Hey marketers and data heads: heads up! Next week is a good week to tell your boss you’re taking “enrichment time off.” We totally support using this excuse to take afternoons off and go to baseball games, or using it to let your boss know you won’t be at work on a Friday, when you’re actually planning to hit the slopes early for a long ski weekend. “Enrichment time”. But regarding next week, we’re actually talking about legitimate, professional, guilt free, educational enrichment time at two web analytics conferences happening at the same place in San Jose — next week!You’ve heard of eMetrics, a premiere event for marketing and website analytics…

It’s been an amazing journey. Five years ago today, Google acquired Urchin Software Corporation. At the time, we had no idea how popular Google Analytics would become. To a great extent, Google Analytics’ popularity is a reflection of the phenomenal accomplishments and hard work of many talented and passionate people here at Google. But mostly it is you, our customers, who have made the product what it is today…

This is the 8th edition of Web Analytics TV with Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski where you ask questions via the Google Analytics Google Moderator site and we answer them.Here is the list of last week’s questions. In this episode we discuss:

• How to create Advanced Segments for many sites (or other parameters)
• AdSense in $index calculations
• Tracking affiliates in Google Analytics
• Using an Event as a goal like tracking people who watch videos to conversion
• Measuring embedded Flash with Google Analytics
• Should you use two analytics packages like Google Analytics and Urchin?
• Using custom reporting to display landing pages and page titles
• Breaking down paid vs organic search by landing page
• How site overlay currently works and reasons why it could not work
• The difference between unique visitors and absolute unique visitors
• How to get the / and /index…

Guest post written by the team at Bluerank, a Google Analytics Authorized ConsultantOnline forms. You enter information into them all the time. You fill them out to make online purchases, sign up for things, sing into things, complete surveys, and more. They’re an integral part of the online processes. And like all things, they can break.Let’s talk about them from your point of view, as the manager of a website…

Yesterday, AdWords announced the launch of Search Funnels, a new set of reports available only in AdWords that describe the Google search ad click and impression behavior leading up to a conversion. They are rolling out over the next few weeks and work if you are using AdWords Conversion Tracking or importing your Google Analytics goals into AdWords.What are Search Funnels?Currently, conversions in AdWords are attributed to the last ad clicked before the conversion happened…

The Search Engine Strategies conference is next week in New York, and googlers from search, AdWords, AdSense, YouTube, Google Analytics and Website Optimizer will be there in force. We’ll have a large booth where we’ll be demoing the coolest new features from any and all of our products. Come by and say hello, and also be sure to attend some of the Google sessions. Of special note, 4:45pm on Tuesday where Sissie Hsiao, a senior product manager on Google Analytics and AdWords, will be launching something really cool at the “Getting the Most Out of AdWords Features & Tools” session…

One of the core principles of Google Analytics has been to democratize the utility of the web analytics tool, and to open up the platform with an API. This enables developers to innovate new uses of Google Analytics to help analysts, marketers, and executives make better data-driven decisions. Since we launched Google Analytics, developers have extended the product to track Flash/Flex and recently Android and iPhone Devices…

Are you ready for a Google Analytics Master class, happening Tuesday, 9 March in Singapore and again on Thursday March 11 in Kuala Lumpur? We bet you are, and we bet, as seekers of data and truth, you ask, what makes it a Master class? And why so far away from Mountain View, CA? Well, you know how proud we are of how global Google Analytics has become. But this is a special class because it’s run by the Google Analytics and Website Optimizer team in Southeast Asia, spearheaded by the excellent Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar, Customer Solutions Engineer, Google Southeast Asia, who manages the Southeast Asia blog…

This week, the US federal General Services Administration (GSA) has approved listing Google Analytics in its apps.gov web site, which is a place for government agencies and services to find approved cloud computing applications. It’s goal is to drive innovation and adoption of cloud-based apps in the government, and Google and the GSA have worked together to ensure that Google Analytics is compatible with the needs of US Federal agencies (e…

Feras Alhlou, president and principal consultant of E-Nor, a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant, will be conducting a Google Analytics workshop at SMX West on March 5, called “Using Google Analytics to Improve Your Online Marketing & Business.” Register here and get 10% off with this discount code: GA@SMXMany organizations, large and small, struggle to go beyond basic web metrics of visitor counts and pageview volumes…

