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	<title>The Analytics Edge &#187; Google Analytics</title>
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		<title>Pivot by Year-Month for a Trend</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/05/pivot-by-year-month-for-a-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/05/pivot-by-year-month-for-a-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 21:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pivot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visitor type]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many common analytics reports are looking for one or two dimensions trended by date, usually month or week. With the Google Analytics API, the year, month and week dimensions are independant values. This article shows how to concatenate them and pivot the resulting column.
For this example, we&#8217;ll show the visitor type trend by month. Start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics Fiscal Reporting in Excel – Part II</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/05/google-analytics-fiscal-reporting-in-excel-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/05/google-analytics-fiscal-reporting-in-excel-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 20:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog article]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal periods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics Excel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A very common challenge in corporate web reporting is determining the appropriate metrics for fiscal periods that differ from the calendar. This multi-part article discusses how we can use the Next Analytics Excel add-in to overcome our fiscal reporting challenges. In Part I, we looked at the simple case of reporting fiscal weeks where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Challenges of Web Analytics in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/04/6-challenges-of-web-analytics-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/04/6-challenges-of-web-analytics-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[template]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using Excel to report web analytics is fraught with challenges. This article explores how Next Analytics for Excel overcomes the 6 major obstacles.]]></description>
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		<title>Finally &#8211; A Useful Traffic Sources Report</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/04/finally-a-useful-traffic-sources-report/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/04/finally-a-useful-traffic-sources-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic sources]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Google announced the release of 127 new dimensions and metrics available from the Google Analytics API on Jan.25, 2011, there was hardly a peep about the HUGE relaxation of the rules about what dimensions and metrics could be queried together. I am amazed that no one has picked up on it since then! Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Convert Dates To Custom Time Periods and Fiscal Dates</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/how-to-convert-dates-to-custom-time-periods-and-fiscal-dates/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/how-to-convert-dates-to-custom-time-periods-and-fiscal-dates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of tools out there that fetch Google Analytics data into Excel.  With those other packages, you are left with repetitive monkey work, moving data around and fixing formulas.
Your bosses and clients aren’t even aware of that problem, you hate it, it’s not using your analytic skills, and you&#8217;re stuck doing it every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Google Analytics Keyword Tag Cloud in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/a-google-analytics-keyword-tag-cloud-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/a-google-analytics-keyword-tag-cloud-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tag cloud]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen tag clouds used all over the web to visualize what keywords are the most  popular, and thought it would be a good additional to the Next Analytics dashboard collection.  Tag clouds can easily be applied to situations where you want to see what people are looking for or talking about &#8212; anywhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics Excel workbook shows how to avoid Pivot Tables</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/google-analytics-excel-workbook-shows-how-to-avoid-pivot-tables/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/google-analytics-excel-workbook-shows-how-to-avoid-pivot-tables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A customer had a scorecard that had to be distributed for both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.
It used Pivot Tables to lay out the data for a chart. When using Excel 2007 Save-As to create a Excel 2003 version, there’s a bug which resulted in an un-readable Pivot Table in Excel 2003!  Thus, the Excel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics API Query Limits</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/google-analytics-api-query-limits/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/google-analytics-api-query-limits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Question:
What are Next Analytics limits for queries? How many accounts or profiles can be used? How many rows of data can it get?
Answer:
Next Analytics imposes no limits to what you can do with the Google Analytics API. You can use as many accounts and profiles as you have access to. You can make as many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batch updates of Excel web analytics dashboards</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/batch-updates-of-excel-web-analytics-dashboards/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/batch-updates-of-excel-web-analytics-dashboards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[batch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Analytics was already the best Excel add-in for automating your Google Analytics reporting, but with the release of version 3,1, we have included a Batch Scheduler and a Command Line Utility that take things to a whole new level of automation. And with 3.1, you can also get Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even SQL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dates From Google Analytics Year-Week Numbers</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/dates-from-google-analytics-year-week-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/dates-from-google-analytics-year-week-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When making weekly reports from the Google Analytics API, it is most efficient to download your data using Google&#8217;s year and week dimensions. This produces a row of data for each calendar week in the report, but it leaves you with a report that contains no dates &#8212; just week numbers. Most people don&#8217;t think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps Overlay In Excel is not updating</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/google-maps-overlay-in-excel-is-not-updating/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/google-maps-overlay-in-excel-is-not-updating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Question:
I refreshed the Visitor Overview workbook with the map, but the map is not updating.
