Web Development

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…

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In case you’re wondering whether 301 redirects preserve the referrer information or not and how this may affect Google Analytic’s referrer information, I’ll show you a simple example. So pretty much what I did was I did a Google search for clothes and found some ads on the right hand side. I used firebug to…

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In Google Analytics keywords report, you can only segment the keywords by total, paid and non-paid, which pretty much means total, non-cpc and cpc. Also in the keywords report, whenever someone arrives to your website via a cpc medium such as Google Adwords, it will only report the keyword matched in your adgroup keyword list,…

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If you’ve ever come across an error saying something like “the feed does not have subscription by email enabled” on your feedburner email subscription form, then you’re in luck because I may have the solution to this problem (thanks to Paulo for pointing out this problem to me). First of all, something you should know…

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