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Visual.ly now supports Google Analytics data

May

2013

I love infographics. The way they break out data into beautiful little pictures and help you understand their impact is excellent. However, it can take a fair bit of efforts to create an infographic … believe me, I have tried and used multiple tools to do this. If you are thinking of doing those from ...

Earth Day 2013 2

Apr

2013

April 22nd, is Earth Day and you can see that in a beautiful interactive Weather Control Doodle on Google’s home page. On Earth Day, I would expect people on different social media channels to do multiple idiotic things … such as switching off their electronic devices for an hour. Yes, and that would make a ...

India’s first passenger train journey

Apr

2013

On 16th April 1853, India’s first passenger train journey began. It started from Bori Bunder in Mumbai, all the way up to Thane. This was a distance of 32 km, wherein 3 coaches were hauled by the engine. Thus started rail transport in India. This piece of history came to my notice not because of the ...

RIP Google Reader

Mar

2013

Google is one organization which I will always respect. The amount of products and web apps that it has released over the years is awesome … it’s not that other companies are not releasing as many products (if not more!). What gets to me is that the sheer number of products that Google releases which ...

What is a long tail keyword?

Mar

2013

I have been writing about the basics of SEO and search based advertising on my blog for quite some time. The common thing in both is that the first interaction in search is always the keyword based search. Yes, this is the part where our user goes to his favorite search engine (Go Google!) and ...

Scheming the Schema: An Introduction to Structured Data

Jan

2013

One of the major traffic sources for personal websites and blogs is Organic Traffic, i.e traffic originating from search engines. People working on the web would quickly realize that search traffic can also be bought through Pay Per Click (PPC) Programs such as Google Adwords and Bing Search Advertising. However, for those of us who ...

Understanding the __utmz Google Analytics Cookie 1

Jan

2013

In case if you are using Google Analytics to track traffic and conversions on your website, then you would know that the tracking GA does is using the urchin tracking cookies. In case if you do not know what are HTTP Cookies, then you need to start reading some of these articles that I am ...

The Cinderella Visitor 3

Dec

2012

It’s surprising, every time I open Analytics, I learn something new about this product and I learn something new about my site … like the fact that I have to deal with Cinderella Visitors! Here is a maths problem for you. In fact if you have pored through your Google Analytics account, I am sure ...

Data Highlighter by Google Webmaster 4

Dec

2012

If you are a webmaster or own a site, then it is likely that you know about Google Webmaster Tools (WMT). If not, then the first thing you need to do is bookmark my blog! Then head on over to Google Webmasters and register your site the NOW! I cannot stress more on this. Google ...

Custom Reporting in Google Analytics

Dec

2012

Google Analytics rolled out more than 5 years back, and it has been rocking ever since. The first free enterprise class analytics seemed to keep on adding more and more awesome features every year. Especially after the acquisition of the Urchin tracker system, GA has been the de facto analytics system for all websites. Of ...