• Home
  • Google Analytics
    • Customizations
    • For Ecommerce
  • Speaking
  • About
    • About Me
    • Contact Me
    • Disclaimer and Privacy Policy

Analytics Talk

Digital Analytics for Business

You are here: Home / Analysis / Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data

Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data

Posted: October 28, 2008 126 Comments

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 GA configuration changes. These things are critical to know when analyzing data as they add more context and help us understand what’s affecting website performance.

We tried using Google Spreadsheets to store business info but it never worked. People did not take the time to open up a spreadsheet and add information. We figured that adding some type of ‘note’ functionality to GA would be the easiest way to change this behavior. That’s how GA Notes was born.

GA Notes is a Firefox extension that lets you add business data to a profile. Notes appear in a concealable table at the top of every report.

Any GA user who views a profile, and has the Firefox extension, will see the notes entered for the profile. You can add notes, edit notes and delete notes. Notes can also be exported in XML format for archival purposes.

Installation

Installing GA Notes is easy. Just download the following file to your computer:

https://ga-notes.appspot.com/ganotes.xpi

Once downloaded double click on the file. Firefox should open and ask if you want to install the extension. Click install and that’s it. You’re ready to start adding notes to your GA data.

Usage

The extension adds a ‘Show Notes’ button in the GA menu bar. Click on the button to view notes for this profile or to add a note or edit/delete an existing note. It’s not that complicated. :) We wanted to keep this easy and flexible.

How it Works

For those of you that are interested, GA Notes runs on Google’s App Engine. No data is stored on your machine or our servers. It’s stored on Google’s servers. The Firefox extension provides the interface to enter and display data. But all of the processing and data storage happens on App Engine. All data sent to App Engine is encrypted prior to transmission.

In a perfect world we would have added notes to the data-over-time graph at the top of each report. However, we can’t get inside that part of GA using a Firefox extensions (or Greasemonkey script). We thought this was a good compromise. If anyone out there knows how to dig into Flash let us know! :)

Road Map

This is obviously a beta version of the software. We have a number of features that we’re working on and hope to have done soon. These include:

  • Sorting and searching notes by date
  • Excel friendly export
  • An admin flag for notes to separate admin changes to your GA account
  • Some type of alert to show you how many new notes have been added since your last login
  • A more graphical visualization of note

If you have any suggestions or ideas please let us know!

Credit

I don’t have the smarts to build these types of things, I just know enough to be dangerous. Chris, a new member of our team, built GA Notes from the ground up. Thanks Chris for all the hard work.

Filed Under: Analysis, Resources, Tips Tagged With: Analysis, configuration, tools

Comments

  1. Daniel Waisberg says

    October 29, 2008 at 1:56 am

    Always one step ahead of us, poor mortals…

    Great job!

    Reply
  2. Lars Gundersen says

    October 29, 2008 at 3:14 am

    Really nice extension…..would be great if Google developed a build-in functionality for this.

    Reply
  3. Marta says

    October 29, 2008 at 6:17 am

    Hi, it sounds like a great add-on! These are just a few questions I have. First: is it possible to differentiate notes for administrators and users (managed in the User Manager tab)? It is true that it would be useful to share information with clients, but at the same time it could be necessary to share information with colleagues and NOT with clients :)
    On the second hand, I would like to know where those data (the notes) will be stored and who’ll have access – apart of me and users of that profile – to the data…

    Thanks!

    Reply
  4. Matthew says

    October 29, 2008 at 6:22 am

    As a consultant I can only admire such a tool. Very often we need explanations to be placed within certain reports so that viewers of it can get a better understanding of what they are looking at. Keep up the great work!

    Reply
  5. Justin Cutroni says

    October 29, 2008 at 6:40 am

    Thanks for the feedback everyone.

    Marta, to answer your questions. Right now you can not differentiate notes for users and admins. That’s something that we’ve been thinking about.

    The data is stored in Google’s App Engine, a development environment hosted on Google’s global network of servers. It’s stored in a flat file, not a database as that would be overkill for this application. The only one who has access to the data for a profile is someone who has the extension installed on their machine.

    Thanks for the comments folks, keep those suggestions coming!

    Justin

    Reply
  6. Tim Leighton-Boyce says

    October 29, 2008 at 7:09 am

    This is great, thank you. I’ve relied on shared Google Docs in the past, but it was always hard enough to discipline myself to keep them up to date, let alone get other people to use them.

