1. Unique Visitors are higher than Total Visitors in custom reports

Answer:-

Because people may see more than one page (a ‘pageview’) during a session (‘visit’), GA assigns the ‘visit’ count to the first/landing page of the session. The rest of the pages get a ‘visit’ count of 0. If the landing page is not shown in your report because of filtering, then the ‘visit’ count for that user session is excluded. The result is that you would have a ‘visitor’ but no ‘visit’.

Ref:- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=27a34c1f892221e4&hl=en

2. What is the difference between Visits, Visitors and Unique visitors?

Answer:-

Visits = sessions. A session is a defined period of activity by a visitor. The standard criteria for a session in Google Analytics is activity without a break of more than 30 minutes OR closing the browser. So, if someone comes to your site, looks at two pages, goes to lunch and leaves their browser open, comes back an hour later and resumes browsing, a second session would be started. If a user viewed two pages on your site, closed their browser, and came back 5 minutes later, they would create a new session.

Visitors = unique people as identified by unique visitor cookies. This part is critical to understand. The __utma cookie contains unique visitor identifier numbers. If the __utma cookie gets deleted, or if the person changes computers or browsers, they won’t be tracked as the same visitor.

Within reports, “visitors” or “unique visitors” refers to the count of visitor ID’s that viewed the site during the selected date range. As noted in a previous post, if someone visits the site 3 times in a month, that would count for one visitor and 3 visits. When analyzing unique visitors between time periods you have to be careful not to overlap.

For example, if you have to report on monthly, quarterly, and annual unique visitors, when you report quarterly uniques you can’t simply add up the total visitors for each month, because if some people came back each month, it would triple count them. Same goes for annual sums, etc… To know the uniques count for a time period you have to analyze that entire time period.

Visits: every time someone comes to your site, it is a visit, unless it is within the x minutes (standard on 30) of his last visit.

Visitor : every tiem someone comes to your sit, it is a visitor, unless he visited the site allready

Unique Visitor: I am not sure, I tend to think it is the same as visitor?

Ref:- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=3ebf3001695e13a8&hl=en

3. Absolute Unique Visitors vs New Visits

Answer:-

If I discover your site today and only visit once in the morning and once in the afternoon (from the same computer and same browser) I am one unique visitor. But I had two visits. The first time that I visited, I had a New Visit, because I had never visited before. The second time that I visited (that afternoon), I had a repeat visit (becuase I *had* visited before.) So in this example, we have two visits. We also had only one Absolute Unique Visitor and one New visit.

Now, let’s say that I discover your site on Monday, January 5, 2009, and visit every weekday that week (once a day, always from the same computer, always from the same browser.) If I set my calendar to include the full week, GA sees five visits, one new visit, and one Absolute Unique Visitor. ( The good part is coming.)

However, the web analyst could set his calendar to worry about only Wednesday, January 7 and Thursday, January 8. For those two days, we will see: two visits (one each day, right?), one unique visitor and NO new visits.

Why not? Remember that I discovered the website on Monday. When I visited on Monday, I was new. GA puts a cookie on my browser at that point, and everytime I come back, I am considered a returning visitor.

So the dates that you choose to measure greatly affect the results you get, and the difference between absolute unique visitors and new visits. Of to put it another way: Absolute Unique visitors and New Visits are always the same if your calendar is set to always include every single new visit. As soon as you screen out some of the new visits, by having only a month instead of all time in your calendar, you will lose some of the new visits, but some of those people will come back during the time period you are measuring, they will be unique to the period but not new.

Ref:- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=5f94e9c6bfcc3cc4&hl=en

4. Absolute Unique Visitors v. New vs. Returning

For example for Sept:

Absolute Unique Visitors: 2,192
New V. Returning: 1,811 new / 2,166 returning

How can there be less new visits than unique visitors? Surely if you are visiting for the first time, then you are also a new visit?

Answer:-

Keep in mind, the visitor could of visited your site in August and if the Analytics cookies were still on their computer, they would be counted as a returning visitor for September, even though it was their first visit that month.

Absolute Unique Visitors = 2,192 different people (or in this case, computers) that visited your site during the given time period.
New = 1,811 different people visited your site in September that either had never been to your site, or were on a computer that did not have any cookies from your site.
Returning = 2,166 visitors had been to your site either before September, or were a new visitor earlier in the month, but then when they visited again at the end of the month they were counted as returning.

For example, if if visit your site today (October 1), I will be a new visitor for October. If I visit your site again on October 10, I will be a returning visitor (as long as cookies are still on my computer). If I visited your site on September 15 and then visited again on October 1, I would be counted as a returning visitor.

