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MyAnalytics puts Google Analytics in your pocket
Webware.com —
... If you're too impatient to wait for Google to release its own iPhone app or Safari-optimized version of Google Analytics you might want to check out ...
MyAnalytics puts Google Analytics in your pocket
iPhone Approll —
... If you're too impatient to wait for Google to release its own iPhone app or Safari-optimized version of Google Analytics you might want to check out ...
Yahoo relaunches IndexTools as Web Analytics
Webware.com —
... . Its big advantage over Google Analytics is that the information is updated within a few minutes of user activity. In comparison, stats from Google tend to take about 24 hours, however anyone can sign up for it. Both products feature colorful, easy-to-read charts and graphics for data reporting, deep tie-ins with each company's ad services, and a single-service user log-in that works with other company properties. ...
Google Analytics Adds Enterprise Features
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
Google on Wednesday unveiled several new business-oriented capabilities for its Web analytics service, Google Analytics . The new features include: Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export application programming interface (private beta), integrated reporting for AdSense publishers (private beta), multi-dimensional data visualizations called "Motion Charts," and interface improvements. Google has posted several videos on YouTube that explain the function of these new features. Advanced Segmentation provides a way to analyze subsets of online traffic data. These subsets can be predefined, ...
Google hopes Analytics service upgrade lets users dump other vendors' tools
Latest from Computerworld —
October 23, 2008 (Computerworld) Google Inc. this week continued to hone its effort to push its Google Analytics service into corporate IT shops by adding a slew of new features, including custom report generation, advanced segmentation and integration with Google AdSense . The new features will let larger companies ditch any third-party tools they are using for segmentation or custom reporting of data generated from Google Analytics , noted Brett Crosby, group manager for Google Analytics. "This is an enterprise class feature launch," he said. "[Users have] been spending a lot of time and ...
NuConomy: Next-gen web analytics
Download Squad —
Filed under: Developer, Web services, web 2.0
Web analytics is an increasingly important metric for web publishers. It used to just be about tracking how many visitors you get and how many pages they view. Technology has improved so that you can now track site entry points, popular keywords, specific post metrics, out-bound clicks, nationality of your visitors and more. The problem is, to actually get that data into something useful, you usually have to dedicate a bunch of time analyzing statistics or you have to pay for an expensive commericial analytics package. Today, ...
Google Analytics for Flash: Welcome to the Engagement Era
Mashable! —
The explosion of Flash content like widgets has created several complex problems, like how to index it in search engines, how to make it work on mobile, and how to track it. The latter is being addressed today at Adobe Max, where Google is announcing Analytics Tracking for Flash, which will let publishers track metrics for their flash applications from within Google’s popular stats package.
Aside from the unique file format, one of the major differences between tracking Flash and tracking webpages is that Flash can be embedded anywhere – meaning that analytics software needs to be able to ...
Top 10 Tools for Your Blog or Web Site [Lifehacker Top 10]
Lifehacker —
[image] Having your own hosted web domain has never been cheaper, or easier, with the vast array of free resources out there. Here are our ten favorite tools to help anyone launch and maintain their internet presence. Photo by Jasison_Judd ...
10 Web Analytics Packages For Tracking Your Visitors
SitePoint —
Any blogger or site owner worth his or her salt will tell you that knowing how your site is performing is essential.
You have to know what is working, what isn’t, and what trends will make your site the next “must read” stop for visitors each day. The only way to effectively do this is to have a good statistics package working in the background. However, figuring out which package is best for your site can be tricky.
Until your site starts earning some revenue, you’re best starting off with something free. Then, as your site grows, you may want to pay for a few ...
A firehose of free at Google Analytics
Open Source —
My piece earlier today got me to thinking about the wealth of free we take for granted and may not even take full advantage of.
Take Google Analytics. I first got it to track my personal blog, then the ZDNet folks hooked me up to track the work I do here.
Google Analytics is a firehose of free. The main dashboard for each blog is a chart showing the performance of each blog, day by day, over a month. The main page gives me my monthly statistics, and how that compares with what I had been doing.
But there’s so much more. I can track where visitors ...
New: Link Google AdWords Conversions To Google Analytics
Search Engine Roundtable —
eWhisper, WebmasterWorld moderator said that he sees a new feature in his AdWords account. The new feature allows him to link up his AdWords account with his Analytics account and bring in the tracking conversion data from AdWords directly into Analytics. eWhisper said: This feature seems to be about a week old. If you go to Google conversion tracking, there is an option for linking Google analytics goals to count as conversion types. I personally tried to replicate this, but was unable to. I assume I am having issues linking up my accounts. In any event, here is the help document that explains how to link ...
12 ways to track traffic for your blog
Webware.com —
Earlier this week, I listed some useful Firefox extensions that help you become more productive while you blog. Now it's time to see how well your blog is performing.
I've found and tried 12 online applicatons that track your blog's traffic. Some are better than others, but they're all designed with the same goal in mind: helping you grow your blog.
Web apps ...
Google News gets a new look
SEO and Tech Daily —
Confirmed a short time ago on the Google News Blog, Google News is now sporting a new look. On the heels of an announcement a few days ago of a new story landing page, Google news is now integrating partner YouTube videos, a touch of color around the various topic links, and a variety of new section pages. The new pages make full use of newer 'wide page' formats by including videos and images for top stories on the right side. The message, with subtle announcements from a variety of Google product managers over the past month, is clear. Google is working closer with ...