Answer:
This workbook uses Visual Basic for Applications code to refresh the map. In Excel 2007/2010, there is a setting that needs to be enabled for the code to run.
In Excel Options, select Trust Center &#8211; Settings&#8230;
On the Macros Settings panel, check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concatenate two dimensions (for sort and counting as a set)</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/concatenate-two-dimensions-for-sort-and-counting-as-a-set/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/concatenate-two-dimensions-for-sort-and-counting-as-a-set/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Question:
In the Traffic Source Trends dashboard you have &#8220;source/medium&#8221;. How did you concatenate the separate source and medium columns?
Answer:
The concatenated Medium/Source column is created the same way as the Year-Month combination for the chart horizontal axis in the same workbook &#8212; use the Analyze tab, (check the Advanced box at the bottom), and select the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Browser Version Popularity Report</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/browser-version-popularity-report/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/browser-version-popularity-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a tweet today about an old Google Analytics blog article about custom reporting, and in the comments, it seemed that everyone wanted a simple report showing the popularity of various browser versions. That is not a report you can make using Google Analytics custom reports, so it has gone unanswered…until now. Using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Map Overlay for Google Analytics in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/usa-map-overlay-for-google-analytics-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/usa-map-overlay-for-google-analytics-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[map overlay]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a quick little modification to the Map Overlay dashboard I described in our popular blog article, and produced the same dashboard, but focussed specifically on that USA market.


To make the modifications, I started by inserting a US country filter to each of the Google Analytics queries:
&#38;filters=ga:country%3D%3DUnited+States
I also changed the map parameters to zoom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do I&#8230;Create a monthly summary report? Part 2</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/how-do-i-create-a-monthly-summary-report-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/how-do-i-create-a-monthly-summary-report-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of a series for the new Next Analytics user, walking through how to create a simple monthly summary report (see Part 1). In this article, I am going to explore how to show distribution of visits over a couple of dimensions:

Show the visits by the traffic source (medium)
Show the visits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do I&#8230;Create a monthly summary report? Part 1</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/how-do-i-create-a-monthly-summary-report-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/how-do-i-create-a-monthly-summary-report-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAQ]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a new Next Analytics user, the tool can seem quite daunting, so in this article, I will walk through how to create a simple monthly summary report using Next Analytics version 3.0. I am going to roll in a number of common challenges, including:

Show a common metric like visit count
Show a calculated metric like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change the Date Range of Our Free Dashboards</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/11/change-the-date-range-of-our-free-dashboards/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/11/change-the-date-range-of-our-free-dashboards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microcharts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[script]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Analytics has a growing list (over 40) of free Excel dashboards and reports that work with our product. Each was created to report on a specific time period, be it 3 days or 13 months, that moves with the calendar so all you have to do is click Refresh and the time period is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Google Analytics advanced segments</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/comparing-google-analytics-advanced-segments/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/comparing-google-analytics-advanced-segments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[combine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiple queries]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was building one of our weekly free Excel dashboards (Traffic Source Trends), I realized that most of our dashboards include an interactive dropdown with the Google Analytics advanced segments. While this is a great capability and is similar to the GA web interface, making comparisons between segments is difficult because you have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trending Segments from Google Analytics Data</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/trending-segments-from-google-analytics-data/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/trending-segments-from-google-analytics-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was building an Excel dashboard last week, this time about traffic sources from Google Analytics, when I realized it was time to bring together two of the most useful analytics functions: trends and segmentation. We get a lot of requests for segmented trends, and we’ve published an interactive workbook with the functionality (Segmented Trends), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple Google Analytics Profiles in One Report</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/how-do-multiple-google-analytics-profiles-in-one-report/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/how-do-multiple-google-analytics-profiles-in-one-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bounce rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microcharts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pageviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scorecard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time on site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visitors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of people need to keep track of multiple web properties – their blog, support site, maybe a social media presence and their main web site. They may even have a series of related websites that they want to track independently. This week’s free Excel dashboard shows just how easily Next Analytics lets you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleaning up sources from web mail</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/cleaning-up-sources-from-web-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/cleaning-up-sources-from-web-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic sources]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When reporting Google Analytics visits by source, if you have a lot of people coming to your site from web-based email, and you aren&#8217;t using any campaign tracking parameters on your links, you may get a lot of sources that look like:
us.mg1000.mail.yahoo.com
us.mc534.mail.yahoo.com
sn117w.snt117.mail.live.com
co120w.col120.mail.live.com
