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Everyone has been wondering when Google Analytics will integrate AdSense into the application such as it has already been done for AdWords, but there have been a couple people that created some hack-scripts to get the job done until Google can get those features added. One script simply adds in some < script > code and then lets you add a goal and the AdSense clicks are tracked for IE users (there is a mozilla bug that causes this to break). There is another well developed application, on the other hand, though. Both are equally good applications in my mind. These are a couple simple hacks to get around the not-yet-integrated AdSense application into your Google Analytics account. Take a look at both and see which one fits your needs the best!

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According to the latest status update, Google Analytics have been reopened for those users that were put on the waiting list. I personally have been using Google Analytics for quite some time now and I thoroughly love them. They have been amazing to me and treated my sites very well. The analytics it provides is simply astounding. The webmaster, marketing, e-commerce and executive views give full perspective to all the web analytics for my sites.

Hopefully Google Analytics will remain open and soon become available to the public for free sign-ups. Right now they are only doing it via their invite system. I also hope they open the system up to having more than 5 profiles. I currently have 9, but that’s because I added them before they started limited the number of profiles available to each user. I have many sites I want to track, but it just seems the systems are still being overloaded.

Since we launched, we’ve improved the freshness of report data so that our existing customers can see reports that are as recent as 3 hours ago. We’ve also re-enabled the addition of new profiles so that all of our existing customers can track additional sites using Google Analytics.

This is a huge plus for me too, I’m looking forward to the point where they have near-RealTime analytics. 3 hours is good enough for me, even though RealTime will always be better.

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Google Analytics - Status Update
Over the past several weeks, the Google Analytics team has been working hard to add capacity to handle the extraordinary demand for Google Analytics. Because providing a great user experience is our top priority, we temporarily suspended new signups for Google Analytics.

Over the past weeks, we’ve improved the freshness of report data so that existing customers can see reports as recent as several hours old. We’ve also re-enabled the addition of new profiles so that all existing Google Analytics customers can track additional sites (up to 5 per account).

Finally, we will soon invite our first batch of users from those who submitted their email addresses to sign up for Google Analytics. We expect to send out additional invitations over time as capacity increases.

We again thank you for your continued interest in Google Analytics, and look forward to opening signups to everyone very soon.

–The Google Analytics Team

So keep your eyes open for sign-ups to be turned on soon and for new functionality to come to the application.

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Have you been waiting to add more sites to your account for Google Analytics? Did the hack not work for you? Wait no longer! Google Analytics recently added the ‘Add Profile’ link back to the homepage of your account portfolio so you can once again add websites. I’m hoping that Google Analytics open their sign-ups system once again too, to the public so people can sign up. I was one of the fortunate .. couple hundred thousand people, I think it was, that was able to sign up when they first offered it. Hope everyone can enjoy the new ‘Add Profile’ link and start tracking as many sites as you want.

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So you were hoping to add a new profile to account but Google disabled the link. This was a major disappointment. Apparently Google only set a HTML code block for the link though. The link still appears when you view the source of the page. So all you need to do is view the source of the page, copy the link, and add it on to current URL. To view the source, do a search for profile or add and then you will come down to a line like this:

<td class="list_control_cell" align="right"><span class="plus">+</span> <a href="admin?vid=xxx&scid=yyyy" class="normal">Add Website Profile</a>

after doing that, simply follow these steps:

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Google has opened up a page that will let you be notified to when they will be reopening the sign-ups for Google Analytics. Simply visit their page and enter your e-mail address and name to be included on their ‘notification’ mailing list.

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I have been using Google Analytics just like another two hundred thousand webmasters have been. While the data is great, they did leave room for using the data in other places other than just viewable by you. ie they could sell it if they really wanted to. The TOS made an allowance for this in case of something that were to come up to help benefit Google or even the webmaster.

But the real code hack is what I read on ZDNet.

As an example, if your shopping cart requires 4 steps — from sign up to payment — and this entire process is all done on the same physical page using a series of posts (ie. cart.php), you can dynamically output “urchinTracker(’step1.html’)” to “urchinTracker(’step4.html’)” rather than simply “urchinTracker()”. Most log file analyzers will see 4 requests to cart.php, whereas Analytics will record hits for step1.html through step4.html.

I see many sites that use carts with the same page simply because it’s a good practice in my opinion. Using multiple pages for different steps in a shopping cart is just bad practice because of the flexibility you get using one file. This is a good resource for webmasters that may be wanting to track signups or other like portions of a site. ie vBulletin sign-up or premium membership purchase would be a good example to use this code for. A webmaster can dynamically use the code as well simply be using a little PHP and $_SERVER or whatever programming language you are more comfortable with.

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As I had experienced and seen, the ‘Add Profile’ link under the account management for Google Analytics was disabled. The New Sign-Up link was also removed and disabled because Google went from tracking zero to over 500,000 sites in just the matter of one week.

SearchEngineWatch.com reports the very same thing that I had experienced.

Google Analytics stops at 234,725 accounts

One can’t expect much less…or could we? Google is by far the largest, in my opinion, web service provider and search application out there right now. Google should have expected this influx of users and anticipated the amount of users that would want this service.

Here is an e-mail I recently received from them directly:

Thank you for your email. Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand. As a result, we have temporarily limited the ability to add new profiles. You will continue to be able to log in and view your reports. You’ll also be able to view reports within AdWords and import your cost data, if applicable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

For additional questions, please visit the Analytics Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/analytics. If you’re unable to find an answer to your question on our site, please feel free to reply to this email.

Strong demand, we’ll see where it goes from here.

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A lot of people have signed up for Google Analytics already, in the first week of being opened to the public. There are still a lot of people that are backing away from the idea and to be honest, I was hesitant at first as well. I personally don’t like trusting third-party websites to host statistics when I can normally just host them myself on my own server and have full control over them. But Google Analytics is something special. It’s a slightly modified version of Urchin, whom Google purchased back in March 2005.

Below you will find some screen shots of the Analytics in case you are wondering what they look like or if you are still wondering if it’s worth it or not.

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Currently Undergoing Maintenance

Google Analytics reporting is currently undergoing maintenance and will be available shortly. Your site traffic is being logged and you will be able to see the data after system maintenance has concluded.

Google Analytics are under going some maintenance checks. It seems that the overwhelming number of users that signed up within the first 24-72 hours exceeded their expectations a little bit. We all hope that they will resume service soon so we can get back to analyzing our data. We also hope that Google will start updating the statistics more often so we can see closer to real-time statistics. I personally look forward to the day that it becomes real-time. I’m not sure how plausible this is, but I do hope they achieve it.

AdWords is temporarily down due to system maintenance until approximately 1am PST [?] on November 19. Please note that your campaigns are running normally during this short downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience.

It appears that Google AdWords is also down, but it seems that the AdWords maintenance downtime is scheduled and has a time of when it will be back online. Again, we will just have to wait.

Update: As of tonight (11/18/2005), Google Analytics are back online. AdWords should resume as scheduled.

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