Comments on: Understanding Google Analytics & How to Use It

By: Brenda@baby changing pad

Brenda@baby changing pad — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:26:13 +0000

Well, I’m still using Analytics if for nothing else but it’s darn useful when you want to sell your site at Flippa.com. It’s amazing how much people rely on Analytics and how much they’re willing to pay for your site if you have that in place. Awstats just doesn’t work as well here, I’m afraid.

By: Gina@kitchen utensil holder

Gina@kitchen utensil holder — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:23:22 +0000

Actually I’ve sort of stopped using Analytics since I have the expanded version of the Google webmaster tools. They have so many things inbuilt in this newer version that I just can’t see the need to head over to analytics. I can get the impressions per day,the actual keywords that people are searching for and so much more. I’m wondering if Google improved their Webmaster Tools that much so they eventually stop with Analytics altogether…

By: Bisnis Syariah Online

Bisnis Syariah Online — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:33:56 +0000

The great thing is that once you put the code in the site, Google Analytics is collecting the data, even if you don’t have the chance to get to it right away. It’s all there.

By: Joannah

Joannah — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:37:08 +0000

I’m using Analytics and Webmaster Tools for all my sites. The first thing I do once I setup a site is add it to the Webmaster tools, verify the site and then submit the sitemap (if you have a blog, you can do that with one of the plugins, but most of my sites are regular html). Then I add it to Analytics and start tracking it. I love it when I start to see traffic coming in…
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By: faraz@Jugendherberge Muenchen

faraz@Jugendherberge Muenchen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:51:20 +0000

Thanks for the valuable feedback. I really like the idea of using analytical for my sites. I have used it to know how many Unique visitor sees my sites. Very helpful article.

By: Minneapolis real estate agent

Minneapolis real estate agent — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:28:32 +0000

It’s time that I start engaging with Google Webmaster tools and Analytics more so I can track the traffic and some other things.

But analytics for bloggers is very important since you can track down traffic from various places like blog directories and other sites where we get our blogs listed. So it would be great to find out where our efforts are going and what we need to do more. For business sites, I am not quite sure whether analytics really works or not however it’s good to track down traffic but I think most of their traffic comes from search engines so Google already knows about it, but would love to know about it from any good webmaster who uses it regularly.

Just my two cents.

Regards

Jerry Clifford

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:42:04 +0000

@Techfrog – I agree. Analytics and web stats are key – I don’t know what I would do without them. But it would definitely feel like flying in the dark.

By: Techfrog

Techfrog — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:50:26 +0000

Analytics has been the most important part of me being a webmaster. Sometimes i seem to spend more time on analytics than on my website, for a person having enough knowledge to carry out and analysis based on traffic reports and make plans and goals, analytics can be much more than a companion.
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By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:34:57 +0000

@Iphone Battery Life Thank you for your visit, feedback, and compliments

You are right, using Google Analytics to find out which keywords convert, and focusing on those that do, is another great idea.

If your site is monetized primarily by Adsense, you can also integrate Analytics with Adsense to find out which pages and types of pages get the highest revenue, and focus on both a) creating more of those pages and b) driving more traffic to those pages. This is an excellent tool, and allows you to see the Adsense earnings and stats for individual pages of your site, without having to create a new Adsense channel for each page.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:31:35 +0000

@Tony – thanks I agree with you. It is far too underrated. After all, what good is it to have 1000 visitors a day, if 600 of them leave in under 5 seconds? I would rather have 500 visitors per day with 401 staying for more than 5 seconds I suspect bounce rate would be a factor influencing your rankings in search engines as well. If I were a search engine, I would definitely use this to measure the quality of a site.

I have been working on improving bounce rates a lot more lately and I will be writing a post with more about this at some point … hopefully soon