Comments on: Understanding Google Analytics & How to Use It

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

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:28:28 +0000

@Max – you are right, sometimes I wish it updated more often. But despite that, it is one of the best tracking and analysis features there is, and it is free. In the future I wonder if it will change the speed of its updates.

By: Iphone Battery Life

Iphone Battery Life — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:29:04 +0000

Its great to know abt Anna and her work. I can say she is far more talented than we SEOs atleast. I am sure she is able to balance time for all beautiful things she likes doing.
Abt Google Analytics yes I must say its a pretty good tool for free atleast, I can really see which keywords I should focus on and which not, even though the keyword research has showm some figure but in reality those high traffic keywords don’t convert, so its pretty useful to get those tips. Thanks for the resources Anna, i will definitely find time to read them.

Kala

By: Tony Nestor

Tony Nestor — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:57:50 +0000

Good call on the Bounce rate, this statistic does not get enough exposure. I use this stat to measure immediate success of the site. In fact, measuring bounce rate and time on site is much more informative than visits. Good Job!
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