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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Other Digital Version 1
Figure 8-3

I have the Kindle edition so I don?t know which page is it. However, is in Chapter 8 -> Using Profiles to Segment Data -> Include Valid Traffic.

The problem: That is not the way to create a filter that ensures valid website traffic. What it means is that you want to exclude the traffic that comes from cutroni.com to the website and that is not what the author is trying to achieve in this example. See this thread for more information: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=6c5c7e7b263e39a0&hl=en


 German Escobar  Nov 30, 2010 
Printed Page 22
Last sentence on page.

"While it's useful to useful to have app tracking", should read just "While it's useful to have app tracking".

Bj?rn  May 05, 2011 
Printed Page 117
fourth paragraph

"Add the primary domain of the website to the setDomainName().Pass method" should be "Add the primary domain of the website to the setDomainName() method"

 James O'Donnell  Dec 20, 2010 
Printed Page 130
lines 18 and 19 of the code sample

var orderID = vID + '-' + unixTime;
var orderID = Math.floor(Math.random()*1000000+1) + '-' + unixTime;

The first orderID assignment seems to be a mistake as vID is never declared or initialized.

 James O'Donnell  Dec 20, 2010 
Printed Page 151
Code bottom of the page

Replace "3" by "1" in the following line in order to have a visitor-level scope:
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar' ,1, 'Visitor_type' , 'Member', 3]);

Gilles Porlier  Jan 05, 2011 
Printed, PDF, , Other Digital Version Page 155
3rd Paragraph/Code Example

The bracket following _gaq.push is the wrong way around. It should be an opening bracket, not a closing bracket, currently it is:

<script type="text/javascript"> _gaq.push)'_setCustomVar',4,'Cust_Value','1,000.00',1]);
</script>

Should be the following:

<script type="text/javascript"> _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',4,'Cust_Value','1,000.00',1]);
</script>

 Scott Wilcox  May 18, 2012