    Reply
  7. Justin Cutroni says

    October 29, 2008 at 7:22 am

    Thanks Tim. That’s exactly the problem that we had. People just refused to use a doc or spread sheet. Hopefully this will encourage folks to record more data.

    Justin

    Reply
  8. Lindsay says

    October 29, 2008 at 8:49 am

    Wow – this is fantastic! Thanks so much!!!

    Reply
  9. Tal galili says

    October 29, 2008 at 9:00 am

    Now if you could link this to WordPress – it would be amazing.
    every blogger will be able to see how a new published post has influenced his website analytics.

    Great work you guys :)

    (p.s: since you are using wordpress yourself. vs 2.6.1 even, then please add the plugin “subscribe to comments”) – so a commentator like myself could have followed your updates on my Idea.
    Cheers,
    Tal.

    Reply
  10. Justin Cutroni says

    October 29, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Hi Tal,

    Excellent suggestion! I love that idea and we’ll see if we can add it. I’ll also add the subscribe to comments plugin as you suggest.

    Best,

    Justin

    Reply
  11. Ani López says

    October 29, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Wow! I was about to write a post commenting the good idea it could be something like this when you have materialized it!
    Thnks a lot.

    Reply
  12. Tal galili says

    October 29, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Great, thanks Justin :)

    Reply
  13. Chris Shepherd says

    October 29, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    Brilliant add-on. I was just thinking the other day a good way to track changes made to the site, and how this maps to the analytics data.

    I will download and test.

    Reply
  14. Martin Leblanc says

    October 30, 2008 at 7:37 am

    Great!

    I wonder why Google haven’t implemented a similar feature themselves given how easy it would be. I really think that this simple feature helps a lot when analyzing reports.

    Reply
  15. Dishu says

    October 30, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Greatest idea ever!!

    It won’t let me install it though. I save the file on my computer – but it’s a ZIP file and when I extract it – I am not sure which one to open to install the Notes. I tried to open some:) but it keeps opening them as text.

    Reply
  16. Darcy Foster says

    October 30, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Justin,

    Fantastic application, I can stop writing these things down in my day timer now.

    Have you thought of making it possible to append the note to more then one profile with out having to switch? You would have to be able to pick and choose which ones, as the note might not apply to all, but probably applies to more than one.

    Darcy

    Reply
  17. Justin Cutroni says

    October 30, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Thanks everyone for the great feedback! Glad to hear that you all like this idea. We’re still working to refine it and you ideas will help.

    Darcy: Good idea re: adding the note to multiple profiles. We’ve thought about that but it’s a bit complicated. We’ve put it on the “wishlist” features.

    Dishu: If you’re having trouble try opening the file using Firefox rather than double clicking on it. If it’s being saved as a zip file then there may be something wrong with the way the browser is downloading it. Are you using FF?

    Thanks again,

    Justin

    Reply
  18. Joshua McKenty says

    October 31, 2008 at 1:19 am

    Justin, you’ve got the mime type wrong on the xpi file.
    AddType application/x-xpinstall .xpi

    I’ve toyed with writing something similar as a greasemonkey script, but tied to an RSS feed. I got hung up on getting it onto the graph, though, same as you did. I suppose this is a good first step. Nicely done!

    Joshua

    Reply
  19. Justin Cutroni says

    October 31, 2008 at 8:59 am

    Thanks for the heads up Josh, I’ll try to change that.

    Justin

    Reply
  20. Brian Katz, VKI says

    October 31, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Great idea and implementation.

    Regarding admin use, is there any way to either filter the notes by uri (eg …analytics/settings/… or analytics/reporting)
    or use the same mechanism that identifies notes by profile to do so by profile and URI.

    Regardless, thanks very much.

    Reply
  21. Justin Cutroni says

    October 31, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Hey Brian,

    Thanks so much. I’m a big fan of your social plugin!

    Interesting idea. As of right now, no. We can not sort the notes based on URI. I guess we could tweak the code to look at referral URL when extracting the notes…. But for now we feel that most people will like having all data in on place.

    Keep those ideas coming.

    Justin

    Reply
  22. Mark says

    October 31, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    This is by far the coolest firefox plugin I have seen in a long time. This is now one of my MUST HAVE add ons along with WASP & Firebug. Keep up the good work.

    If you can figure out how to overlay the notes on the graph to relate notes with peaks visually that would be awesome.

    Reply
  23. mike says

    October 31, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    I attended a Google webinar (Google Webmaster Myth Buster on Oct 22) and asked for this specific functionality! Excellent work!! Great minds really do think alike! :)

    Reply
  24. Ecommy says

    October 31, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Great post, wonderful feature. I love having the data in one place.

