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Posted on April 30, 2010 - by rocky

The Referring Pages report – Getting the URL Parameters to Show Up

Augment the Referring Pages report by allowing the referring page URL query parameters to be displayed, instead of just the URL stem.

Posted on March 7, 2010 - by rocky

Cool data visualization: Geographic Heat Maps

Turn long geographic lists from WebTrends reports into wow-level density contour maps with third party software.

Posted on February 28, 2010 - by rocky

Reminder: What the SDC Tag Builder can do for you

If you're using anything other than WebTrends' TagBuilder tag to track mailto's, downloads, offsite links, form buttons (and many other things), it's time to review what it does.

Posted on February 11, 2010 - by rocky

Cool Custom Dimension: Banish unneeded prefixes from Referring Sites reports

Clean up the Referring Sites report by stripping off unneeded domain prefixes belonging to server clusters or data center IDs.

Posted on February 1, 2010 - by rocky

You need to read this post about Table Limits

If you don't know how to check WebTrends table sizes by now, you'll still find out eventually ... the ugly way.

Posted on January 22, 2010 - by rocky

Cool custom dimension: IP addresses

First, here’s the obligatory gripe.  How is it that WebTrends doesn’t offer IP address as a dimension???  What’s up with that? Second, here’s the obligatory Outsider solution.  Make your own IP address dimension, of course!  It’s better than the Visitors report because this version will combine into one row all the visitors that have an IP address [...]

Posted on June 11, 2009 - by rocky

Cool admin utility – Display your custom report configs in Excel

Presenting a quick and dirty (actually, somewhat slow and dirty) cscript that parses through the custom report settings in your WebTrends program and produces a spreadsheet of their configurations.

Posted on June 3, 2009 - by rocky

Add Bing to your keywords.ini file

You'll need to add the Bing search engine to your WebTrends configurations in order to get it to show up in reports. Here's how.

Posted on May 14, 2009 - by rocky

Cool Custom Report: Google Organic Rank dimension

Google is starting to record the organic rank in its referrer string. It takes about 3 minutes to turn that rank info into a WebTrends custom dimension you can use in any search phrase report.

Posted on May 6, 2009 - by rocky

Basing a dimension on a subpart of a URL

You don't need to have WebTrends custom reports showing URL craziness like "/discount/Catamaran/coupon/ 8299937-fda.html". If you just want "Catamaran," you can extract it and display just that subpart.