In his article, Thom Craver of SearchEngineWatch explains that just last week the Google Analytics Team announced that Google Analytics will now offer a new and improved way of tracking Goals:
From the visual layout of the interface, to setting up new goals and all the way through to reporting, working with your analytics goals has change
Some of the different updates to the Goals feature in Google Analytics are a 'new set-up flow, new templates, and new verification capabilities', which basically offer a friendlier way for the user to measure customer behavior and evaluate performance.
