26 July, 2011
12 August, 2010
Update Free Web Directory List 2010 - 3rd
http://www.almadirectory.info/
http://www.tele-script.com/
http://www.yustusa.com/
http://www.ktmdirectory.com/
http://www.onolinks.com/
http://www.urlstar.net/
http://www.qindex.org/
http://nfmnj.com/
http://www.searchhornet.com/
http://www.hotshotdir.com/
http://www.w8directory.com/
http://aiclu.com/
http://interopnews.com/
http://trafficbestsellers.com/
http://jscrop.com/
http://www.secipro.net/
http://www.lilodirectory.com/
http://www.golister.net/
http://www.linkguide.us/
http://www.luckybee.org/
http://www.dmitz.com/
http://www.royrak.com/
http://www.puremood.net/
http://www.magpiedirectory.com/
http://www.enforum.net/
http://www.pelicandirectory.com/
http://www.lotusdir.com/
http://www.dpumekatronik.com/
http://www.web-directory.co/
http://www.sefasirmen.com/
http://www.zugci.info/
http://www.bitsyspider.com/
http://www.linkpuppets.com/
http://www.wincyspider.com/
http://www.jetdir.com/
http://www.zzzdir.com/
http://www.gundir.com/
http://www.onlineindex.net/
http://nexous.info/
http://fes-jordan.com/
http://www.dirindexer.com/
http://diron.info/
http://www.seodirectoryonline.org/
http://www.istrs.info/
http://www.ahoi-directory.net/
http://www.urlsnapper.com/
http://www.emkaysports.com/
http://www.iuiiw.com/
http://www.directory-engine.com/
http://www.yourlister.net/
http://tochlink.info/
http://perilinkx.info/
http://www.shogidirectory.com/
http://www.cupadirectory.com/
http://dualfix.info/
http://www.jogidir.com/
http://shor10.com/
http://www.stripedirectory.com/
http://beebex.info/
http://www.shamrockdirectory.com/
http://endirectory.net/
http://www.extradir.net/
http://www.linkboard.net/
http://www.norstarphone.info/
http://www.bigtimedir.com/
http://www.2roam.com/
http://ruminatethis.com/
http://www.webindexr.com/
http://www.4-ps.com/
http://www.14kate.com/
http://www.megalinks.us/
http://www.directoriesdirectories.com/
http://www.freshwebzdirectory.com/
http://www.zetabid.net/
http://www.greenlinker.net/
http://www.howtowriteseo.com/
http://www.a1services.co.nz/
http://www.extradirectory.net/
http://www.uspersonals.net/
http://www.avajodirectory.com/
http://www.cool-phones.info/
http://www.submiturlsearch.com/
http://directoryfirms.com/
http://www.zipdirectory.net/
http://directory.knowurcollege.com/
http://www.247links.biz/
http://www.farbetterdirectory.com/
http://www.doerdir.com/
http://www.bulklinx.com/
http://www.eze-directory.net/
http://www.howtowriteseo.com/
http://www.directoriesdirectories.com/
http://www.mellowdirectory.com/
http://www.stumbledirectory.com/
http://www.muvadirectory.com/
http://www.submiturlsearch.com/
http://www.greatlinx.us/
http://www.site-indexer.net/
http://www.gigidirectory.com/
http://www.neatdir.com/
http://www.howtowriteseo.com/
http://giganticsearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.submiturlsearch.com/
http://www.directoriesdirectories.com/
http://giganticdirectory.info/
http://wizdir.info/
http://fixdir.info/
http://skylinkx.info/
http://dirinn.info/
http://mcjdir.info/
http://linkersinn.info/
http://www.concasida2010.org/
http://www.relevant-link.com/
http://www.backlinkdir.net/
http://www.zayodirectory.com/
http://www.zipdir.net/
http://www.247dir.biz/
http://www.gateway-worldwide.com/
http://www.klackdirectory.com/
http://www.locators-online.org/
http://www.dirlister.net/
http://www.regudirectory.com/
http://hugeseodirectory.info/
http://immenselinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://megalinkdirectory.info/
http://megaseodirectory.info/
http://www.kwindirectory.us/
http://www.onlinedir.us/
http://www.taikodir.com/
http://www.sweetdir.com/
http://www.reallyhugelinkdirectory.info/
http://www.superlargedirectory.info/
http://elitesearchenginedirectory.info/
http://giganticlinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://giganticsearchdirectory.info/
http://immensebacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.ontopdir.com/
http://megasearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.redlinker.net/
http://www.primedir.net/
