9 Ways to Get More Out of Google Analytics

Already know and love Google's data tools? Here are nine cool features you may not be using--but should.

 

You probably already love Google Analytics because it gives you a big picture look at how your website is performing. You probably also love it because it is free and easy to install.
But I have come up with nine more reasons to love Google Analytics. Check out these sophisticated tracking tools you might not even be aware of:

1. Set up "event tracking"

Event Tracking is a feature of Google Analytics you use to track different actions visitors take on your website, such as clicking a button or downloading a file. It is useful for tracking actions on your website that don't take the user to a new page (i.e. clicking play on a video player). This will help you to understand which features and calls to action are being utilized and which are being ignored.

2. Track page load time

If your site is loading slowly, you are guaranteed to be losing traffic. Web users are impatient and have a very short attention span. If your site is loading slowly, get help immediately! Find an expert who can both diagnose and fix the problem.

3. Setting session length to the right amount

By default, a session in Google Analytics is set to 30 minutes. That means that if a user is inactive on your website for over 30 minutes, their next move on your website will be counted as a second visit with a brand new set of pages that will be part of that visit. For some websites it is beneficial to see the entire "flow" of one long visit, regardless of idle time.

4. Create "funnels"

Google Analytics allows you to track the steps visitors take to achieve a specific goal. Let's say your goal is to have a visitor make a purchase of a specific product. The "funnel" is all of the pages that lead a visitor to this desired goal. By listing and tracking your funnel pages, you get great data on where visitors are dropping off (in this case, not making a purchase) along the buying funnel. Armed with this knowledge, you can fix the weak links in the buying chain.

5. Establish "cross-domain tracking"

This helps you to track user behavior in cases where a user is visiting multiple domains you own. This frequently comes into play on e-commerce sites that use a third-party checkout provider. If you fail to set up cross-domain tracking, Google Analytics will not be able to track the entire buying process, ending a session when a user leaves one domain and creating an entirely new session when that user arrives at the second domain.

6. Set up "advanced segments"

This tool provides another way of slicing up your visitors. For example, you can divide visitors into those who came from paid advertising, from organic searches and from directly typing in your domain name. Or perhaps you want to see what new visitors coming to your site after a search query do after landing on a specific page of your website and you wish to track this regularly. This information gives you key data on your paid marketing and SEO efforts.

7. Set Up "campaign tagging"

Wherever you promote your site, whether it's on Google, through a paid advertising campaign, or through social media, you need to create URLs that identify the source and nature of the visit. For example, if you launch an email marketing campaign, you want your URLs linking back to your website to contain various attributes, such as source ("Email to Prospects #4"), medium ("Email"), name ("Email to Prospects 2012"), etc. The data provided by campaign tagging will help you see which marketing and advertising channels are providing the best ROI and which ones either need to be improved or abandoned.

8. Establish "e-commerce tracking"

By enabling e-commerce tracking on Google Analytics and coding your shopping cart's receipt page, your sales revenue data is sent directly to Google Analytics and is available to you in a simple, straight forward report.

9. Filter IP addresses

Certain visits to your website distort your analytics. These include all internal (company) visits and repeat visits from spammers. By using Google Analytics to filter these IP addresses out of the equation, you get a purer set of visitor stats.
Whether you have someone in the company who really understands Google Analytics or hire an outside agency with Google Analytics expertise, get someone one board who can help you set up and monitor all of these valuable tools. Chances are, very few of your competitors are digging deep enough into their data, so the more you do the better off you are.

Online Tools to Flip Text

Are you bored with standard and ordinary fonts? Then give our upside down writing a try! It’s fresh and new. It’s unique and it adds style to your screen names, Writing upside down has never been this easy!

List Of Online Tools to Flip Text :-

1.) Flip Text.org

2.)UpSide Down Text.com

3.)Facebook Status.org

3.) Flip a Text.com

4.)Flip My Text.com

5.) Flip This Text.com

Offline Tool :-

The program is really easy and it is useful when you want to train your mind, because you will see your data inverted.

