It’s really important for any blogger to track their blogs to strengthen marketing initiatives and create higher converting blogs, to know from where blog visitors comes from, and what search keywords they have used to find your blog. in this video I am going to talk about how and why you should use Google Analytics to do so.
This is my third blogging guide video tutorial in my new series of blogging guide as a part of the 43 Blogger Tips – What you should do after installing WordPress post. In this video I am going to show you how to create Google Analytics account, add your information and integrate Google Analytics into your blog.
Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics solution, it will help you to generates detailed statistics about your blog visitors, it’s powerful, flexible and easy-to-use, and you can use it at no cost at all, it’s completely free service offered by Google.
So let’ watch the video to learn how to use Google Analytics…
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Great post, I am actually really looking forward to using the Google Analytics real time feature and some of the other goodies they just introduced. I think it is really important for bloggers to get more savvy about their traffic to enhance the experience both for them and their visitors
Beth
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Andrew,
I have notices that Google Analytics is now showing what links people click on when they leave the page.
This is indeed a welcome addition.
You opinion of it???
Mark
Hi Andrew,I have been using google analytics for a while now and I have clearly not been utilizing it as well as you have!! Thank you for this fantastic video, it opened my eyes on the possibilities google analytics holds!Ash
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March 26, 2011 at 1:52 am
Ash,
Great…and I only use 10% of what is available.
Andrew
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Is there an alternative for those on wordpress.com blogs? I haven’t quite made the decision to jump to my own self-hosted wordpress.org blog (as I’m not sure if my current site is going to be restarted in 2011 or be a “failed” attempt #1)… but would love to use Google Anayltics to see what traffic I have (especially if I do pick up the writing regularly again).
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December 23, 2010 at 8:33 am
Gil
You can use Google Analytics on wordpress.com blogs.
Andrew
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In your video you show the use of plugins. To my understanding plugins are not available and cannot be used on wordpress.com blogs. And I don’t see a Google Analytics widget… where would you install an alternative to the plugin or insert the code?
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December 24, 2010 at 5:51 am
Gil,
In the theme editior, you would add the GA code in the footer – normally called footer.php.
Add the GA code before
Andrew
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Great job Andrew..really impressive! Just some questions; I wonder if GA can track an individual user who visited the website and can GA also track what pages (within the website) the user went to next? Also does GA manage to track the time and date of the user came and left the website/pages? If no, then can you recommend any free software tool or even some reasonable pay software for these functions?
Cheers. Bee
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October 5, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Bee,
Only software I know that could do what you want (I think) is CrazyEgg.
Andrew
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Thanks so much for this. I have only just started using Google Analytics and to be honest I was a tad lost when it came to understanding 3 quarters of it lol
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June 25, 2010 at 4:53 am
Ray,
You are welcome! I hope it helps.
Andrew
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Nice work! I did a search for “google analytics video for blogging” and found this blog entry. Actually, I have the exact same plugin installed and was looking for a more advanced tutorial on analytics. Perhaps fodder for a sequel to this video, eh?
On an unrelated note, what software or tool are you using to create the video? We are real estate agents and we get questions often on how to do a particular property search. I think putting together a video would be great.
At the risk of getting a bunch of emails, I subscribe to this blog entry hoping for a reply. Thanks again for the video. Well done.
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June 25, 2010 at 4:52 am
Joe,
I must have missed this comment – apologies.
I use Camtasia to create the videos. You can also try the free software CamStudio.
Andrew
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March 29, 2010 at 4:47 am
Being using GA for a long time now and really satisfied with the different reports about your site which you can get this free tool. However, I’m yet to know much about some of the stats. I look forward to some future posts that will talk about the different stats provided by GA!
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March 28, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Nice video Andrew. I have both Google Analytics and StatCounter codes in my footer and I find myself ignoring the Google Analytics and checking only the StatCounter. Both give more information than I know what to do with and StatCounter just seems easier to me. I always figured I would eventually ‘graduate’ to Google Analytics, that’s why I installed the code, but never really used it. Perhaps a nice future post would be to show use how to use all that statistical information.
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March 29, 2010 at 4:05 am
Brian,
I’ve never used StatCounter – I just stick with GA.
Good idea on a furture video topic. Have noted.
Thanks.
Andrew
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This is exactly what I am doing. I also prefer more statcounter. Statcounter show instant traffic results, which I think google analytics does not show. Statcounter is going more handy for me as I am using it since a long time.
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StatCounter baby! LOL
To this day no one has been able to effectively tell me things GA offers that SC doesn’t…
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March 28, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the video. I’ve used GA for awhile now and I’m glad you showed the plugin. Can you tell me what is the real advantage of using the plugin instead of just installing the code? Thanks.
@Ileane
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March 29, 2010 at 4:07 am
Ileane
No real benefit of using the plugin. Just some people don’t want to change the theme code to installed the GA code.
Andrew
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I’m seriously thinking I’m the only one left having never used GA. lol
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March 29, 2010 at 4:08 am
Do you use something else Dennis?
Andrew
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StatCounter!
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Interesting video i agree with you that it is very important to know how your visitors find you website and especially the keyword or keyword phrases they uses to find your site.
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March 28, 2010 at 9:42 pm
That’s Exactly right lawmacs !!
its really important to see what key-phrases , key-words visitors are using to find our blog. ;P
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March 29, 2010 at 4:08 am
And GA easily provides that info.
Andrew
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