http://www.busterdirectory.com/
http://megalondirectory.info/
http://www.directory-source.net/
http://www.thrivedirectory.com/
http://www.directorycast.com/
http://www.ahoi-directory.com/
http://www.supernichedirectory.info/
http://www.seobronzedirectory.info/
http://megasearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugesearchdirectory.info/
http://www.freelistdir.com/
http://www.mccregion6.net/
http://www.jifi.info/
http://www.stripedirectory.net/
http://www.haikudirectory.com/
http://www.pixelcrawl.com/
http://www.shatter.us/
http://www.elitelinksdirectory.info/
http://www.giganticbacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.exadirectory.info/
http://www.yourplacehere.com/
http://www.weoch.com/
http://www.dirbuddy.net/
http://www.directoryreactor.com/
http://www.directorylista.com/
http://www.site-indexer.com/
http://www.yourindexer.com/
http://immensesearchdirectory.info/
http://megahugeseodirectory.info/
http://mikeskillerdirectory.info/
http://www.netlister.net/
http://www.superhugedirectory.info/
http://www.elitelinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.hugesearchdirectory.info/
http://megalinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.giganticseodirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugelinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.immenselinkdirectory.info/
http://www.ahoi-links.net/
http://www.liftoffdir.com/
http://www.superwebguide.net/
http://www.superbaddirectory.info/
http://www.seogolddirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugedirectory.info/
http://www.seoheader.com/
http://www.addgoogle.com/
http://www.seobookkeyword.com/
http://www.submittourl.com/
http://www.addurlto.com/
http://www.submitgoogleurl.com/
http://www.directoryindexer.com/
http://www.elitebacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.alaki.net/
http://www.gargantuanbacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.gigadirectory.info/
http://www.hugelinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.godzilladirectory.info/
http://immensesearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.snapdir.net/
http://www.linkindexer.net/
http://www.captor.us/
http://www.bidondirectory.com/
http://www.jifindex.com/
http://www.upindex.com/
http://www.pandirectory.com/
http://www.ncb.biz/
http://www.realdirectory.net/
http://www.jiflinks.net/
http://megahugesearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugebacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.slingshotdirectory.info/
Update Free Web Directory List 2010 - 2nd
Update Free Web Directory List 2010 - 1st
http://www.tele-script.com/
http://www.yustusa.com/
http://www.ktmdirectory.com/
http://www.onolinks.com/
http://www.urlstar.net/
http://www.qindex.org/
http://nfmnj.com/
http://www.searchhornet.com/
http://www.hotshotdir.com/
http://www.w8directory.com/
http://aiclu.com/
http://interopnews.com/
http://trafficbestsellers.com/
http://jscrop.com/
http://www.secipro.net/
http://www.lilodirectory.com/
http://www.golister.net/
http://www.linkguide.us/
http://www.luckybee.org/
http://www.dmitz.com/
http://www.royrak.com/
http://www.puremood.net/
http://www.magpiedirectory.com/
http://www.enforum.net/
http://www.pelicandirectory.com/
http://www.lotusdir.com/
http://www.dpumekatronik.com/
http://www.web-directory.co/
http://www.sefasirmen.com/
http://www.zugci.info/
http://www.bitsyspider.com/
http://www.linkpuppets.com/
http://www.wincyspider.com/
http://www.jetdir.com/
http://www.zzzdir.com/
http://www.gundir.com/
http://www.onlineindex.net/
http://nexous.info/
http://fes-jordan.com/
http://www.dirindexer.com/
http://diron.info/
http://www.seodirectoryonline.org/
http://www.istrs.info/
http://www.ahoi-directory.net/
http://www.urlsnapper.com/
http://www.emkaysports.com/
http://www.iuiiw.com/
http://www.directory-engine.com/
http://www.yourlister.net/
http://tochlink.info/
http://perilinkx.info/
http://www.shogidirectory.com/
http://www.cupadirectory.com/
http://dualfix.info/
http://www.jogidir.com/
http://shor10.com/
http://www.stripedirectory.com/