Ref:- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=17bb40dcbad7b83f&hl=en

5. Pageviews vs. Unique Pageviews

Answer:-

A pageview is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. If a visitor hits reload after reaching the page, this will be counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, a second pageview will be recorded as well.

A unique pageview, as seen in the Top Content report, aggregates pageviews that are generated by the same user during the same session. A unique pageview represents the number of sessions during which that page was viewed one or more times.

A Pageview is a single visit to a page. A ‘Unique Pageview’ is a visit to a page every 30 minutes. So, if a user visits your page once in 30 minutes, it’ll be recorded as one visit and one unique pageview. If he visits the same page twice within 30 minutes, then it’ll be 2 visits/pageviews and 1 unique pageview. But, if this user comes to the same page after 30 minutes, then it’ll be counted as 2 visits/pageviews and 2 unique pageviews. This is because a 30-minute cookie is set and it counts as one session.

So, if the user keeps going back to a page a lot but after 30-minute gaps, then there’ll be more unique pageviews.

Ref:- http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=57164
Ref:- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=3f1d74ee2c0640d4&hl=en

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For example:-

The email login page for your domain will be http://www.google.com/a/YourDomainAddress

For my domain, it is:- http://www.google.com/a/chapagain.com.np

After you login, you will get exactly like Gmail interface. So, it will be like using Gmail for your own domain’s email address.

Here is a step-by-step guide on using Google Apps Mail for your domain:-

- Sign up for Google Apps by entering your domain name (https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new)

- After you successfully sign up, you need to verify ownership (verify that you are the owner of the domain). This article describes how you do it:- http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60216

- After you verify domain ownership, you are now able to login and manage user accounts.

Basic setup steps and tutorials for managing users and accounts for Google Apps is given in the following link:- http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/topic.py?topic=20897

You have created Google Apps account but you are not finished yet. You still need to configure MX record in your domain’s control panel (cpanel).

An MX record identifies an email server available to the domain. Most domains have multiple MX records, arranged in order of priority. When someone sends an email message to the domain, the first available server in the priority list handles the message.

More about MX record:- http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=140038

A mail exchange (MX) record identifies a server that handles email messages for your domain. A domain has one or more MX records listed in priorty order. When someone sends an email message to your domain, the sender’s mail server delivers it to the first available server in the priority list.

To Configure MX record for your domain:-

- Login to your domain’s cpanel
- Search and click the menu from where you can change MX record (generally the menu is named “MX Entry“)
- Select your desired domain
- Under “Email Routing“, select “Automatically Detect Configuration”
- Now, add the following new records:-

Regardless of the system, ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM must be the top priority record.

More on configuring MX records:- http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=140034

More on Google Apps mail servers:- http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=174125

Sample example of Configuring MX Records for GoDaddy.com:- http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=33353

You are done! Now, your domain’s MX records point to Google. It will take around 24 hours for the changes to propagate through the Internet. After that, you will be able to access emails for your domain through Google Apps Email.

The login URL for your domain will be http://www.google.com/a/YourDomainName

Note:- By creating account in Google Apps, you are not limited only to Email. You can access many other Google Apps like Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Docs, Google Sites, etc.

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Trick #1

Suppose, you have your Gmail account as: firstname.lastname@gmail.com

With Gmail, you can also use it as: firstnamelastname@gmail.com or first.name.lastname@gmail.com or first.name.last.name@gmail.com

Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames. Email sent to all of these email addresses will go to your original Gmail account, that is: firstname.lastname@gmail.com

Here is what google has to say about this:-

Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else’s mail is being routed to your account, don’t worry: both of these addresses are yours.

Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:

homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com
homerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.com
homerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com
All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You’ll still go to your account.

If you get mail that seems to be intended for someone else, it’s likely that the sender entered the wrong address, just like if you’ve ever dialed a wrong phone number for someone. In these cases, we suggest contacting the original sender or website when possible to alert them to the mistake.

Source: Your address is similar but has more or fewer dots (.) or different capitalization

You may call it a feature or a bug. But Gmail basically allows this because your contact people might get mistaken with the dot in your email address. Suppose, your gmail account is firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Your friends might get confused with or forget the dot and type your email address as firstnamelastname@gmail.com. To remove this common human error, Gmail recognizes email accounts with and without dot to be as one.

Trick #2

Gmail does not recognize characters after the PLUS symbol.

So, if your Gmail address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com then you can also use it as firstname.lastname+blog@gmail.com or firstname.lastname+cool@gmail.com.

