Comments on: 2008 Google Analytics Resolutions

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:08:05 +0000

Helder,

Controlling access to the spread sheet must be done via some mechanism outside of Google Analytics. However, if you want to control access to the data that you gather about the spreadsheet then you need to do that using filters and profiles. So, if there is a particular user that you want to omit from accessing that data then you can exclude the data for the spreadsheet from the profile that the GA profile that the user uses.

Hope that helps,

Justin

By: Helder

Helder — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:10:08 +0000

Hi! Justin.

I’am just start in Google Analytics. I hope, and I would be grateful, if you could help on this problem. I made a simple google spread sheet, and I want to use google analytics to control users access. I already insert the ID code on the Google docs settings, but I don´t now how to introduce the access control code, directly in the spread sheet. I anticipate my especial thanks for your help.
Helder

By: Michael Wiegand

Michael Wiegand — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:48:25 +0000

Event Tracking would be so useful for a lot of my clients that don’t have really great web metrics (i.e. a lot of their business comes from toll-free sales calls instead of e-commerce). It’d be a way to show the impact of our campaigns without using hard revenue numbers.

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:48:03 +0000

Hi Oliver,

Event tracking is in a closed beta and will be released in the future. I’m not sure when, but some time in the future.

Thanks for the question,

Justin

By: Olivier Travers

Olivier Travers — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:50:03 +0000

Thanks for the always-good GA blog here. In the case of Event Tracking it seems (from what I’ve read in the GA group) it’s not enabled for regular (i.e. non beta) accounts yet. At least we haven’t been able to get it to work.

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By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:32:36 +0000

Everyone,

Thanks for the great feedback. It’s nice to hear that people have big analytics plans for 2008.

Andy,

Thanks for the fantastic feedback! One of my resolutions for 2008 is to post more ‘usage’ articles. I think the blog has a good foundation of setup information, now it’s time to start talking about usage. Thanks again.

Justin

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By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:05:06 +0000

I’m also very excited about Event Tracking. I began learning about web analytics a few years ago and was always looking for a way to best profile visitors to websites. Event tracking takes the ideas I’ve read about and agree with (there should be someway to find out what people are doing on the site, the level of interaction they engage in, and the order in which they do it), and makes it possible!

Great post! I look forward to your future thoughts on event tracking!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:11:01 +0000

Justin, these are all notable resolutions. Perhaps a little more emphasis on the results rather than the technology would be a good idea.

e.g.

Compare marketting strategies using advanced configuration.

Promote sales to loyal customers using profiles.