Within Google Analytics exists a wealth of available data that is often overlooked. Here are three features that can give you a fresh look to your data. Using them can help you find a great new opportunity or diagnose a long-standing problem.

There is little more satisfying than creating a wonderful dashboard that simplifies all of your client reporting needs, and having it emailed to them automatically however often you choose. Here's how to design your own great analytics dashboard.

Before you can do anything else with Google Analytics, you need to understand what you're trying to track and why. Here are a few ideas for some types of data you may want to track correctly from the beginning in Google Analytics.

I'm starting to feel like I've come full circle. I'm back in the Internet of my teenage years, that crazy free for all that got me hooked on everything online. I'm talking about the Internet of around 1997. I was 14 and my parents got an AOL pac.

SEOs are an intrinsically disorganized bunch. By our very nature we're constantly taking in information from a thousand different places at once. It's what makes us good at our job, but it also means that we're very easily distracted by, oh wait s.

In an exclusive announced on Tuesday, The Wrap reported that YouTube will be launching a movie on demand service for mainstream Hollywood movies. The move touted as a challenge to the iTunes service includes Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers and Universal, but so far Paramount, Fox and Disney have declined to join. Click to read the rest of this post.

This afternoon, Wolphram|Alpha announced that DuckDuckGo is an 'official partner' and the latter will be fully integrating their open API announced in January. This will enable DuckDuckGo to provide Wolfram|Alpha's computational knowledge engine into its offerings, providing users with dynamically computationally relevant facts. This is a good move for DuckDuckGo whose focus on simplicity,

Google is funding research from Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science to teach computers to understand and utilise hindsight in order to more accurately predict the future. The research launched at the International Conference on Learning Theory in Haifa, Israel, earlier this year, is designed to help computers minimize what Professor Mansour calls "regret". Could hindsight help algorithms to better predict the future? Click to read the rest of this post.

This copyright lesson from YouTube featuring the homicidal, suicidal and just plain crazy cute fluffy characters of Happy Tree Friends highlights some of the risks of copyright infringement, and explains what sorts of content are subject to copyright. It also tells you what to do if you find your copyrighted work has been uploaded to YouTube. Click to read the rest of this post.

Today Google announced the launch of Google Trivia , a new online game that allows you to search for answers, whilst posing the questions in such a way that there is no easily searchable answer. Players will have to be very creative in how they search for the answer. A little bit of lateral thinking and multiple searches will be required in order to answer the daily question. Todays Question; Two future presidents signed me. Two didn't because they were abroad.

It was interesting watching Bing and Google squabble like fashionistas over the last purse on sale yesterday. Each claiming to have the high ground. And, as always the usual interest and excitement over a bit of drama slowly gave way to the 'so what's' as the day went on, and so what would be right, as much of a distraction as it was, it really had very little relevance to actually making money. Until you look at it from a slightly different angle.