Hi, My warm wishes for all digital point users. i choose this topic as this will cover many things on it. Well we will discuss all the tips, tricks we can get from google analytics... Kindly post anything from minor to majot u know about analytics so that webmasters like us can be benifited.
To be honest I find, don't many of you, the it's not as effective as we might wish. The Twitter incoming links are very often not counted, although the differential isn't as great for me as it is for other people. In reality I dont' find it that great a way to tell how much traffic my site gets. In addition, the problems that many of us have been experiencing with being labeled as "phishing" sites, which I've been addressing on the webmaster forums for a few months make me a bit hinky about relying on Google. Although the truth of it is, you just have to play ball with them cus they're the big guys.
I like Analytics and I have used it on all my blogs. Analytics gives details on daily page views and I like the most to see "traffic from referrals".
Google Analytics help you to track all your visitors. And you can also analyzed if your visitors staying longer in your site. IF your bounce rate is high means your visitors leave your websites quicky.
google analytics will give you great data to shon and montior your blog. I have try it and very usefull
yar i dnt understand,,when google send visitors from its images section,then y it put into refering site,,not from search engines????
Here's my two cents. Too often people use GA for telling them "How many visitors did I get?" and "What is my bounce rate?". The real beauty of GA is asking WHY? An example might be; Go to Content / Top Content Apply an Advanced Filter of "Pageviews Greater Than 100" and "Bounce Rate Greater Than 30%" Take a look at the pages in the list, they represent pages that are getting hits, but people are leaving right away... they're bouncing because they don't like the page. Visit the pages, pretend you're a surfer! Does the page look good? Are there links for people to click and navigate your site? Make some changes to that page, pretty it up, and some links to related content Wait a few days and compare results between how the page was before, and how it is now. Did the bounce rate of that page go down? Up? WHY did it go down? Let's say you added more images... then why not do this to all pages on your site? Let's say you improve pages in this way, and your bounce rate for those pages falls. You could have a significant impact on your sitewide bounce rate, total pageviews and time on site! Imagine I have a page in my blog, with these stats. 10,000 uniques, bounce rate of 40%. If I can improve that page, to achieve a bounce rate of 25% I will get 1,500 more uniques into site. They may view 4/5/6 pages each... that's potentially 9,000 pageviews! And 9,000 impressions of your adverts! You can do the same for Exit % too, as they are just people who close the browser after reading the content on your page. Ignore the pretty graphs and headline numbers, the devil is in the detail.
As far as I know Google Analytics are very useful for webmasters. I've seen many webmasters praising Google Analytics.
Analytics is most important part of SEO. Google Analytics, makes the very good tool in which you can check each and every thing regarding your web site.I find it very helpful when I want to look at the types of traffic that visit my sites.Its really very helpful to increase your site market.
I don't know about a serial or series of tips but I'm happy to share what I do, and answer any questions. I read a blog post once titled "The missing Google Analytics Manual"... how true! I hope you find my insane ramblings useful! Site Search is another of my favourite features in GA, it tells you what your guests are looking for... and gives you information that is EASY to react to. If you don't have a search feature on your blog/site put one on it now! The difference in how a visitors behaves if they search is INCREDIBLE. The attached pivot shows you what I mean. People who use my search feature look at 5 times more pages than those who don't! People who search spend 5 and a half times longer on my site. It doesn't matter if they are new or returning visitors, searching in my site greatly increases all metrics favourably! The site search stats in GA are under "Content / Site Search" and require a small amount of setup (Setup Instructions). Once I got it setup, and realised people who search perform so well... i made my searchbox more prominent! I made it bigger and highlighted it... If i could get everyone to use it, i would! Next I looked at the search terms (Content / Site Search / Search Terms). Unless 100% of your traffic comes from a search engine, you don't *really* know what they're looking for, as they don't have a keyword. They land on your site, move through it, and leave. Do you know if they found what they were looking for? No. Review your top 10 search terms, and ask yourself; Are these things what I'd expect people to be looking for? Do I have content that will show up when people search for this? These terms are in demand, should I make more content like this? Go to your site, and put these searches in. BE the visitor. Pretend you are looking for these things, and by reviewing the search results, optimising your content, and adding keywords... you can make sure people find what they wanted. When I reviewed mine I found the #1 search term was for something NOT on my site! So I went away and posted 3 pieces of content that related to that specific search. Now people who search for that keyword find what they want, and they stay for another 10 pages too! Last thing on Site Search. Go to "Content / Site Search / Destination Pages". In the list that is output is an unusual item "(exit)". Click it. A list will appear which shows you some search terms that people used, then were so unhappy with the result they left. NOT GOOD. Fix it
Google analytics provide a free tool of information of visitors for your site. Its free and a quality tool too. I recommend it to all web masters.
Yes I also find that confusing. Visitors using Google Image Search should be categorized as coming from "search engines" and not "referring sites".
You could create a custom segment to group google images with search engine traffic? And call it something like "Searchy". See attached. 18k represents all search engine, and the other 3k has come from http://*.*.*/imgres/ (i.e. a Google image search).
I found out about Google Analytics a couple days ago and I like it so far. The best feature that I've found effective is the bounce rate and setting up goals. Its free and somewhat comprehensive, what more can you ask for.
Kissmyarse, great information, thanks for the tips. I am new to Webmaster skills and GA has helped me out alot. Thanks.