Google Analytics Tips You Should Know About

Google Analytics Tips You Should Know About

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"Every blog owner has been there: you log in to check your traffic and there’s been a spike or dip of epic proportions. A piddling number of visitors (or an inexplicable throng) have been to your page and you did nothing to bring it about.
The first couple of times this happened to me I thought ‘ah well, thus is the fickle nature of online readers’ and got on with things. I was using BlogPatrol at the time (steer clear of it) and began to get suspicious when the spikes/dips got bigger and more random. The final straw came when I checked my traffic for February 08 and found that it was vastly different to what I remembered. How can your February visitor numbers change after February is over?
There is a lot of unreliable traffic tracking software out there – actually I’d say you shouldn’t trust most of it.
Enter Google Analytics. Who better to track your site than a big reliable name, and the very people who will be crawling your page to determine your PageRank?!
The layout of Analytics can be a little daunting but once you master it you’ll never look back.
Here are six of the best resources, with some of the handiest Google Analytics tips out there, starting from the simplest and moving on to trickier stuff."
- Google Analytics Tips You Should Know About (view on Google Sidewiki)