http://beebex.info/
http://www.shamrockdirectory.com/
http://endirectory.net/
http://www.extradir.net/
http://www.linkboard.net/
http://www.norstarphone.info/
http://www.bigtimedir.com/
http://www.2roam.com/
http://ruminatethis.com/
http://www.webindexr.com/
http://www.4-ps.com/
http://www.14kate.com/
http://www.megalinks.us/
http://www.directoriesdirectories.com/
http://www.freshwebzdirectory.com/
http://www.zetabid.net/
http://www.greenlinker.net/
http://www.howtowriteseo.com/
http://www.a1services.co.nz/
http://www.extradirectory.net/
http://www.uspersonals.net/
http://www.avajodirectory.com/
http://www.cool-phones.info/
http://www.submiturlsearch.com/
http://directoryfirms.com/
http://www.zipdirectory.net/
http://directory.knowurcollege.com/
http://www.247links.biz/
http://www.farbetterdirectory.com/
http://www.doerdir.com/
http://www.bulklinx.com/
http://www.eze-directory.net/
http://www.howtowriteseo.com/
http://www.directoriesdirectories.com/
http://www.mellowdirectory.com/
http://www.stumbledirectory.com/
http://www.muvadirectory.com/
http://www.submiturlsearch.com/
http://www.greatlinx.us/
http://www.site-indexer.net/
http://www.gigidirectory.com/
http://www.neatdir.com/
http://www.howtowriteseo.com/
http://giganticsearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.submiturlsearch.com/
http://www.directoriesdirectories.com/
http://giganticdirectory.info/
http://wizdir.info/
http://fixdir.info/
http://skylinkx.info/
http://dirinn.info/
http://mcjdir.info/
http://linkersinn.info/
http://www.concasida2010.org/
http://www.relevant-link.com/
http://www.backlinkdir.net/
http://www.zayodirectory.com/
http://www.zipdir.net/
http://www.247dir.biz/
http://www.gateway-worldwide.com/
http://www.klackdirectory.com/
http://www.locators-online.org/
http://www.dirlister.net/
http://www.regudirectory.com/
http://hugeseodirectory.info/
http://immenselinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://megalinkdirectory.info/
http://megaseodirectory.info/
http://www.kwindirectory.us/
http://www.onlinedir.us/
http://www.taikodir.com/
http://www.sweetdir.com/
http://www.reallyhugelinkdirectory.info/
http://www.superlargedirectory.info/
http://elitesearchenginedirectory.info/
http://giganticlinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://giganticsearchdirectory.info/
http://immensebacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.ontopdir.com/
http://megasearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.redlinker.net/
http://www.primedir.net/
http://www.busterdirectory.com/
http://megalondirectory.info/
http://www.directory-source.net/
http://www.thrivedirectory.com/
http://www.directorycast.com/
http://www.ahoi-directory.com/
http://www.supernichedirectory.info/
http://www.seobronzedirectory.info/
http://megasearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugesearchdirectory.info/
http://www.freelistdir.com/
http://www.mccregion6.net/
http://www.jifi.info/
http://www.stripedirectory.net/
http://www.haikudirectory.com/
http://www.pixelcrawl.com/
http://www.shatter.us/
http://www.elitelinksdirectory.info/
http://www.giganticbacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.exadirectory.info/
http://www.yourplacehere.com/
http://www.weoch.com/
http://www.dirbuddy.net/
http://www.directoryreactor.com/
http://www.directorylista.com/
http://www.site-indexer.com/
http://www.yourindexer.com/
http://immensesearchdirectory.info/
http://megahugeseodirectory.info/
http://mikeskillerdirectory.info/
http://www.netlister.net/
http://www.superhugedirectory.info/
http://www.elitelinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.hugesearchdirectory.info/
http://megalinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.giganticseodirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugelinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.immenselinkdirectory.info/
http://www.ahoi-links.net/
http://www.liftoffdir.com/
http://www.superwebguide.net/
http://www.superbaddirectory.info/
http://www.seogolddirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugedirectory.info/
