How to use Google Analytics

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How to use Google Analytics

by Brad Linder Jun 26th 2007

If you've got a web site or blog, you're probably using a statistics tracking service like StatCounter, SiteMeter or Google Analytics. Without a doubt, Google Analytics is the most comprehensive system around for tracking and analyzing visitor data for your website. But there are so many bells and whistles that it can be a bit intimidating.

Nonprofit consultant Beth Kantor has put together a great primer on Google Analytics. It's intended for nonprofits, but it's useful for anyone struggling to make sense of all the graphs and charts in Google Analytics.

If you already understand the value of an web analytics package, we'd recommend skipping ahead to the 2 minute mark, where Kantor begins to explain the five steps you should take before setting up your account.

Tags: google analytics, GoogleAnalytics, user data, UserData

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Zacharias said 12:27PM on 6-26-2007

Now, how do I get the http://bsgeek.com line to go up?

johnhee_uk said 12:43PM on 6-26-2007

link broken?

Marshall Kirkpatrick said 10:08PM on 6-26-2007

I submitted Beth's screencast to Digg http://urltea.com/ung - give it some love!

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