There may be plenty of variants for each of the various mail servers, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screen height and width around the world</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/screen-height-and-width-around-the-world-2/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/screen-height-and-width-around-the-world-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[resolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on our free spreadsheet report for last week, splitting the Google Analytics screen resolutions into a grid view, I noticed that some of the test sites had very different profiles of popular screen sizes. At first I thought this might be due to variation of discretionary capital (a.k.a. pocket money) in various countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Google Analytics Map Overlay in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/a-google-analytics-map-overlay-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/a-google-analytics-map-overlay-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection speed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the Microsoft Excel report element you’ve always wanted – showing a map of the world, highlighted to show where your website visitors come from. It is included in this week’s free dashboard, and Next Analytics will automatically create and update it. To learn more about the dashboard, see our Product pages. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your website have a busy calendar?</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/does-your-website-have-a-busy-calendar/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/does-your-website-have-a-busy-calendar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day of week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pivot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[template]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Analytics uses a line chart across most of their pages, showing the trend of traffic over time. I guess the idea is that you can visually see trends from week to week, month to month, but that has never worked for me. The weekly bump and weekend dips make the chart busy and confusing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day of Week Report for Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/day-of-week-report-for-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/day-of-week-report-for-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day of week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landing Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time on site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is surprisingly hard to get day-of-week information out of Google Analytics, and the ‘best’ scenario I have heard is to compare one week to another. That’s not much of a trend, but I guess it’s something. With Next Analytics for Excel, there is a simple way to get reports by day-of-week that lets you create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building One Excel Dashboard for Multiple Web Sites</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/building-one-excel-dashboard-for-multiple-web-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/building-one-excel-dashboard-for-multiple-web-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[script]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a surprising number of people that are tracking multiple web sites with Google Analytics, and they often want to see a report or dashboard comparing and contrasting their performance. Next Analytics is one of the few products that makes this a simple task – here’s how.
First, Next Analytics allows you to log in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Analytics Tip Every Website Should Employ</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/powerful-analytics-tip-every-website-should-employ/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/powerful-analytics-tip-every-website-should-employ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pagepath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pageviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog article over at SEOmozBlog by Rand Fishkin professes the power of segmenting the usual trend charts by categories of pages, so it is easy to see whether traffic changes are due to blog articles or tutorial guides or whatever groupings make sense on your site. When I read the article, I immediately thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monthly Metrics &#8211; Measuring your Keywords</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/monthly-metrics-measuring-your-keywords/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/monthly-metrics-measuring-your-keywords/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[template]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Gianoglio over at LunaMetrics posted an interesting blog yesterday, suggesting that there is value in tracking the number of keywords referencing your site over time. He laid out an interesting argument that it is supposed to give you a good indication of how well you fair on search indexing and whether there are issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Simple Google Analytics API Query</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-a-simple-google-analytics-api-query/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-a-simple-google-analytics-api-query/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[query]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[script]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind every Next Analytics dashboard and report is a series of script commands. These simple text strings start with a command name and are usually followed by comma-separated parameters. When we added the ability to make Google Analytics queries, we had to create a new script command that would translate into a full query behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Intelligence from Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/customer-intelligence-from-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/customer-intelligence-from-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[networkLocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pageviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visitors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at a report from a customer intelligence vendor last week and got thinking that a lot of the same data was available in Google Analytics, but it wasn’t very accessible in the normal reports that people use. Now I wouldn’t suggest we can replace the paid service entirely, but the value of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landing Page Performance Across Segments</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/landing-page-performance-across-segments/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/landing-page-performance-across-segments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bounce rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landing Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time on site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s Excel dashboard, we look at website landing pages – which ones are your most effective and how different visitor groups treat them. Four major segments are shown side-by-side: direct traffic, visits from search engines, visits from referring web sites, and clicks from paid advertising. Leveraging Excel’s conditional formatting makes it easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A What’s Changed Report for Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/a-whats-changed-report-for-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/a-whats-changed-report-for-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landing Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pageviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[template]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visitors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whats changed]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the online reports provided by Google Analytics, the one that seems to be missing, years after it was pointed out, is the What’s Changed  Report.  Way back in 2007, Avinash Kaushik wrote in his blog (Occam’s Razor) and his book (Web Analytics, An Hour a Day) about the wonderful value of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trending Landing Page Visits Over Time</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/trending-landing-page-visits-over-time/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/trending-landing-page-visits-over-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landing Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s Web Analytics TV with Avinash and Nick, Lisa C asked if it was possible to see a trend report for the top landing pages from SEO. Although Avinash agreed “I want this!”, he said this is one of those reports that is only possible through the API today. Since Next Analytics has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I find my Google Analytics profile ID?</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/06/how-do-i-find-my-profile-id/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/06/how-do-i-find-my-profile-id/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FAQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profile]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New Next Analytics users sometimes have trouble identifying a Google Analytics profile ID for use in our templates and examples. No, it is NOT the UA-xxxxxxx-x number you used in your tracking code. Here’s the scoop&#8230;
