Comments on: Google Analytics For Bloggers – The Definitive Guide

By: Portman

Portman — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:51:00 +0000

I
already use Google Analytics and just want to say that this is very
helpfull post for beginners. I wish it had been published when I needed
help with setting up my tracking code. 🙂

By: Perrin G. Bignoli

Perrin G. Bignoli — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 03:25:00 +0000

I’m hoping that some of you who are reading this post will want to explore a natural language query service for Google Analytics that SkyPhrase.com is releasing.

This service lets you generate advanced Google Analytics reports with simple natural language. So, if you want to know which keywords generated the most traffic to your registration page in the last week, you can simply type:

“which keywords generated the most traffic to the register page in the last week”

That would take a lot of time and training to do in Google Analytics without natural language.

We will then translate your query into Google Analytics API calls, and answer your query.

You can see more examples of our service here:

Here is a video of the service in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=F2JZumsSYr4

We also have a small tutorial on how to use it:

And, of course you can use the service here:

We’ve had some press on our sports service product:
http://gigaom.com/2013/09/30/fantasy-football-is-apparently-the-killer-app-for-data-science/?go_commented=1#comment-1369716

But nothing on the release of our web analytics product.

A little background on SkyPhrase: We were spun out of an academic lab with millions of dollars of funding. We have since received some funding from the Peter Thiel Foundation to bring our technology to market. The key to our technology is that SkyPhrase does not try to pretend to be human and know everything, like Siri, but instead stays focused on specific verticals. Within those verticals, we understand language with greater depth and precision than any other technology. This level of precision enables us to move beyond simple consumer use cases to analytics use cases, like this one. Our long-term vision is to let people perform power analytics on all sorts of data using simple natural language that requires virtually no training.

Please let me know if you’d like to know more.

Best,
Perrin G. Bignoli
Analytics Director, SkyPhrase, Inc.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:24:49 +0000

Great post, love the detail. This will give me a lot clearer understanding of my analytics.

Bryan

By: Josh Dunlop

Josh Dunlop — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:27:42 +0000

I’ve personally only ever used CPanel stats once or twice because Google do such a good job of it.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:28:46 +0000

Hey , I recently started a blog (musicapitol.com) and I am using GA. but there is major differences between my Cpanel stats and GA. which one would be correct?

By: Emmanuel Olonade

Emmanuel Olonade — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:52:22 +0000

This is a real guide Josh. Thanks for the in-depth analysis.

I use Google Analytics primarily for my blog and I really love the depth of the stats provided. I used Clicky for some time and I still use it but not as much as GA.

Have A Lovely Day!

By: THEODORE

THEODORE — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:21:14 +0000

Josh thank you for the information, its really informative

By: ghayda

ghayda — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:24:09 +0000

Josh, thank you for the great post. I am a newbie and have been having a difficult time with keywords. I have placed keywords in my site in the meta tags and throughout the site, however when I look at the keyword section in GA, it only shows my domain keyword naturalzonline. I was wondering why that was?

thanks again for the great post !!