Posted by danny on August 19, 2010 in
Google Analytics,
Web Development
I’ve taken some time out to write a script that provides a nice API to access Google cookies. If you’ve seen the Google cookies before, they can look pretty cryptic and will require you to memorise the syntax of how the cookies are formed which you don’t necessarily want to do to save brain space. [...]
Tags: cookies, google, javascript, linkedin
Posted by danny on July 11, 2009 in
Google Analytics
Thought I’d share a post on how to use advanced filters in Google Analytics and what are some scenarios where they can come in handy. Advanced filters are very useful for extracting information from available fields (i.e. campaign source, campaign term) using regular expressions and then using the extracted information to manipulate other fields in [...]
Tags: advanced filters, linkedin, regular expressions
Posted by danny on June 24, 2009 in
Google Analytics
If you’ve read my previous post about the GAIQ exam tips, you’ll notice in the section called Adwords Information, I talked about how the initial update by Google on how their cost data import update affected traffic reports in Google Analytics and how we’ve been debating in the GAAC forums about accounts that don’t have [...]
Tags: campaign tracking, gaiq, google adwords, google analytics individual qualification, linkedin
Posted by danny on May 26, 2009 in
Google Analytics,
Web Development
Working in a Google Analytics Authorised Consultants (GAAC) accredited company and also having a Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ), it is essential that I master the art of setting up goals and funnels in Google Analytics for our clients. A goal can be a very important metric for a client to track such as sales, [...]
Tags: funnels, goals, howto, linkedin, regular expressions
First of all, let me explain why in Google Analytics you need to do some configurations to track sub-domains / cross-domains. Google Analytics does not do this by default, thus whenever you’re on sub1.domain.com and you go to sub2.domain.com, Google Analytics will record this as a referral rather than maintaining the same session and the [...]
Tags: advanced filters, cookies, cross domain tracking, firebug, Google Analytics, howto, linkedin, sub domain tracking