When you login to Google Analytics, you gain access to a number of Analytics accounts. Each Analytics account has an account ID [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segmentation in a Dynamic World</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/segmentation-in-a-dynamic-world/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/segmentation-in-a-dynamic-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 16:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calculations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pivot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As noted in Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik, as well as his popular books Web Analytics 2.0 and Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, the most important aspect of any web analytics initiative is getting to the actionable insights that drive strategic decisions. He says that from raw data alone, it is impossible to deduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Website Visitor Engagement Analysis I</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/advanced-website-visitor-engagement-analysis-i/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/advanced-website-visitor-engagement-analysis-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 02:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segmentation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the templates and sample reports that I’ve posted simply demonstrate that Nextanalytics can produce all the same web reports you have seen elsewhere. But Nextanalytics can go so much further; we’re not just another quick and easy reporting tool – we can run with the big dogs.
In this example, we not only create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analytics Fun – How Big is Your Display?</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/analytics-fun-how-big-is-your-display/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/analytics-fun-how-big-is-your-display/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 23:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was digging into some web traffic from Brazil, I happened to notice that the most popular screen resolution was 1024 x 768. OK, that makes sense, but it got me thinking&#8230;with all the huge resolution desktop screens, wide screen laptops and odd-shaped mobile devices, just what is the most common size/shape of display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Analytics Dashboard in Excel for GA</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/web-analytics-dashboard-in-excel-for-ga/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/web-analytics-dashboard-in-excel-for-ga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephane Hamel of Immeria created a sample dashboard in Excel (link) that took off virally, becoming a popular starting point for others (link) (link) to create their own solutions. I applaud his work and his creativity. In the comments to his blog, though, a number of people found the complexity daunting. I am a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel-based Website Visitor Dashboard</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/excel-based-website-visitor-dashboard/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/excel-based-website-visitor-dashboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 01:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection speed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyalty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[resolution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the unique capabilities of the Nextanalytics add-in for Excel 2007 (2003 version also available), we whipped up a quick dashboard that combines many of the key visitor-tracking metrics from Google Analytics all on one page, and it’s all yours, in a Microsoft Excel workbook. Use it as-is or customize to suit your distinctive needs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics Content Overview Report in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/google-analytics-content-overview-report-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/google-analytics-content-overview-report-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[content]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Third in the series (see Visitors overview, Traffic Sources overview) of Excel-versions of typical Google Analytics reports, the Content Overview report provides the detail on what web pages are the most popular. Starting with an overall trend chart showing page views totals by date, the report includes high-level counts and mini-trend-charts for both the page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Visitors Overview Report in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/website-visitors-overview-report-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/website-visitors-overview-report-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted your Google Analytics reports in Excel, so you can share them with your boss? Maybe add a tweak or two to reflect your (or ‘Her’) unique needs? Well, now you can, and you don’t have to be an Excel whiz to do it! Start with our XLS file, and simply enter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Analytics Reports for Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/top-analytics-reports-for-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/top-analytics-reports-for-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you run a blog, DailyBlogTips recommends the Top 5 Google Analytics Reports for Bloggers. We’ve produced a quick dashboard using Nextanalytics for Excel to give you access to all this information in one quick overview, refreshed with the click of a button. You&#8217;ll see (1) the top traffic sources that your visitors are coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Sources Overview Report</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/traffic-sources-report/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/traffic-sources-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an Excel version of the standard Google Analytics Traffic Sources Overview, this is it, delivered using Nextanalytics for Excel. It includes the usual total visits trend and the top mediums listed on a percentage basis with micro-trends and a summary pie chart.  Across the bottom, it shows the top sources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delivered: an Excel plug-in for Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/delivered-an-excel-plug-in-for-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/delivered-an-excel-plug-in-for-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pivot]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter O’Neill of Logan Tod posted an article outlining his requirements for an Excel plug-in for Google Analytics. After a couple of follow-up conversations with Peter, let me respond to his requirements list and show how Nextanalytics for Excel delivers the ideal solution.

