Web Analytics TV #8 with Avinash and Nick

This is the 8th edition of Web Analytics TV with Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski where you ask questions via the Google Analytics Google Moderator site and we answer them.

Here is the list of last week’s questions. In this episode we discuss:

• How to create Advanced Segments for many sites (or other parameters)
• AdSense in $index calculations
• Tracking affiliates in Google Analytics
• Using an Event as a goal like tracking people who watch videos to conversion
• Measuring embedded Flash with Google Analytics
• Should you use two analytics packages like Google Analytics and Urchin?
• Using custom reporting to display landing pages and page titles
• Breaking down paid vs organic search by landing page
• How site overlay currently works and reasons why it could not work
• The difference between unique visitors and absolute unique visitors
• How to get the / and /index.html pages to be the same
• Properly setting up Advanced Segments for time on site

Here are links to resources we discussed in the video:

• Google Analytics Campaign Tracking help center article
• Avinash discussed calculating visitor lifetime value
• Using Advanced Segments in Google Analytics
• Using Advanced Table Filtering Google Analytics in 60 seconds video
• Avinash discusses Daily, Weekly and Monthly unique visitors
• Configuring the server default page in Google Analytics

If you found this post helpful, we'd love to hear your comments below. If you have a question you would like us to answer, please submit a question or vote for your favorite question in our public Google Moderator site. Avinash and I will answer your latest questions in a couple of weeks with yet another entertaining video.

Posted by Nick Mihailovski, Google Analytics Team