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February 07, 2012 12:43am

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  • #1 / Feb 07, 2012 12:43am

    Crnaovca

    627 posts

    Hello guys,
    I have few non EE questions. I asked them on google groups, everywhere and not a singe reply so ... maybe somebody here could know answer to this problems I have.

    Here is my code and questions after that.

    [removed]

      var _gaq = _gaq || [];
      _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘xxxxxx’]);
      _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]);

      (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s[removed].insertBefore(ga, s);
    })();

    [removed]

    1. is this the new asynchronous code? I am still not sure.
    2. How to get informations about users, about there sex, age and other demographic data I see wikipedia.org has displayed on adplanner pages
    3. How to have all my data available on Google AdPlanner? I see that there is little question mark on AdPlanner that says my data are estimated. Why? Because I have google analytics data and I am sharing them including demographic data displayed on AdPlanner
    4. BIGGEST question is:
        - I want to track frontpage and all sections of site separately, how to do that to have all data together and to have sections displayed separately if I want. That is big marketing question, If I have all data together,m then I can send that data to marketing agency, but for me as webmaster, it is better to track each category separately to see what is best section, to separate frontpage from reading sections and so on ...
    5. How come that I have 50000 unique visitors users per month in my region when I am looking in adplanner but graph Daily Unique Visitors (cookies) is not showing a normal line, line is broken, not one whole line from beginning to end. Every day I have constant flow of users.

    I appreciate all help you can give me on this problem.

  • #2 / Feb 07, 2012 11:24am

    colleen.simpson

    3 posts

    1. The code you posted is Google’s latest version of analytic tracking code, which should live in the header. In the old days, you put it in the footer. Now, the asynchronous JavaScript loads immediately - with the page. So, yup you’ve got the right code, and logic - just make sure it is in the header.
    2. Google Analytics will tell you about the traffic already coming to your website - like region, city, time of day, number of visits, and keywords driving traffic. It doesn’t break down into gender or age though. Adwords, the content network, allows you to target those things (through paid ads) but even that won’t give you the data about who clicked (by gender or age). Adplanner is a good tool - but your website has to be large enough (in terms of volume) to render any data. What is it that you are trying to do, and maybe I can help with the “how”
    3. With adplanner it’s estimates and your website has to be big enough. Are you currently showing up via your domain on adplanner?
    4. Have you tried segmenting your data? I would think off the cuff that tracking each page as a different profile would be cumbersome to pull any sort of insight out. Analytics lets you set up profiles though - so that might be a better way to go. Have you checked that out?
    5. Don’t know. Sorry mate.

  • #3 / Feb 07, 2012 1:13pm

    Crnaovca

    627 posts

    Hm ...
    about part 2. if google gives me everything about my traffic, how come some sites DO have gender and age informations and my site doesn’t? look at wikipedia for example. Some tracking codes do give such informations but GA does not. Actually site about which I am talking about is one of top 100 sites in my country so adplanner data i use for marketing presentations to agencies. Also, some towns are missing from GA which existed before that.
    about part 4.  I would like to segment my data but I am still not sure on how to do that :D I know I have to change something, and add something, but i just do not get it what I am doing wrong.

  • #4 / Feb 07, 2012 1:18pm

    colleen.simpson

    3 posts

    Allow me to introduce you to your new best friend, Avinash.

    http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/excellent-analytics-tip2-segment-absolutely-everything/

  • #5 / Feb 07, 2012 8:53pm

    pbalasa

    1 posts

    Allow me to introduce you to your new best friend, Avinash.

    http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/excellent-analytics-tip2-segment-absolutely-everything/

    That’s a very nice tool you’ve got there. 😊

  • #6 / Feb 08, 2012 3:46am

    Crnaovca

    627 posts

    Still ... this is not an answer to my questions ...  thank you anyway ... I know about this and other blogs, and they are very general ...

  • #7 / Feb 15, 2012 11:31am

    bluee

    4 posts

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    I really got awesome information from this thread.

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