First, Peter positioned his need as not just a techie solution, but something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Excellent Google Analytics Tool!</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/an-excellent-google-analytics-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/an-excellent-google-analytics-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 03:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just SO cool! No more guessing at what you want &#8212; we built the ULTIMATE in interactive Google Analytics tools for Microsoft Excel. You get to see the query results as you build it, perform interactive segmentation, convert all those ugly URL&#8217;s into VP-friendly text, build those nasty KPIs and deliver it all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Website Overview in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/building-a-website-overview-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/building-a-website-overview-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When building a dashboard for web reporting, people often want a quick summary or overview on the first sheet. In the overview, they’d like to see a few key traffic metrics as well as an indication of the trends over the period. This is easy to do with Nextanalytics and some simple Excel charting.


The common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week-to-Week Trends in Web Traffic</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/week-to-week-trends-in-web-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/week-to-week-trends-in-web-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When monitoring web sites, it is easy to get lost in the day to day details, and every now and then you need to step back just a bit and take a look at a larger picture. Usually longer term trends are viewed as a single line chart or page views or visits, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Visitor Profiling</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/basic-visitor-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/basic-visitor-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a large number of dimensions and metrics recorded by Google Analytics, and each of them provides some unique insight into your web site visitors and their behaviour. When looking at the visitors, it helps to build a profile of where they are from, how they came to your site and what they used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick chart &#8211; trend of top countries</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/quick-chart-trend-of-top-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/quick-chart-trend-of-top-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A sudden change in web site traffic appears and you have to explain it to your boss. Here is an example of a quick analysis using Nextanalytics for Excel with Google Analytics that not only gets to the information you need quickly, but it gives you repeatable presentation material with very little extra effort.

To start, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First-time web visitor landing page analysis</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/first-time-web-visitor-landing-page-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/first-time-web-visitor-landing-page-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you want to analyze first-time visitors to your web site, where they land first is often a key question. Maybe you had an email campaign with embedded links or you want to measure traffic from blogs that targeted special landing pages. Your challenge is to identify and report on the traffic to these special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding interactivity: selecting a web profile</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-interactivity-selecting-a-web-profile/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-interactivity-selecting-a-web-profile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When building a web analytics dashboard, adding interactivity is often required to make the application truly useful. In this example, you will see how we can add a web profile selector to our web dashboard with very little effort.

In our previous examples, we created a daily web dashboard with a couple of front-page views into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding a top 10 chart</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-a-top-10-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-a-top-10-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/wp/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part of a series showing how easily you can build a daily web dashboard using Nextanalytics for Excel with the new Google Analytics connector. In this article, I want to show how to add a new item to an existing workbook (our Daily web dashboard). Along the way, you will see how easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily web dashboard</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/daily-web-dashboard/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/daily-web-dashboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/wp/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you track your web site with the Google Analytics web analytics service today, it is really easy to create a dashboard in Excel that shows key metrics of your web site &#8212; and refresh it daily with a single click! All you need is Nextanalytics for Excel along with your copy of Microsoft Excel [...]]]></description>
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