We’ve been busy. In addition to all the new MailChimp v4.2 features we just launched, we’ve also been working with the folks at Crowdfavorite to build an awesome new (and totally free!) Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.
In a nutshell, it uses the power of Google Analytics to tell bloggers what kind of an effect they’re having on overall website traffic. We’ve made it super easy to tell if your blog posts (and email campaigns) are driving traffic to your website — it’s all embedded right in your WordPress Dashboard!
You don’t have to be a MailChimp customer to use or benefit from this plugin. But if you do happen to have a MailChimp account, we’ll mash in your MailChimp campaign stats too, giving you a bird’s eye view of the cause and effect of all your hard work.
It’s so cool that words don’t do it any justice. You need to watch this video, then download the free plugin now:
UPDATE (07/21/09): Check out this little tip on segmenting your GA blog traffic reports from our own Stephen Martin
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Unbelievable. Thank you for making this available to the WP community!
mailchimp, i love your product and your team never ceases to amaze me. I will work with my team to get this plugin integrated.
Is it me or does the voiceover in this video sound identical to the voiceover on the @virginamerica in-flight safety video? I wouldn’t be surprised if its the same guy.
Cheers…I mean eeeeep!
joey
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I can’t tell which is the killer feature: the visualizations, the in-dashboard data, or the cause/effect illustrated by the campaign and blog post dots.
A great plugin and Crowd Favorite was glad to be a part of it!
It’d be even cooler if you could add extra traffic sources to the tabs on the dashboard easily :) I’ve added it myself with a simple hack for now:
http://yoast.com/analytics360/
Cheers,
Joost
Very cool.
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Just when I thought you can’t possibly make my life easier! Outstanding!
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very very nice plugin. thanks.
I installed this plug-in last night – I am blow away. It is utter brilliant and I am completely grateful. Thanks, MailChimp!
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Any FAQ’s on why I might be getting “Error: Authentication with Google did not succeed. Please try again.” I keep getting this over and over despite successfully logging into Google… help?
Also getting the same authentication error when being passed back from Google.
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Great! that you have developed this plugin. Keep up the good work..
I am getting the same error of “Error: Authentication with Google did not succeed. Please try again.” I have created the Mail Chimp account, also allowed access from Google Analytics, yet still the error. Any help.
If you’re experiencing any issues getting this it installed, FAQ and support for this plugin can be found at this Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/analytics360-discussion
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I like the idea of it but can not get to work…
I get this error:
Fatal error: Cannot clone object of class SimpleXMLElement due to ‘zend.ze1_compatibility_mode’ in /home/www/wholesomeproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/analytics360/php/settings.php on line 104
If anyone has any tips would be grateful…
Cheers.
Jon.
Just installed. Its a great plugin, thanks.
The only feature it lacks its the ability to show in the authors dashboard also.
That would be great for multi autored blogs
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Same error here: “Error: Authentication with Google did not succeed. Please try again.”
What a great plugin. I like it better than the current one offered.
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Excellente presentation, What application use for this video??
Regards,
Hi Ben,
My company Pronto Marketing uses MailChimp for both our own mail lists and the lists we manage for clients. We have a service where we provide complete online marketing; web, SEO, newsletter services to smaller IT service companies. We do the hosting, updates, content development, list management – they outsource everything to us. We currently have about 40 clients but this will be growing to several hundred over the next year. Most have fairly small lists – I’d guess we’ll be averaging a few hundred names per client list.
We started with a separate MailChimp account for each client but for better management a few months back we consolidated them into one account and manage all client lists within that one account. We’ve gone back and forth on this from an administration and cost perspective and centralized seemed the best. But there are trade-offs either way.
Today we came across the new MailChimp + Google Analytics WordPress plug-in and this is exactly what we need. But we have some questions, first some details;
• All our sites are WordPress-based, hosted on WordPress MU on a dedicated server.
• Each client has a WordPress website and will have credentials to access the Admin panel or dashboard with edit permissions.
• We want to be able to allow each client to view their web and newsletter analytics – and only theirs
Our question is given our business and client model, and your technical requirements to implement this plug-in, how should we be managing the client accounts? Is it possible from a single account to do this? What are your recommendations?
