Comments for Setaris http://setaris.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Joshua Fialkoff http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-132 Joshua Fialkoff Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:28 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-132 Hey Steven! Thanks for keeping me updated. Yes, please feel free to link out to your post when you write it, and reference ours if you don't mind. Thanks! Hey Steven! Thanks for keeping me updated. Yes, please feel free to link out to your post when you write it, and reference ours if you don’t mind. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Steven Renwick http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-131 Steven Renwick Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:16:04 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-131 and I've worked out how to do this in Excel! If you're interested I'll write it as a blog post and link it here. and I’ve worked out how to do this in Excel! If you’re interested I’ll write it as a blog post and link it here.

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Steven Renwick http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-130 Steven Renwick Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:22:57 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-130 Currently trying to work out if I make similar requests using Excel. I can submit one whole query to the bitly API and return the shortened link, but i don't know how to do it for a list. Currently trying to work out if I make similar requests using Excel. I can submit one whole query to the bitly API and return the shortened link, but i don’t know how to do it for a list.

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Steven Renwick http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-129 Steven Renwick Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:35:55 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-129 Ah well now that I actually tried it, it would seem the limitation is Google Docs, rather than bitly. The Google Docs ImportData function will import a maximum of 50 rows - so I can't just drag down the 40,000 list. AFAIK there is no bit.ly API limit. So I'm trying to work out if I can get around the Google Doc limitation now. So close! Ah well now that I actually tried it, it would seem the limitation is Google Docs, rather than bitly. The Google Docs ImportData function will import a maximum of 50 rows – so I can’t just drag down the 40,000 list. AFAIK there is no bit.ly API limit.

So I’m trying to work out if I can get around the Google Doc limitation now. So close!

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Joshua Fialkoff http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-128 Joshua Fialkoff Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:35:54 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-128 Hey Steven, yep, you can use it for as many URLs as you like. As you mentioned, you're only limited by Bit.ly, and I'm not really sure what their policy is. I'm sure you can find out with a bit of Googling. Hey Steven, yep, you can use it for as many URLs as you like. As you mentioned, you’re only limited by Bit.ly, and I’m not really sure what their policy is. I’m sure you can find out with a bit of Googling.

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Steven Renwick http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-127 Steven Renwick Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:48:02 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-127 This can also be used to generate shortened links of multiple URLs - I've just tried it with 4 or 5 urls. I actually have about 40,000 unique URLs to shorten and I'm wondering what the API limit is. Have you tried it this way? This can also be used to generate shortened links of multiple URLs – I’ve just tried it with 4 or 5 urls. I actually have about 40,000 unique URLs to shorten and I’m wondering what the API limit is. Have you tried it this way?

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Joshua Fialkoff http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-125 Joshua Fialkoff Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:21:48 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-125 Hey Adam! Great to hear that the article's going to good use. As far as sharing it with your team, we always just do a standard copy and paste from the document to an email. Whether or not that works, however, probably depends on your operating system, and a host of other issues. If you're trying to copy between spreadsheets, you'll want to use "Edit > Paste Special > Paste Values Only" from the google docs menu (not your browser's menu). If you want to get the links into an email, and standard copy and paste isn't doing the trick, you can use "Paste Values Only" to paste into another column in the spreadsheet, and then use standard copy and paste. That's sure to work. Hope one of these helps. Let me know if there's anything else we can do to assist you. Cheers. Hey Adam!

Great to hear that the article’s going to good use. As far as sharing it with your team, we always just do a standard copy and paste from the document to an email. Whether or not that works, however, probably depends on your operating system, and a host of other issues. If you’re trying to copy between spreadsheets, you’ll want to use “Edit > Paste Special > Paste Values Only” from the google docs menu (not your browser’s menu).

If you want to get the links into an email, and standard copy and paste isn’t doing the trick, you can use “Paste Values Only” to paste into another column in the spreadsheet, and then use standard copy and paste. That’s sure to work.

Hope one of these helps. Let me know if there’s anything else we can do to assist you. Cheers.

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Adam W. Warner http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-124 Adam W. Warner Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:44:30 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-124 Joshua, thanks so much for sharing this...it's going to be incredibly useful! I have a quick question and hopefully you can shed some light on it. I just set this up and everything worked perfectly and the short url shows up in the "Short URL" column. In Step 8. above you reference sharing the short urls with our team, but when I right click-->copy in that field, the url that is copied is not the short url, but rather the Long URL. Can I assume that what you mean by "share the urls" is perhaps exporting this doc to a CSV and sharing that way? Joshua, thanks so much for sharing this…it’s going to be incredibly useful!

I have a quick question and hopefully you can shed some light on it. I just set this up and everything worked perfectly and the short url shows up in the “Short URL” column.

In Step 8. above you reference sharing the short urls with our team, but when I right click–>copy in that field, the url that is copied is not the short url, but rather the Long URL.

Can I assume that what you mean by “share the urls” is perhaps exporting this doc to a CSV and sharing that way?

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Joshua Fialkoff http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-120 Joshua Fialkoff Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:48:46 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-120 Heather told me via e-mail that she signed up using twitter and assumed that her twitter username was her bitly username. As she discovered, this isn't the case. So, if you signed up in that manner, look for your username here: <a href="http://bitly.com/a/your_api_key" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://bitly.com/a/your_api_key</a>. Heather told me via e-mail that she signed up using twitter and assumed that her twitter username was her bitly username. As she discovered, this isn’t the case. So, if you signed up in that manner, look for your username here: http://bitly.com/a/your_api_key.

]]> Comment on Tag and Shorten Your URLs in Bulk for Better Google Analytics Data by Joshua Fialkoff http://setaris.com/2011/12/tag-and-shorten-your-urls-in-bulk-for-better-google-analytics-data/#comment-119 Joshua Fialkoff Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:25:40 +0000 http://setaris.com/?p=762#comment-119 Hi Heather, I confirmed that the sheet does work as long as you have a correct username and api key in there. Please make sure that you also include the "http://" in the webpage URL. Bitly will object to URLs that don't start that way. Hi Heather, I confirmed that the sheet does work as long as you have a correct username and api key in there. Please make sure that you also include the “http://” in the webpage URL. Bitly will object to URLs that don’t start that way.

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