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Google Will Soon Offer A Way For Users To Opt-Out Of Google Analytics Tracking. Some people don’t like the idea of Google having any data about them. Unfortunately, if you visit a site tracked by Google Analytics (and chances are you hit several each day), you have no choice. But soon, you might. Google is testing a browser-based opt-out solution for Google Analytics, they briefly note today on the Google Analytics blog. Specifically, this would be a “global browser based plug-in to allow users to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.” They note that engineers are finalizing and testing the funtionality. How exactly this will work globally across all browsers remains to be seen. Of course, the other question is what this means for site owners. [image: Paramount Pictures] [thanks Michael] Evolution of Analytics Benchmarking Report.

This week, we are beginning a new way of providing benchmarking data to Google Analytics users. For almost three years, Google Analytics has provided a Benchmarking report for users who opt in for anonymous data sharing. In a few days, however, we will be removing the Benchmarking report from the Google Analytics interface, and replacing it with an expanded report that will be emailed directly to you. In the coming few weeks, we’ll be delivering the new benchmarking report to all account administrators for accounts that are opted-in to anonymous data sharing.

The report will expand on the type of data delivered to include broader trends, such as geographic or traffic source differences in visitor engagement. Sign into your Google Analytics accountSelect the account you want to opt-in from the account listSelect Edit account settingsCheck the box next to Anonymously with Google and others If you want one last look at the current reports make sure you visit them in the next few days.

WebShare Search & Conversion Marketing Blog | 3 Ways to Deal with Google Preview visits in Google Analytics. Google Analytics for WordPress - Yoast - Tweaking Websites. Do you want to track how many visitors you have? Do want to know where they come from and what they do on your site? Google Analytics is the de-facto standard for measuring this, and much more. Adding Google Analytics to your website is as easy as pie with the Google Analytics by Yoast WordPress plugin. Google Analytics by Yoast Premium Buy GA Premium now from $89 » Start tracking with just a few clicksEasily switch to Google’s Universal trackingTrack your 404 error pages and search results like a pro!

Possibly even more important, buying Google Analytics by Yoast Premium gives you access to our support team. All about the Premium plugin So What does this Google Analytics plugin do? Stats for GA by Yoast First of all, this plugin makes sure you’re using the latest tracking code. You’ll be able to select your website in a drop down of the sites you have in your Analytics, hit save, and you’re done. More information Available in your language! Convinced? 1 year upgrades & support: Support. Analytics Talk by Justin Cutroni. SEO Site Tools - Google Chrome extension gallery. Cross Domain & Sub-Domain Tracking with Google Analytics » Closed Loop Marketing Blog.

Many of our clients have a need to track their web site visitors across domains and sub-domains. However, Google Analytics does not automatically track a single visitor across different domains or sub-domains using the default set of tracking code, so some customization of the default code has to take place. All of my past research suggested this should be easy, and like anything it is, if you have all of the information you need. After many, many, many, many tests, I have come up with the following guidelines. (Please note this is for the ga.js tracking code, not the older urchin.js code.)

Let’s start with the easy one. Premise: Your main site is There are links from your main site to your store, , and your help section, You want to track a single visitor who views the pages on your sub-domains. Your default tracking code is: var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? Try { var pageTracker = _gat. pageTracker. } catch(err) {}</script> var pageTracker = _gat. Default code is this: Excel functions for fetching Google Analytics data. 5 Simple Google Analytics Tips You Should Be Using. Last week, a few of us from SEOmoz attended WebShare’s Seminar for Success for Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer training.

All of us who attended have a decent grasp on GA but really wanted to get some advanced information and gain a better understanding of GA’s potential. Plus, actually getting trained on something is always helpful, even if you feel you know it well! During the first day, which was an introduction to Google Analytics and user training, I quickly realized that there were a number of tips and tactics that I had NO IDEA about previously.

I felt a little silly that I didn’t know that some of these things even existed in GA and got to thinking… if I didn’t know you could use these great tactics, maybe others don’t either. Following are the tips that I’ll be using in Google Analytics from here on out. 1. This actually made me the giddiest of all the features. Month Selection Week Selection 2. This is another one, that I feel a bit silly I didn’t know previously! Insert Google Analytics without editing your theme. I like to use Google Analytics, but the boring stuff is that when you switch themes, you’ll have to re-insert the code in the new theme. To avoid it, let’s use the power of WordPress hook to insert our analytics code without editing theme files. Just insert the following code into your functions.php file, and you’re done.

