Comments on: Top 5 Google Analytics Resolutions for 2007

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Analytics Talk » Blog Archive » — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:13:07 +0000

[...] Happy new year! I can’t believe 2007 is over. Continuing with a tradition I began last year, I give you my 2008 GA resolutions. [...]

By: mrunal

mrunal — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:39:24 +0000

Thank you so much for the a great post and useful advice. It’s really useful to me. In fact, I have some question to ask. But seem I have got the answers from all of you already.

Thank you once again for your kindness

By: Thai Festival

Thai Festival — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:42:01 +0000

Thank you so much for the a great post and useful advice. It’s really useful to me. In fact, I have some question to ask. But seem I have got the answers from all of you already.

Thank you once again for your kindness!!!

By: bryan kennedy

bryan kennedy — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:19:19 +0000

Wonderful advice. I was searching for tips on excluding a directory from my GA stats and found resolution #5 especially helpful. I hadn't even thought of creating a backup profile. GA has a good description of how to go about creating a duplicate profile by the way.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:18:44 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title . Thanks for informative article

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:40:18 +0000

Hi Mike,

The default page must be a page, not a directory path. There is no need to install the code on all PBS pages, you can just add it to to the Independent Lens pages. Then, the default page setting for the profile will be the default page for the Independent Lens sub directory (i.e. index.php, index.html, etc).

Hope that helps,

Justin

By: Madi

Madi — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:16:10 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thank you for this valuable resource. My question. If for example I only wanted to get data on Independent Lens sites but not PBS as a whole, can you just use http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/ as the default page during set and only install the code on Independent Lens pages OR do have to install it on the PBS.org page since it is the root. Thank you Mike. Hope to hear back.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:27:58 +0000

Hi Mike,

Per the Google Analytics privacy policy, you can not track any personally identifiable information using Google Analytics. This would include a user ID or password.

Justin

By: Mike D

Mike D — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:44:00 +0000

I think this is a great post, particularly the excluding traffic by cookie! Thank you.

I have been searching in vain for a particular Analytics solution and am surprised there seems to be no discussion out there on the topic.

-How, if at all, can you set up Analytics to track restricted users?

For example, we have registered users (user IDs / password) to parts of our site. I’d like to monitor some user IDs within Analytics, such as how many pages did a particular user ID visit, was a particular user ID active that day, was a user ID leaked (I can see multiple domains now used by that user ID), etc.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!

By: Jeff Lawrence

Jeff Lawrence — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:40:37 +0000

No, I feel that you included quite a bit in there. Excluding traffic based upon the company and consultants is very important. All too often we’ll have clients who look at the geo map, see a huge blob where they’re located and not realize that that is their own internal traffic, not a huge surge of competitors in the area that are necessarily scoping them out.