Google Mini plus Analytics

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Google Mini plus Analytics

by Chris Gilmer Feb 5th 2007

Google has just added an update to its popular small business Mini search tool that lets users plug into Google Analytics for tracking. With this new integration, Google Mini owners can now add Google Analytics tracking codes into data, enabling better tracking and analyzing of search results. This new understanding of what visitors are searching for will allow for the discovery of how little tweaks and changes can be made to satisfy visitors, helping them find the information they have requested faster. I have not had a chance to play with the administrator account on the Mini, but Google does say that it is a simple procedure for administrators to configure the Mini to use Google Analytics. Simply set the Analytics account number inside of the admin interface. The output formats for the search results will supposedly automatically include the JavaScript that Analytics uses.

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