    Reply
  25. Goran Giertz says

    November 2, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Thank you for the great tool. Will have to go and try it out. Marta above makes some really valid points about who gets access to what. But until I try it out I wont know. It does makes sense that this should be standard with Analytics.

    Reply
  26. Adrian Bold says

    November 4, 2008 at 4:09 am

    Very good idea; thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  27. Ophir Cohen says

    November 11, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Well this is simply FANTASTIC!!!
    If we could only create a time line from it..

    Reply
  28. Cole says

    November 11, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    Justin,

    I echo everyone’s comments of this being a much needed feature, but I am concerned about security. Since the plugin does not require a password, I assume it is simply using my UA# to identify and retrieve the data from Google’s App Engine. While the data is encrypted when sent, this couldn’t stop someone from emulating your plugin, sending my UA#, and accessing my log of notes from Google’s App Engine server. Or am I mistaken? (I hope I am).

    Reply
  29. Damien says

    November 13, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Justin,

    I am having problems downloading the file. I am using a Mac. Do you know if this file extension works with Macs?

    Thanks,
    Damien.

    Reply
  30. Amit Ohayon says

    November 22, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    There’s only one bummer with this thing…

    The time it’s gonna take me to copy paste
    my changes list from excel to that :)

    Thanks Chris…

    Reply
  31. Justin Cutroni says

    November 23, 2008 at 12:06 am

    Hi Damien,

    The file should work just fine on a Mac. We all use Macs here at EpikOne. Try right-clicking and saving the file to your downloads. Then open it with FireFox.

    Hope that helps.

    Justin

    Reply
  32. Ricky says

    November 28, 2008 at 4:26 am

    Excellent script, I love it! Though I would love to see the possibility of entering “alarms” or reminders. That way I can enter a note to myself and set it to remind me in e.g. one week. This would be great for following up on changes that I’ve made earlier on. I can e.g. make changes in bid prices, and then one week later I will get a reminder in GA reminding me to check the effects out of that change etc.

    Reply
  33. shannon says

    December 5, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Thanks, this sounds like an excellent tool. I thinks it is going to be really handy for myself.

    Reply
  34. bilecem says

    January 1, 2009 at 7:11 am

    great extention. Another surprised addon for me :) Thank you very much admin

    Reply
  35. Debi says

    January 21, 2009 at 2:36 am

    Just discovered this – VERY cool !

    Reply
  36. Rob Salsman says

    February 1, 2009 at 8:11 am

    Love GA Notes! however on my new laptop with Firefox 3.0.5 the xpi extension is not recognized. I’ve googled for a solution, and it appears that it might be a mime issue.

    Justin, did you correct the mime type as suggested by Joshua above?

    Thanks,
    Rob

    Reply
  37. Paul says

    February 6, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    Thank you for the great tool.
    I work in a corporate environment and security is a huge priority. How has access to teh data? Is it possble to change the location of the data stored?

    Reply
  38. Kate says

    February 10, 2009 at 11:52 am

    That is really great! Thank you! This will come in quite useful for documenting changes! Thanks again!!!

    Reply
  39. Michael Harrison says

    February 11, 2009 at 11:21 am

    It seems that the add-on only works within the Google Analytics interface (“orange”) and not within the Analytics tab of AdWords (“green”). Any plans to make it work in both?

    Reply
  40. Justin Cutroni says

    February 11, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Hi Cole,

    Thanks for the feedback. We’re definitely concerned about security and have made numerous tweaks to reduce the possibility that someone can gain access to the data.

    While I don’t want to say too much about how it works, the plugin does NOT use your UA number to identify your account.

    Thanks so much for the feedback,

    Justin

    Reply
  41. Justin Cutroni says

    February 11, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    Hey Rob,

    I have not heard of any problems with the new version of FF. Let me know if you’re still having trouble and we’ll poke at it a bit more.

    Justin

    Reply
  42. Justin Cutroni says

    February 11, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Paul,

    Unfortunately no, there is no way to move the data storage location. But, we would be happy to discuss how you can create your own version for your internal needs. Just contact me.

    Best,

    Justin

    Reply
  43. Justin Cutroni says

    February 11, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Hey Mike,

    Great to hear from you man.

    Great idea adding it to AdWords. We’ll add that suggestion to the roadmap.

