Without a doubt Google Analytics is best tool for webmasters to keep an eye on their website or blog to know how things are going and how visitors are reacting to your blog. Its free, easy to use and very powerful, so i suggest every blogger or website owner to install Google Analytics right away and see how it helps you to improve your blog. Installing Google analytics is very easy but if you don't have already installed Google Analytics on your blog you can read How To Install Google Analytics. These 5 things you need to know about your blog and by using this tool it would be a piece of cake because Google Analytics will do all the things by itself, you just need to install it once and then you are free for life. Of course there are so much more about Google analytics and it is so much customizable but its just a quick over view and it will help you a lot.
Number Of Visits And Unique Visitors Per Month
It is so important for webmasters to know how many visitors are coming to their blog, how many are totally unique visitors, how many are returning visitors, where they are coming from and how they are reacting to your blog's contents and navigation? Google has provided Stats option in blogger recently which is fair enough but still it is not a professional analytics tool so you can't just rely on it. To know how visitors are reacting to your blog you need to know how much time they are spending on your blog and how many are returning visitors. if visitors are staying for long it means that your articles are interesting and people are finding them useful.
if their on-site time is low it means you need to do something about it like writing more interesting articles which really help people because people are looking for information's, if you can't provide it they will find someone else who does. You can also check bounce rate of visitors, if bounce rate is high then it is a serious thing and you need to know why bounce rate is so high?. Getting traffic is while keeping it is whole another ball game. Figuring out this myth that why people are leaving your site so soon will help you to figure thigs out and gain more credibility for long terms.
Where in the World Visitors Are Coming From
Are you targeting a specific country or you are going further and targeting a specific area in that country or perhaps your blog is open for traffic from all around the world, so it would be lot more helpful to know that which part of the world and how many visitors are coming. It will help you to write contents for those peoples which will improve your overall credibility in visitors point of view.
Which Sites Are Sending Traffic To your Blog
where on the web are your visitors coming from?? is it so that traffic is coming from a referral site like blog directory, RSS feed directory, social network or people are coming directly to your site. Maybe visitors are coming from search engines, if so, you need to know which keywords and how many visitors are coming for those keywords. If your traffic is coming from a specific site then you should appreciate them for how helpful they are and motivate them to send you more.
Which Devices Visitors Use To Access Your Blog
This is very necessary to know how many visitors are coming to your site from pc, mac or mobile devices and how your blog template looks like in those devices, so it would be the best thing to keep an eye on this thing because lot of people use mobile phones to access the web pages so you meke sure your blog serve the best on all kind of devices.
This is just a beginners guide to Google Analytics just like a tiny drop of water in the ocean. As i told earlier that Google Analytics is so much more then this and you can go so much further with this but this article is enough for those who are not familiar with this revolutionary tool yet. I will be writing more articles about advanced techniques of using Google Analytics so keep in touch you can always subscribe via email if you are interested. Good Luck.
Where in the World Visitors Are Coming From
Are you targeting a specific country or you are going further and targeting a specific area in that country or perhaps your blog is open for traffic from all around the world, so it would be lot more helpful to know that which part of the world and how many visitors are coming. It will help you to write contents for those peoples which will improve your overall credibility in visitors point of view.
Which Sites Are Sending Traffic To your Blog
where on the web are your visitors coming from?? is it so that traffic is coming from a referral site like blog directory, RSS feed directory, social network or people are coming directly to your site. Maybe visitors are coming from search engines, if so, you need to know which keywords and how many visitors are coming for those keywords. If your traffic is coming from a specific site then you should appreciate them for how helpful they are and motivate them to send you more.
Which Devices Visitors Use To Access Your Blog
This is very necessary to know how many visitors are coming to your site from pc, mac or mobile devices and how your blog template looks like in those devices, so it would be the best thing to keep an eye on this thing because lot of people use mobile phones to access the web pages so you meke sure your blog serve the best on all kind of devices.
This is just a beginners guide to Google Analytics just like a tiny drop of water in the ocean. As i told earlier that Google Analytics is so much more then this and you can go so much further with this but this article is enough for those who are not familiar with this revolutionary tool yet. I will be writing more articles about advanced techniques of using Google Analytics so keep in touch you can always subscribe via email if you are interested. Good Luck.
