Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a great tool that enables users to access gathered data, relative to the users and frequency. Not only does it gather how many viewers visits your page, it also keeps track of how long they stay, where the visitors are located in the world, what pages they visit, and when they leave on your site. It’s ideal for beginners due to its accessibility and efficiency when navigating through sections. It’s easy to implement in any website an individual may wish to start or currently have and keeping track of which content works best for viewers will help the blogger/writer be more effective in terms of what content to put up in order to gain traffic.

As great as Google Analytics may seem, it may not be as effective in terms of gaining new traffic; where there’s good, there is also the downside to things. Sure it’s effective for those who would like to keep track of things but what’s there to keep track of if there are no viewers? One of the main disadvantages that I personally learned about recently that I find important is that it is only URL and title based. What that means is that when someone is trying to “Google” something, your blog that may be the perfect solution for this person but if your URL or titles doesn’t match their keywords, your blog will remain unfound unless someone types your URL/title name and to top it off, Google Analytics won’t register it!

Overall, I honestly think that Google Analytics is a great tool for starters or even anyone in general. It’s easy, effective and best of all – it’s free! Anyone can easily sign up for it as long as you have a Google account. Feel free to try it out here and just copy and paste the HTML given to you once you’ve registered your blog!