    Justin

    Reply
  44. Emre says

    February 25, 2009 at 4:56 am

    Hi there!
    what a great tool! I happened to stumble upon your ga extension and it´s just what our agency needed. thanks

    Reply
  45. Mike says

    March 19, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    Awesome thanks!

    Reply
  46. Sourav says

    April 3, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    great tool…will help for sure.

    Reply
  47. Anardaana says

    April 17, 2009 at 11:24 am

    Hi, this tool is exactly what I was looking for – thanks!

    Reply
  48. Gaurav kasera says

    May 28, 2009 at 1:10 am

    hey really that is great tools i have add it on my fire fox browser thanks for it.

    Reply
  49. miracl says

    May 29, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    I ve been asking google for such a functionnality for a long time :) all they answered me was ‘yeah, why not, we ll think about it’

    Thanks for creating that wonderful and absolutly necessary addon !!!

    Reply
  50. Jen says

    July 2, 2009 at 10:37 am

    I love this tool. Any chance of an update with FF3.5?

    Reply
  51. Kate says

    July 8, 2009 at 10:36 am

    This is such a great tool! I’ve been using it for months now. Unfortunately, since I updated my browser to FF 3.5, the notes feature no longer works. Any chance this will be updated? Thanks again for the great tool!

    Reply
  52. Justin Cutroni says

    July 8, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    Hi Jen and Kate,

    Thanks for catching that! We’re working on an update and hope to have one done soon.

    Thanks again,

    Justin

    Reply
  53. Brian West says

    July 10, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Would you all consider setting up an email form to alert folks when ganotes is updated for 3.5? Its such a useful tool…

    Reply
  54. Analytics lab (dutch) says

    July 14, 2009 at 1:07 am

    I would like this notes app run on adwords because of more needed notes there. Strange it doesn’t work going to analytics from adwords only straight to analytics.

    very nice tool !

    Reply
  55. Donna says

    July 15, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    Hi this plug-in sounds great!! I’m having trouble installing it. I’ve tried downloading it with IE and FF but no luck – anyone else having the same problem?

    Reply
  56. Tomas says

    July 24, 2009 at 1:21 am

    Perfect tool! One more person waiting for FF 3.5 update… ;)

    Reply
  57. Karlitos says

    July 28, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    I am looking forward on getting the addon updated for FF 3.5 so i can retrieve my notes while surfing on my different GA profiles.

    Really useful.

    Thanks

    Reply
  58. Andrew says

    July 29, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Hi there,

    Any updates on the update for this tool. I miss it!

    Andrew

    Reply
  59. ajay says

    August 9, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    have tried this add on but since i am on a mac i cant get it to run at all which is a real shame because i was looking forward to seeing it working but thanks for the infomation will try again once i have my windows computer fixed next week and let you know how i got on

    andy

    Reply
  60. Charles says

    August 20, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Yes – I second Justin!

    Please get an update out to work with the latest versions of FF!

    It’s a really useful tool, and I’ve got a load of notes in it …

    THX

    Reply
  61. Joshua McClure says

    August 26, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    I second Kate’s comment. I was using it all the time. Will the notes we made be gone with the new version? I wouldn’t have upgraded FireFox if I had known it was going to kill GAnotes. Who knows why GA doesn’t implement this themselves…

    Reply
  62. Guizmy says

    August 27, 2009 at 3:06 am

    hi,

    thanks a lot for this tool.

    but after upgrading firefox to 3.5.2, the tool does not work.

    have you got more informations?

    TY.

    Reply
  63. Tara says

    August 27, 2009 at 4:54 am

    Hi

    Just following up on the update for FF 3.5?! Am really missing my info :)

    Thanks

    Reply
  64. David says

    September 3, 2009 at 9:41 am

    Great addon. Very needed. Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
  65. Justin Cutroni says

    September 8, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    Thanks everyone for the comments and sorry for the delay responding. We’ve been very busy and have been trying to dedicate time for GA Notes. I’m hoping to allocate some time to our developers soon.

    Thanks for your patience!

    Justin

    Reply
  66. Daniil says

    November 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    Yes, GA-notes is very useful add-on! I’m waiting for update too :)

    Reply
  67. Mark says

    November 11, 2009 at 5:09 am

    I’m also waiting for the extension to be available for Firefox 3.5 – please update I can’t live without it!! Great extension

    Reply
  68. Dustin says

    December 3, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    I am trying to get this to work and it says it’s not compatible with ff 3.5.5 is there something I can do?

