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Twitter Analytics Added to WEB2STATS
Are there a lot of people talking about you or your web site. But do you know what they’re saying, when they are saying it? It’s hard to keep track of it all. That’s why we created the best Twitter Analytics service on the planet, and built it right into E-nable My Biz!’s WEB2STATS. You simply enter in keywords that you want track on Twitter, we’ll automatically do the rest for you, creating beautiful reports like the one below.
You can filter the individual tweets by all sort of criteria (e.g. ones containing links, one with questions, ones with a positive tone), and you can reply or retweet directly from WEB2STATS.
Here is a solution to adding Google Analytics tracking code across multiple sites without having to edit any pages using mod_layout. Google Analytics uses a java-script code that must be placed on the bottom of each displayed web page.
You’ll need root access, Apache and some technical expertise install mod_layout.
Let’s get started!
mod_layout is an Apache module that provides both a Footer and Header directive to automatically include output at the beginning and ending of a web page.
You can download mod_layout from here:
http://tangent.org/index.pl?node_id=362
We’ll download the Apache 2.2 version and extract the tarbar on the server.
Install mod_layout using:
make
make install
mod_layout will install the link to the library in your http.conf as such:
LoadModule layout_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_layout.so
Restart Apache server.
Adding the GAC
Now go the web site’s document root where the web site’s web pages are and create a text file called gac.txt. You could really name it anything you want but for our purposes will use gac.txt (google analytics code).
In the gac.txt file, cut and paste your Google Analytics code from Google’s site. Your file should look like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-123456-8");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>Update the Virtualhost
Now we need to add the following to your <Virtualhost>..</VirtualHost>:
AddOutputFilterByType LAYOUT text/html
LayoutFooter /gac.txt
Depending on your Apache setup the <Virtualhost>..</VirtualHost> could be just about anywhere, for us, we use DirectAdmin. DirectAdmin makes this very easy. Just click on the Custom HTTPD Configuration link, select the Domain and add the above code and save.
Restart Apache
Now every displayed web page will have the Google Analytics code placed in it, view the web page source code to verify. How this works is that mod_lay is adding the text from the gac.txt file to the web page when it is displayed. The LayoutFooter directive places the added text right before the </body> tag of the web page to be displayed.
You may not want to add the footer to certain type of files, like .cgi, .pl, .rss etc., like so:
LayoutIgnoreURI *.cgi
LayoutIgnoreURI *.pl
LayoutIgnoreURI *.xml
AddOutputFilterByType LAYOUT text/html
LayoutFooter /gac.txt
Now you can easily add Google Analytics to many accounts having thousands of pages in minutes!
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