Thank you for your time – we are really looking forward to getting our hands on this plug-in so we can monkey around with it.
Regards,
Vee
Love this plugin so much I want to share it with my woprdpress site co-editors. Any chance of having an option to do that in next releases?
Im looking for the same thing.. Hope they add this feature. we shoul be able to config if authors can see the stats.
Looks great (as usual for MC) – but what are the main differences VS Google Analyticator for WordPress?
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Very useful plugins, thank you.
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I am currently using Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast (http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/) and I was wondering if I want to install Analytics360 to better track my campaigns, can I have both plugins installed?
And is it necessary? Or does Analytics360 give me the same google analytics reports and options as Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast? Because this plugin tracks all my pages and comments. I don’t know if Analytics360 does that too, or if it just tracks campaigns.
Just one more thing I forgot: I know I can see the analytics reports directely in my wordpress admin Panel, but can I access those results also in google analytics? Can I create a filter in google analytics to show me just the report of my mailchimp campaign stats?
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Very useful plugins, thank you
Hi there guys,
I’ve got a question. I’m using mailchimp as a plugin for my wordpress site.
In google analytics I want to track news letter sign ups as conversion goals. Problem is that I don’t know how to do that.
Do you have a manual or blog post or…where this issue is explained?
Thanks so much!
This might help:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/tracking-signup-pages-via-the-mailchimp-embedded-forms/
Love this plug in. I installed it on about 12 of my sites about 30 days ago and it was working great.
Yesterday I noticed that ALL of my sites are now reporting 5X to 10X the traffic and the graph is only showing the last 7 days, despite the date range set at last 30 days.
I am running WP 3.1.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1.2. All sites are affected.
I am having trouble installing it. I can connect to Mailchimp ok but when I authenticate with Google it takes me to Google, I grant access at
http://saxangle.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?a360_action=capture_ga_token
and then it goes to WP Tweet Button not back to the 360 setup page. Any ideas on what is wrong here?
Hi Harvey, it’s best to contact our support team w/issues like this. They’re fully staffed, can access your account to troubleshoot, and are generally better able to help. So I’ve FWD’d your comment over to help -at- mailchimp -dot- com so that they can follow up with you.
I’m just courious if Havey has ben able to resolve with help -at- mailchimp -dot- com … The web is full with this plugin error but no solutione there… :(
This plugin no longer works. And I believe the MailChimp staff has abandoned it.
No fix in the past several weeks.
I’ve been using Google Analytics for WordPress for a while and I love it! The latest version even gives me a synopsis on the dashboard. Awsome!
I seem to be having an issue with the mailchimp api but strangely enough it works 100% on my dev site of http://dev.fortheloveofpunk.com. Once I get the plugin running on my main site and authenticate everything with no issues, I go to dashboard and no mailchimp stats. This is at http://www.fortheloveofpunk.com
I actually get a yellow yield sign for “list growth” with the following statement “Could not fetch MailChimp list data: Invalid MailChimp List ID:” yet it works fine on my dev site? Has to be some sort of domain issue.
I found a lot of people with google authentication errors, but have not seen this error. I have tried creating new api keys and tried uninstalling and re-installing making sure db had no leftover entries. Nada, stuck!
anyone have any luck fixing the issue reported by Johny? I am hitting the same issue, and havent found a way around it.
Could not fetch MailChimp List Data
Invalid Mailchimp List ID
It’s the same for me. Would be nice to get this fixed or to point out an idea to solve this.
“Could not fetch MailChimp list data: Invalid MailChimp List ID:”
Is Analytics360 compatible with WordPress Version 3.3.1?
Believe it or not I got mine to work finally. I added another API and named it something completely different. I wish I had an answer as to how I got it working, but it finally does. I know this doesn’t help in any way, but thought I would give an update.
Same problem here, it is actually a conflict with the plugin Mailchimp Widget, by Mailchimp!
And no answer ever from the developper. This is really irritating.
Yeah, mine is actually still having the issue again and I was told to “talk to my host” but I’m not even sure what I’m asking.
I seriously doubt it has anything to do with your host.