New Google Analytics and iGoogle Integration


I am a big fan of iGoogle and Google Analytics so I am really happy with the latest announcement of the new Google Analytics widget for iGoogle. I am not sure why Google didn’t officially release this widget a long time ago because it’s obvious that users would want to see their website performance along with stocks, news and sports.

Google Analytics: Campaign Attribution and Direct Traffic

In their final episode of 2010, Nick and Avinash end Web Analytics TV with answers to bunch of interesting questions:

  • Calculating bounce rate for AJAX sites.
  • How tabbed navigation effects funnel abandonment.
  • Google Analytics campaign attribution and direct traffic.
  • Creating funnel reports for different user types.
  • The recommended way to do internal campaign tracking.
  • Why you see google as a referral in Google Analytics.

New Google In-Page Analytics Replaces Site Overlay

Last Friday Google Analytics introduced In-Page Analytics whereby you can see your Google Analytics data superimposed on your website as you browse. In-Page Analytics replaces site-overlay, which is great news because the end experience is a lot better than the old site overlay (which I’ve often found to be buggy).

BazaarVoice Integrates with Google Analytics – Measures User Generated Content

Today BazaarVoice announced a new integration with Google Analytics giving brands the ability to monitor the influence of user-generated content in Google Analytics. According to data collected from 35 million visits, BazaarVoice reports that customers who interacted with their solutions had more than a 50% higher conversion rate and over a 70% increase in revenue per visit. These types of integrations are amazingly useful because they help take your measurement and site optimization to a whole new level of sophistication.

“With this integration, Bazaarvoice clients can now see, in Google Analytics, the metrics on things like the number of visitors paginating through reviews, or sharing user-generated content with social networks, or clicking on related products found in reviews. Advanced Segments can then be used to compare the behavior of visits that interact with Bazaarvoice generated content vs. those that don’t.”


How to Link Multiple AdWords Accounts to one Google Analytics Account

Nick and Avinash have release episode 12 of web analytics TV, this time with a 30+ minute video answering numerous questions from readers including:

  • What does “other” mean in the traffic sources overview reports?
  • How to link multiple AdWords accounts to one Google Analytics account
  • Why should people use other web analytics products when GA is free?
  • Tracking links from emails that point to sites not being tracked by GA
  • If a user keeps clicking every 29 minutes, can a session last for 9 days?

Urchin 7 Comes with Advanced Segmentation and New UI

If you like the look and feel of Google Analytics, but need the security of a hosted analytics solution, then Urchin 7 might just do the trick for you. Priced at $9,995, Urchin 7 comes packed with new features such as:
  • 64-bit CPU support
  • Parallel log processing
  • 1000 domains/unlimited logs
  • 100% new UI
  • Advanced Segmentation
  • Event Tracking
  • Permalinks
  • API v. 2

If you are confused on why you would select Urchin over Google Analytics, then here’s just a few reasons to help you make your decision:


  • Urchin Runs on your own servers
  • Google Analytics does not work on Intranets
  • With Urchin you can process historical logs
  • You can track Robots & Spiders with Urchin
  • Status & Error code reports available in Urchin
  • Drilldown on an individual visitor’s session
  • You want to spend $10,000 :)

Measuring the Performance of Landing Pages in Google Analytics

In their weekly back to the basics tip, the Google Analytics blog highlights how to measure landing page effectiveness across multiple keywords using the built in pivot-table feature.

Go to the Keywords report under Traffic Sources. Look over to the right above the table and you’ll see Views: followed by a set of buttons. Click the Pivot view. Now, look to the left, above the table, and you’ll see a Pivot by dropdown menu. Select Landing Page from this menu. The keywords will be listed down the side and landing pages will be listed across the top. You can now see how many visits you received for each keyword/landing page combination.