• Basically the program has not limit in inverting your text.
• This program allow you to invert the order of many words in your written text.
• You need only to paste your text and you will see your inverted text immediately.

Download

Looking for Hacking Tricks: List of Best hacking Articles Published till Date

These days hacking word has become too much popular; and its craze among the users is tremendous… Now even if you are also fond of Hacking Articles then below is the complete list of article you may love to read published on Tricksnhacking.com… Here goes the list Enjoy

1. How do online accounts hacked using Session Hijacking? Explained View…

2. Wanted to be a Hacker! The best Operating System for Hacking

3.  What is Facebook Freezer: How it used to hack Facebook Account

4. How keylogger used for Hacking Facebook Password or Account

5. Is E-mail Hacking Really Possible… look out into facts

6. What are session cookies? How they used to hack email accounts?

7. What is Remote File Inclusion (RFI)? How it used to hack Websites?

8.   List of most used tool to Hack Login Accounts from several Websites

9. Hack Rapidshare to Beat Time Restriction and Download Limit… best trick

10. MSN Messenger hacks/tricks : Send continuous MSN nudges

11. How to do MAC Cloning or NIC switching to Bypass Rapidshare Time Restriction and Download Limit

12. Software Collection to Password Decrypters: Crack Passwords from any file

13. How to create Name Less Folders: Windows Simple Hack Trick.

14. Myspace Hack: How to Hack Myspace Account Passwords

15. Trick to Generate fake Facebook Comments or set your Fake Facebook Status

Google Search Trick to Avoid unwanted result: Google Search filter trick

As we all know Google is the best search engine considered today but even though being popular, it always don’t give us the desired result. Today there are millions of millions sites as well as blogs publishing article about the same subject and Google displays result from those sites. Butit is not always that all the web links it displays, we are looking for, but if this is the same situation you came across a lot of time then here is a ip which can help you lot.

Google has several built in functions that will help you make your searches more successful, and to enable you to spend less time searching. Now in this post today I will let you know a tip how you can remove unwanted (unrelated) results from Google Search Result.

 

Ever searched for something before, and had a whole list of completely irrelevant web pages come up? This is annoying at the best of times, as it takes time to check and read through the list of sites and find the one you actually want.

For example, if you were looking for a review of the book “Harry Potter” (whatever part of it), and you typed into Google “Harry Potter review”, many of the links listed are reviews of the movie, not the book. Because you are not looking for a review of the movie, you can remove all pages related to the movie by adding “-movie” to the end of your search terms.

 

 

This will now display all the pages relevant to “Harry Potter review“, but not relevant to ” Harry Potter movie”.

Isn’t this trick amazing… hope you enjoyed reading the article.

Trick to reduce file size of any JPEG images less than even half of its original size…

Jpeg format is one of the most used file format when we have to deal with images or pictures… Though JPEG images are the most compressed along with the high quality digital output file format… but even being so; its irritates us many time when we have several images which we have to mail someone.

Many times we have to reduce the quality to a very low level… which sometimes does not seems fair. Now what is the reason why these jpeg files seems to be heavy and how to reduce their file size without loosing image quality.

These days almost every jpeg file we have is highly optimized…. it doesn’t matter whether it is a raw shoot or saved from any image editor. Which means it contains all the file info details like what is the camera model and all the shoot properties or from which software it is saved as well as details like operating system, users etc…. etc… Finally which results in the heavy file size.

Now what is the way to reduce file size… doesn’t any new trick but the old one which we have almost forget… saving any jpeg through Microsoft Paint.. which eventually removes out the file details making the lowest possible file size. I have tested this trick personally and the results were awesome. If you are a web-designer then I am sure this trick is worth for you… then why not just say me thanx via subscribing to feed-burner subscription.

Convert *.nrg CD Image created by NERO into standard *.iso format: Free application

If you have ever created backups of many compact disk or DVD disk using the Nero Express and later discovered that nero images (*.nrg) is not industry supported formats. As there are not so many softwares available which can  access those images easily. Even many virtual cd drives also denies these formats. Worried… have to recreate those disk in standart ISO format…. Just be relax…. today you will learn about a free software which can transform those cd or dvd images into iso easily.