All emails sent to these address will go into your original Gmail address, that is: firstname.lastname@gmail.com

Trick #3

Suppose, your Gmail address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Then, you can also use it as firstname.lastname@googlemail.com

Email sent to firstname.lastname@googlemail.com will go into your original Gmail address, that is: firstname.lastname@gmail.com

Usuage

One big benefit of this Gmail feature is that you can now have multiple Twitter, Facebook or any other account with your single Gmail account. Because Twitter, Facebook, etc. recognizes dots as characters within email addresses.

It means that Twitter, Facebook, etc. recognizes firstname.lastname@gmail.com and firstnamelastname@gmail.com to be two different email addresses. But on the other hand, the email provider (Gmail) recognizes them to be as one.

So, create two Facebook accounts (one with firstname.lastname@gmail.com and the other with firstnamelastname@gmail.com). The confirmation email will be sent to your original Gmail address, that is: firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Confirm both of your Facebook accounts and enjoy!

Cheers :)

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Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. I love Google Chrome.

Question:-

I use Google Chrome in office. I browse numerous websites, I bookmark many of them, I have added some useful extensions. How do I save/use my Google Chrome Profile (all history, bookmarks, extensions, etc) in my home computer?

Basically, I want to backup all the browsing history, bookmarks, extensions used, etc. of Chrome Browser from one computer to another. How can I do this?

Answer:-

Google Chrome provides you a very easy and effective way to backup your browsing history, bookmarks and installed extensions so that you can easily backup and restore your Google Chrome Profile from one computer to another. For this, you simply need a Gmail account.

Here is how you do it:-

- Open Google Chrome browser
- Go to Settings -> Options (in Windows) or Settings -> Preferences (in Linux/Mac)
- Click the ‘Personal Stuff‘ tab.

- Click ‘Set up Sync‘. You are then asked to enter your Gmail username and password.

- After that, your Google Chrome Profile of the particular computer is synced with your Gmail account. That means, you have done backup of your Google Chrome browser profile.

- To Restore things in another computer, repeat the same process again. The Google Chrome profile you did backup, will be restored after you entered the same Gmail account username and password which you used to create profile backup.

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Note: I will be telling about adding adsense in sidebar and in each single post as well.

Adding adsense in sidebar

- Get adsense code from Google (http://adsense.google.com)
- Go to your Blogger Dashboard
- Go to Design -> Page Elements
- Click ‘Add a Gadget’
- Select ‘HTML/Javascript’ gadget
- Add title of your gadget
- Add your adsense code
- Click save and you are done

Adding adsense in single post

- Go to your Blogger Dashboard
- Go to Design -> Edit HTML
- Click ‘Expand Widget Templates’ checkbox
- In the Edit Template box, search for post.body
- You will find something like this:- <data:post.body/>
- Write your adsense code before <data:post.body/>, in the following format:-

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE
</b:if>

Important Note: You need to parse adsense code before you add it to blogger template.

To parse your adsense code,
- Go to this website: http://www.blogcrowds.com/resources/parse_html.php
- Write the adsense code in the box
- Click the ‘Parse’ button
- Copy the parsed adsense code and paste it in your blogger template as I have mentioned above.

The parsed adsense code looks like this:-

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-8802303964745491";
google_ad_host = "pub-1556223355139109";
/* FA-250x250, created 11/7/10 */
google_ad_slot = "3607210164";
google_ad_width = 250;
google_ad_height = 250;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

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When you use IFrame and your doctype is XHTML 1.0 Strict, then you cannot pass the W3C Markup Validation test. You always get errors.

The errors are like:-

there is no attribute “src”
there is no attribute “scrolling”
there is no attribute “frameborder”
there is no attribute “height”
there is no attribute “width”
there is no attribute “allowtransparency”
there is no attribute “title”
element “iframe” undefined

Solution

Use object tag instead of iframe.

Example

Here is an iframe code for Facebook Like Box:-

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?profile_id=62473189912&width=300&height=255&connections=10&stream=false&header=false&locale=en_US"  scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 300px; height: 255px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Using the above IFrame code in your website gives errors when you validate with W3C.

So, the solution is to use Object tag. You will not get the validation errors by using Object.

<object style="border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 300px; height: 255px;"  data="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?id=62473189912&amp;width=300&amp;height=255&amp;connections=10&amp;header=false"></object>

It’s the same case with including Google Maps in websites.

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Now, you forgot the admin password.

Solution:
- Go to https://www.google.com/a/domain.com/ForgotAdminAccountInfo
- Submit the Captcha.
- The password reset instruction will be sent to the secondary email which you kept while creating the google app for your site.

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I googled the web and found the following cause and solution:-

Problem:

I used to have adsense showing in my website and blogs but I use to have adsense showing on my website and blogs but recently they don’t show on websites again instead what i see is this their microfinance stuff “Microfinance Empowers”.

