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Category — Dimensions

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.

February 10, 2010   2 Comments

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.

May 14, 2009   11 Comments

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.

May 6, 2009   6 Comments

Cool custom report: Bounce

How to create WebTrends custom reports that show bounce activity for search terms, entry pages, campaigns, referrers.

February 12, 2009   25 Comments

Cool custom report: scruffy campaign attribution

Partial campaign attribution is a holy grail for marketing analysts. WebTrends has an undocumented way to make some headway.

October 16, 2008   6 Comments