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which is why we're excited to announce the integration of one of our personal favorite reporting tools, Google Analytics, with AdSense. We're gradually rolling out this functionality to publishers, and you'll see an invitation link at the top of your 'Overview' and 'Advanced Reports' pages when it's been enabled for your account.
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[edited by: engine at 7:40 pm (utc) on Oct. 22, 2008]
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we already have adsense and analytics on our pages. so, in theory, they already have massive amounts of data from our sites, but i worry that by agreeing to upgrade we also supercede the EULAs for adsense and analytics.
in short, does this give them the right to use even more of our data?
[edited by: martinibuster at 12:43 am (utc) on Oct. 23, 2008]
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in short, does this give them the right to use even more of our data?
Sometimes you have to make a sacrifice or two to receive some useful benefits. They can do what they like with my data, nothing to hide and if it helps me streamline my income then I'm all for it.
they already have massive amounts of data from our sites
I don't see how integrating those two services would provide them data that they don't already have if you are already using both analytics and adsense on your site.
Anyway this is great news and I'm just glad the rumor I posted panned out to be true, I was starting to wonder.
for the record, i dont have anything to hide from google, just want to look before we leap and make an informed decision.
Sorry, wasn't implying anything. It's just that I know a few "Google paranoid" people that assume Google are always up to no good.
Will the Analytics data line up with the Adsense data more closely? Adsense always seems to be a day in front for some reason.
Regards...jmcc
Have you included the Analytics javascript at the bottom of your page? If you do so, even if there's a delay in it loading, your page loads anyway...
Of course too much information is not always a good thing for webmasters like me. I would probably spend countless weeks agonizing over new stats while ignoring to grow the content and feature offerings on my site.
Then I would make a ton of changes only to resort back to my original code base weeks later and move on. ;-)
A second request to a Google Analytics server is redundant. Google Analytics is redundant.
[edited by: true_INFP at 1:33 pm (utc) on Oct. 25, 2008]
Adsense alone cannot see the users page flow leading up to an Adsense page. Analytics can. Whether this is helpful is up to each publisher. But they definitely cover different spectrums of pages on most sites.
For those of you who need "funnels" for AdSense-less pages, Google should let you integrate Analytics and AdSense. I just say it's not only redundant for me, but it also slows my site down.
[edited by: true_INFP at 2:30 pm (utc) on Oct. 25, 2008]
I've seen them do something like this with two other products. I can't seem to remember. It was something to do with Google Checkout and Adwords, or Checkout and Analytics.
I was talking with a G engineer about a problem we were having, and he mentioned we should not be including both script tags on the page, just one with a parameter that tells the script to include the other.
So they are getting to this point I think... but apparently not in this case yet.
So they are getting to this point I think...
That's good news.