http://www.seoheader.com/
http://www.addgoogle.com/
http://www.seobookkeyword.com/
http://www.submittourl.com/
http://www.addurlto.com/
http://www.submitgoogleurl.com/
http://www.directoryindexer.com/
http://www.elitebacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.alaki.net/
http://www.gargantuanbacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.gigadirectory.info/
http://www.hugelinkbuildingdirectory.info/
http://www.godzilladirectory.info/
http://immensesearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.snapdir.net/
http://www.linkindexer.net/
http://www.captor.us/
http://www.bidondirectory.com/
http://www.jifindex.com/
http://www.upindex.com/
http://www.pandirectory.com/
http://www.ncb.biz/
http://www.realdirectory.net/
http://www.jiflinks.net/
http://megahugesearchenginedirectory.info/
http://www.reallyhugebacklinksdirectory.info/
http://www.slingshotdirectory.info/
Update Free Web Directory List 2010 - 2nd
Update Free Web Directory List 2010 - 1st
11 June, 2010
Update Free Web Directory List 2010 - 2nd
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Best free video submission site
Video Sharing Site | Page Rank |
Google Video | 9 |
BrightCove | 8 |
PhotoBucket | 8 |
YouTube | 8 |
DailyMotion | 7 |
iFilm | 7 |
Myspace | 7 |
Vimeo | 7 |
BuzzNet | 6 |
Flixya | 6 |
GoFish | 6 |
Kwego | 6 |
Lulu | 6 |
MyHeavy | 6 |
PutFile | 6 |
StupidVideos | 6 |
Vmix | 6 |
ZippyVideos | 6 |
CastPost | 5 |
Dotv | 5 |
Famster | 5 |
MeraVideo | 5 |
Porkolt | 5 |
VideoWebTown | 5 |
Vidmax | 4 |
26 May, 2010
what is google trend ? why it is used.
Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., about Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical is how often a term is searched for relative to the total number of searches, globally. Below the main graph, popularity is broken down by region, city and language. It is possible to refine the main graph by region and time period. On August 5, 2008, Google launched Google Insights for Search, a more sophisticated and advanced service displaying search trends data.
Background
Google Trends also allows the user to compare the volume of searches between two or more terms. An additional feature of Google Trends is in its ability to show news related to the search-term overlaid on the chart, showing how new events affect search popularity.
Originally, Google neglected updating Google Trends on a regular basis. In March 2007, internet bloggers noticed that Google had not added new data since November 2006, and Trends was updated within a week. Google did not update Trends from March until July 30, and only after it was blogged about, again. now claims to be "updating the information provided by Google Trends daily; Hot Trends is updated hourly."
On August 6, 2008, Google launched a free service called Insights for Search. Insights for Search is an extension of Google Trends and although the tool is meant for marketers, it can be utilized by any user. The tool allows for the tracking of various words and phrases that are typed into Google’s search-box. The tracking device provided a more-indepth analysis of results. It also has the ability to categorize and organize the data, with special attention given to the breakdown of information by geographical areas.
Google Hot Trends
Google Hot Trends is an addition to Google Trends which displays the top 20 hot, i.e., fastest rising, searches (search-terms) of the past hour in the United States. This is for searches that have recently experienced a sudden surge in popularity.[4] For each of the search-terms, it provides a 24-hour search-volume graph as well as blog, news and web search results. Hot Trends has a history feature for those wishing to browse past hot searches. Hot Trends can be installed as an iGoogle Gadget. Hot Trends is also available as an hourly Atom web feed.
Google Trends API
An API to accompany the Google Trends service was announced by Marissa Mayer, vice president of search-products at Google. This was announced in 2007, and so far has not been released.
