After some months when your blog gets
more visitors and became more popular than its very necessary for you
keep track of your visitors so that you know that from where your
visitors are coming from and in which category they are interested in.
This way you can optimize your blog and give more useful information to
your visitors so that they keep visiting your blog again and again. Also
you want to know that your visitors belong to which country, which
language they prefer, which browser they are using or which operating
system they are using each and everything has an impact on the future of
your blog.
What is Google Analytics?
This is where Google Analytics comes.
Again its free service by Google for bloggers and webmasters to keep
track of your blog/website visitors. It has all the things you need to
know about your visitors. Google Analytics seamlessly keep track of all
your blog visitors and share this precious data with you without any
cost. Although blogger and WordPress have their own monitoring methods
as well but still lots of bloggers till prefer this method. From time to
time Google changes this program and now with the latest change it
gives you lot more information than ever before. From keywords to user
flow, from traffic sources to content view it has each and every thing
to need to know about your blog.
Unlike Alexa its reports are much more
recent and updated. It gives you the power to unleash the world. You can
also integrate Google Analytics with Google Webmasters accounts for
more in-depth analysis. You don’t need to create Google Analytics
account and verify your website if you already have already verify Google Webmasters account.
Just link it with your Webmasters account and your are done. The best
part i like about verifying Google Analytics Account is that you can do
this in many ways and hence do this easily the way which suits you
better.
Google Analytics Features.
1. Unique Visitors.
2. Time user is spending on your blog.
3. Pageviews of your blog.
4. Bounce Rate.
5. Keyword Analysis.
6. Referring sites.
7. Detail about Landing pages.
8. Country wise break down.
9. Visitor information like Browser, Operating System etc.
10. Traffic Sources.
2. Time user is spending on your blog.
3. Pageviews of your blog.
4. Bounce Rate.
5. Keyword Analysis.
6. Referring sites.
7. Detail about Landing pages.
8. Country wise break down.
9. Visitor information like Browser, Operating System etc.
10. Traffic Sources.
How to Create Google Analytics Account?
1. Creating Google Analytics account is very easy. Visit this page in another Tab or Windows.[link]
2. If you have already Gmail account
than sign-in with your Gmail username and password. Other wise create a
Gmail account ID first by visiting Gmail.com.
3. On next page click on Sign Up button.
4. Now fill in all the details like
Account Name, Website’s URL, Time zone, Sharing Settings, Your country
or territory, accept the Terms and conditions and click Create account
button.
5. On next page copy the code and paste
it in between the <head></head> tags of your blog’s theme
Header file and save the file. In some themes you have the option to
paste the code in settings page which is lot more easier.
6. WordPress all in one SEO and Yoast
plugins are the most used plugins and they also gives you the ability to
verify your account by entering your Analytics ID into the settings
page. This method is way easier but of course requires you to install
the plugin first.
7. So if you don’t want to install the
above mention plugins or if you are using thesis theme which has its own
built-in SEO mechanism than you can also install a dedicated plugin for
this verification. You can also install Google Analytics WordPress plugin and than copy code and Tracking id into it.
Setting Up your blog Profile inside Analytics
Creating Analytics account is not enough, in order to see the stats of a particular website you need to create a profile of that website in your account.Login into your newly created account and click on the link that says Create an Account.
Just fill in the form with your blog or website details and click on continue button. There you go now it will start tracking your blog instantly and you can see the stats after 24 hours.