Month: December 2011

12 Months Later & I am Finally Google Analytics Qualified!

Today I finally got around to taking the Google Analytic Individual Qualification (GAIQ) exam that I have been meaning to take for the last 12 months. Although disappointed in the score (88%), I am glad that I have passed and got it out of the way, and can now say that I am a qualified user of Google Analytics.

Now that I have passed I wanted to provide you guys with some tips and suggestions that you might like to use when taking your exam. Although I didn’t think the exam was ridiculously difficult, I did find that the hardest part was to decipher what Google were providing for the multiple choice answers. Depending on how you read the question, you may provide completely different answers.

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2011 Round Up

At the start of the year I wrote a blog post outlining what I was looking to achieve in 2011 from both a personal and professional point of view.

This post is a quick round-up of what I did and didn’t achieve.

Change Job

Back in February I wrote a post called “off to pastures new” where I talked about leaving iThinkMedia and moving to Oxford based search agency SEOptimise.

Buy a New Car

Well! Unfortunately this still hasn’t happened, and I am not happy about it! Although my current vehicle does the job, it’s not something that I am proud of and it was handed to me to fill the gap after I wrote my last car off. I am determined to ensure that next year I will get a new car.

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Moving to SWBroadband Hosting

SWBroadband - Web Hosting ProviderOver the last few years I have been meaning to move away from my former web hosting company Real Web Host. There was no specific reason for moving as I had been with them since I was at University, but I wanted to move to a UK based server and collate all my domains/hosting in one account.

Moving web hosting provider always felt as if it was going to be a painful experience, probably the reason I had put it off for such a long time. During this time I spoke to lots of people who had bad experiences with providers such as 123reg and Fasthosts, that I decided to bite the bullet and stay where I was.

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