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Never has something seemingly so simple as page tagging caused so many problems. 

Poor tagging is costing companies thousands of pounds a month from wasted web analytics, duplicate affiliate commissions and marketing that isn't tracked properly. 

Brian Clifton is a search and web analytics expert. From 2005, Brian was Google's Head of Web Analytics for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

He recently left Google to become Senior Strategist for Omega Digital Media. We caught up with Brian to ask him about his experiences at Google, his views on web analytics and his new book.

Eric T. Peterson, the man behind Web Analytics Demystified, is in London later this month for Web Analytics Wednesday. We asked him about these networking events and also got his insights on some hot topics in analytics.

Nearly 70% of organisations are planning to increase their spending on web analytics this year, according to a new international study by the Web Analytics Association (WAA).

The budget increases, the Industry Outlook survey suggests, will mainly be ploughed into training. 

Web analytics and measurement are playing an increasingly pivotal role as marketers strive to deliver the best possible customer experience, according to two pieces of research published by E-consultancy this month.

Eric T. Peterson, author of Web Analytics Demystified and general sage on all things to do with web measurement, speaks to us about the benefits of ‘Web Analytics 2.0’ – the insights to be gained by integrating site data with other sources of online intelligence, such as online surveys, customer experience management, and email marketing stats.

Google Analytics, Big G's highly popular free reporting software, is two years old tomorrow, but what impact has it had and what's in store for the future?

Arguably one of the biggest developments in the online marketing space in the past few years, Google Analytics is a fine tool for marketers, although it isn't without its issues.

We caught up with Google Analytics' Brian Clifton, as well as web analytics gurus Jim Sterne and Eric Peterson, to see how the software is shaping up, two years on... 

Organisations using free analytics solutions like Google Analytics and Microsoft’s upcoming ‘Project Gatineau’ are less likely to follow best practices, according to a report by Web Analytics Demystified.

The consultancy found companies using free software were more likely to treat analytics as a “casual endeavour”, with 35% of respondents using free solutions reporting only ad hoc use of the tools.

Google's Analytics traffic analysis web software has come out of beta and has added a number of new features.

The previous iteration of the service, which was rolled out in November 2005 after Google acquired Urchin, was plagued with problems but will now be switched off on July 18.