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Creating the perfect (trackable) blog article

by Brian Clifton | Mar 9, 2009 | Data Understanding, xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!

Tracking RSS blog feeds presents a problem for on-site web analytics tools such Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics. Why? Because as the name suggests, on-site web analytics tools measure visitor activity whilst on your web site and so cannot track activity that...

Integrating Voice of Customer data with Google Analytics – Part II

by Brian Clifton | Jan 31, 2009 | xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!

This is part II (from a two part series) of articles providing a How-to guide for integrating your voice of customer data with Google Analytics. In Part I, I discussed the approach to take when integrating with Clicktools – a popular visitor survey tool. In Part...

Integrating Voice of Customer data with Google Analytics – Part I

by Brian Clifton | Jan 25, 2009 | xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!

As I have written before, Voice of Customer techniques are your direct feedback mechanism from visitors to your web site. It provides invaluable qualitative data to your web design, development, marketing, PR and content creator teams. It compliments the quantitative...

Track outbound links and file downloads automatically in Google Analytics

by Brian Clifton | Jun 8, 2008 | xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!

Just to let you know that I have finally gotten round to updating the original combined tracking script hack I had for urchin.js to the new ga.js. Essentially the combined tracking script is a modification of the GATC so that it automatically tracks: outbound links...

Tracking error pages from WordPress

by Brian Clifton | Jun 2, 2008 | xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!

My standard word of caution for all “GA Hacks” posts – This is a tech tip and requires you to have a knowledge of html and javascript to implement and use it… Tracking error pages is something that page tag solutions cannot track out of the box...

Tracking links to direct downloads – Automatically

by Brian Clifton | Sep 10, 2007 | GTM & GA, xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!

My standard word of caution – This is a tech tip and requires you to have a knowledge of html and javascript to implement and use it… [This hack is for the legacy urchin.js tracking code. Always refer to the Scripts & Downloads section for the latest...
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