Comments on: Analytics for BlogMasters

By: Matthew Hunt

Matthew Hunt — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:08:04 +0000

Scott,

Another great post!

I really liked that part about what to write about if you are getting a high bounce rate on certain keywords - good insight I never thought of before.

Also, I liked the insight about the languages plugins, I don’t even have mine installed and/or active, but I will now - another great gem! It guys like you that make me feel dumb and unobservant - LOL!

I am now officially a subscriber and look forward to reading ALL your posts.

By: Get paid to write

Get paid to write — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:20:56 +0000

Thank you. This was very helpful information. I actually applied for Google Analytics a while back but never set it up. Now that I am blogging, I have been thinking about it again. Seeing what it actually has to offer (through your post), I definitely will be using it.

Kelli

By: WebMaster

WebMaster — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:55:42 +0000

Hi Amanda - thanks for your comment, and that’s a good suggestion. Under “Traffic Sources,” Google offers a list of “referring sites” — sounds similar to what you are describing. When you see the list, you can drill down further and find the exact page on the external site where the link originated.

By: Amanda Moore

Amanda Moore — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:06:09 +0000

Thanks, this was very helpful. I’m fairly comfortable with the basics but I know I don’t drill down as much as I could. One thing I’d love to see is a list of which (off-site) links my visitors clicked on. They have that on the wordpress.com tracking and I found it very useful to know what my visitors were looking at when they left.

Does analytics have that (aside from the site overlay, which I hate)?

Thanks!

By: WebMaster

WebMaster — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:44:37 +0000

Hi Daniel - Thanks for commenting. Feel free to stop back by and have a conversation. - Scott

By: Daniel Pyle

Daniel Pyle — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:09:49 +0000

Thank you so much for the explanation of Analytics. I am going to see how well I can do with that. Keep up the good work and best regards. -Daniel Pyle

By: WebMaster

WebMaster — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:23:41 +0000

Hi Jim - Thanks. Your work looks interesting and related at LunarMetrics.com. Give us a plug and tell us more about it. - Scott