    Reply
  69. Joshua McClure says

    January 1, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    Justin,

    I’ve noticed the ganotes is no longer compatible with the latest version of firefox and that you haven’t released a new version of ganotes for some time now. I run a software development company (part of what we do for social media clients) and we’d be happy to take over the maintenance.

    I have to admit its not just for the common well being. I’m LOST without my ganotes since I’ve updated to the latest version of firefox and I wouldn’t have upgraded had I known that ganotes functionality would be gone…it’s that important to what I do.

    Reply
  70. Tim says

    January 8, 2010 at 8:07 am

    Hi,

    Just found this and can’t believe I haven’t seen it before – fantastic plugin!

    Only problem is some people here use FF v3.5 – I know you said you’re trying to find the time to update but thought I’d just add my vote to the pile!

    Is there any way of getting a notification when this update becomes available?

    Many thanks,
    Tim.

    Reply
  71. Karen says

    January 14, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Help! I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5.7. GA Notes Add On is not compatible. Any plans on upgrading this wonderful tool?

    Karen

    Reply
  72. Karl says

    January 29, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Google Analytics just released, on January 28, the Annotation feature… and it is working for any browser :)

    Enjoy!

    Here is the link: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/01/annotations-now-available-in-all.html

    Next thing… how to export notes from GANotes to Google Annotations.

    Reply
  73. kacey says

    March 3, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Has there been any updates to this extension so that it works with the newer versions of firefox?

    Reply
  74. Ryan says

    March 15, 2010 at 11:40 am

    This version doesn´t seem to be compatible with Firefox 3.6 and I can´t find where to download an updated version. Suggestions?

    Ryan

    Reply
  75. JeppeKM says

    March 31, 2010 at 3:42 am

    Any chance that this addon will be updated to the latest FireFox?

    Reply
  76. Fred says

    March 22, 2011 at 8:57 am

    Is an addon like this also available for Adwords? Would be convenient…

    Reply
    • Justin Cutroni says

      March 22, 2011 at 10:02 pm

      Thanks for the comment Fred. This plugin has actually been deprecated. Google introduced the Annotations some time ago, making the plugin obsolete.

      Best,

      Justin

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Aggiungere annotazioni a Google Analytics · Google Analytics in 30 secondi says:
    October 29, 2008 at 3:13 am

    […] campagna banner”) o ad “appuntare” messaggi importanti per gli altri utenti. Justin Cutroni ha sopperito a questa mancanza con una estensione per Firefox chiamata GA Notes. E’ basata su […]

    Reply
  2.   Google Analytics: nu met notities! | Webanalisten.nl says:
    October 29, 2008 at 5:21 am

    […] Cutroni blogde gister over een nieuwe tool voor GA die ze bij Epikone ontwikkeld hebben, genaamd GA Notes. Deze Firefox […]

    Reply
  3. 7 Deadly Sins of Web Analytics | FutureNow's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog says:
    October 29, 2008 at 5:47 am

    […] With any luck, your business changes. You send out emails, run new campaigns (online and offline), make changes to your pages and other things that could impact your web results. However, most companies do a terrible job of documenting when these changes occurred and correlating them to their web analytics results. It would be great to have this information in your web analytics solution, but you could also run a private wiki that lets everyone on your team leave documentation about these changes. If your team using Google Analytics and the FireFox browser you can use the just released Google Analytics Notes. […]

    Reply
  4. Firefox for Web Marketing Ninjas | Avangate Blog - Software Business Blog says:
    October 30, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    […] This extension has been developed by EpikOne that lets you add business data to a profile. Notes will appear in a concealable table at the top of every report. […]

    Reply
  5. TheGrok’s Not-To-Miss Links for the Week 10/31/08 | FutureNow's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog says:
    October 31, 2008 at 8:47 am

    […] Google Notes – a new plugin to add business data to Google Analytics data. I did add it to The Ultimate Google Analytics Plugins, Hacks & Tricks Collection. […]

    Reply
  6. Google Analytics Plugins, Hacks and Tips Collection | FutureNow's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog says:
    November 2, 2008 at 5:58 am

    […] Google Analytics Notes – Keep track of events by adding notes directly into Google […]

    Reply
  7. » Vlastní poznámky v Google Analytics » Archiv Mercadeo Blog says:
    November 2, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    […] GA Notes je rozšíření Firefoxu, jehož autorem je Chris ze společnosti EpikOne. […]

    Reply
  8. GA Notes says:
    November 4, 2008 at 4:06 am

    […] http://www.epikone.com/blog/2008/10/28/adding-business-data-to-google-analytics-data/ […]

