Omniture & New Google Referrer String: Position Report, New Patch

The past couple of weeks have seen some announcements from Omniture Industry Insights blog that are of interest and importance to SiteCatalyst users.  These items relate to the new referrer string that Google is rolling out, which carries richer information about the search conducted.  The announcement back in April on the Google Analytics Blog of…

New Google AdWords Interface: Countdown is On

Not quite ready to switch over completely to the new Google AdWords interface? Better get ready, because Google is advising advertisers that in 30 days (give or take) the old interface will be gone for good. Google has been rolling out the new user interface for AdWords over the past 6-8 months, offering advertisers the…

Omniture to Report on Organic Search Rankings

Omniture announced last week that SiteCatalyst will soon include the capability to ‘segment reports by organic keyword rankings‘.  (Omniture Supports Expanded Google URL Format from May 6, 2009).  This is big news, as it is the first major analytics program that I know of that will be able report on keyword ranking in SERPs.  The…

Making Notes in Google Analytics

Last month I was lucky enough to attend a very full day of  Google Analytics training led by the well-known GA expert Justin Cutroni.  One of the many awesome tips Justin offered to us was the GA notes Firefox extension developed by EpikOne, where he works.  This little plug-in greatly enhances Google Analytics by allowing…

Checking Your Website Under Different Viewing Conditions

Does your website look like what you think it looks like?  Do visitors with different browsers or screen resolutions see something different than you, such as larger/smaller text, forms shifted into awkward locations, etc?  We encountered a couple of these situations with several recent projects where newly designed landed pages looked very different on my…