A few unofficial Google Trends API tools have been released, along with a wiki detailing them and simple access to Google Trends data.
Attacks
On July 10, 2008, 4chan attacked Google Trends.[citation needed] The swastika symbol at the top of Google's Hot Trends list (a tally of the most popular search-terms in the United States) for several hours. It was later reported that the HTML numeric character reference for the symbol had been posted on /b/, with a request to perform a Google search for the string. A multitude of /b/ visitors followed the order and pushed the symbol to the top of the chart, though Google later removed the result.
Attacks
On July 10, 2008, 4chan attacked Google Trends.[citation needed] The swastika symbol (卐) appeared at the top of Google's Hot Trends list (a tally of the most popular search-terms in the United States) for several hours. It was later reported that the HTML numeric character reference for the symbol had been posted on /b/, with a request to perform a Google search for the string. A multitude of /b/ visitors followed the order and pushed the symbol to the top of the chart, though Google later removed the result.
Notes
- ^ http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#1
- ^ Success! Google Trends Updated InsideGoogle, 30 July 2007.
- ^ Helft, Miguel (2008-08-06). ""Google’s New Tool Is Meant for Marketers"". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/business/media/06adco.html?ref=business. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
- ^ How does Hot Searches work?, google.com
- ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9828916-7.html
- ^ http://zoastertech.com/projects/googletrends/?page=Third+party+API+Tools
External links
- Google Trends
- Google Hot Trends - Webpage of top 20 search-terms, each linked to 24-hour graph & data.
- Hot Trends - Webpage of top 100 search-terms, each linked to the news source.
- Archive of Hourly Google Trends - Google trends archived every hour.
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what is google analytics how it is used
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites.[
GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
Integrated with AdWords, users can review online campaigns by tracking landing page quality and conversions (goals). Goals might include sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular file. These can also be monetized. By using GA, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, providing the information to optimise or cull campaigns.
GA's approach is to show high level dashboard-type data for the casual user, and more in-depth data further into the report set. Through the use of GA analysis, poor performing pages can be identified using techniques such as funnel visualization, where visitors came from (referrers), how long they stayed and their geographical position. It also provides more advanced features, including custom visitor segmentation.
Users can officially add up to 50 site profiles. Each profile generally corresponds to one website. It is limited to sites which have a traffic of fewer than 5 million pageviews per month (roughly 2 pageviews per second), unless the site is linked to an AdWords campaign.
History
Google's service was developed from Urchin Software Corporation's analytics system, Urchin on Demand (Google acquired Urchin Software Corp. in April 2005). The system also brings ideas from Adaptive Path, whose product, Measure Map, was acquired and used in the redesign of Google Analytics in 2006. [4] Google still sells the standalone installable Urchin software through a network of value-added resellers; In April 2008, Urchin 6 was released.
The Google-branded version was rolled-out in November 2005 to anyone who wished to sign up. However due to extremely high demand for the service, new sign-ups were suspended only a week later. As capacity was added to the system, Google began using a lottery-type invitation-code model. Prior to August 2006 Google was sending out batches of invitation codes as server availability permitted; since mid-August 2006 the service has been fully available to all users – whether they use Google for advertising or not. A new version of the user interface was released on May 17, 2007.
In December 2007, Google rolled out the new ga.js page tag which they recommend to use for all new accounts and new profiles for new domains. Existing urchin.js page tags will continue to work, nevertheless the new tag will allow site owners to take advantage of the most up-to-date tracking functionality, ability to graph multiple data points at once and to track ecommerce transactions in a more readable way.
While the product platform has never been a beta, new beta features are added from time to
Technology
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Google Analytics is implemented by including what is known as a "page tag". This is referred to as the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC) and is a hidden snippet of JavaScript code that the user adds onto every page of his or her website. This code acts as a beacon, collecting private visitor data and sending it back to Google data collection servers for processing. Data processing takes place hourly, though it can be 3–4 hours in arrears of real time. However, a comment on a web analytics blog from a Google employee indicates that not all data is processed for approximately 12 hours after collection.