    Reply
  9. Google Analytics Top 10 Plugins & Hacks | Free Web Insights says:
    November 12, 2008 at 8:29 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data – This script lets you add business data to a profile. Notes appear in a concealable table at the top of every report, this is great for businesses who need to keep track of progress and highlight aspects of their findings. […]

    Reply
  10. Google Analytics Top 10 Plugins & Hacks | Free Web Insights says:
    November 12, 2008 at 8:29 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data – This script lets you add business data to a profile. Notes appear in a concealable table at the top of every report, this is great for businesses who need to keep track of progress and highlight aspects of their findings. […]

    Reply
  11. Google Analytics Top 10 Plugins & Hacks | Free Web Insights says:
    November 12, 2008 at 8:29 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data – This script lets you add business data to a profile. Notes appear in a concealable table at the top of every report, this is great for businesses who need to keep track of progress and highlight aspects of their findings. […]

    Reply
  12. Google Analytics: Tutorials, Tools und Tipps | Dr. Web Magazin says:
    November 18, 2008 at 2:21 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data […]

    Reply
  13. Video Collections of Techniques in Google Analytics « Lyna Keat’s Blog says:
    November 19, 2008 at 4:26 am

    […] how it works in http://www.epikone.com/blog/2008/10/28/adding-business-data-to-google-analytics-data/ Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Competitive watch with Google AnalyticsAdvanced […]

    Reply
  14. Live-blogging fra IMC Stockholm - Kuttisme.no - En blogg om internettmarkedsføring, webutvikling og webanalyse says:
    November 28, 2008 at 2:01 am

    […] Google Analytics Notes (muligheten til å legge inn kommentarer på rapportene dine, som igjen kan deles med andre som har tilgang til kontoen. Glitrende hvis det er ulike “unormalheter” som kanskje krever litt forklaring.) […]

    Reply
  15. Notizen in Google Analytics mit Firefox | eControlling.de - Webcontrolling & Web Analytics Blog von luna-park says:
    January 7, 2009 at 4:25 am

    […] EpikOne gab es das Problem wohl auch schon öfters, also haben sie eine Lösung gesucht und gefunden. Per […]

    Reply
  16. Internet Marketing Toronto - Ignite! » Blog Archive » My Favourite Google Analytics Plug-ins, Hacks, Tips & Tricks says:
    January 19, 2009 at 11:08 am

    […] 1. Notes for Google Analytics: Notes for Google Analytics […]

    Reply
  17. Internet Marketing Toronto - Ignite! » Blog Archive » My Favourite Google Analytics Plug-ins, Hacks, Tips & Tricks says:
    January 19, 2009 at 11:08 am

    […] 1. Notes for Google Analytics: Notes for Google Analytics […]

    Reply
  18. Internet Marketing Toronto - Ignite! » Blog Archive » My Favourite Google Analytics Plug-ins, Hacks, Tips & Tricks says:
    January 19, 2009 at 11:08 am

    […] 1. Notes for Google Analytics: Notes for Google Analytics […]

    Reply
  19. Rob’s Internet Marketing - Make Money Online! : My Favourite Google Analytics Plug-ins, Hacks, Tips & Tricks says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:31 am

    […] 1. Notes for Google Analytics: Notes for Google Analytics […]

    Reply
  20. BlogTopf.de says:
    January 24, 2009 at 9:23 am

    Notizen in Google Analytics…

    In welchem Monat wurde der höchste Traffic-Peak im letzten Jahr erreicht? Mit welchen Suchbegriffen war das Projekt im letzten Jahr am erfolgreichsten?
    All die Antworten zu diesen Fragen findet man z.B. in den Statistiken von Google Analytics. D…

    Reply
  21. Add Notes to Google Analytics | Develop Daly says:
    February 5, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    […] I did a search and came up with a nearly perfect solution. Google Analytics Notes is a Firefox Extension that allows you to add notes via the GA […]

    Reply
  22. Analytics Talk » Blog Archive » A is for Atlanta, Amsterdam and Analytics View says:
    February 5, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data […]

    Reply
  23. Web Analyse Daten kommentieren | intereye - Web Analytics says:
    February 22, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    […] Google Analytics gibt es bei Analytics Talk ein Firefox Plugin namens GA Notes, dass es ermöglicht Kommentare einzufügen. Ich nutze es in meinem GA-Account für […]

    Reply
  24.   Invloed Carnaval op Web Analytics data | Webanalisten.nl says:
    February 24, 2009 at 6:28 am

