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How To Put Google Analytics to Work for You With Email Reports. Google Analytics remains the most popular and most powerful tool for site traffic and keyword analysis. It provides statistics about your top performing keywords, your most popular landing pages, and of course the upward or downward swing of your daily unique visitor count. Unless you keep a close eye on your site statistics, you’re going to miss out on opportunities to capitalize on any sudden changes in visitor behavior. Sandra offered some great resources to find Google Analytics tips, but I thought it might be useful to offer a few tips right here on MUO as well.

I recently covered TrakkBoard, a useful app that lets you monitor several account profiles at once, but there are also useful features within Google Analytics itself that you’ll want to configure for your own specific needs. Today, I’d like to show how you can generate scheduled Google Analytics email reports and alerts for your statistics. Setting Up Google Analytics Email Reports Setting Up Email Alerts. How to Turn Google Reader into a Customizable Read-It-Later Service. Include the Word "Solved" In Your Searches to Troubleshoot Tech Issues. Two improvements to contact groups. Posted by Will Scott, Software Engineer Organizing your Gmail contacts into groups can save you time when you’re writing messages to multiple people at once. For example, if you create a “Family” group, instead of addressing an email to your mom, dad, sister and brother, you can just start typing “Family” and Gmail will complete the rest.

Today we’re making two improvements to contact groups which should make them easier to create and control. First, let’s say you have a list of coworkers you think you’ll want to contact again in the future. Second, we’ve added the ability to specify which one of your contact’s email addresses you want to use in a given group. We're always listening for feedback about what we can do to make Contacts, and all of Gmail, better, so let us know what you think.

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