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If you pay $200/mo for Urchin now, you may want to reconsider.
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I had a similar problem, i emailed google about it and back came the reply... their tech team is looking into the issue.
this btw, is my 1st post here... love to be at WebmasterWorld!
Tracking Unknown
The Google Analytics tracking code has not been detected on your website's home page. For Analytics to function, you or your web administrator must add the code to each page of your website.
It is on a php page, but have inserted as requested after meta. I assume this is a google issue?
Man, there are broken links all over the place: in the help system, in the "features" section; sidebars overlap the main column text. This is *very* beta in terms of presentation. I've never seen Google release something that seems to be so poorly debugged.
I haven't used Urchin before, so I may be missing something: is there a place you can see what keywords were used to find your site, or is that not something that is recorded?
It looks like we need a new section in "The Google World" for Urchin or Google Analytics.
I have all sorts of questions.
How to make the best use of this new tool.
Understanding the various options, etc.
Worth considering.
Christmas data :)
It looks like we need a new section in "The Google World" for Urchin or Google Analytics.
Tropical Island - yes. I wrote him about this yesterday. We will see.
The whole thing is a bit complex, but also very powerful. The UI looks great. Nice job, Google.
I agree on the need for a GA-specific subforum here.
What are others in similar situations doing. Analytics help has been no help. I have sent a note and IF they respond will post what they say, but in the meantime, what are you doing?
After adding the tracking code to your main index page and other interior pages between <head> and </head>; Google does not recognize the code.
I checked my logs and it appears that Google is not even accessing those pages. There are absolutely no requests by any Google IP address for those pages.
So, perhaps, Google has decided to shut off new accounts being added until it gets the bugs out.
301 content has a bounce rate? :\
With loads of content a bounce can be actually quite positive as the visitor is satisfied with the content and found what s/he needed.
PI's differ significantly from Adsense PIs.
Neat is the feature where they say which URLs your code appears. Like babelfish altavista etc. So you might be better able to catch content thieves ..
Still scary though that G plans to use this data to deliver G search results. I assume adsense publishers already have pages that are rated with something like Urchin as valuable content and not valuable content. :\
Coming from a stats background myself I wonder if they ever publish how THEY interprete the data and why?
Stats is about correctly interpreting data. I assume this is plugged into a genetic or bayesian profit or adwords return CTR maximising algorithm.
Hmm ..
I checked my logs and it appears that Google is not even accessing those pages. There are absolutely no requests by any Google IP address for those pages.
As far as I understood this the javascript code is executed Google server side there is no need for them to access your server. The client that comes to your pages contacts Google and they get their data from that.
After Jagger we can see they are not too embarassed about showing their "Work in Progress" to the world.
I emailed them, but have not heard anything back.
Very different data to what I am used to seeing, anybody else seeing this?
For those of you who haven't used urchin before, basically there are several query parameters that google analytics (e.g. urchin) will use to map your adwords campaign/keywords to your visitor information.
I believe the adwords user preference, "destination url auto-tagging", (when it is working) will automatically append tracking variables to your adwords destination urls. To get a better idea of what this means, take a look at:
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I use urchin at work, but couldn't afford it for my hobby affiliate site. I'm am very impressed that Google has made it free. There is a lot of useful information available in the urchin reports.