    […] eerste gaat over de notities, Google Analytics biedt hiervoor (nog) geen mogelijkheden. Wel heeft Epikone hier iets vernuftigs voor bedacht. Het 2de is de mogelijkheid tot het vertonen van data per […]

    Reply
  25. Google Analytics Notes: agregá información de tu negocio ! » Wake-up Click - Blog - Publicidad en Internet says:
    February 24, 2009 at 9:59 am

    […] Aquí dejo el link de instalación: http://www.epikone.com/blog/2008/10/28/adding-business-data-to-google-analytics-data/ […]

    Reply
  26. จดโน้ตใน Google Analytics | MAXincube on Web Analytics (Beta) says:
    March 1, 2009 at 9:37 am

    […] และแล้วความต้องการของผมก็เป็นจริง เมื่อ Partner ของ Google ที่ชื่อ EpikOne ได้ออกแบบ Firefox Extension ขึ้นมาเพื่อช่วยในการบันทึกข้อมูลลงในหน้ารายงานของ Google Analytics ซอฟต์แวร์ตัวนี้มีชื่อว่า GA Notes […]

    Reply
  27. SEO FireFox Addon of the Week: Add Notes to Google Analytics says:
    April 2, 2009 at 8:28 am

    […] GA Notes is a great FireFox addon for Google Analytics I’ve discovered recently. It enables users to […]

    Reply
  28. SEO FireFox Addon of the Week: Add Notes to Google Analytics | Nông Dân BLOG says:
    April 4, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    […] GA Notes is a great FireFox addon for Google Analytics I’ve discovered recently. It enables users to add notes to site profiles in GA so that you could record your thoughts, plans and ideas. […]

    Reply
  29. Toppositions.org - Seo Firefox Addon Of The Week: Add Notes To Google Analytics « TopPositions.org says:
    April 5, 2009 at 2:43 am

    […] GA Notes is a great FireFox addon for Google Analytics I’ve discovered recently. It enables users to add notes to site profiles in GA so that you could record your thoughts, plans and ideas. […]

    Reply
  30. A Cool Firefox Plugin For Google Analytics | PPC-Maverick.com says:
    April 9, 2009 at 4:51 am

    […] If you are using Google Analytics, you should check out this Firefox Plugin at Analytics Talk. […]

    Reply
  31. Google Analytics Notes Firefox Add On Extension : Pay Per Click Marketing & Advertising Blog says:
    April 22, 2009 at 1:16 am

    […] 0 submit_url = “http://www.ppcforhire.com/blog/2009/04/google-analytics-notes-firefox-add/”; There is a great new tool out there for those of you who use Google Analytics: GA Notes! […]

    Reply
  32. Handige add-on Google Analytics: show notes | Tribal Talk - De weblog van Tribal Internet Marketing over zoekmachine marketing says:
    June 18, 2009 at 9:22 am

    […] Epikone heeft een zeer nuttige add-on ontwikkeld waarmee je kleine notities kan toevoegen aan je Analytics account. Deze notities verschijnen bovenaan de rapporten. Let op: deze add-on is alleen voor Firefox gebruikers geschikt. […]

    Reply
  33. Google Analytics Optimization | Google Analytics Help says:
    June 18, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    […] Some of these scripts were created for Google Analytics specifically. One of my favorites is Business notes in Google Analytics by Justin Cutroni. What this will allow you to do is make notes within the interface. It comes in […]

    Reply
  34. SEO Advice Using Google Analytics | Google Analytics Help Blog says:
    June 22, 2009 at 2:34 am

    […] The Group of experts and users that discuss challenges are very insightful> One yip I will give you is use Firefox with google-analytics. It is much quicker than Explorer and has plenty of fancy plugins for users. E.g. business notes […]

    Reply
  35. WebsGeek - 6 Tools Every Google Analytics User Should Have says:
    July 10, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    […] can see the original article here, which details exactly what the tool does and how you can install […]

    Reply
  36. Third Party Enhancement Tools for Google Analytics | Google Analytics Help Blog says:
    July 11, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    […] and guarantee tracking code placement. It is simply impossible but the scan utility can help you. “GA notes” is a plugin available for free from Epikone. It is very handy indeed. Using GA notes helps you keep track of changes you make, can be used as […]

    Reply
  37. Google Analytics For Local Search Part 6 of 7: Explore Your Geo-modified Keywords « seOverflow Blog says:
    July 16, 2009 at 11:22 am