Cause:

Since April 2009 it has been a term of service that Adsense publishers have a data protection compliant privacy policy on their site(s). Those who do not have such a policy often find that their ads turn to public service ads.

Solution:

In your adsense report page, you will see the following text highlighted in red:

Your pages are displaying Public Service Advertisements (PSAs) because you haven’t yet verified your PIN and/or phone number. See the Payment History page for more details.

You should verify your PIN Information in order to show adsense like before.

Login to your adsense account and go to this link: https://www.google.com/adsense/account-settings

You will see the following notification about PIN Information highlighted in red:

As part of our effort to protect the accounts of AdSense publishers, we have mailed a Personal Identification Number (PIN) to the payment address entered in your account. This PIN must be entered on the PIN Information page before any payments can be issued to you.

In the meantime, your account remains active, and you may continue to show ads and accrue earnings. If you have not received your PIN within 3 weeks, you may request that it be resent.

Please use the link below to enter your PIN or to request a reissue:
PIN Information page

Google will mail Personal Identification Number (PIN) to the payment address entered in your account.

You can request PIN from this link: https://www.google.com/adsense/pinentry

Be sure that you have correct Payee information entered. You can edit Payee information from this link: https://www.google.com/adsense/account-edit

The PIN information for your account will be mailed to you by google within 3-6 weeks after your request for PIN.

When you get the PIN card sent to you by Google, you can enter the PIN in the PIN Entry section of this page: https://www.google.com/adsense/pinentry

After that, you can see adsense in your site as before.

Hope this helps and thanks for reading.

Update (23rd March 2010): I got the PIN verification number from google. Now, the Public Service Ads (PSA) are gone from my site. :)

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I’m human, Google !

I was googling something and google suddenly said sorry to me. It says my computer is sending automated queries. I was just googling “magento programmer developer nepal” by changing the word position at each time. I just googled this way for at most 5 times.

Google help says the following thing about this issue:

The ‘We’re Sorry’ message appears when Google detects that a computer on your network is sending automated traffic to Google. Automated queries are against our Terms of Service.

Here is the image of the error/security message:

Google says Sorry

I must have been late to make a century but anyways I am happy to do so now. This is my 100th post :)

Blogging is so fun. I love it!

Thanks to everyone who reads me.

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JavaScript API

The JavaScript API lives under the opensocial.* namespace and provides access to three primary areas of functionality:

* People — information about individual people and their relationships to each other
* Activities — ability to post and view updates on what people are doing
* Persistence — a simple key-value data store to allow server-free stateful applications

Here are some of the things you can do with the JavaScript API:

* Build applications without maintaining your own server
* Build applications that include a server-side component (for offline processing and/or access from other websites)
* Create brand-new applications
* Expose existing web applications in the context of existing social websites
* Add social features to existing gadgets
* Write one application that can run in the context of many different social websites

The JavaScript API is designed to use standard web technologies:

* It’s packaged as a set of methods in the opensocial.* namespace.
* It allows you to use any standard JavaScript programming techniques and third-party libraries.
* It includes a full asynchronous callback system to support rich AJAX interactivity.

REST Protocol and RPC Protocol

The REST protocol and RPC protocol provide complementary functionality to the JavaScript API, so you can access people, activities, and data from your server.

The REST and RPC protocols are designed to use standard web technologies:

* Server interactions are based on the JSON-RPC protocol, the AtomPub protocol, or plain XML.
* Authentication is handled by OAuth.

Impact on Facebook:

Developing OpenSocial applications will be easier than creating Facebook apps and will work across different social networks.

Benefit for Google:

OpenSocial is part of Google’s quest to increase usage of the Web. More applications can mean more searches and ad searches. You could also expect some new advertising services based on tapping into the OpenSocial APIs that works across all compliant social networks.

Users and Developers:

For users, it means more applications that can tap into user data, social graph, feeds and other content on a variety of social networks. They will have more choice of social networks.

For developers, they have more opportunity to spread their work across different networks without significant cost and complexity.

It is interesting that this is not a social network but a compatibility layer across networks.

The Google OpenSocial APIs will cover many of the essential social networking functions: Profile Information (user data), Friends Information (social graph), and Activities (things that happen). On the social network side they will be joined by sites supporting the API including Salesforce, Friendster, hi5, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Newsgator and Ning (with Google’s own Orkut included as well). On the application developer side they will be joined by some of the leading Facebook developers including Flikster, Rock You, Slide, and iLike.

Here is the complete list on who is using Google’s OpenSocial API.

Complete list of social networks and application developers using Google’s OpenSocial API

Sources:

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2007/10/31/google-opensocial/

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6813

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/technology/31google.html?ex=1351483200&en=ffeaa22f4e2aa416&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&pagewanted=all (Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook )

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