Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

I know the past week has been full of Google Analytics news, but I'm excited to tell you about something one of our team members created: Google Analytics Notes. For a long time we've wanted to add business data to GA to help keep track of marketing activities, industry news and ...

New and Improved GA.JS Documentation

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Along with some other features, Google Analytics today launched Google Analytics Custom Tracking. This is a new website (code.google.com/apis/analytics/, a section of code.google.com) that deals with the Google Analytics Tracking Code. The site does a nice job of pulling together information about ga.js and Event Tracking. Plus it has ...

SiteScan for All!

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Google got a lot of attention last week when it introduced some really cool new features in Google Analytics. One of these features, Event Tracking, is enabled by a new version of the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC). This is a big change. Updating the GATC on ...

Google Analytics Short Cut

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

As some of you may have noticed, my book PDF e-book has been published! Google Analytics Short Cut hit the web on August 31 and is now available for purchase at O'Reilly's website. In my opinion, and I'm a bit biased after writing for all those hours, it's ...

Introducing SiteScan

Friday, May 25th, 2007

We all know that getting Google Analytics configured correctly is the key to getting good data for analysis. To help facilitate that process EpikOne has created a new tool called SiteScan. Originally we wanted a tool that would scan all pages and check for the tracking code. ...

EpikOne Google Analytics Setup Guide

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

This blog is almost one year old. In all that time I've tried to do two things: 1. create truly original blog posts, and 2. avoid hard selling you, the reader, on EpikOne. Heck, I haven't even tried to soft sell you anything! Today that changes a ...

Tracking Clicks with GA Pt. 3: Advanced Implementation

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Welcome to Part 3 of Tracking Clicks with Google Analytics! Last time I discussed the process and theory behind tracking visitor click data in GA. This technique is primarily used to track non-HTML files and outbound links. In this post we'll discuss a quicker, easier way to ...

Regular Expression Testing Tool

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Over the past few months, Robbin Steif from LunaMetrics has been writing a series of posts about regular expressions. The series is amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone learning reg ex (as the geeks call it). In one of Robbin's posts she mentions a small, reg ex testing ...

Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Pt. 2: The EpikOne Link Tagging Tool

Friday, November 10th, 2006

In Part 1 of this series I explained that Google Analytics campaign tracking is based on a technology called link tagging. Link tagging is the process of adding business information to the URLs that we use in our on-line ads. But how do we actually tag these links? ...