Amazing Analytics360 WordPress Plugin
WordPress is fast becoming the best CMS in the world thanks to the range of fantastic plugins that are available to do anything you like. I don’t normally blog about plugins but the new Analytics360 plugin from MailChimp is fantastic.
As you can see in the screenshot below it brings Google Analytics data into your WordPress dashboard and overlays your blog posts on top of the data. Clicking on the orange dot brings up details of the blog post and number of page views that day.
According to Joost you can use this in conjunction with his Google Analytics plugin to track RSS readers using the utm_source parameter (make sure you also use the All In One SEO plugin with rel=canonical turned on before you start URL tagging).
What do you think?
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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Hey Patrick,
you’re right about the canonical, but: my Analytics plugin also has the option to do hash tag based tracking, so #utm_campaign instead of ?utm_campaign, which saves a lot of trouble
Unfortunately, MailChimp doesn’t have that option yet, just sent them an email asking for them to add that option.
Cheers,
Joost
Do you have to share your Analytics data with MailChimp to use this plugin? Do they see your stats, referers, keywords?
I have no idea Tim, good question.
Nope they don’t.
Just out of interest, what’s with the bizarre date scale along the x axis?
@vwackrill What do you mean about the date scale? What’s bizarre about it?
Yeah, the dates seem to be mixed up.
Whilst it is an impressive plugin I find it easier to review the analytics for all my sites rather than just one site at a time.
Too bad, it requires php 5 or higher
i just got a blank page after installed successfully.
dream host is my hosting, it support php5.
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