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 @Avinash Kaushik has a unique ability to make analytics human. I don't share many analytics posts with you, as I don't want to scare you off. But I fear I may be underestimating you.

Here are ten very good ways to get to know your visitors through Google Analytics. I believe you will be energized and excited if you open these reports in your own Google Analytics account.

This is a great way to start appreciating your visitors in ways that will make your site more successful.

 @KISSmetrics - Google Analytics has become a very important tool in helping us diagnose your site and increase conversions. I'm spending much more of my time showing businesses how to setup Google Analytics to give them amazing insights into their visitors. This list is pretty intense, but if you're getting up the learning curve on GA, it can't be beat.

If Google Analytics is your thing, Ian hits the highlights of v5

Using Google Analytics and Website Optimizer together

For those students of analytics, here is a basic primer in how to look at those noodle-like graphs that Google Analytics and other packages prepare for you. There are some mines to be avoided and Stephane points them out artfully.

PayPal is a preferred method of payment for many of your visitors. Even if you've got a merchant account and gateway all setup, you should consider PayPal as an alternative source.

However, measuring transactions through PayPal is problematic. Or it was.

Here is an excellent post on how to configure your PayPal account and Google Analytics for full-transaction tracking, includkng Ecommerce tracking.

Great primer on regular expressions for Google Analytics. You don't have to be a programmer to get something from regular expressions.

Article comparing Google Analytics and Omniture

This is a great tour of Google Analytics' best features, some of which may be new to you.

Google Analytics can intimidate business managers, but it really is a tool to help business managers answer important questions. This overview from @lisabarone gives you  an idea of some of the good questions you can be asking your Web team to help you guide your online investments.

 @GaelBreton Advanced Segments are very helpful. I recently created a video showing you one way to define them in a way that even managers will get.

For those that want to drill down on Advanced Segments in Google Analytics, here is a survey of several segments you may find interesting.

Interesting Videos for beginners. Includes Google Analytics and Web Optimizer how-tos.

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When we dig into a site's analytics, we try a number of different approaches to the data. Sometimes interesting things pop out, and sometimes the data looks "as expected."

This is an analysis we are going to start adding to our analysis: Heatmap of Conversions by Hour of Day. We will modify it for our ecommerce clients (as we track Revenue per Visit, or RPV).

You might try this and see if there is an interesting pattern in your data.

Why Google Analytics is as good a choice as Omniture

Regular expressions rear their ugly head in more and more places. Google Analytics is just one.

For me the regular expression showed up in the excellent Yoast SEO plugin for Wordpress. I needed to redirect a URL that had parameters, like this:

http://conversionsciences.com/conversion-upside-report/?t=10000&v=344&x=250

To do this, I could not use a regular redirect, as everything after the ? would be stripped away. I needed to use a Regular Expression Redirect. However, this sort of thing -- using query parameters -- wasn't covered in any of the Yoast documentation.

This article gave me the hint I needed, and the technique that ended up working. To summarize, I used the following regular expression to match my URL with the parameters:

^\/conversion-upside-report($|\/.*$)

The parentheses save the matching contents into a variable, which I can access using $1 in the new URL, like this:

resources/conversion-rate-optimization-calculator/upside-report/$1

It worked great. Give it a try: http://conversionsciences.com/conversion-upside-report/?t=10000&v=344&x=250

Thanks to Himanshu.

Great insights from four people who know their stuff and me too.

For those of you who are new to Google for our advertising, analytics or SEO, here's a nice set of tools to help you get better at making money online.

Using hash tags instead of ? to prevent duplicate data when using analytics tags

 By @WAWorld These are some of the tools you want in your lab. They are the beakers, bunsen burners, mass spectrometers, and Geiger counters tha tyou use to test and evaluate your online marketing experiments.  From Web Analytics World