To function, the GATC loads a larger file from the Google webserver and then sets variables with the user's account number. The larger file (currently known as ga.js) is typically 18 KB in size and is only downloaded once at the start of the visit as it will be cached throughout the session. As all websites that implement GA with the ga.js code are using the same master file from Google, a visitor that has previously visited any other website with this code implemented, will also have the file cached on their machine. The result is that the page overhead of including the GATC on web pages is kept to a minimum.
In addition to broadcasting information to Google servers, the GATC sets first party cookies on each visitor's computer. This is used to store anonymous information such as whether the visitor has been to the site before (new or returning visitor), what is the timestamp of the current visit and what was the referrer site or campaign the visitor came from e.g. search engine, keywords, banner, email etc.
Limitations
Many ad filtering programs and extensions (such as Firefox's Adblock and NoScript) can block the GATC. This prevents some traffic and users from being tracked, and leads to holes in the collected data. Also, privacy networks like Tor will mask the user's actual location and present inaccurate geographical data. Some users do not have Javascript-enabled/capable browsers or turn this feature off. However, these limitations are considered small – affecting only a small percentage of visits.
The largest potential impact on data accuracy comes from users deleting or blocking Google Analytics cookies.[8] Without cookies being set, GA cannot collect data. Any individual web user can block or delete cookies resulting in the data loss of those visits for GA users. The only protection a website owner can use to prevent this, is to ensure best practice policies are upheld on their web site. That includes being transparent in what visitor data is collected and how it is used. This information is usually placed within a privacy policy statement page.
Because GA uses a page tagging technique to collect visitor information via a combination of JavaScript and cookies, it has limitations with websites browsed from mobile phones. This is due to the fact that only the latest phones are currently able to run JavaScript or set cookies (Smart phones and PDAs).
These limitations affect all on-site web analytics tools that collect on-site visitor data using page tags. That is, the small piece of code (usually JavaScript) that acts as a beacon to collect visitor data.
Another limitation of GA for large websites is the use of sampling in the generation of many of its reports. To reduce the load on their servers and to provide users with a relatively quick response for their query, GA limits reports to 200,000 randomly sampled visits at the profile level for its calculations. While margins of error are indicated for the visits metric, margins of error are not provided for any other metrics in the GA reports. For small segments of data, the margin of error can be very large.
Bugs and support
For support, users have many options: Google provides direct email support in many languages. A user can contact the Google Analytics Support team to ask a question, suggest a feature or access a list of known issues. Google also provides a Google Analytics Help website. In addition, Google Analytics users can get help by visiting the Analytics Help Forum, and search for answers to their questions or post new questions.
High Profile Sites using Google Analytics
Google Analytics is used in 3813, or 38.13%, of the 10,000 most popular websites (as ranked by Alexa Internet) ordered by popularity, as reported by BackendBattles.com
* twitter.com
* myspace.com
* linkedin.com
* dailymotion.com
* answers.com
GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
Integrated with AdWords, users can review online campaigns by tracking landing page quality and conversions (goals). Goals might include sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular file. These can also be monetized. By using GA, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, providing the information to optimise or cull campaigns.
GA's approach is to show high level dashboard-type data for the casual user, and more in-depth data further into the report set. Through the use of GA analysis, poor performing pages can be identified using techniques such as funnel visualization, where visitors came from (referrers), how long they stayed and their geographical position. It also provides more advanced features, including custom visitor segmentation.
Users can officially add up to 50 site profiles. Each profile generally corresponds to one website. It is limited to sites which have a traffic of fewer than 5 million pageviews per month (roughly 2 pageviews per second), unless the site is linked to an AdWords campaign.
History
Google's service was developed from Urchin Software Corporation's analytics system, Urchin on Demand (Google acquired Urchin Software Corp. in April 2005). The system also brings ideas from Adaptive Path, whose product, Measure Map, was acquired and used in the redesign of Google Analytics in 2006. [4] Google still sells the standalone installable Urchin software through a network of value-added resellers; In April 2008, Urchin 6 was released.
