Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'analytics'

A week later, Google added Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, to Google Analytics. Last week we reported that webmasters were frustrated that Bing was not available in the search engine referral reports within the free Google Analytics immediately. It seems...

Posted on June 8, 2009 7:59 AM

Bing launched a couple days early, yesterday morning and Google Analytics users are confused as to why it does not show up in the search engine reports. The day Google released Chrome, their new browser, Google Analytics supported the new...

Posted on June 2, 2009 8:51 AM

A week ago, Google Analytics fixed a bug with content data reports, now they need to fix issues with Google Analytics users logging into their accounts. There are several threads in the Google Analytics Help forum discussing how Google is...

Posted on May 5, 2009 7:58 AM

Starting a few days ago, it appears Google Analytics changed the behavior of the display graph based on your date selection criteria. In the past, if you selected a specific date criteria that was less than 30 days, Google would...

Posted on May 4, 2009 8:30 AM

Google Analytics was experiencing an issue with the "Content Data" reports where it would not show information in some cases. Specifically, if you selected an individual date from the date selector and then viewed the Content Data reports, it would...

Posted on April 30, 2009 8:24 AM

Google announced the public availability of the Google Analytics API this week and SEOs are very happy about it. SEOs thrive with data and even better SEOs have ways to automatically build software that uses this data to improve their...

Posted on April 24, 2009 8:39 AM

An hour or so before I went offline for Passover, the Google Analytics blog announced a very significant change to how Google search will be passing along referral data. In the past, a search for flowers and a click on...

Posted on April 17, 2009 8:28 AM

About a week ago, many Google Analytics users and Google AdWords advertisers began noticing that the AdWords cost data was no longer being sent to the Google Analytics reports. We said that Google sent a warning that this may happen,...

Posted on April 8, 2009 7:48 AM

There is a thread at WebmasterWorld and several in the Google Analytics Help forum with complaints that Google Analytics is no longer tracking Google AdWords data properly. The WebmasterWorld thread has this complaint: In two of my analytics accounts for...

Posted on April 2, 2009 8:01 AM

A Google Analytics Help thread has confirmation from a Googler that your Analytics data will remain in your account for at least the past 25 months. Anna from the Google Analytics team said, "data is stored for at least 25...

Posted on March 30, 2009 8:30 AM

Microsoft has been beta testing adCenter Analytics since 2007, but yesterday, they announced they will be closing the tool down. They really didn't say why. All they said was, "The Microsoft adCenter Analytics team announced today the end of the...

Posted on March 13, 2009 8:54 AM

Google has been rolling out integration of your AdSense data in Google Analytics since October, but many publishers still wish they had it. If you do not have it yet, you can now get it. AdSenseAdvisor posted a WebmasterWorld thread...

Posted on December 12, 2008 8:11 AM

As we expected, Google Analytics has integrated with Google AdSense. An AdSense blog post contains the details on how to hook up your AdSense account with your Analytics account - I personally tried this and I am unable to do...

Posted on October 23, 2008 7:41 AM

We've prided ourselves on Google Analytics. We've seen Gatineau make its debut last year. Now we're looking at something new: Yahoo Analytics. As part of the acquisition of IndexTools, Yahoo will be launching Yahoo! Web Analytics. It's not live for...

Posted on October 10, 2008 9:25 AM

Google Analytics is a good platform for statistics, but you really can't drill down to specifics and get hourly breakdowns of your conversion data. That's okay -- almost -- because there's a workaround that SteveLaLonde presents at Search Engine Watch...

Posted on September 15, 2008 10:24 AM

Are you a Google AdSense publisher? Do you have a Google Analytics account? If so, you may be in for a surprise, since there's a rumor circulating that Google Analytics may soon include Google AdSense data. This information comes from...

Posted on August 26, 2008 8:47 AM

A new rankings system is now available within Alexa, we have learned. The new rankings system "now aggregate[s] data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users," according to...

Posted on April 17, 2008 6:46 AM

The other day, SEOmoz released what they named SEO Analytics. The beauty about this package is that nothing needs to be installed on your site, all this does is watch the search space for signals on your domain. It really...

Posted on March 7, 2008 7:35 AM

Good news, analytics folks: Google Urchin 6.0 is now in beta. It looks a lot like the free version of Google Analytics but the cost is pretty high: $2995 after the beta period ends. As one member puts it, "who...

Posted on February 4, 2008 9:51 AM

Those of you have been anxiously awaiting the launch of Microsoft Gatineau can now sign up. The sign up form is here and is available only for US subscribers for the time being. What is the benefits of Gatineau, you...

Posted on October 31, 2007 9:33 AM

An interesting question at Cre8asite Forums has been asked: when you click on the cached version of a website, does it show up in the website's log files? One member says yes, as long as there are images on the...

Posted on October 10, 2007 9:36 AM

It's been 8 months since I initially reported on Microsoft Gatineau, and now the forums have gotten hold of the news. DigitalPoint Forums members are happy to see that other alternatives are available, and Search Engine Roundtable Forums members are...

Posted on September 18, 2007 9:01 AM

Discovery ponders an interesting question at the Search Engine Watch Forums. Apparently, Google AdWords reports are not accurate due to how they itemize the data. He is seeing more reports like this: 123 Other unique queries. 69 Other unique queries....

Posted on August 7, 2007 9:50 AM

After several complaints on many forums, including DigitalPoint Forums, High Rankings Forums, and WebmasterWorld, and from the fingers of Andy Beal, Google has officially acknowledged a reporting delay with Google Analytics. As of 5pm PST this evening, some users will...

Posted on July 31, 2007 8:49 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums shows his data from Google Analytics versus Google AdSense and sees that the page impressions are inconsistent. He then asks why he had so many page views but no impressions. A member responds to say that this...

Posted on April 9, 2007 8:04 AM

A member in the Google Groups says that he is unable to link his Google AdWords Starter Edition account with his Google Analytics account. He believes that the reason for this is because he has the Starter Edition of AdWords:...

Posted on March 29, 2007 9:35 AM

So MSN Search Switched to Live.com the other night. Guess what... Live.com is not passing referer data. I.e. you will not know what type of traffic you are getting from live.com. You won't know you got 10 or 100 or...

Posted on September 15, 2006 7:51 AM