On August 1, 2006, Google Analytics Blog announces that Google Analytics can now track multiple subdomains and different parts of a website. Now, you can create profiles for your subdomains or any parts of your website. The default number of profiles have been increased from 5 to 10.
A website profile is essentially a set of rules that define the reports that you see. Generally, a website profile corresponds with a domain – you’ll have one profile per domain, so that you can view reports for each domain separately.
You can also use profiles to track subdomains separately, by setting up filters on the profile to return data only from that subdomain. Google Analytics has provided instructions on setting this up – please read this page on “How to track different subdomains in separate profiles“.
If you would like to track sections of a site, you can again create multiple profiles and use filters to return the applicable data. Please read this page on “How to track different parts of your websites separately“.
Profiles are also useful for controlling report access. As the types of reports available for a profile are defined with the profile’s settings, you may create two or more profiles for a domain, each with a different set of reports. Assigning users to the appropriate profile will ensure that they are viewing only those reports that apply to them. Please read this page on “How to restrict a user’s access to certain domains or reports”.
For Adwords accounts, however, you can only link 1 account to 1 Google Analytics account, so if you have multiple AdWords accounts (often for separate sites), please create a unique Google Analytics account for each AdWords account.
Currently, Google Analytics is offered by invitation only. You can request for a Google Analytics account HERE!
