How to Add a User to Google Analytics

Posted by Phil on Jul 17, 2011 in Analytics, Featured, Google, How-to video, Instructional / How-to | 0 comments

If you’ve implemented Google Analytics to track your website’s traffic statistics you’ll find that over the course of time you’ll occasionally need to share your data with coworkers, marketing or technology consultants, or others.  While Google Analytics does have export and reporting functionalities, sometimes it’s just easier to give people direct access to your Analytics account, and this is exactly what we’ll be teaching you how to do in this video – to enable others to access your Google Analytics data.

1. First, go to http://www.google.com/analytics and login.
2. Click on the profile name of the site whose data you would like to share.
3. Click the gear near the top-right corner of the page.
4. Click the “Users” tab.
5. On the Users tab, you can see the name, e-mail address, and role of all the users who currently have access to this profile.
6. To add a new user click the “Add New User” button.
7. Enter the Google e-mail address of the individual you’d like to add to this Analytics profile, then click “Create User”.
8. Confirm that the user was successfully added. The default role for a new user is “Collaborator”, which means the user can view all data within this profile but cannot grant new users access as we just did. If you would like make your new user an Administrator you can easily do that.
9. First click the “settings” link for that user, to the right of his role.
10. On the Profile User Settings screen, click the button next to “Administrator” and then click “Save”.

How to Sign up for Google Analytics

Posted by Phil on Jul 6, 2011 in Analytics, Featured, Google, How-to video, Instructional / How-to | 0 comments

This video is the first in a series of “How-To” instructional segments.  We get many questions about how to sign up for and use Google Analytics so the first few videos will cover Google Analytics and its various features and functionality; however if you have any requests for videos on other subjects please feel free to contact us.  Also, as this is our first training video we highly encourage you to comment below and let us know what you think of the video – please be brutally honest!

Written Instructions:

All you need to get started with Google Analytics is a GMail account.  If your business uses the Google applications suite and you have a business e-mail address hosted by Google that will work too.  To sign up for Google Analytics complete the following steps:

1. Go to the Google Analytics home page and login by entering your regular Google (or corporate) credentials and clicking “Sign In”.
2. On the next screen, click the “Sign Up” button.
3. On the screen after that, enter:  1) The address of the first website you’d like to track with Google Analytics.  2)  Under “Account Name” enter a “nickname” that you can use to refer to this site within your Google Analytics dashboard.  3) Your country and 4) Your time zone.
4. Then verify that everything is correct, and click “Continue”.
5. On the following screen, simply complete the first name, last name, and country fields, and then again click “continue”.
6. Read through the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
7. If you agree to them, click the checkbox indicating your agreement and then click “Create New Account” button.
8. Account setup is complete!
9. (Optional)  Copy/Paste your custom Google Analytics tracking code for insertion into your website, e-mail the tracking code to someone, or continue on to your Google Analytics dashboard.

Google enhances Analytics tracking code

Posted by Phil on May 20, 2010 in Analytics, Google, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Tech News | 1 comment

Google announced yesterday that it has finally released Asynchronous Tracking for its Analytics product.  Asynchronous tracking has been in beta testing/development for almost six months now so Denton Business Solutions is pretty excited that it’s finally out of beta testing and approved for general use.

According to Google the new code offers the following benefits:

• Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution
• Enhanced data collection and accuracy
• Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn’t fully loaded

Essentially, this “Google Analytics 2.0″ will give your business a more accurate depiction of its website’s actual statistics, as well as increase tracking code stability and page load times.  Ever since Google announced that it now includes website load times into its page rank algorithms, every little bit of speed one can squeeze out of a page load helps.  If you have any questions about Analytics or how to upgrade to its new tracking code drop us a line!