Now You Too Can Analyse Your Blog Traffic Like A Pro

Hit counter on a website used to fascinate me, when I first came in touch with internet in 1996. Now the things have changed. Things are way ahead of just counting hits. Today you can easily track the following through Google Analytics.

1. Amount of time visitors spend on your site / blog
2. How many pages have they viewed
3. What percentage have returned back
4. What is the percentage of new visitors
5. Which country and city do they come from
6. What is the ratio of search engine traffic
7. How many have come from your promoted links on twitter facebook etc
8. Which keywords did they search and ended up on your site / blog
9. Which keyword is responsible for greatest hit on your site
10. Which browser (FireFox, opera, Internet explorer) and which type of internet connection (broadband dsl, dialup) are they using

All this can be achieved through Google Analytics. Setting up Google Analytics code into your site is easy. Some of the techniques have been described earlier for you.

Google Analytics graph showing Number of visits, Number of pages viewed, Average pages viewed per visit, Bounce rate, Average time on site, Percent of new visits, Map of countries the visitors arrived from etc

The following posts may solve some of your problems.

• How To Add Google Analytics Code To Your Blogger Blog at Blogspot.com ?
• How To Add Google Analytics To Your Posterous Blog ?

Blogger Makes Photo Caption In Blogger Posts A Breeze

Blogger in draft introduced photo captions in blog post easy. The popbar that used to have image size and alignment options flaunts a new option, "caption". Just click it and start writing captions on the photos inserted.

What a trumpet ? Kidney blowing indeed.

This is how it appeared while inserting caption for the picture above.

How To Add Google Analytics To Your Posterous Blog ?

Adding Google Analytics to your Posterous is extremely easy.
The procedure of obtaining the code from Google Analytics is the same as that described in How To Add Google Analytics Code To Your Blogger Blog ? but the whole code need not be copied.

Obtaining Google Analytics Code
Surf your way to Google Analytics. Enter with your Google account. Fill the details into the form.
Type in or paste the URL of your blog with www . The http portion is already written there. Accept terms.
After this Google presents with the Analytics code, which is to be added to your blogger blog.
Copy only the portion that resembles this [UA-123456-1] excluding brackets.

Enter Posterous

Enter to your posterous and go to Settings tab

Scroll down at the bottom to see Google analytics box. Just add the UA-XXXX-Y code you copied from analytics and save the settings. It may take around 24 hours for the tracking to start and show up properly.

Related Posts:

1. How To Add Google Analytics Code To Your Blogger Blog ?

Universal Precaution

Before making any changes backup your blog and template. If anything goes wrong during the procedure, you will be able to get the blog back in function.

How To Add StumbleUpon Button to Your Blogger Blog

StumbleUpon button is also know as stumblet. It provides the readers an easy way to share and promote your site / blog on StumbleUpon. No doubt sharing on StumbleUpon makes a huge difference in traffic.

Get The Button

Kindly land your humble self to StumbleUpon. Scroll down smoothly to the bottom of the page. There you find a link Stumble Badges in the Tools And Services Section.

Click and scroll down again. A new link appears in the same Tools And Services section Discovery for your site.

Here lies the treasure chest containing buttons of various shapes and sizes. Grab the one that appeals you the most.

Select Blogger from the options presented at the next tab.

Copy the code provided in the code box.

Insert The Button
Open Blogger Dashoard - Layout - Edit HTML.Click on the checkbox labelled Expand Widget Templates. Search for the code data:post.body/ and replace it with the code above. Preview to see if it is working correctly. Save.

Universal Precaution

Before making any changes backup your blog and template. If anything goes wrong during the procedure, you will be able to get the blog back in function.

How To Add Google Analytics Code To Your Blogger Blog

Surf your way to Google Analytics. Enter with your Google account. Fill the details into the form.
Type in or paste the URL of your blog with www . The http portion is already written there. Accept terms.
After this Google presents with the Analytics code, which is to be added to your blogger blog.  Hit Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C to copy the code.

In The Blogger

From the dashboard, Jump to Layout - Edit HTML tab. Find the phrase " /body" and paste the code just above it. Save changes in blogger. Now go to Google Analytics and save changes there as well. It will take around 24 hours for your tracking to start. Next day open the Google analytics account and click on the account link to analyze the traffic data presented to you.