Google Analytics on your Desktop
GO2WEB20 Blog —
Polaris, officially launched recently, is a fantastic free Air based application for everyone who manages one website profile on Google Analytics and want to keep data always instantly available. The dashboard gives you nice overview of total visits, pageviews and other useful metrics. Other than that, Polaris has 7 different individual reports: Visit Overview, Map Overlay, Traffic Sources, Referring Sites, Top Content, Keywords, and Goal Value. For those who are managing multiple profiles, the upgrade to the full version is $15/year. Both the free and the full version ...
Google Search Analysis Dashboard Targets Local Businesses
TechWeb —
Google has begun rolling out a new local search dashboard for users of its Local Business Center , a service that allows business owners to enhance their business listings in Google Maps search results and in other searches. The dashboard "shows statistics on how local listings are found across Google properties," said Carter Maslan, director of product management for local search at Google. Just as Google Analytics provides Web site owners with information about visitors to their Web sites, the new dashboard provides business owners with information about how visitors ...
Google Analytics gets new visual site
D' Technology Weblog —
Google reorganized Google Analytics site, with a dash of visual style to expose the information you're looking for. The refresh look groups key features to help new and prospective users understand how the parts work together and how Google Analytics fits into the larger ecosystem of Google offerings that includes AdWords and Website Optimizer. The site is devided into categories with links to help pages. ...
Mixpanel: A faster, simpler Google Analytics?
VentureBeat —
A startup called Mixpanel is launching today with an analytics service that it says can help companies get a much better sense of how users are actually interacting with their websites.
The biggest name in this market is Google Analytics , but Mixpanel is competing with many other companies too, such as NuConomy . But co-founder Suhail Doshi says that many companies, including the makers of social network applications like RockYou, Zynga, and Slide (where Doshi worked), don’t find any of the existing products satisfying, and so build out their own solutions.
"Our main ...
34 Ways to Use YouTube for Business [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
YouTube’s not just for posting silly videos of sleepwalking dogs and other embarrassing moments — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. You can use it to show off your expertise, share knowledge, market your products and connect with customers, colleagues and prospects.
Here are 34 ...
Stop paying for marketing! Here is how you can market your company for free.
Quick Sprout —
Who said marketing has to be expensive? Whether you have money to spend on marketing or not, there a lot of things you can do that don’t cost a dime. Here is a guide on how you can market your company for free:
Track before you act
Before you start any marketing initiatives, you need to make sure you have the correct tracking in place. This way you can measure the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. The last thing you want to do is spend time on things that aren’t working.
An easy way to do this is through the use of Google Analytics, which is free. If you are already ...
Google Analytics 101, Part 1
SearchEngineWatch Experts —
Many companies are realizing the "if you build it they will come" mentality to launching a Web site just doesn't work. How do you know if the site is accomplishing the company's goals or not? What can you learn from your visitor's behavior on your site? You need the help of an analytics tool to gain this insight. In this economy, many firms are looking to keep costs down. Google Analytics is a good choice because it provides great statistics for free. This two-part article is for beginners, and will focus on learning the basics of Google Analytics ...
Clickstreams: What They Are and Why You Should Track Them
Mashable! —
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
The more information you have about your customers, the better off you are. There’s a reason that advertisers will pay generously for detailed demographics on potential shoppers and customers. On the web, we usually gather this information via web analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, which track things like where visitors come from, how long they stay, and conversion rates for ...
Ignite Show: Jeff Veen on Great Designers
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
Good designers copy. Great designers steal.
In this week's Ignite Show Jeff Veen, well-known for his design work on Google Analytics, Wikirank and Typekit, lays out a strong argument for why iPhone imitators are the cargo cults of the digital era. The people building touchscreen knock-offs don't understand what makes the iPhone great. So instead of creating an end-to-end service they attempt to imitate it's flashiest features - kind of like Pacific Islanders who built "planes" out of ...
Your First 30 Days of Blogging
Quick Sprout —
Starting a blog is easy…right? Technically it is easy to throw up a WordPress or Blogger blog, but it isn’t easy to create a successful blog.
If you want your blog flourish and be looked upon as the go to resource for your industry, then it is critical that you follow and act on these steps over the next 30 days.
Day 1: Don’t launch until your blog is correctly setup.
No matter how tempting it maybe, you don’t want to launch your blog too early. You have to cover the basics by making sure you have an about and contact page as well as a decent ...
My Top Ten Favorite Google Products
louisgray.com —
As Google has grown as a company, its reach has extended well beyond its initial foundation as a massive search index. The company now represents many things - including a mobile handset platform, a Web browser, Web-based e-mail, a social network, and a wide variety of software programs. Like Microsoft in the 1990s, it is often hard to see a viable business where the company does not play a role - and a significant one at that. With Danny Sullivan revealing Google CEO Eric Shmidt's favorite product is the Chrome browser, I began thinking about my own preferences, and thought I would share - inviting you ...
My Million-Dollar Mistake
Quick Sprout —
As I have mentioned to you in the past, I have made a lot of mistakes. Luckily most of these mistakes where small and didn’t cause much harm to my business or me. But the one occasion I have made a big mistake not only did it cause one of my businesses to go under, but it also caused me to almost go bankrupt.
So here is the story of my million-dollar mistake.
The early days
Towards the end of my high school career, I started my first real Internet business. The business was called Advantage Consulting Services (ACS), which consulted small to ...
My Million Dollar Mistake
Quick Sprout —
As I have mentioned to you in the past, I have made a lot of mistakes. Luckily most of these mistakes where small and didn’t cause much harm to my business or me. But the one occasion I have made a big mistake not only did it cause one of my businesses to go under, but it also caused me to almost go bankrupt.
So here is the story of my million-dollar mistake.
The early days
Towards the end of my high school career, I started my first real Internet business. The business was called Advantage Consulting Services (ACS), which consulted small to ...
