Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: GA Account Setup Tip

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

This post is for all you contractors and agencies out there that are setting up Google Analytics for your clients. I want to help your relationship. No, not the relationship between you and your significant other. The relationship between you and your client. One of the biggest problems ...

All About Google Analytics Goals

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Google Analytics Goals are a way to measure conversions on your website. A conversion occurs when a visitor does something you want them to do. This could be completing some type of high value process or viewing a specific page on your website. Setting up goals is one of ...

Writing More than Blog Posts

Friday, June 8th, 2007

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 ...

New GA Feature: Segmented Widgets

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

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. ...

New GA Feature: Sticky Filters

Friday, June 1st, 2007

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 ...

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 ...

Top 5 Google Analytics Resolutions for 2007

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed some quiet time during the holidays. Looking at my visitation data for the past 2 weeks it looks like many off you stayed off-line. I know I did! I'd like to take a second and thank all of you who take ...