The New Google Analytics

By Alan - Last updated: Thursday, July 22, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment

Yesterday I received an interesting email from Google regarding their Analytics program, which I use on all of my sites. If you don’t use it then let me recommend it now. It’s free and it it gives you great information about exactly how people are finding your site and what they are doing when they are there.

But, the email I received announced a lot more that can be done with it. Here’s the short list:

Get customized email for your domain (i.e. name@yourdomain.com) with Gmail for Business
Share and manage online schedules with Google Calendar
Create team websites as easily as drafting documents with Google Sites
Collaborate real-time on documents, presentations, and spreadsheets with Google Docs
Analyze traffic data for your docs and sites by integrating Google Analytics

So, today I tried it out. I set up an account under one of my domain names and assigned an email address (example@domainname.com) and I can add others too. That’s cool, but I can do that through my hosting provider. So, really it’s the other items listed above that really mean the most. It will make collaboration much simpler for a team of people.

For $50 US per year per user you can add a lot more flexibility as well. But, the free version makes a great starting point and I don’t think I will need to move to the paid edition, at least for now.