The Google-branded version was rolled-out in November 2005 to anyone who wished to sign up. However due to extremely high demand for the service, new sign-ups were suspended only a week later. As capacity was added to the system, Google began using a lottery-type invitation-code model. Prior to August 2006 Google was sending out batches of invitation codes as server availability permitted; since mid-August 2006 the service has been fully available to all users – whether they use Google for advertising or not. A new version of the user interface was released on May 17, 2007.
In December 2007, Google rolled out the new ga.js page tag which they recommend to use for all new accounts and new profiles for new domains. Existing urchin.js page tags will continue to work, nevertheless the new tag will allow site owners to take advantage of the most up-to-date tracking functionality, ability to graph multiple data points at once and to track ecommerce transactions in a more readable way.
While the product platform has never been a beta, new beta features are added from time to
Technology
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Google Analytics is implemented by including what is known as a "page tag". This is referred to as the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC) and is a hidden snippet of JavaScript code that the user adds onto every page of his or her website. This code acts as a beacon, collecting private visitor data and sending it back to Google data collection servers for processing. Data processing takes place hourly, though it can be 3–4 hours in arrears of real time. However, a comment on a web analytics blog from a Google employee indicates that not all data is processed for approximately 12 hours after collection.
To function, the GATC loads a larger file from the Google webserver and then sets variables with the user's account number. The larger file (currently known as ga.js) is typically 18 KB in size and is only downloaded once at the start of the visit as it will be cached throughout the session. As all websites that implement GA with the ga.js code are using the same master file from Google, a visitor that has previously visited any other website with this code implemented, will also have the file cached on their machine. The result is that the page overhead of including the GATC on web pages is kept to a minimum.
In addition to broadcasting information to Google servers, the GATC sets first party cookies on each visitor's computer. This is used to store anonymous information such as whether the visitor has been to the site before (new or returning visitor), what is the timestamp of the current visit and what was the referrer site or campaign the visitor came from e.g. search engine, keywords, banner, email etc.
Limitations
Many ad filtering programs and extensions (such as Firefox's Adblock and NoScript) can block the GATC. This prevents some traffic and users from being tracked, and leads to holes in the collected data. Also, privacy networks like Tor will mask the user's actual location and present inaccurate geographical data. Some users do not have Javascript-enabled/capable browsers or turn this feature off. However, these limitations are considered small – affecting only a small percentage of visits.
The largest potential impact on data accuracy comes from users deleting or blocking Google Analytics cookies.[8] Without cookies being set, GA cannot collect data. Any individual web user can block or delete cookies resulting in the data loss of those visits for GA users. The only protection a website owner can use to prevent this, is to ensure best practice policies are upheld on their web site. That includes being transparent in what visitor data is collected and how it is used. This information is usually placed within a privacy policy statement page.
Because GA uses a page tagging technique to collect visitor information via a combination of JavaScript and cookies, it has limitations with websites browsed from mobile phones. This is due to the fact that only the latest phones are currently able to run JavaScript or set cookies (Smart phones and PDAs).
These limitations affect all on-site web analytics tools that collect on-site visitor data using page tags. That is, the small piece of code (usually JavaScript) that acts as a beacon to collect visitor data.
Another limitation of GA for large websites is the use of sampling in the generation of many of its reports. To reduce the load on their servers and to provide users with a relatively quick response for their query, GA limits reports to 200,000 randomly sampled visits at the profile level for its calculations. While margins of error are indicated for the visits metric, margins of error are not provided for any other metrics in the GA reports. For small segments of data, the margin of error can be very large.
Bugs and support
For support, users have many options: Google provides direct email support in many languages. A user can contact the Google Analytics Support team to ask a question, suggest a feature or access a list of known issues. Google also provides a Google Analytics Help website. In addition, Google Analytics users can get help by visiting the Analytics Help Forum, and search for answers to their questions or post new questions.
High Profile Sites using Google Analytics
Google Analytics is used in 3813, or 38.13%, of the 10,000 most popular websites (as ranked by Alexa Internet) ordered by popularity, as reported by BackendBattles.com
* twitter.com
* myspace.com
* linkedin.com
* dailymotion.com
* answers.com
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