Record your site’s statistics with Google Analytics
If you’d like to track what users are doing on your site, Google Analytics is a groovy tool that will do just that. The reason it’s so groovy is because it’s detailed, very simple to use and (best of all) free.
The first thing you need to do is set up an account. Go to www.google.com/analytics/ to get things started. Once you’ve created an account, you simply add a snippet of code to the html pages of your site. The code should be placed just above the closing body tag (</body>) and must be added to all pages that you would like to be tracked.
Now your finished! You can login to your account whenever you get an itch to see how well your site is doing. You’ll see loads of information as in how many people are visiting your site, what pages they are viewing, how they are getting to your site, and much more.
Now that you have a Google account, you can use it for other great tools they offer. Two others that I often use and suggest you do the same are AdSense and the Google Toolbar. AdSense allows you to make money off of banners on your site. The Google Toolbar has great stuff on it, like the PR checker, which I will discuss in an upcoming post. Until then…
