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{ 2008 06 13 }

Google Analytics, getting the most from it?

Thats a question, my answer is no.

I find it really complicated, sure I can understand the basics, but I’m sure theres a lot more I can gain from it.
I’d like to be able to look at it and find out which keyword areas can be improved. I find it difficult to keep track of how I was doing before I made improvements. It looks like I’ve been improving but I can’t say for sure.

I haven’t used my trial period or download iBusinessPromoter but I have the web page pinned in firefox and I keep glancing at it and wondering whether it really could make my life easier and help wit all my keyword problems.

I may be making a mountain out of a mole hill, with regard to keywords, but I guess I’ve got to value my time against the £194. I have that priced pinned to my shelf on top of my monitors. I keep thinking wow thats a lot of money, when I’m not sure I will benefit.

Anyways, this post was about Google Analytics :)

So have you setup goals?

Whats your experiences with it?

How often do you look at it?

What do you look at?

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    { 2 } Comments

    1. MikeL | August 17, 2008 at 6:32 pm | Permalink

      I’m afraid I take quite a simplistic view of Google Analytics and simply look at the rise and fall in the previous 30 days of:

      visitors/ day
      unique visitors/ day
      bounce rate
      Traffic sources – google, yahoo, live, msn etc.

      I don’t use any of the more sophisticated analysis tools, in part because 90% of the pages on my site don’t seem to work with the Google Analytics script. I know from AWStats that these pages get visits although not that many.

      I do look every day though but I have a nagging suspicion that the visitor count is always a bit lower than AWStats would lead me to believe. Whether this is because Analytics is better at filtering out robots I do not know.

    2. Dipsy | September 9, 2008 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

      I think we need a page on how to use analytics, do you fancy writing one?

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