Every day, I wake up and read the Google Groups for GA.
Here are the ten questions I see just about every day, with answers.

Question 1: Can’t I reprocess the data in some way? Sorry. Google Analytics doesn’t let you go back and reprocess. A very best practice is to think about your needs while you are setting up your analytics, and try to anticipate the future. This includes creation of a profile for every important campaign that you run, whether you define “campaign” as a Google AdWords campaign, a banner ad campaign, or an email campaign.

Question 2: I don’t know how to set up links in my newsletter. Or, I don’t know how to set up links in the paid search for non-Google search engines. Answer: Google Analytics has a nice linkbuilder tool to solve this problem, but I like ROI Revolution’s better. It is more intuitive, and it doesn’t have any typos . You can use the linkbuilder to code the links in any of your marketing campaigns — your email marketing, your Yahoo campaigns, your banner ads. (You don’t have to code Google AdWords, the default in AdWords is auto-tagging — it codes for you.) Once external links are coded, they’ll talk to your GA.

Question 3. Why can’t I get rid of the site overlay? You’ll need to clear your cookies. The Site Overlay activates if the GA tracking code sees the “GASO” cookie when you visit your website. Just use Firefox, choose Tools>Options>Show cookies and type in GASO. Delete that cookie.

Question 4. Why is my site overlay broken? If you make any changes to your Request URI — for example, if you ask to only see page titles and not /mypage.com — the site overlay will not work for the profile where you have the changes made. You should set up a clean profile without those changes. (To be honest, I feel like the site overlay is just about always broken, and I am awed when I see people ask questions about why they can’t get a specific piece of data from it. )

Question 5. My AdWords used to be linked to one GA account. I unlinked them, but now I can’t relink them, for some reason, to the correct account. Why? Answer: Relinking a previously linked AdWords account has to be done by Google. Submit a support ticket and they’ll get right one it. GA knows that you can’t do it without their help, and they are pretty responsive to this problem, I hear.

Question 6. My site has a new name. How should I handle my analytics? Answer: GA doesn’t really care what the name of your site is. So you can take your previous code and put it on your new site. But why would you want to do that? Unless the pages match perfectly (example: you kept the same site but moved from .asp to .php), you will really be comparing apples and oranges. Why don’t you just create a new profile in the same account and put that new code on your new site?

Question 7: Why is my own site my top referring source? Why is it even in my list of referring sources? Answer: Probably because you have more than one domain (for example, you are using a third party shopping cart) and you didn’t take the time to learn how to do the cross-domain tracking. Or because you have an old domain that you are redirecting to your new domain, and you are doing the redirect with javascript intead of with a server side redirect.

Question 8: Can’t I get conversion numbers instead of conversion percentages? Answer: Well, you can get them in the Total Conversions report, but you probably want them in the traffic report. And you can get them by a) pulling out your calculator and multiplying or b) dumping it all into excel and multiplying.

Question 9: Can I mix the secure code and the regular code? Google Analytics has a regular form of code (that includes, but is not limited to, the line http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js — and they also have the secure code, which uses the secure version of that, https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js

There are three ways that you can do this:

Option I) Since the name of your site is probably http://www.mysite.com, you are probably tempted to tell GA that when you sign up. This will give you the non-secure code. You can put it on all of your pages (even the secure pages), but it will generate a security error, possibly scaring off potential customers. So, Option I is a lousy idea.

Option II) You can follow the same instructions as above, but go in to the secure pages and be sure to change http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js to be https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js

Option III) Create a new profile, and pretend that your whole site is secure. To do that, choose the https beginning. GA will then automatically generate secure code for you, which you can put on your whole site. Using the secure site on all your pages – http and https alike — does not matter and will not affect your data. GA will not care that your site is mostly an http site.

Question 10) Why can’t I see the past the question mark in my referrers report? Answer: I really don’t have an answer. I would love if someone else would weigh in on this topic.

Bonus: How do I get the IP addresses of the visitors? Answer: you cannot, personally identifiable information is against GA’s terms of service.

By adding an on-board computer and a camera on a Roomba, the Roomba can be used to index your home. As a bonus, you can also control the Roomba across an internet connection, and see the images from the camera — a spybot for you to check on your own home while you are out.

read the full tutorial at http://www.gaaglebot.com/

or in other words ..“How to Create a Smart WebApplication to see Geo Infos of Ff posts”

For us and for security reason the best two are the OAuth and Installed Apps Authentication, but in this sample we don’t speak about the authentication process, because the more simply authentication method (HTTP) is enough to do a first test with the ff API. So you can download the basic template for http authentication (http://friendfeed.com/static/html/remotelogin.html) and then implement your post/get data.

