First benchmark with Google Analytics

Between 24th of March and 6th of April:

- 77 visits, coming from 1 country (Belgium, 6 cities)
- 25 unique visitors
- 236 page views
- rebound rate : 68,83 %
- new visitors: 32,47 %

Google Analytics : how it works ?

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As "promised", I created a Google Analytics account for wideseo. Not very complex to implement, even for a rookie.
After creating a personal ID, a personalized javascript, called tracking snippet, must be inserted in the template of the blog, just before the /HEAD tag.
24 hours later, GA has enough data to start to play with.


The Google Analytics javascript code works in asynchronous mode since 2009. In other words, it is loaded in background to reduce the page loading time.
Each time a page of the site is loaded in a browser, the javascript execute its code. It builds a small array named _gac, fill it with parameters collected from the HTTP request (e.g. hostname, referer, language, browser type), the DOM of the browser (e.g. Flash and Java support) used and first-party cookies (e.g. session info).

Once built, the list of parameters regarding the visit is attached to a single-pixel image (utm.gif) request and sent to Google Analytics servers.

FACTS

* The Google tracking snippet is also referred as GATC for Google Analytics Tracking Code

LINKS

* Google Analytics course (video)
* GA Asynchronous Tracking Code Snippet forum
* How does Google Analytics collects data ?

More will come later about Google Analytics details.

See U soon
O.

SEO for Dummies and Google Analytics

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I don't know what I'm suppose to do first to improve the visibility of this blog.

So, I decide by myself, using my (legendary) sense of logic ;)

I identify very easily my very first two major issues:

1. My basic skills about SEO are really too low. I need to learn the basics.

2. To follow the progress in the trafic, I have to monitor it

To complete the first issue, I download the free sample of "SEO for Dummies" (3rd edition - 2011) by Peter Kent on my Kindle.

After a first look at the table of contents, it appears that it should be a good start for me (of course, I'm a real dummy).

So, I have now about 400 pages to read about the subject.

I suppose I will write few posts about this book for the next few weeks. You know now my main source of knowledge ;)

As a real dummy, I choose Google Analytics to monitor the trafic on my blog.

I don't know if it's the best tool, but it seems obvious to me for at least two reasons : it's a free tool and my blog is now hosted by blogger.com, a "google galaxy" company. I know, it's some piece of poor argumentation.

See U soon

O.