Several weeks back at South by Southwest, Jeff Veen announced our new Google Analytics for Blogger reporting interface. Currently available only in private beta, this product is a collaboration of several teams and marks the transition of Measure Map c…
Live Demo/Webinar of Urchin Software
Hot on the heels of last week’s full launch of Urchin Software, Actual Metrics, an Urchin Software Authorized Consultant, is offering a free webinar this week to introduce potential users – or anyone interested – to the software.This is a great way to …
Graduation Day for Website Optimizer and Urchin Software!
Today at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, we very happily announced two launches. If we could have shouted them from the rooftops, we would have. Enjoy!Website Optimizer now available as a standalone product!Google Website Optimizer is all grow…
Join us at ad:tech in San Francisco next week
Do you have anything to do with digital media or online marketing? If so, you might want to check out the ad:tech conference next week in San Francisco. It’s an energetic and fun few days packed with informative seminars and vendor displays, with an at…
New Graphing Options: By Week and By Month
Sometimes trends can hide pretty well, and one of Google Analytics’ jobs is to make the most actionable trends as apparent as possible so you can surface them to your colleagues and management (and get a promotion). And we realize that most management …
Want more info about how popular your YouTube videos are, and where your viewers are coming from? According to Nick Jakobi, a product manager at YouTube,”Google Analytics enthusiasts, those of you who post videos to YouTube may be interested to learn a…
Since 2006, AdWords has been offering Seminars for Success in cities across the country to very positive reviews. Delivered by industry professionals hand-picked by Google, the seminars are one day courses offered solely to help advertisers get the mos…
How you start is as important as how you finish.
This is the first of a series of practitioner posts from our team on best practices we’ve seen through developing and working with customers on Google Analytics. A Planned ApproachThere can be few scarier moments in the humble Google Analytics practiti…
Benchmarking now available plus additional opt-in settings
We’re happy to announce the launch of two related new Google Analytics features: a beta version of industry benchmarking and a data-sharing settings page. Both are designed to give our customers more choice and better control over their data. We are al…
Those of you familiar with Google’s free A/B and multivariate testing tool, Website Optimizer, may have seen our previous webinars Introduction to Website Optimizer and Creating and Launching Experiments. Recently, however, you’ve asked us for more ins…
The Search Engines report in Google Analytics is very useful for seeing which search engines drove traffic to your site. In the report below, you can see that most of this sample website’s traffic is coming from Google, but Yahoo is driving a respect…
Congratulations to my friend and resident Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik on his 2008 SEMMY award. Avinash won in the Analytics category for his post entitled Web Analytics Demystified. Avinash’s goal with this post and its complement Web Metrics …
In case you’re interested, VKI Studios, a Google Analytics and Website Optimizer Authorized Consultant in Vancouver, is running a webinar called “Landing Page Optimization: a process using Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer” on February 5 (t…
Today we’re happy to announce that the Urchin Software from Google beta is now available for download at urchin.com. Urchin Software from Google is a web analytics product similar in scope to Google Analytics, except you install and manage the software…
No time like the present!
Google Analytics is hoping to grab a spot on your list of New Year’s resolutions. If you’ve been intending to use analytics to add clarity to your online marketing and web design decisions, now is a great time to start because there is a live online tr…