This piece of application is called IMG to ISO which job is… as the name suggest to convert Nero Images into ISO format. This is a very simple application; you need to just browse the desired file; give the target location and click convert.ou

With in minutes you will get the converted file… in very compatible format which you can access using WIn Rar also. So don;t you are looking for a download link… here it is.

Download IMG to ISO

Googlebot, Search Engine Bot, Crawling Bots and Robots

With the start of dylx-infotech I was keeping eye on my latest visitor and webserver http logs . I was surprised with googlebot. it was just two days and more and googlebot has knocked to my blog.

Still I am not able to find how googlebot got my blog traces and reached to my site. Same is the case with other crawling bots. Every day I see some new robot hitting my blog. Well but my favorite is only googlebot. Day after crawling my blog it has already started showing search result.

I assume googlebot also keeps look on new entry in DNS servers that’s only possibility to reach to my blog as I don’t have any backlinks from other site. Here is screenshot of spider, robots visitors to my blog.

WordPress has very good plug-in for stats and also for googlebot visitor

I really want to understand how all this robots and other crawling bots gets site links As per my understanding googlebot and other bots follows to links so until and unless you get link from other site to your site called as backlinks, No bot will be able to reach to your sites. Lets see when I will be able to get answer of this mystery.

Google webmaster has really good post on All about Googlebot and also check out Googleblog for all latest news about googlebot

Webmasters need to keep close eye on http server logs since apart from crawling bots you will see some other bots – Spam Bots, Junk Bots, Research Bots, Search Engine Bot, and News Bot etc. Every day new bots are getting added to internet word. Webmasters will be happy with Search Engine Bots but might not with other bots.

Since bots do eat up lots of hosting bandwidth and this is not good for those webmasters who have less bandwidth or their site traffic is huge and bots will add up more load on network and whole site will be under Error 404 Page Not Found .If we try to calculate Quality traffic of internet then it will be only 40-60% remaining percentages accounts for all this bots. Our Main concern is Spam bot and all those useless bots.

For webmasters ultimate goal is to protect their site from spam bots. Following are ways to block any bot from accessing or crawling your site

1) Robots.txt

2) .htaccess

3) IP deny thru Control panel

Will continue in next post…

Twitter Icons For Blogs and Twitter bird

Twitter is free Social Networking and Micro Blogging site which allows the users to send tweets a text based post upto 140 character long on Twitter site. Twitter is found to be most useful application for sending instant updates about your new post, links and sharing content to hundreds of followers.

After searching for about two hours on Google and Flickr finally I have got good collection of twitter icons and twitter bird for using on Blogs.

Twitter Icons:

Twitter Bird :

If you are new to blogging word and not using twitter yet then I will recommend start using it. It has amazing traffic driving capability.So start using above twitter icons on your blog
Download Twitter Icons and Twitter Bird. (Link Rmeoved)

Update :- I have removed on of Copyrighted Twitterrific software Bird image which was Iconfactory’s copyrighted artwork, since I wasn’t ware of it was Copyrighted and was got it from Google Images Search,  I apologies for this. Thanks tuaw.com

Compose & Schedule Your Twitter Tweets for Future Release with Twuffer

Twitter is a popular Microblogging web service among Bloggers. More and More Bloggers are using twitter to keep their reader updated with latest blog post as well as life streaming. One option which you might be missing in twitter is ability to post tweets for future.

Here is one nice Web service Twuffer which lets you to compose a list of future Twitter tweets and schedule it for release. Doesn’t this sounds existing? For me it’s defiantly most useful service since while I am in office I don’t have access to internet and I can’t keep myself busy by sending tweets from mobile but with Twuffer i can now schedule my tweets for future release.

Creative Uses of Twuffer

1. Tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements

2. Appointment/milestone reminders

3. Run a time-based scavenger hunt

4. Notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes

5. Appear to never sleep

Screenshot of Twuffer

So start Composing Your Future Tweets and schedule it for Future Release.