    […] service multiple locations such as a hotel chain. Luckily with the use of Google Analytics and the GA Notes plug-in for Firefox by EpikOne, this task becomes a little […]

    Reply
  38. A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools « Tech7.Net says:
    July 16, 2009 at 11:27 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data“We tried using Google Spreadsheets to store business info but it never worked. People did not take the time to open up a spreadsheet and add information. We figured that adding some type of ‘note’ functionality to GA would be the easiest way to change this behavior. That’s how GA Notes was born.” […]

    Reply
  39. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Google Analytics - Birdsall Social Media says:
    July 23, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data “We tried using Google Spreadsheets to store business info but it never worked. People did not take the time to open up a spreadsheet and add information. We figured that adding some type of ‘note’ functionality to GA would be the easiest way to change this behavior. That’s how GA Notes was born.” […]

    Reply
  40. A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools | Brainless Web says:
    July 24, 2009 at 11:51 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data “We tried using Google Spreadsheets to store business info but it never worked. People did not take the time to open up a spreadsheet and add information. We figured that adding some type of ‘note’ functionality to GA would be the easiest way to change this behavior. That’s how GA Notes was born.” […]

    Reply
  41. 5 extensions Firefox indispensables pour Google Analytics | Ressac Media | Le Blogue says:
    August 14, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    […] 2) GA Notes […]

    Reply
  42. A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools « Smashing Magazine says:
    October 10, 2009 at 8:53 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data “We tried using Google Spreadsheets to store business info but it never worked. People did not take the time to open up a spreadsheet and add information. We figured that adding some type of ‘note’ functionality to GA would be the easiest way to change this behavior. That’s how GA Notes was born.” […]

    Reply
  43. Add Notes to Google Analytics says:
    October 18, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    […] I did a search and came up with a nearly perfect solution. Google Analytics Notes is a Firefox Extension that allows you to add notes via the GA […]

    Reply
  44. 30+ Google Analytics Plugins, Hacks & Tricks says:
    October 18, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    […] Google Analytics Notes – Keep track of events by adding notes directly into Google […]

    Reply
  45. 75 Ultimate Google Analytics — Tools, Tips & Tricks Resource says:
    November 27, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    […] Google Analytics Notes – Keep track of events by adding notes directly into Google Analytics. […]

    Reply
  46.   A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools by Oshoamy says:
    December 3, 2009 at 3:38 am

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data “We tried using Google Spreadsheets to store business info but it never worked. People did not take the time to open up a spreadsheet and add information. We figured that adding some type of ‘note’ functionality to GA would be the easiest way to change this behavior. That’s how GA Notes was born.” […]

    Reply
  47. Annotations for Google Analytics « SEO study 搜尋引擎優化學習 says:
    December 7, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    […] Adding Business Data to Google Analytics Data: (with Greasemonkey) http://www.epikone.com/blog/2008/10/28/adding-business-data-to-google-analytics-data/ […]

    Reply
  48. Beginning Web Analytics: The Secrets Behind Tracking Your Website Traffic | eCommerce Optimization says:
    August 5, 2010 at 5:02 am

    […] The good news? They’re free. And you won’t even need to hire an extra webmaster to manage them. Like any other part of your business, so long as you know your goals, analytics will provide you with all the information you need. […]

    Reply
  49. A is for Atlanta, Amsterdam and Analytics View - Analytics Talk says:
    February 17, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    […] your site for the standard GA tags. We’ve also created a resource list of other tools, like GA Notes, that we’ve rolled out over the last 4 […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

My Books

Google Analytics by Justin Cutroni
Learn More on Amazon.com

Performance Marketing co-authored by Justin Cutroni
Learn More on Amazon.com

Recent Posts

  • Understanding the Google Analytics Cohort Report
  • Using Offline and Online data to drive Google Analytics Remarketing
  • Understanding Cross Device Measurement and the User-ID
  • Universal Analytics: Now out of beta!
  • Advanced Content Tracking with Universal Analytics

Categories

  • About Google Analytics (25)
  • Analysis (52)
  • Analytics Strategy (3)
  • Campaign Tracking (14)
  • Ecommerce (8)
  • Event Tracking (10)
  • Remarketing (2)
  • Reporting (10)
  • Resources (7)
  • Tag Management (5)
  • Tips (25)
  • Tracking (52)
  • Uncategorized (64)
  • Universal Analytics (9)
  • Web Analytics (15)

Copyright © 2023 ·News Pro Theme · Genesis Framework by StudioPress · WordPress