We’re always looking for ways to improve Google Analytics - not just the product itself, but also the ways in which we provide information about the product. So help us help you - take a minute to fill out this quick survey on our Help Center, and let us know what we can improve!Posted by the Google Analytics Writing Team

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Today, Google Analytics is available in 6 more languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak and Vietnamese, bringing the total to 31 languages. It’s a large cross-functional effort to localize the product, and we’re so proud to welcome these new languages and users!We also now have over 150 Google Analytics Authorized Consultants (GAACs), from every major region (US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Asia Pacific) and over 35 countries! Chances are, there’s one near you…

In December, we announced the phased roll out of Annotations. It’s now available in all accounts! Thanks for your patience and enjoy!Here’s a fantastic video on Annotations. You’ve asked for it for so long, and we hope you’ll use it to great effect to better work in concert in your company, using phrases like, “Add it to annotations,” or, “It’s in annotations.” If anything of note happens, log it there…

Australia in summer - white sand, warm nights, occasional sun burn and Google Seminars for Success!For the first time, the Seminars include new Google Website Optimizer days. Learn how to conduct landing page tests to increase visitor engagement and conversions on your website. Also, the Google Analytics Seminars have been updated to include all the latest Google Analytics features; Analytics Intelligence, Custom Alerts, Annotations and much, much more…

We’re lucky to have Avinash Kaushik, web analytics practitioner extraordinaire, on our team here at Google. We’re also lucky to have Nick Mihailovski, our developer programs manager who was a member of the Urchin team before the acquisition by Google. And they’re lucky to have each other - they are two peas in a pod. If you know one of them, you know what I’m talking about.It’s said that you can sum up a friend in three words…

Our good friend John Marshall just posted this Facebook status update: “cycling to work this morning I hear the birds twittering. Instinctively I wonder if they should be doing something more productive.”Lol, John. He’s referring to twitter.com and the fact that with it, your opportunities to waste time have increased. Anyone following Ashton Kutcher? Consider this recent tweet:
you are the man @tonyhawk skates the halls of the white house http://twitpic…

Today’s post covers a more advanced topic, two low cost integrations with Google Analytics. The first is offline phone tracking, and the second is tracking live chat with your customers. Both integrations protect your account privacy - neither one involves submitting your login and password to these other services. Disclaimer: While these two integrations make use of Google Analytics, they were created by third parties and are not officially supported by the Google Analytics team…

Today’s post covers a more advanced topic, two low cost integrations with Google Analytics. The first is offline phone tracking, and the second is tracking live chat with your customers. Both integrations protect your account privacy - neither one involves submitting your login and password to these other services. Disclaimer: While these two integrations make use of Google Analytics, they were created by third parties and are not officially supported by the Google Analytics team…

Today’s post covers a more advanced topic, two low cost integrations with Google Analytics. The first is offline phone tracking, and the second is tracking live chat with your customers. Both integrations protect your account privacy - neither one involves submitting your login and password to these other services. Disclaimer: While these two integrations make use of Google Analytics, they were created by third parties and are not officially supported by the Google Analytics team…

Today’s post covers a more advanced topic, two low cost integrations with Google Analytics. The first is offline phone tracking, and the second is tracking live chat with your customers. Both integrations protect your account privacy - neither one involves submitting your login and password to these other services. Disclaimer: While these two integrations make use of Google Analytics, they were created by third parties and are not officially supported by the Google Analytics team…

Today’s post covers a more advanced topic, two low cost integrations with Google Analytics. The first is offline phone tracking, and the second is tracking live chat with your customers. Both integrations protect your account privacy - neither one involves submitting your login and password to these other services. Disclaimer: While these two integrations make use of Google Analytics, they were created by third parties and are not officially supported by the Google Analytics team…

Today’s post covers a more advanced topic, two low cost integrations with Google Analytics. The first is offline phone tracking, and the second is tracking live chat with your customers. Both integrations protect your account privacy - neither one involves submitting your login and password to these other services. Disclaimer: While these two integrations make use of Google Analytics, they were created by third parties and are not officially supported by the Google Analytics team…