Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Whenever I work with a client the first thing I do is create a change log for Google Analytics. I create a very basic spreadsheet (usually suing Google Spreadsheets so I can share it with the client) and use it to record every modification I make to their GA settings. ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
I was teaching a class on Google Analytics last week. The audience was non-technical and the session focused on how to effectively use GA reports and the most efficient way to communicate data to clients. While browsing the Content Optimization reports one of the antendees made a great ...
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Well, it's happened. After months of programming and scaling Google has released Google Analytics to the world! No more waiting for an account. The only limitation is that non-AdWords users have a 5 million pageviews/month cap.
Congrats to the GA team for all their hard work!
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
Setting up goals in Google Analytics is a vital step in monitoring the success of your website. While it is not necessary, setting up goals helps you harness the complete power of the application. Most people usually set up goals and scrutinize the conversion rate. I'm not ...
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
Holy crap! I just found a GA account number over 500,000! That's a lot of GA installations. What's interesting is that I noticed an account number over 400,000 on June 22, 2006. That's some serious growth. Google also announced this week that they were increasing ...
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