Hi bloggy readers,
Becoming a blogger requires us to check our blog performance routinely, because that's what we do if we want to analyze our blog traffic day by day, so we will figure it out how to improve our blog traffic in the future. Sitemeter is a site tracker that i've mentioned in my previous post as a great tool for site analyzer. Beside the Sitemeter, there is another great tool to track our traffic performance, and that is Google Analytics.
With Google Analytics, we can get the best resource of information about our blog traffic right away. There are many great features you can get from Google Analytics, such as keyword analyzer, traffic sources, and one of the best feature is invisible script which will allow you to track your daily traffic without visitors get the access to know your blog traffic, so you will have the privacy. Anyway, Sitemeter also provides this feature, but you have to be a Premium member, which is you have to splash a cash to get this feature.
If you are interested to install Google Analytic to your blog, the steps are as follow.
1. Go to Google Analytics
2. Sign in with your Gmail account
3. Now click Analytic Setting and then click Create new Website Profile
4. Add your site there!
5. Click finish. After that, Google Analytics asks you to install the tracking code to let them crawling to your blog. The tracking code is a script code provided by Google, it goes like this:
<script type='text/javascript'>
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10644861-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10644861-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>
5. Now paste that script in your template! Go to Layout -> Edit HTML and find the </head> code
//]]>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost +
<script type='text/javascript'>
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10644861-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>
</head>
6. Save the template and you can wait for about 2-3 days to start analyzing your blog traffic.
Good day bloggy!
