Google Analytics Campaign URL builder with Short URL and Twitter posting
- 13.05.2009
Another reason for lousy campaign data, are that the marketers are creating infunctional campaign URLs because they don't know much about URLs.
And to be honest, the Google Analytics tool builder isn't the best tool in the world for creating campaign URLs.
Because of this I have created what I humbly believe can be an easier and more time saving solution to create Google Analytics Campaign URLs.Google Analytics: How to track Google Keyword Ranking from your Visitors
- 16.04.2009
In a blog post from the Google Analytics team a couple of days ago, Google announced some changes to their URLs. Blogstorm did investigate these new URLs further, and asked the question: Google Adds Ranking Data to Referrer String? They were correct about their assumptions.
So - here is how you can track keyword and keyword rankings with Google Analytics, and what I think you should be aware of.
Internet Explorer 6 is so last year, upgrade your browser
- 21.02.2009
If you are Internet savvy, and haven't been living in a cave for the last hours, you have probably noticed the huge European campaign against the Internet Explorer 6 browser.
The campaign was initiated on Twitter from a Norwegian developer from Finn.no. Their blog post (in Norwegian) can be found here. After his short tweet, almost all the biggest websites in Norway has taken action. And from there it has spread throughout the world, and as I write, the message is on the frontpage of Digg.com, Slashdot and Wired.
If you are using the old Internet Explorer 6 you will see a message on this site similar to the message you see on many other website, suggesting that you should upgrade to a newer or different browser.
This short blog post is just to support the initiative, kill IE6 now!
You can follow the campaign on Twitter using the hash #IE6 and on the IE6 Wiki.
So if you are using the Internet Explorer 6 browser, please upgrade to either FireFox, Internet Explorer 7 or Opera and support the campaign by killing Internet Explorer 6.
How to track Google SearchWiki with Google Analytics
- 04.12.2008
First, the title on this blog post could also been How to track Full Referral Path with Google Analytics, because this Google Analytics filter will also do that. The reason for the SearchWiki approach, is simply that I saw Danny Sullivan and somebody else asking this question on Twitter.
First, just to avoid any confusion. Below is a SearchWiki result, and visitors from All SearchWiki notes will send a referring URL containing the parameter swm=2, or if they comes from their own SearchWiki notes the referring URL will contain reviews/w?c.
Since the solution to track SearchWiki is to do some advanced filtering, it will only show full referral path for your future visitors.
YouTube Chromeless Player with Google Analytics Event Tracking
- 09.09.2008
You probably know that you can implement YouTube videos on your own web site, but do you know that you can make your own YouTube player?
Why on earth should I make my own YouTube video player, perhaps you think. It's mainly three reasons for that:
- You can decide the look and functionality of the video player.
- You can track how your visitors interact with your videos through your web analytics.
- It's easy to play embedded YouTube Videos in high quality.
Why did I make this player?
Not long ago Justin Cutroni wrote an article called Tracking YouTube Videos with Google Analytics. To be able to track your visitor's interaction with your YouTube videos with web analytics, you have to use the YouTube Chromeless Player. Since web analytics, and Google Analytics in particular, is one of my interests, I started to look for YouTube Chromeless Players that were easy to style and implement. I didn't find any, so I made my own player, and added Google Analytics Event Tracking based on Justin's work. Later I added the possibility to play videos in high quality.
In this blog post I explain how my player is made, and you can also download the player.
