YWA Quick Guides

We’ve just released a new section to our Yahoo! Web Analytics Help Center called Quick Reference Guides. There you can find our quick guides on installation and custom fields.

Our Quick Install Guide contains some basic information for the newer Yahoo! Web Analytics user so that you can get up and running as soon as possible. Questions answered include:

• Where do I actually get my tracking code?
• Where do I put the tracking code?
• How do I check the tracking code?

You’ll also find some interesting information on how the tracking code works and what are the best steps for quickly checking how well your code is working.

Our Custom Fields Guide will give you lots of great information on YWA custom fields and how you can use them from set-up to reporting. We cover what they are, provide some use cases and illustrate the scopes and carry-over options.

If you’re using custom fields or you’ve been in a quandary about how to use them – you need to read this guide!

If you have suggestions for other Quick Reference Guides like these, please do let us know.

YWA Invitation Process and User Management

One of the responsibilities of being a YWA account administrator is the ability to invite other individuals to access the account. Invited users will need to create credentials which will allow them log in and then view or create analytics reports. This invitation process has created confusion among some of our customers as well as prompting questions about what are the end user requirements.

YWA uses Yahoo! IDs (YIDs) to authenticate account logins and this YID is the same one that can be used across all of Yahoo!’s products and properties. So if you have a Yahoo! Mail account then you already have a YID that will allow access to any YWA account you have been invited to join. Yahoo! uses YIDs for the convenience and security of its customers and we call this feature Single Sign-On (SSO) because it requires our customers to only remember one username and password.

The YWA invitation process begins with an administrator (main owner) of the account sending an invitation to whomever they would like to have access to the account. This invite can be sent to ANY email address, it is only later in the process that invitee will need to choose a YID that they will use to login to the account.

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