What is Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service

Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks,
e-mail marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.

Google Analytics approach is to show high level dashboard-type data for the casual user, and more in-depth data further into the
report set. Through the use of Google Analytics analysis, poor performing pages can be identified using techniques such as funnel
visualization, where visitors came from (referrers), how long they stayed and their geographical position. It also
provides more advanced features, including custom visitor segmentation

High profile sites using Google Analytics
Google Analytics is used by 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites (as ranked by Alexa Internet) ordered by popularity, as reported by (now defunct) BackendBattles.com

* twitter.com
* myspace.com
* dailymotion.com
* answers.com


Google Analytics Usage TrendsGoogle Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from
senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.



This chart represents Google Analytics web usage trends over a historical time period on a large selection of website homepages queried by BuiltWith.

Google Analytics is a free service that offers users up to 5 million hits per month. If your site generates more than 5 million hits per month, you will need to link it to an active AdWords account in order to avoid interruption of your Google Analytics service.

Google Analytics currently defines an active AdWords account as an AdWords account that has at least one active and running Campaign, with a minimum budget of $1 per day (or the equivalent amount in a non-U.S.currency).

Import friends from facebook to google+

You can transfer all your Facebook buddies to Google+ .You cannot do it directly but via their partnership with Yahoo from where you can get all of your friends list over to Google Plus.Lets get started:-

How to use Google notebook - Firefox Extension

This might seem pointless for some, but others might find it a mighty useful extension. It’s a little like bookmarking, but instead of keeping a tab on a URL, you keep a tab on any piece of content, including images.

Here’s how it works: once you’ve installed the extension (which involves not much more than clicking “install now” after clicking the link), you’ll see a space at the bottom right of Firefox that says “Open Notebook.”

Open it, and you’ll see a little box with a list of your “notes” (which is initially blank).

Now, say you come across something interesting—some text and an image. You select the whole thing and right-click. In the context menu will be an item called “Note this (Google Notebook).”
Click that.
The selection will get added to your Notebook, and you’ll get an indicator in that little box that lists out the first few words of what you noted, along with the URL.

When you want to view all your notes together—reap the harvest of your browsing session, so to speak—maximise the Notebook. You’ll be taken to a Gmail-like page that lists all your Notes, with the images in place.
Note that you can always create a note, whether in the little box or in the maximised view, by typing something out.

The fun part—if you can call it that—is that you can share your Notebooks (yes, you can have more than one Notebook—one for, say, each day, or one for “Work” and one for “Fun,” or whatever).

When you share a Notebook, you enter e-mail addresses (which need to be Gmail addresses; if they’re not, Google will send a kind invitation to the address(es) to create a Google ID) that will be allowed to collaborate on the Notebook. These people will be able to view and edit the Notes. You can also choose to create a permanent URL for the Notebook, which you can send out to your friends.

So, essentially, what the Firefox extension does is add an item to the context menu that lets you mark something as a Note.

Why you’d want to use this feature, and whether it’s a useful thing, is up to you to decide! For your own purposes, it’s better than bookmarking if only a certain portion—say a paragraph—of a page is of interest.

And for collaborative purposes, you can imagine a wide range of scenarios: if you’re a student, for example, you might actually take down notes from the Web this way, and your friends could see what you’ve taken down, adding their comments on each Note.

Using google alerts

Google Alerts refers to automatically-generated e-mail alerts,based on search terms, which show results in five categories:-

Google Plus

Google Circles

Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself - just like real life. You have to click and drag people into circles.

Google Hangouts

Google Plus has an exciting feature called “Hangouts”. With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time.

It lets specific buddies (or entire circles) know you’re hanging out and then see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat.

Instant Upload

Taking photos is fun. Sharing photos is fun. Getting photos off your phone is pretty much the opposite of fun.

With Google+ Instant Upload, your photos and videos upload themselves automatically, to a private album on Google+. All you have to do is decide who to share them with.

Google Sparks

Google Plus boasts of a feature called Sparks, where you can get the stuff that you like , streamed to you automatically so that you always have something nice and cool to watch read or share.

You just need to tell it once whatever you like and Spark would feed you with it.

Google Huddle

Texting is great, but not when you’re trying to get six different people to decide on a movie.

Huddle turns all those different conversations into one simple group chat, so everyone gets on the same page all at once. Your thumbs will thank you.

So if you are making Group Plans you can turn multiple conversations into one single group chat.