Display Latest Twitter Tweets on Your Orkut Profile

Most of the users have accounts on various Social Networking websites like Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. You might be more active on one social network then other and if you are twitter users then you will more addicted to it then your Orkut account. How about displaying your latest twitter tweets on your Orkut Profile page.

Do you think it will be easier for your Orkut friends to know what you are doing now with twitter tweets? If yes then here is Twitkut, A Orkut Application to display your latest twitter tweets on your Orkut profile page.

Twitkut is an Orkut Application which displays latest Twitter tweets on your Orkut Profile page. The only disadvantage of Twitkut is it can only update three times a day.

Screenshot of Twitkut Orkut Application

Add Tweetkut Orkut Application and display your latest Twitter tweets on your orkut profile page.

Change or Style Facebook Profile Layout with Naevius Facebook Layouts

Facebook users are unfortunate compared to Myspace or Friendster social networking users. Myspace allows the users to change layout of their profile by pasting HTML codes. You can change the background, text color, and layout of your personal page. As a result, it is not uncommon to chance upon a gaudy and poorly designed personal blog, MySpace, or Friendster page.
However on Facebook there is no such feature which can allow you to style your Facebook profile page, Here is Naevius Facebook Layouts with which you can is an easy-to-use application that can help you style your Facebook layout. Using the application you to embellish your Facebook layout beyond recognition.

Naevius Facebook Layouts

Download NaeviusFacebook Layouts.

How to Activate & Setup Facebook Video Calling on Mac OS X Lion

Finally yesterday Facebook unveiled video calling feature for its users. Facebook video calling is powered by Skype and supports one to one calling right from facebook inside your browser. No need of downloading any desktop app for that, however you do need to download Facebook video chat browser plugin to activate Facebook video calling.
Facebook Video calling supports Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer on all three major operating systems, Windows, Mac & Linux except latest Mac OS Lion developer build which is seeded to registered developers of Apple Mac program. Unfortunately Facebook Video calling is blocked on Mac OS X Lion browsers.
But well there is way to get Facebook video calling working on Lion OS browser. Thanks to besttechie.net for finding this trick. Follow below steps to activate Facebook video calling on Lion OS.

How to Activate & Setup Facebook Video Calling on Mac OS Lion

On Safari
1. Go to System preferences under Safari advanced tab & enable the developer menu. A new menu option on the menu bar labeled “Develop” will appear.
2. Now click on Developer menu and access User Agent settings & change to either  of the following Safari 5.1 (Mac), 5.0.1 (Mac), or Firefox 4.0.1 (Mac)

On Google Chrome
1. Run following command on terminal

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app   –args -user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19?

On Firefox
1. Download & Install User Agent Switcher extension.
2. Now Navigate to Tools -> Internet Explorer 8 -> Internet Explorer  and select “Internet Explorer 8” as user agent string.
That’s it now access facebook.com/videocalling and click on get started and enjoy Facebook video calling on Mac OS X Lion.
via 9to5Mac

How to Activate & Enable Facebook Timeline for Profile (Video Guide)

At F8 2011 conference Facebook unveiled the new profile layout named as Facebook Timeline, as it says its timeline of your entire life on Facebook. The status updates, stories shared, pictures you uploaded, everything you did on your Facebook account will be now an open book, a timeline.
Facebook Timeline is still in development and only accessible to developers. Though users can singup and wait for beta invites to test Facebook new Timeline feature but we are sure none you would like to wait for that long considering the trick to bypass wait and get the Facebook timeline is already up on internet.
We are not going to tell you 10-12 steps guide on how you can enable and activate Facebook timeline today, instead we have a video guide up for you. So just watch this video to better understand the procedure to activate Facebook timeline and enable for your Facebook profile today.

How to Enable & Activate Facebook Timeline Today

Thanks to Techcrunch for publishing this guide.

