Blogging Elements

Google Analytics

Posted on 05. Jul, 2008 by Mike J in Analytics

When your visitors are the life blood of your business.  The more you can learn about them, the more you can target offers and have for them that will increase your profits.  Google has one of the best tools in the industry for this called Google Analytics. The best part is it is free!

When you sign up for Google Analytics all you have to do is simply place a small piece of code on each of your web pages (this is easily done in WordPress by modifying the footer) and from that point on Google can see every one of your visitors and gives you all kinds of great stats.

here is a list of some of the great features from Google Analytics.

• Where your visitors came from
• How long was their stay on your site
• What keywords are being typed in search engines to get to your site
• How many pages and the exact pages your visitors visited
• Whether they bought a product or not
• How your PPC or other advertising campaign is performing
• Whether someone joined your list and who sent them
• What links the visitors are clicking on your site
• many other great features giving you stats on lots of other things

The best way to find out more on Google Analytics is to try it out for FREE yourself.

What do you use for stat tracking on your blog or site?

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Tags: Google Analytics, Visitor Tracking