Who is reading your blog? A look at how Google Analytics can help answer that question.
Image by AlphachimpStudio via FlickrStats and tracking are one of the greatest things about a website. While you aren’t able to see the specific people who are reading your blog you can use some tools to see things like
- how many people are reading
- what they are reading
- what they searched for to find you
- what links are refering readers to you
- where those reader live in the world
Google Analytics is a free service from Google that tracks these stats for you.
Here is how the blogger, Sargent Grumpy, describes Google Analytics:
It is a software tool that allows you to put a snippet of code on your blog so you can then track your Internet traffic – how many people are reading your posts, which are more popular, how people are finding you. All useful things to know when you are trying to drive traffic to your site.
Setting up Google Analytics is very easy.
- register with google
- add a line of code to your website
- see your stats
Click here to see a detailed look at how to set up Google Analytics from the website Mahalo.
Some other info on Google Analytics:
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