Google Analytics

Granting guest access in Google Analytics is easy! 1. Step 1 – Login 2. After you login click on “Admin” 3. Select the Account that you want to share. You may only have one Account. 4. Select the Domain that you want to share. You again may only have one domain in your Account. 4.b. Click again when the domain comes up. 5. Click on Users. Then click on +New User. 6. Then simply enter the email address of the person that you want to share Google Analytics access with. There are two different Roles: User – A User can only access the data and not create Goals. Administrator – A Google Analytics administrator can create goals and they can also see all domains that are in your Account that was selected in Step 3.

By: Todd Atkins Today, Mozilla released version 14.0.1 of its popular Firefox desktop browser. I normally welcome browser updates, espcially anything that helps people rid the world of IE6. Version 14 was arguably a more important and bigger update compared to 14.0.1. However, 14.0.1 now utilizes HTTPS for all Google searches preformed in the browser. Why does HTTPS Matter? Back in October, Google started stripping the keyword query used by a searcher from Google Analytics data when that searcher used HTTPS to perform the search. When you go into Google Analytics and look at the organic traffic to your site, you can see what queries people used to find your website. If they used HTTPS (https://google.com instead of http://google.com), instead of the query you’d find “Not Provided”. Most searchers probably use HTTPS without realizing it because they are logged into…
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Frustrated with Google for giving you “not provided” instead of the keyword a visitor used to find your site? Here is a work-around to recover it. By Todd Atkins In October 2011, Google added a new security/privacy “feature” for their SSL searches. Long story short, if you are logged into a Google account, Google scrubs the seach query from being reported to the site owner in Google Analytics. Instead, they lump all that traffic into a keyword they call “(not provided)”. If you’ve seen “(not provided)” as one of the most common keywords driving traffic to your site, you know how frustrating this can be. Here is a dead simple trick to gleam a little information about how those visitors found your site. Go to Traffic Sources>>Keywords Select Landing Page as Secondary Data Gain Insight to What Brought Visitors to…
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