Aveline Olivero SEO Analyst: Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a service provided by google which tracks and reports website traffic. This service was launched by google in november 2005. Using this we can find the location of visitor,how long they stayed and their geographical position.

Visit

It is the number of times the website was visited.

Pageview

It is defined as total number of pages viewed.

Visitors

It gives the number of users visited our site.

Visit's are classified as follow:

Direct Traffic\ Natural Traffic

Visitors either enter the URL of the required website or it will be bookmarked.

Referal Traffic

Visitors visits the website by referring URL from other sites.

Social Media Traffic

Visits from social media such as facebook, twitter etc..

Organic Traffic

Visitors coming from unpaid search engine such as google, bing etc....

Steps to install Google Analytics

If you have google account you can goto google analytics and click the sign in to google analytics option.
Three steps with greetings will appear on the screen.
Click the sign in button.
After signing in you will be redirected to the following page which shows the information that has to be filled for the webpage.
Add account name, website name and website url
Choose the appropriate industory from the list.
Choose the country based on the working country.
Click Get Tracking Id
Now google analytics terms and conditions appear. Agree it by clicking i accept.
Copy the tracking id.
Go to your blogger. Choose settings > other > paste the id in google analytics text box and save it.
Goback to analytics page and copy the tracking code (It has to be pasted on every pages of website to know the status).
Go to blogger > theme> edit html and the script before closing head tag(</h>).
Save it by clicking save theme. Now tracking code installation is completed.
Go to analytics page and select Real Time > Overview. It shows the real time track of our website.