Comments on: Google Analytics Announce New Features

By: free medical videos

free medical videos — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:55:58 +0000

Outbound Link Tracking’ has been available in Sitemeter and MyBlogLog for a year now – as well as in other popular trackers

By: free ebooks monster

free ebooks monster — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:08:00 +0000

traffic analyzing is vital for any webmaster
and the good news is the google tool is free

By: Lizard Wisdom

Lizard Wisdom — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:57:11 +0000

We already track our outbound links using Analytics. Of course, you have to manually code it, so it is more work…

By: Brad Newman

Brad Newman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:13:34 +0000

Google Analytics is great and I’m happy they are making it even more effective. Thanks for the update….

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:07:20 +0000

Wow – outgoing link tracking!! Maybe I need to finally log-in and starting using my GA account.

By: Pete.

Pete. — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:17:24 +0000

I find the amount of analytics provided by Google serve only to ‘overwhelm’ most of the time.

How DO you all find the time to use them all?

Just a thought,

Pete.

By: 60 in 3

60 in 3 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:41:50 +0000

Great job on their part. I have to say that Google Analytics has proven to be an invaluable tool for me. I’m a total beginner at this and I don’t intend on becoming an expert since my little health and fitness blog is just a hobby. Google analytics is free, easy to set up and easy to use, which makes it perfect for people like me. Glad to see some of you power users also like it.

Gal

By: vepa

vepa — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:39:28 +0000

Event tracking and Outbound traking were availible before but you need to use special code inside flash files and javascript on page to assign all outbound links to trigger action for taking record of it. you can use jquery to do this automaticly on page load. I have been using it for couple month now.

reference to track outbound links:
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=27246

By: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:38:41 +0000

Clicks is a great feature.

By: Truthiness

Truthiness — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:18:31 +0000

Best of all it has my favorite 4 letter word…FREE!!!

Google Rules!!!

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:09:35 +0000

All the three are good additions to the already great Analytics. I hope I can be one of the Beta testers though.

Many wanted to go against Google to protest against their domination on the Internet but I find myself relying too much on them. :-P

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:13:19 +0000

I really like the enhanced search feature, and can’t wait for it! That is a key area that has been missing, at least for my sites, as it will help me to redefine my site layouts, and content to make it easier for people to find what they are looking for.

By: Sportaphile

Sportaphile — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:22:47 +0000

Like someone else already mentioned, I’ve been able to see what outbound links people click on my site through Google Analytics for a while now.

I first noticed it about two weeks ago, theres no telling how long it was there before I spotted it.

By: Linderman

Linderman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:47:52 +0000

Google analytics rocks.Seems they wanted to kick of others in that field

By: Search* Engines Web

Search* Engines Web — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:19:14 +0000

‘Outbound Link Tracking’ has been available in Sitemeter and MyBlogLog for a year now – as well as in other popular trackers

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:27:59 +0000

Looking forward to these new features, since I am rather an avid user on Google Analytics ;)

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:26:40 +0000

Well Google seems to be kicking everyone elses bottums eh.

By: The Business of Software

The Business of Software — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:11:46 +0000

Google is in a good position to become the stats standard for bloggers if only they would offer something like sitemeter (without information on referrals) that can reveal to readers what the numbers are. Numbers from an independent source would help advertisers.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:11:21 +0000

Any hints as to how to get in on that beta for the outbound click tracking? Been wanting that forEVER! :)

And I’m assuming the site search only works if you are using Google to power your site search?

By: Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius Tjin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:47:49 +0000

That’s very interesting!

Especially features 1 and 3, at least you’ll be able to track back were traffic is really at and what drives them into your site.