Comments on: Answers to your Top 10 Google Analytics Questions http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/ LunaMetric's blog on conversion rate and web analytics Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ By: Top Web Analytics Posts of 2007 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-1422 Top Web Analytics Posts of 2007 Thu, 15 May 2008 02:18:54 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-1422 [...] Answers to your Top 10 Google Analytics Questions [...] [...] Answers to your Top 10 Google Analytics Questions [...]

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]]> By: Robbin http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-1050 Robbin Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:16:58 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-1050 Rebecca - you are absolutely right. It isn't here, and furthermore, it is a lot of work. Here is a help link, but I know that it just a lifejacket and not the real thing. https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55532&hl=en_US Rebecca - you are absolutely right. It isn’t here, and furthermore, it is a lot of work. Here is a help link, but I know that it just a lifejacket and not the real thing.
https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55532&hl=en_US

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-1047 Rebecca Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:52:07 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-1047 "Question #7: Why is my own site my top referring source? Why is it even in my list of referring sources? Answer: Probably because you have more than one domain (for example, you are using a third party shopping cart) and you didn’t take the time to learn how to do the cross-domain tracking." Why, yes! That is exactly the question I had. I was tremendously excited to see that you had answered it, and the excitement carried through all the way to the part where we should have learned to do cross-domain tracking. I hurriedly looked all over the rest of the page in case I had missed the part where you explained how to do that. The phrase "didn't take the time" implies that it is easily learned, something everyone should know, something we would have learned in school if only we hadn't cut corners and taken philosophy instead... Seriously, where would I learn that? Or, if the third party-ness of the shopping cart is the issue, can I just ignore it? “Question #7: Why is my own site my top referring source? Why is it even in my list of referring sources? Answer: Probably because you have more than one domain (for example, you are using a third party shopping cart) and you didn’t take the time to learn how to do the cross-domain tracking.”
Why, yes! That is exactly the question I had. I was tremendously excited to see that you had answered it, and the excitement carried through all the way to the part where we should have learned to do cross-domain tracking. I hurriedly looked all over the rest of the page in case I had missed the part where you explained how to do that. The phrase “didn’t take the time” implies that it is easily learned, something everyone should know, something we would have learned in school if only we hadn’t cut corners and taken philosophy instead…
Seriously, where would I learn that? Or, if the third party-ness of the shopping cart is the issue, can I just ignore it?

]]> By: Jason Braatz http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-820 Jason Braatz Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:03:41 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-820 There actually an option 4 available, which works especially if you only have a limited number of pages using SSL . You can detect the server variable of which page is currently being displayed and make an if then statement for two different sets of code segments for GA to use. If the website detects that it's on a page that'd normally be secure, if can only use the https:// form of the code. Else, it'll display the non-secure form. This works for my website: www.rossirovetti.com quite nicely, and is a simple mod to do it (especiallly) in ASP. Thanks Jason Rossi & Rovetti Flowers There actually an option 4 available, which works especially if you only have a limited number of pages using SSL . You can detect the server variable of which page is currently being displayed and make an if then statement for two different sets of code segments for GA to use. If the website detects that it’s on a page that’d normally be secure, if can only use the https:// form of the code. Else, it’ll display the non-secure form. This works for my website: http://www.rossirovetti.com quite nicely, and is a simple mod to do it (especiallly) in ASP.

Thanks
Jason
Rossi & Rovetti Flowers

]]> By: Steve http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-787 Steve Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:34:07 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-787 Fair enough. I wonder if it's one of the simple answers? :-) As in "Too Hard" - eg resources/space/efficiencies. Or "Too Slow". So they compromised and pulled it out? I'd suggest it's been a deliberate choice - in that it has been removed, vs left alone. You *may* be able to swing the GA folk to add by an "un-filter" if you ken?? :-) As in match this regex, don't strip the ?= stuff. Similar to the current feature set. ??? But that would be asking. And guessing is way more entertaining! :-D Cheers! - Steve Fair enough.
I wonder if it’s one of the simple answers? :-)
As in “Too Hard” - eg resources/space/efficiencies. Or “Too Slow”. So they compromised and pulled it out?
I’d suggest it’s been a deliberate choice - in that it has been removed, vs left alone.

You *may* be able to swing the GA folk to add by an “un-filter” if you ken?? :-)
As in match this regex, don’t strip the ?= stuff. Similar to the current feature set. ???

But that would be asking. And guessing is way more entertaining! :-D
Cheers!
- Steve

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]]> By: Michael Harrison http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-783 Michael Harrison Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:37:49 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-783 Sebastian, I think the spreadsheet you're looking for is on the Analytics Talk blog here: http://www.epikone.com/blog/2006/11/10/google-analytics-campaign-tracking-pt-2-the-epikone-link-tagging-tool/ Also, in regard to #9, you can use Javascript to programmatically determine whether or not to use the standard or SSL GATC. Shawn Purtell posted about this on our blog: http://www.roirevolution.com/blog/2007/03/secure_vs_nonsecure_pages_in_google_analytics.html Sebastian, I think the spreadsheet you’re looking for is on the Analytics Talk blog here: http://www.epikone.com/blog/2006/11/10/google-analytics-campaign-tracking-pt-2-the-epikone-link-tagging-tool/

Also, in regard to #9, you can use Javascript to programmatically determine whether or not to use the standard or SSL GATC. Shawn Purtell posted about this on our blog: http://www.roirevolution.com/blog/2007/03/secure_vs_nonsecure_pages_in_google_analytics.html

]]> By: Sébastien Brodeur http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-782 Sébastien Brodeur Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:26:28 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/09/13/answers-to-your-top-10-google-analytics-questions/#comment-782 Question #1 It's also a good practices to create a test profile to new filter before applying them. Just in case :-) Question #2 I remember seeing a Excel files that help you create multiple campaign code at once. I just don't remember the address. Question #1
It’s also a good practices to create a test profile to new filter before applying them. Just in case :-)

Question #2
I remember seeing a Excel files that help you create multiple campaign code at once. I just don’t remember the address.

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