Diving deeply into Google Analytics with Justin Cutroni

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Joost de Valk | 5 Comments

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Justin CutroniLet me give you some advice first: listen to this podcast with your Google Analyics account open and in front of you. Justin Cutroni, this weeks guest, is an asbolute expert on Google Analytics, and he shows by explaining in a very easy way the most fascinating new functions that Google Analytics has to offer and which reports you as a blogger can use to improve your blogging.

The show discusses loads of features, from Advanced Segments and Custom Variables (and how nicely they’re integrated into yours trulies new version 4 of his Google Analytics WordPress plugin) to the new Intelligence and Alerts tab. Not only does he explain the concepts, there are some very practical tips, like:

  • How to create an advanced segment to find the content on your site that is generating most AdSense revenue.
  • How to create an alert for sudden traffic spikes from referring sites.

If you’re serious about blogging and are using Google Analytics, or want to start using it, the hour listening to this podcast is well spent!

About Joost de Valk

Joost is a WordPress developer and SEO from the Netherlands. He blogs on Yoast.com, develops and maintains tons of WordPress plugins, writes about WordPress SEO and WordPress hosting and has fun with the community on WordCamps throughout the world and on this podcast.

Next to all those WordPress related chores, Joost also maintains Quix, a command line like tool for your (mobile) browser.

You can hire Joost for WordPress consulting or SEO consulting.

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5 Responses to Diving deeply into Google Analytics with Justin Cutroni

  1. abrarhassan says:
    July 14, 2010 at 8:37 am

    hi?

  2. Greg Cryns says:
    July 14, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    I’ve not been a Google Analytics fan, but I will take another look now. Thanks!

  3. Pit says:
    July 15, 2010 at 12:04 am

    Thank you for very interesting and informative podcast. Google Analytics still rules.

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  5. Skip Lee says:
    August 7, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    Thanks guys, this is a great podcast. I been using Google Analytics for a little while but had not used the features that you highlighted. Very cool.