Retrieve Private Browsing History on Firefox with PrivateBrowsingHistoryRecovery

Firefox Private browsing was introduced in Firefox 3.5 with the goal to protect user privacy. In a regular browsing session Firefox or any other browser tracks and records lots of data such as the site user visits, search bar entries, download lists, cookies & web cache files but if you don’t want Firefox to record this stuff then that’s where private browsing comes to the rescue.
You can enable Firefox private browsing by hitting Ctrl+Shift+P shortcut or via Firefox Menu -> Start Private Browsing option. You might be thinking private browsing will save you from other users of computer snooping into browser history; unfortunately that’s not true. Your private browsing history can be easily recovered with one of the Firefox extension, PrivateBrowsingHistoryRecovery.
The Nicoleta developer behind this extension says that, “The extension was implemented as a part of my dissertation project with the aim to illustrate the limitations found on private browsing mode.”
To install PrivateBrowsingHistoryRecovery visit this extension page and hit Add to Firefox button and restart your browser.

Once installed you can load the private history sidebar using CTRL+SHIFT+U as the shortcut keyboard key, or otherwise by selecting on Firefox View-> Sidebar-> PrivateBrowsingRetriever. Once sidebar is loaded every sites you visits in your private browsing session will be recorded proving Firefox Private Browsing is not truly that private.

How to Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

When you click on the SHUTDOWN button,
make sure to simultaneous press SHIFT Button.
If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button,
you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.
This is equivalent to term "HOT REBOOT".

You can put shortcuts for shortcuts!!

You can put Keyboard shortcuts for desktop shortcuts.
To do this follow these steps :

1) Right click on the shortcut.
2) Go to properties.
3) Click once on the "Shortcut Key" bar.
4) Press any alphabet that you want to use as Shortcut Key.
5) Press OK Now to open that shortcut,
Press CTRL+ALT+"the alphabet".

Now you can open them fast!!!

Some shortcuts for Windows XP users!!
Press
'Windows key' + R and type the following (without qoutes) :

"winword" to open Word.
"powerpnt" to open Powerpoint.
"excel" to open Excel "mspaint" to open Paint.
"notepad" to open Notepad.
"wmplayer" to open Windows Media Player.
"wordpad" to open Wordpad.
"sndrec32" to open Sound Recorder.
"iexplore" to open Internet Explorer.
"firefox" to open Firefox.
"msconfig" to control startup.
"services.msc" to manage the Services.

The Medicine when Folder option vanishes.....

Method
1: Here's how you can get Folder Options back..
1: Open Start menu and from there select Run
2: type gpedit.msc and hit enter

3: now in the Group Policy window, from the left pane, select user configuration->Administrative Tempelates->windows components->Windows Explorer by highlighting it with the mouse cursor..

4: now in the right side you will see an option which says "Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu"

5: right click on this option and select properties

6: now in the properties under Setting tab, select Disabled and hit OK

........................................................................................................................................................................ Method 2 run
>>gpedit.msc
>>user configuration
>>administrative templates
>>system
disable "prevent access to registry editing tools"
....................................................................................................................................................................... Method 3 regeditOpen your registry and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]Create a new DWORD value,
or modify the existing value named "NoFolderOptions" and
set it to equal "1" to hide the options or "0" to show the options.
Log-off or restart Windows for the changes to take effect

Increase the life of ur dvd rom

This is an interesting one!!!

This is for those who watch movies on their computer's dvd rom drive!!!
There is a software called dvd idle pro which can really increase the life of your dvd drive. By using the Smart Read-ahead Cache,
DVDIdle saves DVD data which will be played soon onto the hard disk cache or RAM cache, and
then feeds it to DVD player.
This allows the DVD drive to rest.

For example:
a 6X-speed DVD drive will only work for 15 minutes when you are watching a 90 minutes DVD
movie.
here is the link: http://www.dvdidle.com/download/DVDIdlePro59.exe

Use the Notepad as your personal diary

There is a simple feature in Notepad that can make it work like a personal diary for you.Here is how to go about it:

1.Firstly open a blank Notepad file.
2. Now write .LOG as the first line in the file, then press enter. Now save the file and close it.
3.Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and time has been

appended (put) at the end and the cursor is in the next line.
4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.

5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process,that is it appends the date and time

to the end of the file and places the cursor below it.