Understanding The Google Analytics Terms of Service

Private eyes...

How many people here have read the Google Analytics Terms of service (TOS)? Anyone? Bueller? If you’re using GA you should know what you can and can not do with the tool, which is outlined in the TOS. You can find the TOS, in all its glory, here: http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html The first part of the TOS [...]

Writing More than Blog Posts

My book cover.

Over the past few years I’ve learned quite a bit about Google Analytics in my day to day job as a web analyst. I’ve tried to pass along much of what I know using this blog. Now I have a new way to share my knowledge. The good people at O’Reilly Media have given me [...]

Tracking Google Audio Ads with Analytics

Audio Ads

Today the Inside AdWords blog announced that the AdWords team has completed their beta test for audio ads. They are now in the process of rolling out access to all AdWords accounts. I was pleasantly surprised that my own personal AdWords account now has audio ads. Look out America! Anyway, this got me thinking. What [...]

Making GA Documentation Better: Your Feedback Needed

My good friend Robbin Steif is having a contest. She’s looking for omissions and mistakes in the GA support documentation and Conversion University. The top four submissions will win a prize! The Prizes! We have three prizes, donated by two of LunaMetrics’ customers. Isn’t that great, how there are three categories and three prizes ;-) [...]

New GA Feature: Segmented Widgets

Keyword Report

I’m on a roll with GA Desktop Widgets :) Another really cool feature of the new GA dashboard is Segmented Widgets. This is very similar to the Sticky Filters feature that I wrote about last week. With segmented Widgets you can add a segmented report to your dashboard. Here’s an example. I can choose a [...]

New GA Feature: Sticky Filters

Keyword report filter.

This is a pretty cool feature that most people don’t know about. I’m not really sure if it’s officially called ‘Sticky Filters’, but that’s the term I’m going to use. If you apply a filter to a report, and then add that report to a dashboard, the filter will be applied to the data in [...]