Next you need to know how to read friendfeed posts and user data.

Simply if we want to request our friendfeed home page we need to invoke the “feedlist” command by:

http://friendfeed-api.com/v2/feedlist

or in JSON callback by

http://friendfeed-api.com/v2/feedlist?callback=yourfunction

To do this you simply use the Google Data Request or every Request method by other javascript framework (jquery, mootools.. ) or moreover the basic XmlHttpRequest.

For example in mootools:

var r = new Request.JSON({
       method :'get',
       url : ‘http://friendfeed-api.com/v2/feedlist’, //or http://friendfeed-api.com/v2/feedlist?callback=jsonobject
       onSuccess : function(text,json) {
                     try {
                       //work with your data..
                     } catch (e) {alert(e);}
        }
}).send();

The response format is very simple and contain each link in your friedFeed SideBar :

• main[]{} – The main feeds at the top of everyone’s sidebar, e.g., Home, My discussions, and Direct messages
• lists[]{} – The authenticated user’s friend lists
• groups[]{} – The groups that show up by default in the Groups sidebar on friendfeed.com
• searches[]{} – The authenticated user’s saved searches
• sections[]{} – A list representing the authenticated user’s sidebar on FriendFeed. Useful for recreating the FriendFeed sidebar in your client.

Each item is an array and the single item structure is:

• name – The display name of the section, e.g., “Friends” or “Groups”
• id – “friends”, “groups”, or “saved-searches”
• feeds – List of feeds in the section

So for e.g if you need to retrieve all the feed into the main home need simply iterate the main[] and then acquire the feeds.

Now to create your feed list you need to know the feed item structure

Feed

• id – The feed id, e.g., “bret” or “bret/comments”
• name – Display name of the feed, e.g., “Bret Taylor”
• description? – Profile description, an HTML string
• type – One of “user”, “group”, or “special”
• private – true if the feed is private.
• commands[]? – List of allowed commands for the authenticated user on this feed: “subscribe”,”unsubscribe”, “post”, “dm”, “admin”

and for each feed we have a list of entries for example: body or url, but expecially our tutorial object entry : “geo”.

This entry If not available into the list can be requested by a complete feed reads

http://friendfeed-api.com/v2/feed/feed id

Now that you know the basics about the FriendFeed APIs we need to introduce the google maps and conclusion of our tutorial.

The GoogleMaps Object
As you know is important that we have a key to use google maps and a javascript object, also we know that we can send marker by direct code or by a kml file, in which if we  want we can define the zoom level or other information for our marker.

I think that it is not necessary to spend more word about the google maps API, because there are a lot of example to test and to understand the following section of this tutorial.

Assembly the Code

Now, that we have a simple introduction to the need of this tutorial/developing idea.

The application code can use two kind of methods the kml overlay load or the direct GMarker making.

For example if you want to create by server-side code the kml file you need to respect this syntax:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
        <Document>
            <name>KML FriedFeed</name>
            <description>FriendFeed markers</description>
            <Placemark>
               <name>Feed 1</name>
               <description>something readed from the body entry [FF]</description>
               <Point>
                 <coordinates>{acquired by the geo entry [FF]}</coordinates>
               </Point>
            </Placemark>
        </Document>
</kml>

..and in the javascript code:

var kml = new GGeoXml("http://mytestdomain.com/myresponsefeed.kml.php");
map.addOverlay(kml);

Or if you want to iterate the array and proceed with the single creation of each marker you need something like this:

for(var i = 0 ;i

Now if you want to make a sidebar into the gmap object you need to define a custom GControl:

        FeedListControl.prototype = new GControl();
        FeedListControl.prototype.initialize = function(map) {
        feedContainer = document.createElement("div");
        feedContainer.style.overflow="auto";
        feedContainer.style.backgroundColor = "#ffffff";
        feedContainer.style.border = "1px solid black";
        feedContainer.style.height="250px";
        feedContainer.style.width="130px";
        feedContainer.style.paddingLeft="5px";
        map.getContainer().appendChild(feedContainer);
        return feedContainer;
//define the position:
FeedListControl.prototype.getDefaultPosition = function() {
                    return new GControlPosition(G_ANCHOR_TOP_RIGHT, new GSize(6, 33));
}

and then add the items to the control by :

feedContainer.innerHTML = my_html_feed_list;

Now if you are lucky you can have samething like this:

nice developing to everybody
enjoy!