Making sense of your Google Analytics
January 5, 2010 by Rebecca · Leave a Comment
Knowing what people are looking at on your site, and what sites and keywords are bringing them to you is very important in being able to improve and increase your traffic. But how do you spy on your visitors? Install an Analytics service like Google Analytics. Having some sort of tracking and analytics system on your blog makes it easy to…
- see what posts are most popular, so you can write more on the same topic
- see where a lot of your traffic comes from, so you can focus more time there (for example, you may find you get lots more traffic from Facebook than from Twitter, so you would know that your time is better spent interacting and posting on Facebook since more people click through to visit your site)
- see what keywords are bringing people to your site. You can then focus more on the good keywords that are showing a lot of interest, and you might even get ideas for keywords you hadn’t thought of!
Here’s a quick video on installing Analytics on your Wordpress blog, and what some of the different terms that you’ll see mean.
