicks not matching up in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. The short? Server-side vs. client-side tracking are measured differently.
Full StoryGoogle Analytics Annotations
This is awesome! I’ve been wanting something like this for a while. There was a greasemonkey hack there for this, but it wasn’t ever really consistent. FINALLY! As a holiday treat, in an email sent to Google Analytics users, the Analytics team has launched a holiday bonus feature of annotations. Here’s what it looks like. [...]
Full Story7 New Tools with Google Analytics
An email was recently sent out about some great new tools with Google Analytics. Analytics Intelligence with Custom Alerts Using an algorithmic driven Intelligence engine, Analytics Intelligence monitors data patterns over daily, weekly and monthly periods. Significant changes in data trends and insights you may not have noticed are surfaced directly in your account. You [...]
Full StoryTracking Your YouTube Channel with Google Analytics
YouTube recently launched a new blog called the YouTube Biz Blog. In short, a blog to help you make money on YouTube. There hasn’t been as big of a push from Google to generate money via YouTube, but there should be. YouTube is a huge search engine, whether we want to believe it or not. [...]
Full StoryGoogle Analytics & AdSense Integration
Late last week, the Google Analytics team announced that they would be pushing out the AdSense+Analytics integration to all publishers. This was previously a feature that was still in a private beta, which I was involved with. I’m mostly happy with the integration, but I’m still not completely happy. It’s can be slightly flakey from [...]
Full StoryGoogle Analytics API
Long. Awaited. Anticipated. Google has finally announced the Google Analytics API for public use. Vanessa Fox talked about her beta participation at Jane and Robot last week, which I’ll be posting about later this week. More news to come soon! I’ll be doing some follow-up articles about this since it’s such a huge release. UPDATE: [...]
Full StoryUpcoming Change to Search Referrals for Google.com
This is a huge announcement. Google is changing the string it sends as a referral to sites. How does this affect you? Indirectly, it won’t, but it will affect your analytics. This is what the string used to look like, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google+inside&btnG=Google+Search This is what it will look like, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fmypage.htm&ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&rct=j&q=google+inside&usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw Question and Answer Time Q: Is [...]
Full StoryHanging out with Google Around Town
Google likes bring around everyone and meeting people face to face. You certainly will not see Larry Page or Sergey Brin hanging out at these conferences, but you will certainly see Google employees. I was talking with one Googler here at SXSW who is a UX (user experience) designer out of Google New York, and [...]
Full StoryGoogle Analytics: Tracking Flex/Flash Applications
Matthew McNeely wrote up a great article about how to track Flex or Flash applications using Google Analytics. McNeely goes over the difference between pageviews and events, and how track each separately. It’s a very in-depth article and does a great job.
Full StoryGoogle Analytics: See Who’s on the iPhone
Here is a short tutorial on how to view your iPhone visitors, using Google Analytics. The Google Analytics blog recently made a public post about this new feature.
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