Don’t forget to paste your Google Analytics code on line 5. <? Have you checked out the new Headway theme for WordPress? Share: 7 New Tools with Google Analytics. Posted by jonathan at 2:59pm EST on 12/03/2009 An email was recently sent out about some great new tools with Google Analytics. Analytics Intelligence with Custom Alerts Using an algorithmic driven Intelligence engine, Analytics Intelligence monitors data patterns over daily, weekly and monthly periods. Significant changes in data trends and insights you may not have noticed are surfaced directly in your account. You can also create your own Custom Alerts that monitor your selection of dimensions and metrics that can be sent by email or displayed in the Intelligence reports.Expanded Goals and New Engagement Goals You can now track even more conversions by creating up to 20 goals per profile.

Measure user engagement and branding success on your site with Time on Site and Pages per Visit goals. Set up your first Engagement goal in minutes.Expanded Mobile Reporting Google Analytics has expanded support for mobile websites and tracking for iPhone and Android mobile applications tracking. New Google Analytics API Features. Over the past few months we've received a lot of great feedback from our developers about what they wanted to see in the Google Analytics API, and it included adding access to Google Analytics newest and most powerful features, such as advanced segments, custom variables and more. Today we want to let you know about improvements to the Google Analytics Data Export API, including the following highlights (all the details of this release can be found on our public changelog and public notify group): Support for Advanced Segments With advanced segmentation, you can look beyond your aggregated data and peer into the nuances of traffic and visitor activity on your site.

For example, the average time on site for all visits could be 60 seconds, but when you segment by country, you might learn that average time on site of visits from Germany is over 2 minutes. We've added two new ways to use advanced segments through the API: Goal 5-20 and Configuration Data Custom Variables Enjoy! Rapid Fire Web Analytics Q and A with Avinash and Nick - Episode #2. This is our second video in our recent initiative to ask you to share your most burning questions via Google Moderator (link: Google Analytics Google Moderator site). This week, Avinash brings his cast (leaving only one good analysis ninja arm) and we sit down to do a rapid fire Q&A to answer your questions. In this episode we discuss: Strategies for non-bounced non-converted visitors (Macro vs. Micro conversion)Ways to report total number of keywords over timeBenefits to tracking transactions as conversion goalsTracking unique visitors to specific web pagesPath analysis for keyword reports -- why it's bad and what to do insteadHow Google Analytics can be used on affiliate sitesHow site owners can exclude themselves from being tracked by Google AnalyticsHow to properly track sites that reside on different domains but use a shopping cart on a different, common, site (cross domain tracking) Here are links to the resources discussed in the video:

Google Analytics IQ: Proof of Qualification Now Available! Since we launched the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) program, many of you have asked for a way to prove to others that you have passed the Google Analytics IQ test and are therefore Google Analytics qualified. We're pleased to announce that you are now able to create and publish a link to your official test record. You can publish this link on your website or share it with others however you wish. When someone clicks on your link, they'll be taken to a page that looks like this: Your test record can also display your test score and a contact email address if you wish to share this information.

You can even create multiple test records -- for example, one that includes your contact email address and one that doesn't -- to share with different people. Here's how to set it up. You'll then see this screen (below). On the next screen, you select the information that you want included in the test record. Save the record. New SEO reports for Google Analytics - Yoast - Tweaking Websites. Track SEO rankings with Google Analytics. How to use Google Analytics to track telephone leads | Blog.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to track telephone call leads in Google Analytics? Guess what? There is and I'm going to share with you over a series of four posts how you can set this up for yourselves. In this economic climate, what with the credit crunch ‘n’ all it is more important than ever to prove to your clients that the work that you doing is providing real return on investment. For e-commerce websites, this is fairly easy by using analytics tools such as Google Analytics to gather data. But what of other sites? Again, using Google Analytics as an example, we can set goals for contact forms etc. We have devised a solution to the problem of tracking offline telephone leads in order to prove to your clients that they are generating phone calls off the back of your online marketing efforts.

This post is the first of four where I will walk you through how to set up a system like CallTrackID for yourself and your clients. Example Their main online marketing channels are: 2 easy ways to track social networks in Google Analytics | Blog. With so many resources spent on social media marketing these days, the job of analyzing its effectiveness in the overall marketing mix is becoming more important. If you're using Google Analytics to track your site's visitors and revenue, you'll notice that by default you can analyze traffic mediums such as direct, organic etc, but what about social networks as a standalone traffic medium? To achieve this level of reporting in Google Analytics and to basically tweak Google Analytics to create this traffic medium, you've got two options. Option 1: Create a standalone Google Analytics social networks traffic profile 1. 2. Filter Name - social networks trafficFilter Type - custom filter then advancedField A -> Extract A - under campaign source add your social networks.