2 September, 2009 André Scholten
Earlier this year I did a guest post on this site to show you how to track your SEO rankings with Google Analytics. It was quite some news for a lot of people, just take a look at the 300+ comments. And now it’s time for the follow-up.
Google’s new technology
Since a while Google is testing a new AJAX version of their search engine. I’m not sure who’s seeing the AJAX version and who isn’t, but in Holland most of the Firefox users do see it. You can see if you’re one the new one by looking at the url of a result page:
The great thing about this new version is that it makes Google Analytics capable of tracking the clicked position. Yes you heard what I say: the position. Where the ‘old’ Google only allowed us to track the page a keyword was on, the new Google allows us to track the exact position.
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by Patrick Altoft on June 12, 2007
The Advanced Google Analytics Tutorial raised more questions than it answered so I have spent this afternoon going through everybody’s comments and trying to answer them.
If you have any more questions please feel free to ask in the comments at the end of this post.
Google has just announced a few new features including the ability (finally) to click on referring url’s and be taken to the referring page.
Michael asked:
Is there a way to see stats based on a specific day? I’d love to be able to see which pages are more popular as I’ve changed my site over time. I might change link position or something for a week and it’d be nice to see stats for that time period only to be able to compare them.
Click on Content > Top Content and then scroll right down to the form that says Find url and type the page you want to view the stats for. In this c - Read More
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by Patrick Altoft on June 7, 2007
Since Google Analytics was launched in 2005 it has become one of the top analytics packages for small to medium sized websites. Growth was initially slow due to the frustrating waiting list system initiated by Google to avoid over stretching their servers. Now that the waiting list has been removed anybody can sign up to use this great service.
The user interface had a major redesign in May 2007 and a lot of the features we love have become hard to find. This guide should help you find your way around the new system.
I see a lot of comments on the forums asking whether Analytics can do X, Y and Z. In most cases it can do it but people just don’t realise it. As webmaster of several large sites I have been using GA for around a year now to track a huge number of variables. In this post I will go through a few of the more obscure interactions that GA ca - Read More
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