Posts Tagged ‘conversions’

The Flaw in Google Analytics "Goal Position Change"

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

google-analyticsRecently, Google Analytics made an update to their Goal Conversion Tracking system that allows you to rearrange and change the position of your goals by simply selecting a different spot in a dropdown menu. At first glance earlier today, this new feature seemed to be an easy way to rearrange your goals to your preference so that you can see the goals that you want, where you them. But after testing it further I realized that is has a major flaw that you need to be wary of: Loss Corruption/Confusion of Goal History Data
 

Reordering your Analytic Conversion Goals became too simple…

Change the Position of any of your 20 Web Analytics Goals

Change your Analytics Goal Positions easily by selecting another dropdown menu option

 
Why this is significant

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Google Analytics Expands to 20 Goals and allows Goal Position Change

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

google-analyticsThe team at Google Analytics has recently made an announcement stating that “Google Analytics Now More Powerful, Flexible And Intelligent”. This system update has many new features, but the 2 that have been on my web analytics “Wish List” for some time are: 
 

      • More Goals Per Profile – Now 20!
      • Rearrange & Sort Goal Order

     
    20 Goals instead of just 4 – That’s 500% more Useful and 1,000% Simpler!

    Google Analytics now allows 20 Goals and Change Position feature

    Google Analytics now allows 20 Goals and Change Position feature

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