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Google Analytics: Find your Social Media Activity, a Tour

seangw — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:06:27 +0000

Google Analytics does a lot for us, and it does so much that we can’t always find some of the cooler functionality. I recently discovered some VERY useful information regarding social media linking in Google Analytics. Google Analytics will let you review the social media discussions and events (+1, Like, Bookmaarks, etc) and do the [...]

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Google Analytics: Real Time analytics Support

seangw — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:32:04 +0000

As of this morning, Google Analytics has been updated to provide FREE real time analytics. This is the biggest thing that has happened to Google Analytics since it was released. To access the new feature, you must be using the “New Version”: Click “New Version” in the top right corner (if it says “Old Version” [...]

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Google Analytics Session Definition Changed

seangw — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:22:19 +0000

This got past me last month, and wanted to make sure all my “loyal” (hah, no offense but most of you are from India just looking for a fix to something) readers saw this. As of August 11, 2011 Google changed the way Sessions are defined. The old model ended a session when one of [...]

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How To: Track File Downloads with Google Analytics

seangw — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:19:22 +0000

Google Analytics is what most people use nowadays for web traffic reports. It is flexible, powerful and simple. The problem with Google Analytics is that it doesn’t analyze web traffic reports, but generates data in real time. In most cases, this isn’t a problem. In fact, it is big feature. The problem is what about [...]

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Analyzing Twitter Traffic

seangw — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:38:59 +0000

I’ve posted a few times on my experiment to see how much Twitter boosts my overall traffic. In doing so I’ve noticed a lot of my traffic now comes from strange sources. With the use of TinyURL, and some of the interfaces people use for twitter, traffic is difficult to watch. An article I just [...]

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Got unused domain names? – Try Google Adsense for Domains

seangw — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:17:53 +0000

I never knew I could take some of my unused domains, and hand them over to Google (why do I even link “Google”? Who doesn’t know where Google is?) to try and monetize some of the wasted traffic. Looking through Google’s Adsense interface earlier this week I found a new option — Google Adsense for Domains. [...]

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